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.
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.
volleyball thinking play
I think the hard part is over. Now it's time for us to play.
thinking focus use
I just think the whole mindset of Pilates is huge. Pilates 101 is just to use your core in the right way. A lot of us don't use every little detailed muscle in our core. We all use the big muscles in our body and don't focus on the little ones. That mindset and awareness is huge. I take that with me wherever I go.
thinking together stuck
Misty [May] and I had something magical, and I think at the basis of that was so much trust. Especially in the really competitive situations where it really felt do-or-die, we were unbreakable. We always stuck together, even if we lost we were together.
baby thinking media
I think educating myself has been huge. I feel like the way it's presented in the media is that if you got to Brazil you're flipping a coin on your health. I don't think it has to be that way. If I were wanting to have a baby right after the Olympics I would take precautions, and then when the Olympics were over I would get tested to make sure I didn't have the virus in me, and then I'd go for it.
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,
volleyball home years
We don't have a World Series or a Super Bowl, so to be able to come home with a gold medal is amazing. I want to do it again in four more years.