Kerri Walsh
Kerri Walsh
Kerri Lee Walsh Jenningsis an American professional beach volleyball player...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth15 August 1978
CountryUnited States of America
smart athlete thinking
Ideally we're going to stay at an American hotel. We just want to take every precaution. Because if you get sick out there, and you're playing in that hot sun and you get depleted, it's going to be a problem. So that would be the only other thing I think that athletes on a whole are going to be worried about. But again, we have to do our part and take every precaution and be smart.
athlete beer people
Sometimes it's just the beer and bikinis that get people to come and watch, but it's the competition that's keeping them there.
children athlete who-i-am
But they've [my children] made me better. They hold me more accountable for who I am and who I aspire to be, and they make me want to be better. And that's not just as a mommy, but as a woman and as an athlete.
athlete fighting ends
We have to fight the entire time, we can't start at the end when it's getting down to crunch time. We can't leave anything on the floor.
athlete adversity ifs
Adversity, if you allow it to, will fortify you and make you the best you can be.
athletes fun party people sports won
It's a lot of fun going to these things because you get to see a lot of the other athletes and people from the city. The day we won the medal, we went to the Sports Illustrated party because it's the party to go to.
family helps
I think the No. 1 thing that helps me get through every single day is the support of my friends and my family.
extreme focus overseas
Going overseas is a vacation. There's so much going on at home. There's other things in our life, so we need to get that extreme focus back.
attitudes cool guys spike
On the beach, the attitudes are more progressive, so it would be cool to do that as a subset of what we already do - as long as we play on a guy's net, so guys don't spike in our faces.
sports volleyball beach
As far as my sport is concerned, my mission is to make it as big as it deserves to be. We've been growing, it's just not as noticeable. The NCAA picked beach volleyball up to be a championship sport, and it was the fastest test sport that's been adopted. That's a really big deal for our sport because that just means the USA system is going to have a feeder system from the college system.
training mind three
I'm doing mental training as well. So, you know, body, mind, and spirit - everything is being addressed, every single day. Generally I'll have three training sessions a day.
team want deals
We want to seal the deal that we're the best team that's ever happened,
motherhood thinking careers
The balancing act of motherhood and a career, and being a wife, is something that I don't think I'll ever perfect, but I love the challenge of it.
volleyball thinking years
People think we have coasted the last four years. We fought, we had a lot of battles. We've always had to battle.