This feature story on volleyball player Claire Robertson appeared in the Arizona Daily Sun in June 2004.
‘THE PERFECT LIFE’
By ED ODEVEN
She lives a block from a southern California beach with her grandma. She bicycles two blocks to work at her uncle’s coffee shop in the mornings. She travels 10 minutes by bike to Hermosa Beach, where she plays volleyball in the afternoons.
Sounds like a dream routine, doesn’t it?
It is. And it’s Claire Robertson’s reality.
“It’s the perfect life for me,” said Robertson, the former Northern Arizona volleyball standout. “It’s what I’ve always dreamed of. And now I’m getting it.”
Robertson is a volleyball player on the AVP Pro Beach Tour. She’ll next compete in the Hermosa Beach Open, to be held July 22-25.
Growing up in Torrance, Calif., Robertson was a beach bum by day, beach bum by night. Thus, it’s only natural for her…
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