Two points stood between unmitigated disappointment and a thread of hope for Team USA women’s volleyball Wednesday night in its match against Serbia.
Santa Cruz’s Kelsey Robinson Cook recorded three of her five digs in the decisive fifth set as Team USA beat Serbia in women’s volleyball at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris on Wednesday. PARIS — Win the points, and the hope of winning a medal at the Paris Olympics survived. Lose them, and the team likely wouldn’t even advance out of pool play, much less defend its one and only gold medal.
The second youngest on the United States’ team during her Olympic debut in 2016, Robinson Cook, 32, is now the second oldest. Only four-time Olympian Jordan Larson, 37, is older. They, along with 27-year-old Jordan Poulter , have been anointed team captains. Or, as coach Karch Kiraly calls them, “the leadership council.”
It’s a natural post for Robinson Cook, who has never shied from the role of team leader. Yet she’s likely aware that while pep talks can help, a good play — like the key dig she made on Serbian power hitter Tijana Boskovic during those final points of the USA’s 17-15 fifth-set win — can be equally impactful.
That opportunity has reenergized her, she said. For the past decade, Robinson Cook has been living nine months per year abroad while playing for various international clubs. However LOVB, which begins its inaugural season next January, is based in the U.S. She married the right person, then. Cook grew up in Santa Cruz, a member of one of the most volleyball-centric families in a volleyball-crazed town. He starred for Soquel High, collecting three MVP awards, and at Stanford before turning pro. His older sister, Karissa, collected her own stash of MVP awards at Harbor before setting for Stanford and winning a stop on the AVP beach volleyball tour.
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