Welcome to GoGreekGirls2012Olympics!!! To fill in the gaps of the title, we are two Greek Americans training and playing beach volleyball in Southern California in preparation to qualify for the Olympics in 2012. Both Christina Hinds and I (JoAnna Papageorgiou) come from Greek-Italian families with our paternal sides being 100% Greek. We took the best of all the worlds we are blessed with - training and living in the US, where we were both born and raised, but with the honor and opportunity of representing the homeland of our fathers, where we both have lived and played volleyball professionally.

Our mutual goal is to play in the Olympic qualifying beach volleyball tour (the FIVB) and earn our way to representing Greece in the 2012 Olympics in London. The process of Olympic qualification entails traveling to the worldwide tournaments (from China to Brazil to Russia) held eight months out of the year and work our way up to a ranking of top 20 in the world. Our first tournament in the FIVB this year is next month in The Hague, Netherlands! We are training hard and working hard to raise funds to support our Olympic goal! This process is the most exciting, worthwile, and amazing journeys!

Please follow us on our path to the Olympics! Any and all support is appreciated!
If you are interested in contributing to the cause, please email gogreekgirls@gmail.com.

Thank you and welcome to our dreams, our goals, our world!!

Sincerely,
JoAnna Papageorgiou