Kerri Walsh-Jennings (Walsh Jennings/Ross Volleyball Player) – Overview, Biography

Name:Kerri Walsh-Jennings
Nick Name:Six Feet of Sunshine
Occupation: Volleyball Player
Current Team: Walsh Jennings/Ross
Gender:Female
Height:188 cm (6′ 3”)
Birth Day: August 15,
1978
Age: 44
Birth Place: Santa Clara,
United States
Zodiac Sign:Leo

Kerri Walsh-Jennings

Kerri Walsh-Jennings, nickname: Six Feet of Sunshine, was born on August 15, 1978 in Santa Clara, United States (44 years old). Kerri Walsh-Jennings is a Volleyball Player, zodiac sign: Leo. Nationality: United States. Approx. Net Worth: Undisclosed. Kerri Walsh-Jennings plays for the team Walsh Jennings/Ross.

Trivia

She is an icon, along with teammate Misty May-Treanor, as undefeated volleyball Olympians.

Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed
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Physique

HeightWeightHair ColourEye ColourBlood TypeTattoo(s)
188 cm (6′ 3”) 71 kg Blonde Blue N/A N/A

Before Fame

She started as an indoor volleyball player in high school.

Biography

Kerri Walsh-Jennings plays for the team Walsh Jennings/Ross

Net Worth Comparison

Team Walsh Jennings/Ross Net Worth / Salary
#NameAgeNet WorthSalaryNationality
#1Kerri Walsh-Jennings 44 N/A N/A United States
#2 April Ross 40 $3 Million N/A United States

Biography Timeline

1993

Walsh was born in Santa Clara, California, the daughter of Margery Lee (née Formico, Italian American) and Timothy Joseph Walsh. Walsh grew up in Scotts Valley, 6 miles north of Santa Cruz. She attended grade school there until the end of her middle school years. Before beginning high school her family moved to San Jose in Silicon Valley. Walsh attended Archbishop Mitty High School, competing on the volleyball and basketball teams. She led her school’s teams to three state championships in volleyball, in 1993, 1994 and 1995. She also led her school’s basketball team to a state championship in 1995. She was named Gatorade National High School Volleyball Player of the Year in 1996, the first time the award was given. Walsh was also the #1 volleyball athlete recruit in the nation her senior year (1995.) While in high school she competed against her future beach doubles partner, Misty May-Treanor.

1996

Walsh attended Stanford University on a volleyball scholarship. While there she was selected as a first-team All-American four years in a row, becoming only the second player in the history of collegiate volleyball to be chosen first team all four years of their collegiate careers. While at Stanford her school’s volleyball team won over 90% of its matches, posting a 122-11 overall record. The Cardinal won four Pac-10 titles and three times reached the NCAA Final Four, winning the title in 1996 and 1997, and falling to Penn State in the championship game in her senior year in 1999. She was selected as the MVP of the Final Four in 1996, and was co-National Player of the Year in 1999. She was also the first player in PAC-10 history to record over 1,500 kills (1,553), 1,200 digs (1,285) and 500 blocks (502). Walsh is considered to be one of the best all-around players in collegiate volleyball history. She graduated from Stanford in 2001 with a B.A. in American studies.

2000

Walsh played in the 2000 Summer Olympics as an opposite hitter on the U.S. women’s indoor team, earning a fourth-place finish. She missed several of her first games due to a false positive on a drug test, which indicated a suspicious epitestosterone to testosterone ratio. After being retested, Walsh was cleared of any wrongdoing and allowed to continue playing.

2001

Walsh-Jennings plays professional beach volleyball on the U.S. AVP Tour and internationally on the FIVB World Tour. For most of her career she played with partner Misty May-Treanor, forming the most successful beach pairings in AVP history. May and Walsh formed a partnership on the beach circuit in 2001, finishing the season with the number five ranking in the world. In 2002 the team reached the number one ranking. They continued their dominance in 2003, winning all eight tournaments they entered and a then-record 90 straight matches, including the world championships where they upset defending world champions Brazil in the final.

2004

At the 2004 Summer Olympics, Walsh and Misty May-Treanor won the gold medal in women’s beach volleyball without losing a single set in all seven Olympic matches.

2005

In 2005 Walsh married fellow American pro beach-volleyball player Casey Jennings. They have three children, two sons and a daughter. Walsh was five weeks pregnant during the 2012 London Summer Olympics.

2006

In February 2006, Walsh Jennings had a guest-starring role in an episode of CSI: Miami along with several other AVP Volleyball players.

2008

In 2008 May-Treanor and Walsh extended a winning streak to 112 matches before losing to Olympic teammates Elaine Youngs and Nicole Branagh in the AVP Crocs Cup Shootout in Ohio. To that point the pair had won 19 straight titles.

On August 21, 2008 Walsh Jennings and May-Treanor repeated as Olympic gold medalists, defeating the first-seeded Chinese team in the final match (they would have been first-seeded, but home rule put them in the #2 spot with China as the #1). May-Treanor and Walsh did not lose a set in either of the past two Olympics. Their final match extended their unbeaten streak to 108 matches.

2009

Walsh Jennings also appeared alongside her volleyball partner Misty May-Treanor on the show Shaq Vs. in August 2009.

2012

Following the retirement of partner Misty May-Treanor in 2012, Walsh teamed with April Ross. She went on to break the career record for most wins by a female professional volleyball player when she won the FIVB Grand Slam in Xiamen, China. The win gave Walsh the 113th title of her career, breaking the old mark set by May-Treanor. Walsh and Ross won 21–14, 17–21, 15–12 over the Brazilian pair of Taiana Lima and Talita Da Rocha Antunes. It was the Americans’ third title in five events since joining forces.

Walsh and May-Treanor competed together for the last time in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. After first and second round wins, they continued their Olympic win streak of 32 consecutive sets without a loss until losing the first set of three to Austria in a preliminary round before ultimately winning the match, 17–21; 21–8; 15–10. The pair faced China in the semi-finals, where they won a hard-fought victory over Xue Chen and Zhang Xi 22–20, 22–20 to reach the finals. In an all USA final they defeated fellow Americans Jen Kessy and April Ross, 21–16, 21–16 to win the gold medal. The victory placed Walsh and May-Treanor as one of the few athletes to have won the gold medal in three consecutive Olympiads.

2015

In 2015, Walsh Jennings and her husband appeared on Celebrity Wife Swap. She swapped places with Tami Roman from the television show Basketball Wives.

2017

In 2017, Walsh-Jennings announced she was not signing a new contract with AVP because of disagreements with the organization. Ross re-signed with the AVP. She and Walsh-Jennings ended their partnership. Walsh-Jennings then reteamed with Nicole Branagh, with whom she briefly competed during May-Treanor’s 2010 break from beach volleyball.

2018

In October 2018 Walsh-Jennings announces she will be partnering with Brooke Sweat in hopes of qualifying for the Tokyo Games in 2020. Brooke Sweat is a defensive specialist, she has won defensive player of the year on the AVP (Association of Volleyball Professionals) tour four times. The pair will compete to qualify for the 2020 games until June 2020.

2020

In September 2020, she received backlash for endorsing not wearing a mask amidst the coronavirus pandemic. In a social media post she called a recent grocery shopping trip without a mask “a little exercise in being brave.” writing on her Instagram that this was all about personal freedoms. She ended up posting an apology a day later, but did not take down the original post.

🎂 Upcoming Birthday

Currently, Kerri Walsh-Jennings is 44 years, 3 months and 20 days old. Kerri Walsh-Jennings will celebrate 45th birthday on a Tuesday 15th of August 2023.

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