Kerri Walsh Jennings To Try For Fourth Gold Medal


Kerri Walsh Jennings and Misty May-Treanor have won a gold medal in beach volleyball at the last three Olympic games. May-Treanor retired after the London games but Jennings is ready to try for one more medal at the 2016 Olympics.

According to USA Today, Walsh-Jennings will make her U.S. debut at the ASICS World Series of Beach Volleyball next month in Long Beach, California with her new partner, April Ross.

Jennings said: “(Ross is) a stud … I respect her so much. She’s been my main competitor for so many years. She’s driven me more than any other person so it’s going to be so fun to partner up with her. It’s kind of a lot like Misty. I had so much respect, but she was on the other side of the net. Then we got together and magic happened. I’m hoping and planning that happens with April.”

Jennings, who is now 34-years-old and a mother of three, said that it was strange playing without Misty at her side.

Jennings and Ross have a few years to develop a championship winning repertoire and they will start this July at the ASICS World Series of Beach Volleyball in Long Beach, California.

Jennings said: “The Long Beach tournament will be Walsh Jennings’ first competition since giving birth to her third child in April. Rio gold, baby. That’s my goal,” she said. “Long Beach is where my road to Rio starts.”

Here’s a video of Kerri Walsh Jennings talking about her Olympic goals.

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Jennings said that it was strange playing without Misty but she’s confident that she’ll be able to compete at the highest level with Ross.

Jennings said: “It’s been Misty and I for so many years. My first day on the beach, she wasn’t there and I kind of shed a tear. But that’s a beautiful thing. We had something so special that’s never going to change. But this new partnership is such an exciting thing because I’m going to grow because of it, I’m going to be better because of it.”

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