Misty May-Treanor was born in Los Angeles and grew up
playing beach volleyball at the Santa Monica Pier with her father,
Butch, a 1968 Olympian, and her mother Barbara. She graduated from
Long Beach State, where she was a vital member of the 1998 NCAA
Championship team and received the Honda-Broderick Award for the
nation’s collegiate female athlete of the year. After a brief stint
with the U.S. national indoor team, she went on to revolutionize
the sport of beach volleyball, becoming the best women’s player
ever. Misty currently splits time between California and Florida
with her husband, Majoy League Baseball catcher Matt Treanor.
Jill Lieber Steeg has been an award-winning senior writer at
Sports Illustrated and USA TODAY. In her more than three decades in
journalism, she has established herself as one of the nation’s
preeminent profile writers and investigative sports reporters. She
lives in California with her husband Jim and their beloved golden
retreiver Fenway.
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