Video Shout-Out from Becchara Palmer

Becchara Palmer is an Australian female beach volleyball player. She represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the beach volleyball women's tournament.

Palmer is a stalwart of Australian beach volleyball, joining the national program in 2003 after being talent ID at the South Australian Institute of Sport.

Palmer’s beach volleyball career spans nearly two decades, highlighted by winning the Junior World Championships in 2006 and being selected to the Australian Olympic Team for the London 2012 Games.

Since she started playing beach volleyball in 2003, Palmer hasn’t looked back.

Her first international competition was in 2005 and it wasn’t long before she tasted success, winning the Junior World Championship in Bermuda with her first partner Alice Rohkamper in 2006.

In 2010 and 2011, Palmer and new partner Louise Bawden won the Australian championship and at one point were ranked Australia’s number one team.

Palmer and Bawden were also selected to represent Australia at the 2012 London Olympic Games. Their selection was secured after an 18-month period, which saw the pair ranked 16th in the world. At those games, Palmer was just 24 years old and was the youngest of Australia’s female beach volleyball players.

In 2018, Palmer stepped away from professional volleyball after more than a decade of international competition & signed with the Adelaide Crows AFLW squad. 

Palmer played one season after making the decision at the end of the first year to move to Sydney. But her year of AFLW reinvigorated her and after working full-time for a year, returned to beach volleyball to partner with Nikki Laird.

Post her athletic career, Palmer works in experienced marketer in technology, start-ups and the sports industry.