KERRI WALSH JENNINGS AND APRIL ROSS
Beach volleyball | USA
by Sean Gregory
Jul 30, 2016
3 minutes
A new partnership faces its toughest test yet
SECONDS AFTER WINNING AN OLYMPIC GOLD medal, most athletes don’t start dreaming of the next one. But Kerri Walsh Jennings does. At the 2012 Olympics, in a patch of sand spread near Buckingham Palace, Walsh Jennings and her playing partner, Misty May-Treanor, had just clinched a third straight beach-volleyball gold. May-Treanor was planning to retire, but Walsh Jennings was sure she still had something left. And so while exchanging post-match hugs with their vanquished opponents, fellow Americans April Ross and Jennifer Kessy, Walsh Jennings whispered to Ross, “Let’s go get
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