Kerri Walsh-Jennings. Photos courtesy of WIN for KC +ACY-ldquo+ADs-It+ACY-rsquo+ADs-s so powerful to sit here in this room and realize that each and everyone of us are so similar,+ACY-rdquo+ADs a teary-eyed Kerri Walsh-Jennings told the over 1400 people in attendance at the 19th Annual WIN for KC Women's Sports Awards … [Read more...]
For Kerri Walsh Jennings a Third Gold Means a Third Baby
This morning, in an interview with the Today Show+ACY-rsquo+ADs-s Matt Lauer, Kerri Walsh Jennings and her husband Casey confirmed that Kerri is 11 weeks pregnant with their third child. On it+ACY-rsquo+ADs-s own this news would not be that extraordinary. It+ACY-rsquo+ADs-s when you count back and realize that she was 5 … [Read more...]
May-Treanor, Walsh Win Third Olympic Gold Medal
The XXX Summer Olympics is heading into the final stretch towards Sunday+ACY-rsquo+ADs-s Closing Ceremony. But there+ACY-rsquo+ADs-s still a lot of action to be found. For instance, we knew +ACY-ldquo+ADs-The Star-Spangled Banner+ACY-rdquo+ADs would be played after the women+ACY-rsquo+ADs-s beach volleyball gold medal match tonight but … [Read more...]
Kerri Walsh Talks Motherhood, Olympics Prep and Beach Volleyball Wardrobe
+ACY-nbsp+ADs Kerri Walsh is one half of beach volleyball+ACY-rsquo+ADs-s most dominant duo. She and her playing partner, Misty May-Treanor, have reunited to chase a third consecutive Olympic gold medal at the upcoming London Games.+ACY-nbsp+ADs-Since her last Olympics appearance, Kerri now has two children to compliment … [Read more...]
No sand v-ball in San Diego
Bucking national trends that show further increases in the number of women attending college, San Diego State University has seen its numbers of enrolled female undergraduates drop in the past few years. The decrease (to just under 57 percent of the total enrolled undergraduates) means SDSU's plans … [Read more...]
Will the AVP’s end hurt an emerging sport for the NCAA?
If media coverage is any indicator, football is the only college sport under way for the 2010-2011 academic year. But the volleyball -- indoor volleyball, that is -- season has also started. College volleyball fans and aspiring players may have more opportunity to take in the sport in future years … [Read more...]
Serve’s up - Tennis hits the beach
Call this the X-games of tennis. Or maybe it's the sandy alternative to the clay court. In any case, beach tennis - a cross between badminton and beach volleyball - is the nation's newest summer sport, with an increasing number of people slamming a depressurized tennis ball over a volleyball net, … [Read more...]
Florida State to add sand volleyball
We probably will not be blogging about every school that adds sand volleyball, the NCAA's latest addition to the NCAA's emerging sport list.But I was intrigued by the brief article about Florida State's decision to add sand volleyball to its roster+ADs largely because there seemed to be some … [Read more...]
NCAA happenings
The annual NCAA meeting concluded this weekend after a great deal of business was conducted--or at least it seemed that way from press coverage+ADs I wasn't there. I just wanted to quickly mention two decisions.The first is in regards to sand volleyball. Despite objections from many universities over … [Read more...]
Sand volleyball: In or out?
The NCAA, which is meeting in Atlanta, Georgia this week, is voting today on whether to keep sand volleyball (for women) or to nix it from the list of emerging sports.When it was added I recall a little concern on my part on how it would be implemented and apparently others have similar concerns. … [Read more...]