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VOLLEYBALL LEGENDS COACHED LOCAL YOUTH THIS FALL By Tim Kelly
Volleyball has always been a very popular sport in Incline Village. From our adult indoor leagues to residents playing on our beautiful sand courts, volleyball has a great history in town. The crazy COVID fall of 2020 saw the popularity of volleyball explode even more with our youth when new Incline residents Casey Jennings and Kerri Walsh-Jennings moved to town and started our first-ever grass volleyball camp program at Incline Park.
definitely a highlight of the amazing program when she brought her three Olympic Gold Medals and took pictures with all the players. She became even more famous with the kids when she showed up with pizza one day!
Casey, a former national champion indoor player at Brigham Young University and retired professional 2-man beach volleyball player, was the head coach. Winning over 10 titles in his beach career, Casey taught the fundamentals to our Incline residents while showing the kids how much fun volleyball can be.
Roxanne Reed, a Senior at Incline High School and team captain of the volleyball team had this to say about the program, “It was amazing and so much fun. Casey is an amazing player and coach. I play a lot of volleyball, but to be able to learn from Casey was great. Then, to have Kerri show up and talk to us and give us any time was a dream come true. It was a really great program.”
Kerri is already the most decorated beach volleyball player (male or female) of all time, is currently training for her sixth Olympic Games, and is universally recognized as one of the greatest volleyball players ever to play the sport. Married to Casey for 16 years, she served as his assistant coach at the Incline Village camp when she could make it. Kerri was
The Incline Village Parks & Recreation team is so excited to welcome the Jennings family to Incline Village and welcome them to our IVGID family. We look forward to seeing what is next for the volleyball program with Casey. Finally, our village is very excited to join the Kerri Walsh-Jennings fan club as we cheer her on at the upcoming Olympic Games.
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