Gabrielle Reece: Star Volleyball Player (Burby, Liza N. Making Their Mark.) by Liza N. Burby
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An odd hybrid of a book, Big Girl in the Middle is part model/volleyball player Gabrielle Reece's autobiography and part third-person chronicle of the misadventures of Team Nike across the 1996 professional beach volleyball circuit, for which Reece captained and played middle blocker. At 6'3" and 170 pounds, Reece cuts an imposing figure, as commanding on a magazine or book cover as she is on the court. She has a unique perspective on both of the public arenas in which she's played: as a top-flight athlete and accepted beauty, she smashes several stereotypes; how she's coped with those stereotypes, successfully spiking most of them, makes Reece an admirable role model. Her observations in this area serve up Big Girl's best attributes.
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The newly established Olympic sport of beach volleyball has an image problem. Although every bit as fierce a game as its indoor version, it is still associated with suntanning and bikini culture. In alternating chapters, athlete, model, and 6'3" "babe for a living" Reece and coauthor Karbo (Trespassers Welcome Here, Putnam, 1989) discuss the balance Reece seeks between aggression and emotion, beauty and brains, masculinity and femininity. Shuffled about as a child, she developed a strong, brash, independent personality ideally suited for the self-promotion needed for both modeling and pitching for a developing sport. Only 26, she finds her greatest rewards in the challenges of volleyball. Her story is an inspiration to tall girls and young female athletes, who may fear looking, sounding, and acting big and strong. Recommended for public libraries. (Photos not seen..
-?Kathryn Ruffle, Coll. of New Caledonia Lib., Prince George,
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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An odd hybrid of a book, Big Girl in the Middle is part model/volleyball player Gabrielle Reece's autobiography and part third-person chronicle of the misadventures of Team Nike across the 1996 professional beach volleyball circuit, for which Reece captained and played middle blocker. At 6'3" and 170 pounds, Reece cuts an imposing figure, as commanding on a magazine or book cover as she is on the court. She has a unique perspective on both of the public arenas in which she's played: as a top-flight athlete and accepted beauty, she smashes several stereotypes; how she's coped with those stereotypes, successfully spiking most of them, makes Reece an admirable role model. Her observations in this area serve up Big Girl's best attributes.
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The newly established Olympic sport of beach volleyball has an image problem. Although every bit as fierce a game as its indoor version, it is still associated with suntanning and bikini culture. In alternating chapters, athlete, model, and 6'3" "babe for a living" Reece and coauthor Karbo (Trespassers Welcome Here, Putnam, 1989) discuss the balance Reece seeks between aggression and emotion, beauty and brains, masculinity and femininity. Shuffled about as a child, she developed a strong, brash, independent personality ideally suited for the self-promotion needed for both modeling and pitching for a developing sport. Only 26, she finds her greatest rewards in the challenges of volleyball. Her story is an inspiration to tall girls and young female athletes, who may fear looking, sounding, and acting big and strong. Recommended for public libraries. (Photos not seen..
-?Kathryn Ruffle, Coll. of New Caledonia Lib., Prince George,
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- The Stuff of Life: A Daughter's Memoir by Karen Karbo in Front Matter
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- Nike is a Goddess: The History of Women in Sports by Lissa Smith in Back Matter
- Atta Girl!: A Celebration of Women in Sport by Alexandra Powe Allred on page 39
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