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Tennessee Athletics Honors April Chapple at Champions Weekend for Legendary Volleyball Achievements

Kerri Walsh Volleyball Legend The Most Decorated Beach Volleyballer

Kerri Walsh, volleyball Olympian five times and one of the biggest names in Olympic volleyball and the most-decorated player in this Olympic sport of all time.

Beach volleyball professional Kerri Walsh has become one of the biggest names in Olympic volleyball, being the most-decorated player in that Olympic sport of all time. (Steve Corey)

Beach Volleyball Champion
Kerri Walsh's College Career

Beach volleyball professional Kerri Walsh has become one of the biggest names in Olympic volleyball, being the most-decorated player in that Olympic sport of all time. (Steve Corey)

Walsh went to Stanford University on a volleyball scholarship.

At Stanford, she experienced an enormous amount of success, with her team winning 90% of all it’s matches.

She was also selected as first team All-American for four consecutive years. This made her the second player in history to be a first team pick for each of her four years at college.

Pro Beach Volleyball Legend
Kerri Walsh's Olympic Career

Pro Beach Volleyball Player Kerri Walsh has made five Olympic appearances and last played at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Walsh has made five Olympic appearances and last played at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
At the Sydney games in 2000 she managed a fourth-place finish
The Athens 2004 Olympics proved to be incredibly successful for Walsh, who was partnered with Misty May-Treanor. The pair won the gold, and managed this without losing a single set
The Beijing Olympics of 2008 again proved to be a successful run. The gold medal was presented to Walsh and May-Treanor again. This pair finished the Games with a streak of 108 matches unbeaten
London 2012 was the final time for the unbeaten pair. They took gold once more
Walsh made an appearance at the 2016 Games in Rio, her final run. In a shocking defeat in the semi-final match, Walsh and her partner April Ross were beaten by Brazil

Kerri Walsh
USA Volleyball Professional Career

Walsh's pro volleyball career kickoff was in 2003 at the Greece Open. Here, she took bronze, but it was just the start of what would turn out to be an illustrious international career.

Walsh has had a tremendous run while playing for USA Volleyball. Her career kickoff was in 2003 at the Greece Open. Here, she took bronze, but it was just the start of what would turn out to be an illustrious international career.

Highlights:

2003 Stavanger Open, took her first silver
Gstaad Open in 2003, first gold gained
In 2014 she took gold at the Moscow Grand Slam

Did you know…

Kerri was pregnant at the 2012 Olympics, (She was five weeks pregnant in fact)
Kerri is a college graduate, which is rarer than you might think in professional volleyball
She has admitted her big celebrity crush is Leonardo DiCaprio
One summer she dislocated her right shoulder twice,and continued to play that season after having surgery
She has an adorable nickname, which her husband gave her when they first met. He called her ‘Six Feet of Sunshine’. Kerri is actually 6’3

Beach Volleyball Olympian
Kerri Walsh Quotes: Kerri says…

There's only one way to prepare for playing beach volleyball, and that's by getting in the sand.

-Kerri Walsh

In this journey, the fear creeps in from time to time. The hint of that is there because there's an unknown factor to everything. That's true in everyone's life. I don't choose to live there; I let it spark me.

-Kerri Walsh (From Brainyquote.com)

Sources

Wikipedia Teamusa.org usavolleyball.org

From Lady Vol to Legend: Coach April Honored At UTK Champions Weekend

Lady Vol volleyball legend and record holder Coach April Chapple a University of Tennessee, Knoxville Hall of Fame Inductee, 3-time All American, 3-time SEC Champion, SEC Tournament MVP, 2-time All SEC Team is celebrated with her 1984 SEC champion teammates at Neyland Stadium during Champions Weekend on November 1-2, 2024.

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Tennessee Hall of Fame inductee, Coach April Chapple is

the first First Round Draft Pick for the first American pro indoor women's league
named to the first First Team All-Pro team for Major League Volleyball in USA volleyball history
former USA National team member
one of the few American women players named as an Italian Pro League D-I Championship Finalist, Italian Cup Finalist and Cup of Cups Tournament Finalist

April Chapple The first First round Draft Pick For Major League Volleyball the first American Women's Pro League Honored At Athlete Unlimited Pro Volleyball Match

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Serving slang is not just about individual techniques; it also relates to overall game strategy. A coach might instruct a player to serve a "short serve" or a "deep serve" to target specific areas of the opponent's court or exploit weaknesses in their serve receive formation.

Ari, my private training client and I are working specifically on serving on jump float cross court serves ...short to Zone 2

There's so much we work on to get to this point where she can contact the ball with

the same toss height and same toss location
the same armswing speed
the same timing for when her serving hand contacts the ball
the middle of the hand contacting the middle of the ball every single time
getting use to watching her serving hand contact the ball at the highest point of her jump ...before she starts to land
and finally contacting the ball in the precise spot on the ball so it goes where the coach wants the player to put it so in this case ..a short serve in the farthest short right corner on the court also called Zone 2.

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Tommi Stockham All Big West Conference sophomore former Coach April Chapple private client 3 years

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