by admin | Feb 2, 2023 | Representation, SEW
It wasn’t long after the Tokyo Olympics, the first Games that Kerri Walsh Jennings missed since 1996, that the beach volleyball legend finally made the phone call. Walsh Jennings, now 44, dialed now-41-year-old Logan Tom, her teammate at Stanford in 1999 and on the...
by admin | Jan 30, 2023 | Representation, SEW
In just a few months since reuniting, Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes have become not just the best women’s beach volleyball team in the U.S., but also, arguably, the world. Cheng and Hughes, former partners who got back together for a 2024 Olympic run, won the World Tour...
by admin | Jan 24, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Olympic beach volleyball champion Alix Klineman announced she is pregnant, sharing sonograms on social media on Monday. Klineman, 33, and retired NHL player Teddy Purcell, 37, are having a boy, according to the post. Read More
by admin | Aug 17, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Olympian Kelly Cheng (née Claes) and new partner Betsi Flint won a top-level international beach volleyball tournament in Hamburg last week, the biggest title for an American pair since the Tokyo Olympics. Cheng and Flint won the World Beach Pro Tour Elite 16 event in...
by admin | Apr 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Kerri Walsh Jennings wants to partner with 2000 Olympic indoor volleyball teammate Logan Tom for a beach volleyball bid for the 2024 Paris Games. “I gave myself until June to figure out if I’m retired or not because I still have the fire in my heart,” the 43-year-old...
by admin | Oct 26, 2021 | Representation, SEW
At this point, professional beach volleyball player April Ross has acquired quite the accessories collection, having amassed Olympic medals in every hue. But there’s one neckpiece that might mean even more than all the gold, silver and bronze in the world: A...
by admin | Aug 9, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Sport appeal, not sex appeal. That was the message of the IOC at the start of Tokyo 2020, proudly detailed in their “portrayal guidelines” for gender-equal representation in sport. The guidelines advise: “Avoid passive, sexy imagery of sportspeople which reinforces...
by admin | Aug 4, 2021 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
For female Olympians, the debate over uniforms has taken center stage alongside their athletic performances. U.S. beach volleyball players April Ross and Alix Klineman wear bikinis because of heat and sand, though Ross acknowledged that the two-piece bathing suit also...
by admin | Jun 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
Three-time beach volleyball gold medalist Kerri Walsh Jennings was defeated in her bid to reach a sixth Olympics when she and partner Brooke Sweat lost in a qualifying match Wednesday in Ostrava, Czech Republic. The early-round loss to the Netherlands means the U.S....
by admin | May 3, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Kerri Walsh Jennings is in position to reach a sixth Olympics at age 42, but it will likely come down to the last qualifying tournament. In back-to-back-to-back events in Cancun, Mexico, Walsh Jennings and new partner Brooke Sweat retained a lead in the race for...
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