Jennings’ volleyball venture set for San Jose start
The Olympic gold medalist kicks off tour at Avaya Stadium
More details are emerging for San Jose native KerriWalsh Jennings’ inaugural beach volleyball/wellness/concert tour coming to Avaya Stadium in San Jose next month.
The p1440 event will feature a men’s and women’s beach volleyball tournament, along with a village devoted to health, fitness and wellness issues, as well as a music stage.
On Thursday, Jennings and p1440 organizers announced a music lineup that includes Foster the People, Grouplove, Daya, Marian Hill and Magic Giant.
The three- time Olympic gold medalist and professional volleyball player, who graduated from Stanford University and San Jose- Archbishop Mitty High School, earlier this year announced the creation of the p1440 tour, sonamed because of its theme of spending all 1,440 minutes of the day with a pur- pose.
Jennings co-founded the tour after splitting from the Association of Volleyball Professionals, reportedly because she had different concepts for staging and marketing beach volleyball. The tour she and co-founders have created is a mix of spectator sport, lifestyle event and pop music concert. Or, as she put it in a press release:
“We want people to come to our event, watch the best of the best in beach volleyball compete for the title, learn and engage with our p1440 ex- perts and partners, immerse themselves in our health and wellness village, enjoy chart- topping musical acts and leave inspired and empowered to live the p1440 lifestyle well beyond our events. We want people to go on an adventure with us and leave ‘ better’ for it.”
The event runs Sept. 2830 at the grounds at Avaya Stadium, home of the San Jose Earthquakes soccer team. The exact schedule for themusical acts has not been disclosed yet.
Headliners Foster the People is a Los Angeles indie-pop outfit best known for the 2010 hit “Pumped Up Kicks” as well as for the current hit “Sit Next toMe.”
Tickets for the event went on sale Thursday. Weekend passes start at $80 for adults, $40 for kids under age 12; www.p1440. com.
The San Jose event kicks off p1440’s inaugural 201819 season. Other events are set for Las Vegas, San Diego and Huntington Beach in 2018, with four more to come in 2019 during the first season. But Jennings was sure to start things off in her native San Jose.
“The fact that our first event is in my hometown, where I fell in love with the game and where my family is — it’s a dream come true,” Jennings said in a statement posted on the San Jose Earthquakes web page. “I am honored to be able to share our inaugural p1440 event with the beloved Bay Area and with a community that has given me so much.”