Kelly Reeves finds her passion - Articles

Talking to Kelly Reeves about beach volleyball is, well, a blast. The 24-year-old bubbles with enthusiasm about her new-found sport. "As soon as I stepped on the sand, I thought, this is it!” Reeves said. “This is where I feel most happy. It's fun, it fits my style of play. Beach sparked something inside me." Reeves has reason to be enthusiastic. It typically takes two-plus years to break into the main draw, a year to accumulate points to avoid facing top teams early, and a year of battling through qualifiers. For the most part, Reeves skipped through all of that. She started her precocious beach career just three months ago. Since then, she has won twice, grabbed a second and third on the NorCECA tour, and notched a fifth- and seventh-place finish on the AVP tour with Ali McColloch. She also gave it a shot at the FIVB tour in Cincinnati, but was unable to qualify. Reeves' volleyball resume is impressive for one so young: AVCA sand All-American, 2011 NCAA indoor championship with UCLA, she’s trained with the USA national team, and played professionally abroad. Reeves started playing at 11 and that was no surprise, considering her mother, Jeanne Beauprey Reeves, taught her to play. Jeanne Reeves knows a thing or two about volleyball, as evidenced by her Olympic silver medal from 1984, back-to-back NCAA championships with UCLA in 1990-1991, and a pro beach career. As a young girl, Reeves went to a tryout for the Wave volleyball club in San Diego and fell in love...

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