Jessica Foster

Jessica graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2018. Throughout college, she played four years of both beach and indoor volleyball— two at the University of San Francisco and two at UC Berkeley. She was introduced to the sport as a kid watching Misty and Kerri in the Olympics and started playing at 16 when she came to Hermosa Beach for a USA beach volleyball tryout/clinic. As soon as she knew it was possible to play beach and indoor in college, she became obsessed and fell in love with the game the same year she started. In her first-ever AVP tournament, Gaffney set an AVP Tour record by becoming the lowest-seeded team (84th) to advance from the Qualifier, achieving the feat in Hermosa Beach 2018. Jessica’s favorite AVP memories include qualifying for her first Manhattan Beach Open Main Draw in 2019 and winning the Laguna Beach Open in 2021.

Outside of volleyball Jessica loves to cook, read, surf, and ski. Her favorite foods are burritos and pasta. She has two cats named Coconut and Milo. A fun fact about Jessica is that she spent three weeks in Peru post-college volunteering in medical clinics supporting impoverished communities outside Lima. She aspires to work in the medical field post-volleyball and is currently in nursing school.