Kerri Welsh Jennings Research Paper

Kerri Walsh-Jennings is an Olympic Sand Volleyball Player for the United States. During her career, Walsh won three gold medals at the Summer Olympics, defeated all competition, and made $2,561,635 doing it.

In 1996, Walsh started playing volleyball for Stanford University, where she was the second person in NCAA history to be named First-Team All-American in all four seasons she played and got this honor for three years straight. In 2000 Walsh graduated from Stanford, she continued her career for volleyball by joining the United States National Team for indoor volleyball and helped her team win fourth place in Sydney. In 2001, Walsh moved her game to the beach and paired up with Misty May-Treanor. As a team, they were referred to as the best duo in Olympic Volleyball history and have been unstoppable for more than a decade. In 2003, the team was named “Team of the Year”. Also in 2003, Walsh was named the “Association of Volleyball Players’ Best Offensive Player” and MVP. In addition, Walsh received both honors again in 2004.

In the end, the team won their first gold medal in the Summer Olympics. In 2005, Walsh got married to Casey Jennings who is a top U.S. men beach volleyball player. Three years later, Walsh and May headed to China for the 2008 Summer Olympics (Beijing Games). While dominating the court, Walsh and May broke their previous record by winning 112 matches in a row and 19 consecutive tournaments. At the end of the 2008 Olympics, the team managed to beat China in the finals and win their second gold medal. In May 2009, Walsh gave birth to Casey and Walsh's first child, Joseph. The couple had their second child, Sundance, the following