U.S. Beach Updates: Walsh Announces She's Pregnant

B.J. Hoeptner Evans
Manager, Media Relations and Publications
Phone: (719) 228-6800
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Dec. 14, 2009) – U.S. beach volleyball player and two-time Olympic gold medalist Kerri Walsh has announced that she is pregnant with her second child.

In a Dec. 11 interview with UniversalSports.com, Walsh (Saratoga, Calif.) said she is almost four months pregnant and due to give birth on May 30.

Walsh's longtime playing partner Misty May-Treanor (Costa Mesa, Calif.) is expected to compete with another partner this season.

Walsh, 31, who is married to U.S. beach volleyball player Casey Jennings (Las Vegas, Nev.), gave birth to their first child, a boy named Joseph Michael Jennings, on May 22 of 2009, nine months following her gold-medal victory at the Beijing Olympic Games.

She returned to the court in August with Rachel Wacholder (Laguna Beach, Calif.) as May-Treanor recovered from an Achilles injury suffered while practicing for the TV show Dancing with the Stars.

May-Treanor and Walsh played together at the AVP World Challenge: USA vs. Brazil in September in Glendale, Ariz., and finished second to Brazil’s Juliana Felisberta and Larissa Franca.

May-Treanor and Walsh won gold medals at the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games. They also won the FIVB World Championships in 2003, ’05 and ’07.

Read the story on UniversalSports.com.

May-Treanor Named OC Sportswoman of the Decade

The Orange County Register named May-Treanor its Sportswoman of the Decade for 2000-09. May-Treanor moved to Costa Mesa, Calif., while in her teens and attended Newport Harbor High School and Long Beach State University.

The newspaper calls her, “One of the most approachable and unassuming sports figures in sports, May-Treanor has helped grow beach volleyball into one of the top women's sports in America.”

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U.S. to Host NORCECA Beach Circuit Tournament

The United States will host a beach volleyball event on the NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit in 2010.

“The date and site have not been confirmed,” said Ali Wood Lamberson, USA Volleyball’s Director of Beach Programs. “But we are very excited to be part of the circuit.”

Thirteen other tournament sites have also been confirmed including Cayman Islands, Trinidad & Tobago, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, Canada, Cuba and five sites in Mexico.

Two more tournaments are pending confirmation in El Salvador and Costa Rica, which would increase the total to 16 events.

Tags: Beach, Beach Volleyball, Kerri Walsh, Misty May-Treanor, NORCECA Beach Circuit