Rachel (Wacholder) Scott (born 1975) is a model and professional

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player who won eight beach volleyball championships with three partners. Scott was named Best Defensive Player 2005 and Most Improved Player on the AVP Tour in 2005. By 2009, she had played in 168 beach volleyball events, 121 domestically and 47 internationally, and earned eight victories, 22 runner-up performances, and won over $750,000 in prize money.

Early life

Scott was born in

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, and is Jewish. She attended

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('93). She was named California High School Volleyball Player of the Year in 1993. She then attended the

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and graduated with a degree in Communications."Rachel Wacholder Scott; United States"
Beach Volleyball Database. She started four seasons on the volleyball team where she earned second team All- Big Eight honors in both 1994 and '95 and first-team All-

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honors in 1996, the first season of the new league. She was a member of the 1993 Big Eight Championship team for the Buffaloes. She has held 32 records in the Colorado Volleyball record book, including most kills in a three-game match (24) and is the only Buffalo to record 100 attacks in a single match, swinging 106 times against Iowa State in 1996. She ranks in the top five in CU history in career kills (3rd – 1,484), career attacks (2nd – 4,330), career service aces (t-4th – 145) and career digs (4th – 1,342).

Career

Scott won the most improved player in 2000 on the Beach Volleyball America (BVA) Tour. Scott won two Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) Grand Slam events in 2004, her first two career victories, alongside Olympic gold medal winner

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, filling in for an injured

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. In 2005, she had the second-most kills and second-most digs on the

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(AVP) Tour. At the end of the 2005 season, she was voted the AVP's best defensive player and most improved player of the year. In 2006, she was the No. 2 seed on the AVP tour along with her partner, beach volleyball veteran

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. During the 2005 AVP tour, Scott and Youngs dealt top-seeded Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor a surprise defeat at the

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Open, halting the two-time Olympic Gold Medal winning team's 50-match win streak. She ranked second on the tour in kills (7.71 per game), and seventh in digs (5.17 per game). The duo would go on to win five events together, all on the AVP Tour with three coming in 2005 and two in 2006. In August 2006, Scott and Youngs split before the 2006 Manhattan Beach Open. Scott paired with Jen (Kessy) Boss defeated Youngs and new partner

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in their first meeting at the Coney Island Open. In 2007, she was ninth on the tour in digs (5.49 per game). In 2008, she won the San Diego AVP Open with partner

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. By 2009, Scott had played in 168 beach volleyball events, 121 domestically and 47 internationally. She earned eight victories, 22 runner-up performances, and won over $750,000 in prize money. It was reported in 2009 that she would play with Kerri Walsh at the

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Open and continue for the rest of the season together with Walsh. The duo played in four events, finishing third once, fifth twice and 13th once. In 2010, she reunited with Youngs and the duo, seeded third, finished fifth to open the season at the

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AVP event.

Personal life

Scott resides in

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with husband Sean Scott, whom she wed in November 2007. Her husband is a beach volleyball player on the AVP Tour.

Honors

In 2006 she was inducted into the

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References

External links

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(archived) * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Wacholder, Rachel 1975 births Living people American women's beach volleyball players People from Laguna Beach, California Sportspeople from Redondo Beach, California Jewish American sportspeople Jewish women's volleyball players 21st-century American Jews 21st-century American women Colorado Buffaloes women's volleyball players