April Ross, who won an Olympic sand volleyball order of every color over the last three Games, blazoned she’s pregnant with her first child and due in October.

Ross, who won gold in Tokyo with Alix Klineman, last played a event in March 2022 and since excavated into coaching, though she has not blazoned a withdrawal.

“ I ’d like to come back and play at some point, ” she said, according toVolleyballMag.com “ I would just start on the AVP. I do n’t have like a huge drive to come back and chase the Olympics at the moment, but if I come back, and it’s a good situation, and I feel like I ’m playing well on the AVP, I would n’t rule it out.

“ I ’ve fulfilled everything I set out to do in my career so if I play from now on, I just want it to be a fun, good trip and play with notoriety I enjoy playing with. I’ve no idea who I might play with or any of that. It’s just how it develops. ”

Ross, 40, also took Olympic tableware in 2012 with Jennifer Kessy and citation in 2016 with Kerri Walsh Jennings.

Klineman, 33, is due with her first child this summer and has said she might return from parturition for a late shot for a 2024 Paris Olympic spot.

The window to earn qualifying points for the Paris Games began in February and runs into June 2024.

Two of U.S. women’s brigades will qualify. The top brigades therefore far are Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes and Taryn Kloth and Kristen Nuss.