Madisen Skinner has three NCAA championships below her belt, however the volleyball star is surroundings her points of interest even upper as she looks to the long run.
“It’s groundbreaking and it’s something that’s really arduous to do,” Skinner, 22, told Us Weekly of her three-peat at Influential Beach presented by means of Brand Innovators on Tuesday, June 18. “There had been individuals who have long past 4 for 4, and that’s my function.”
After one championship-winning 12 months with the Kentucky Wildcats and two with the Texas Longhorns, Skinner is hoping for every other successful season as she enters her senior yr at the University of Texas at Austin. As the recipient of the 2023 Honda Sports Award for volleyball and the youngest member of the U.S. women’s national volleyball group, her chances are high that top.
Yet Skinner has even bigger goals beyond school, as she is hoping to practice in her sister’s footsteps and sign up for her at the Olympic level.
“[My sister] is the rationale I began playing volleyball,” Skinner instructed Us. “I have to give all of the credit and the praise to her. She’s lately about to compete for Team USA at the Olympics. So she’s amazing at what she does and is an inspiration to me.”
Madisen were given to share the courtroom along with her sister, Avery, 25, for 12 months at the University of Kentucky, and the sisters led the varsity to their first-ever NCAA volleyball championship name in 2020. Avery recently performs volleyball in Italy for Chieri and can be making her Olympics debut in Paris this summer season with the U.S. ladies’s nationwide volleyball crew, who earned their first-ever gold medal in Tokyo four years in the past.
Madisen is keen to live up to her sister’s legacy.
“I would like to [compete in the Olympics],” Madisen instructed Us. “My objective is L.A. ’28. Fingers crossed Avery and I can be taking part in in combination on the similar roster competing for Team USA. That’s undoubtedly my next purpose that I’m operating against.”
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Madisen — who is featured in RISE Women in Sports, on newsstands now — additionally feels hopeful for ladies’s sports activities extra extensively.
“We’re seeing the most viewership and essentially the most engagement across the board, which is superior,” Madisen advised Us. “Now the question is, how do we stay that going and how do we maximize it and assist it proceed to grow? It’s undoubtedly exciting just to go searching and see people getting the recognition they deserve because we paintings so arduous.”
With reporting by Amanda Williams
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