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Kerri Walsh is an American volleyball player. Walsh was born in California in 1978 to Tim and Margie Walsh, and grew up in Saratoga. From her parents, she obtained an important advantage for volleyball, her height. At 6'3", Walsh is one of the tallest women volleyball players and one of the strongest blockers. As a high school student, she played on the varsity team at Archbishop Mitty High School in San Jose. Walsh continued on to Stanford University where she won a volleyball national championship, received the Player of the Year Award and earned a spot on the All American First Team. She has played both indoor and beach volleyball.

In the 2000 Summer Olympics, she played indoor volleyball where the United States team finished in fourth place. In the 2004 Summer Olympics, Walsh and Misty May became the first American team to win the gold medal for women's beach volleyball. Winning an unprecedented ninety-one matches and 16 tournaments in a row, Walsh and May captured the gold without ever losing a game. Currently Walsh is ranked as the best female volleyball player in the world.

1 Athens 2004 Participation

Against Match Score Set 1 Set 2/Set 3 (if avalaible)
TOKUNO/KUSUHARA ( JPN) 2-0 21:9 21:16
LEENSTRA/KADIJK ( NDLDutch redirects here. For other uses, see Dutch (disambiguation). The Netherlands ( Dutch: Nederland is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, a constitutional monarchy. It is located in northwestern Europe and borders the North Sea, Belgium) 2-0 21:11 21:13
CELBOVA/NOVAKOVA ( CZThe Czech Republic ( Czech: Ceska republika is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The republic borders Poland to the north, Germany to the northwest and west, Austria to the south, and Slovakia to the east. Historic Prague, a major tourist attraction)) 2-0 21:17 21:17
TIAN JIA/WANG FEI ( PRCThis article is on the geographic and cultural entity. For other meanings, see China (disambiguation). China ( Traditional Chinese: , Simplified Chinese: , Hanyu Pinyin: Zhongguo, Wade-Giles: Chung-kuo) is a country in continental East Asia with some oute) 2-0 21:11 21:18
DUMONT/MARTIN ( CANCanada historically the Dominion of Canada is the second-largest, and northernmost, country in the world. It is a decentralized federation of 10 provinces and 3 territories, governed as a constitutional monarchy, and formed in 1867 through an act of Confe) 2-0 21:19 21:14
McPEAK/YOUNGS ( USA) 2-0 21:18 21:15
ADRIANA BEHAR/SHELDA ( BRA) 2-0 21:17 21:11
A Pool Round 16 Quarters Semifinals
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