The Beach is Back

If victory is a drug, then Kerri Walsh must be a hardcore addict. After all, the 6-foot-3 professional beach-volleyball player has amassed more than 100 wins on both the AVP and FIVB tours with longtime partner Misty May-Treanor, and has scored gold in back-to-back Olympics (including the Beijing games). Walsh...

By Benjamin Leatherman

September 25, 2008

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If victory is a drug, then Kerri Walsh must be a hardcore addict. After all, the 6-foot-3 professional beach-volleyball player has amassed more than 100 wins on both the AVP and FIVB tours with longtime partner Misty May-Treanor, and has scored gold in back-to-back Olympics (including the Beijing games). Walsh attempts to get more of her favorite fix when she competes in this weekend’s Sanderson Ford Glendale Best of the Beach Invitational at Westgate City Center, 6770 North Sunrise Boulevard. The three-day tournament, part of the annual AVP Crocs Tour, kicks off at 5 p.m. Thursday, September 25, and features six other Olympians (including gold medalists Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers).
Thu., Sept. 25, 5-10:30 p.m.; Fri., Sept. 26, 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. & 5-9:30 p.m.; Sat., Sept. 27, 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. & 5-10:30 p.m., 2008

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Benjamin Leatherman is a staff writer for Phoenix New Times where he focuses primarily on arts, culture, music, and nightlife. He began writing for New Times in 2003 and joined the staff full-time in 2005. Prior to that, he contributed to magazines such as Tips & Tricks and The Wrestler. Benjamin has earned multiple awards from the Arizona Press Club including an award for sports enterprise reporting in 2009 and an award for statewide arts reporting in 2014. He holds a bachelor’s of arts in journalism from Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

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