Bio

Kristi was born and raised in Long Beach. She started playing sports and volleyball in high school and at the local parks in 1967. 

Kristi then went to Long Beach City College, where she continued to play volleyball and joined the local USVBA team. She won the 1970 USVBA Rookie of the Year Award while participating in the USVBA National Championships in Hawaii. Kristi was also a member of the Los Angeles Renegade team that won the USVBA National Championship in 1971, and she was named All-American.

She transferred to California State University, Long Beach, in the fall of 1971 and was one of four setters on the 1972 AIAW National Volleyball Team. She was also a member of the World University Games womenns volleyball team coached by Ann Heck in 1973. 

In 1974, after graduating from CSU Long Beach and finishing her student teaching assignment, Kristi returned to Long Beach City College where she was the head coach for volleyball. She moved to UC Davis in 1975, and she later moved to Wisconsin where she was the head coach of the womenns volleyball team for three years. 

Kristi later trained to become a fire fighter. In 1982 she joined the Madison Fire Department as an Emergency Medical Technician/Firefighter. She later retired from the Fire Department because of a neck injury. Kristy and her partner, Amy, currently have an online business in Kenosha, Wisconsin.