Gold standard
By Erin Shea Long
Up until a few months ago, I had not one misgiving that my name or any likeness should ever be associated with the Olympics. And given my mandatory adolescent P.E. affair with volleyball, I was firm that I never wanted that association again.
Up until a few months ago, I had not one misgiving that my name or any likeness should ever be associated with the Olympics. And given my mandatory adolescent P.E. affair with volleyball, I was firm that I never wanted that association again. (Y’all, volleyball is hard and I was not coordinated.) But—funny where life takes you—I can now say that I worked with an Olympic gold medalist. Dare I say we were colleagues for a few hours? I dare not.
E-mails exchanged, plans in motion and flights booked, (part of) Team P&N was off to the west coast in March to photograph Kerri Walsh Jennings for our May 2013 cover. No joke, I was apprehensive to have any sort of authority over anything concerning an American icon. I mean, kids look up to her, people cheer for her, you can buy a ball with her face on it in Target (disclaimer voice: and wherever sporting goods are sold). Granted, I wouldn’t command wardrobe changes with groans and lashings, but Kerri is like legit and stuff and I didn’t want to flub styling her as badly as I flubbed that semester in P.E. all those years ago.Left to right: ROXY (makeup), yours truly, Kerri, Angela Morris
(photographer) and Ryan Richman (hair)
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