Beach Volleyball’s Corinne Quiggle and Sarah Schermerhorn Murphy On Their Journey To Become Partners
The Pan American Games are their next step with their eyes set on the Paris Olympics.
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Kerri Walsh Jennings is a legendary figure in beach volleyball, known for her exceptional career achievements. A three-time Olympic gold medalist (2004, 2008, 2012) and four-time Olympic medalist, she holds the record for the most career wins in both international and domestic beach volleyball events, with 135 victories. Walsh Jennings is also a three-time beach volleyball world championship winner (2003, 2005, 2007) and holds the record for most consecutive matches won (112) and consecutive tournaments won (19).
Along with her partner, Misty May-Treanor, she achieved an extraordinary 21 consecutive Olympic wins between 2004 and 2012. With her bronze medal finish at the Olympic Games Rio 2016, no other female beach volleyball player has matched her Olympic medal count.
She has overcome multiple challenges, including five shoulder surgeries, returning to win the Rio Grand Slam in 2016. As a mother, Walsh Jennings competed in the Olympic Games London 2012 while five weeks pregnant. At 42, she remained a top competitor, narrowly missing a sixth Olympic berth in 2020.
Kerri Walsh Jennings and longtime teammate Misty May-Treanor win their first gold medal together against Team Brazil ...
Kerri Walsh Jennings scores the gold-winning point alongside Misty May-Treanor to win the beach volleyball finals, 2-...
Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross win the women's bronze-medal beach volleyball finals, 2-1, against Team Brazil at...
PARIS - The defense of an Olympic championship ended for the U.S. women’s volleyball team with a straight-set loss to top-ranked Italy on Sunday afternoon before a raucous crowd at South Paris Arena. The silver medal was the seventh Olympic medal for t...
PARIS – This was the challenge they had savored. The U.S. Women’s Volleyball team found itself in a grueling five-set semifinal battle against a Brazil team that had swept each of its previous opponents in three clean sets. Now, in South Paris Arena 1,...
PARIS — The pursuit to defend an Olympic title continued for U.S. women’s volleyball with a 3-0 quarterfinal sweep of Poland on Tuesday afternoon at South Paris Arena 1. The 25-22, 25-14, 25-20 victory advanced the U.S. to a semifinal match against Bra...
Four of the 12 members of the U.S. Olympic team have connections to the Aloha State.