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Post by jgrout on Jan 5, 2007 13:21:41 GMT -5
Kristin wasn't a 4-time AA, if I recall. I don't know why she didn't get it the one missing year. In volleyball, Kristin was a first-team AVCA All-American in 1994 and 1997 and a second-team AVCA All-American in 1995 and 1996. She had a missing season (not just a missing AA) in BB because she left Stanford to play with USA Volleyball before the 1996 Olympics (where she was the alternate)... she could have played one more year in basketball in 1998-1999 but signed with the Minnesota Lynx instead. A few years later, after a Lynx-Monarchs game, she was gracious enough to talk to a bunch of VB Festival participants and an odd adult or two, including myself, and said that she had burned out on volleyball. When her WNBA career didn't work out... she seemed like a tweener at that level... she retired.
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Post by brybry2 on Jan 5, 2007 14:31:28 GMT -5
We should start a threat on Burn Outs.
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Post by StanfordFan on Jan 5, 2007 14:32:19 GMT -5
Anyone know what Folkl is doing now?
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Post by jgrout on Jan 5, 2007 17:58:31 GMT -5
Anyone know what Folkl is doing now? According to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristin_FolklKristin Folkl-Kaburakis has been working as the director of development of the St. Louis Sports Commission. It cites a report in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that she and her husband had their first child, a boy, on August 29th. Little Ian Nicholas is probably keeping both Mom and Dad busy...
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Post by ohiostatetad on Jan 6, 2007 7:57:38 GMT -5
Kerri Walsh as a freshman: As a Freshman in 1996 - National Freshman of the YearThat is truly an amazing feat, since the AVCA first made that an award 5 years later (Stacey Gordon, FOY, 2001).
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Post by LanaiBoy on Jan 6, 2007 12:31:02 GMT -5
I can't imagine anyone putting Hodge above Kerry Walsh, although the former had an impressive season this past year. I said in a previous thread that when I first saw Walsh as a freshman, I thought to myself, Oh no. There goes Hawaii's chance for a national title for four years! Walsh was the best back row attacker I have ever seen period. Unfortunately, Walsh hurt her shoulder and never was the same her next three years. It was only after she finished college that her shoulder was completely healed. Hodge can't come close to Walsh in terms of digging, passing, serving, and blocking. Hitting maybe.
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Post by tsunami on Jan 7, 2007 2:48:51 GMT -5
I hate comparisons of current players to volleyball greats. Kerri worked very hard to make a name for herself, and after......she left a mark in volleyball history, like many other players before her.
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Post by blastingsand on Jan 7, 2007 14:51:40 GMT -5
Kerri Walsh as a freshman: As a Freshman in 1996 - National Freshman of the YearThat is truly an amazing feat, since the AVCA first made that an award 5 years later (Stacey Gordon, FOY, 2001). I was only quoting from her bio in Stanford's website. See for yourself gostanford.cstv.com/sports/w-volley/mtt/walsh_kerri00.html
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Post by BearClause on Jan 7, 2007 15:37:33 GMT -5
Could be any number of things. Volleyball Magazine apparently had its own "Freshman of the Year" award. Oganna Nnamani got that in 2001.
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Post by SakiBomb25 on Jan 8, 2007 0:56:12 GMT -5
I think it was the Volleyball Magazine National Freshman of the Year that Walsh won. Cary Wendall and Kristin Folkl also won it as well.
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Post by standingroomonly1 on Jan 8, 2007 8:14:02 GMT -5
Could be any number of things. Volleyball Magazine apparently had its own "Freshman of the Year" award. Oganna Nnamani got that in 2001.\ I think it was the Volleyball Magazine National Freshman of the Year that Walsh won. Cary Wendall and Kristin Folkl also won it as well. Seems Volleyball Magazine has it's own agenda as in 2004 Ogonna and Stacey were co-POY's in the AVCA voting yet Volleyball Mag had Stacey as POY outright.
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