4x Olympic medalist Kerri Walsh Jennings breaks down the shocking numbers behind the money
This week, Jason is joined by 3x Olympic gold medalist, 1x Olympic bronze medalist, and one of the most proclaimed American Olympic athletes in recent memory, Kerri Walsh Jennings!
Teaming up with Misty May-Treanor to win three olympic gold medals and three world titles and go undefeated for a remarkable 112 games. On returning to the Olympic stage at Rio in 2016 with new partner April Ross, she brought in a bronze medal at the age of 37. In recent years, Kerri has expanded her professional skillset by co-funding a non-profit organization to unite, empower, and inspire the sport of beach volleyball in communities around the country.
Kerri dives into her take on the business landscape on beach volleyball at the collegiate level, the different approaches to being excellent in your sport as a kid, how she handles the outside noise, how to utilize and breakaway from the label, the monetization behind beach volleyball, how a domestic contract changed their world, and what funds olympic dreams. Kerri also reveals how USA athletes differentiate from other countries, how she wants to improve the ADP for beach volleyball, realistically what the pay is like, being humbled by indoor volleyball, the business behind San Diego Mojo. What were her first big deals? What do the athletes pay for?
Kerri reveals all that and so much more in another episode you can’t afford to miss!
