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Kerri Lee Walsh Jennings (born August 15, 1978) is an American professional beach volleyball player, three-time Olympic gold medalist, and a one-time Olympic bronze medalist. [1] She is the beach volleyball leader in career victories as of 2016 having won 135 international and domestic tournaments.
Misty Elizabeth May-Treanor (/ ˈ t r eɪ n ər /; née May; born July 30, 1977) is an American retired professional beach volleyball player. She is a three-time Olympic gold medalist, and as of August 2012, was the most successful female beach volleyball player having won 112 tournaments in domestic and international competition.
Hyman said she would graduate once her volleyball career was over and that "You can go to school when you're 60. You're only young once, and you can only do this once". While at Houston, Hyman was the first person to win the Broderick Award (Honda Sports Award) as the nation's best female collegiate volleyball player in 1977. [6] [7]
Jordan Quinn Larson (born October 16, 1986) is an American professional volleyball player who plays as an outside hitter for the United States women's national volleyball team. A four-time Olympian, Larson earned the USA its first-ever gold in women's volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She also has two silver medals from the 2012 and 2024 ...
Debbie Green-Vargas (born June 25, 1958) is an American retired volleyball player and coach. She is regarded as the greatest American women's volleyball setter of all time. [2] [3] [4] Green-Vargas was a member of the United States women's national volleyball team and won a silver medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.
Andrea Carrie "Annie" Drews (born December 25, 1993) is an American professional volleyball player for the United States women's national volleyball team.Drews was elected as the Most Valuable Player of the 2019 FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League in Nanjing, China, where Team USA won the gold medal and the Best Opposite of the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup where the U.S. finished ...
A National Olympic Committee is permitted to enter two teams in the beach volleyball tournament; a rule that allowed the United States and Brazil to win both gold and silver in men's and women's beach volleyball respectively that year. [10] [11] Atlanta also saw the Dutch men's indoor team improve their Barcelona silver to a gold.
Thaísa Daher de Menezes (Portuguese pronunciation: [taˈizɐ daˈɛʁ dʒi meˈnezis]; born 15 May 1987) is a Brazilian professional volleyball player. She won back-to-back gold medals at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. She has won numerous Best Spiker and Best Blocker Awards and is often singled out as one of the greatest Brazilian players ...