Misty May-Treanor
Resides: Coral Springs, Fla.
Height: 5-9
College: Long Beach State
Current Coach: Troy Tanner
Olympic History: 2000 women's beach volleyball (5th); 2004 women's beach volleyball (gold medal); 2008 women's beach volleyball (gold medal)
Web Site: www.mistymay.com
View Misty's complete statistics at BVBInfo.com
PERSONAL: Born Misty May on July 30, 1977 in Los Angeles, Calif. ... Daughter of Robert "Butch" May, member of the 1968 U.S. Men's National Volleyball team, and the late Barbara May, a former nationally ranked tennis player... Misty has two brothers; Brack and Scott... Married Matt Treanor, then a catcher for the Florida Marlins organization, in November 2004. Matt Treanor joined the Detroit Tigers in December, 2008... Misty's cousin, Taylor Dent, was on the 2004 U.S. Olympic Team for tennis... Interests include eating, golfing and making people laugh... Misty's nickname is Turtle... Majored in kinesiology and physical education at Long Beach State University... Competed in track for one year at Long Beach... Graduated from Newport Harbor High School in 1995... Named 1995 High School Player of the Year. Played volleyball, soccer and track in high school... Was second in state in high jump her sophomore year of high school... Plans to pursue a Master's degree and continue coaching at the Junior College level after her playing career is over... Finished fifth at the 2000 Olympic Games with partner Holly McPeak... Suffered from an abdominal muscle injury in the months leading up to the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens... Appeared on an episode of CSI... Enjoys playing with her boxers Gruden and Boogie... Has tattoos to honor her late mother and grandmother... Sprinkled her mother's ashes on the court following her gold-medal victory in Athens and sprinkled more during the 2008 Games in Beijing... Competed on ABC television's Dancing with the Stars in the fall of 2008, but had to withdraw from the competition after rupturing her Achilles tendon during a practice... May and her husband Matt are starting the May-Treanor Ohana Foundation to contribute various charitable organizations including Special Olympics.
INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS: 2009 - Misty and partner Kerri Walsh returned to the sand together for the AVP World Challenge: USA vs. Brazil presented by Sanderson Ford in Glendale, Ariz. The United States won the team competition, but Misty and Kerri lost in the final to Brazil's Juliana Felisberta Silva and Larissa Franca. 2008 - Misty and partner, Kerri Walsh, have won their last 69 FIVB World Tour matches with 10-straight gold medal finishes. Seeded second, the pair won the 2008 Olympic beach volleyball tournament to become the first team to win two beach volleyball Olympic gold medals. The pair finished the tournament with a 7-0 record and did not drop a set. They defeated the top-ranked Chinese team of Wang Jie and Tian Jia, 21-18, 21-18, in the final. Misty was named the Most Outstanding Player of the tournament, finishing third among hitters with 107 kills in seven matches and third among diggers with 43 digs in seven matches. The team finished the Olympic Games with a 108-match winning streak... Misty and Kerri had the most Olympic qualifying points of any team in the Games, but were ranked second due to an FIVB rule that allows the host country the top ranking if it has a team in the top six... Kerri underwent shoulder surgery during the offseason and reinjured the shoulder the weekend of May 2 in Huntington Beach, Calif., causing her and Misty to pull out of the early FIVB women's tournaments they had been planning to play. They returned to international play at the SWATCH FIVB World Tour Grand Slam event in Berlin on June 10-14 and won three straight international tournaments (Berlin; Paris and Stavanger, Norway). Misty was named the Most Outstanding Player of all three events. Winning the three events earned the team $65,250. 2007 - Won seven out of eight international tournaments and placed third at the other... Won third straight FIVB World Championship (Gstaad, Switzerland) without dropping a set in the tournament... Won $154,750 and finished the season ranked ninth overall, but first in Olympic qualifying points. 2006 - Played in eight tournaments, winning three gold medals, two silver and two bronze... Won $100,700 and finished the season ranked ninth. 2005 - Won second-straight FIVB World Championship... Netted gold medals in six of her seven tournament appearances... Finished the season ranked 7th... Earned $131,500 in prize money. 2004 - May-Treanor and partner Kerri Walsh went 14-0 to win the Olympic Games in Athens... Won four gold medals in five tournaments... Ended the season ranked 37th... Earned $43,000 in prize money for her efforts. 2003 - Won first FIVB World Championship (Berlin)... Won five gold medals, one silver medal and one bronze medal in eight tournament appearances... Finished the season ranked third... Received $126,000 for her efforts. 2002 - Won the FIVB Tour... Netted five gold medals, three silver medals and one bronze medal in 11 tournaments... Ranked 1st for the season... Earned $97,570 in prize money throughout the season. 2001 - Earned five medals in nine tournament appearances... Finished 9th in the season ranking... Received $58,500 for her appearances. 2000 - Finished fifth at the Olympic Games in Sydney... Claimed three gold medals and two silver medals in 11 tournament appearances... Ranked third in the season standings... Claimed $90,000 in prize money. 1999 - Finished ninth in her one tournament of the season... Netted an 82nd season placement... Earned $2,250.
DOMESTIC HIGHLIGHTS: 2008 - Misty and Kerri played in a total of 14 AVP tournaments, winning 12 and taking one second and one third. They won a total of $182,750... Misty and Kerri's total match win streak came to an end at 112 matches at the AVP Crocs Cup Shootout Cincinnati held Aug. 29-31. Misty and Kerri were defeated in the finals by fellow Olympians, Elaine Youngs and Nicole Branagh. The loss also snapped the gold medalists' streak of 19 straight tournament championships. Until then, Misty and Kerri had not lost a domestic volleyball match since Aug. 16-19, 2007 in Boston when they lost in the AVP final to Branagh and Youngs... Misty and Kerri won the first three AVP events they played in before Kerri reinjured her shoulder the weekend of May 2. They came back the weekend of May 24 to win the AVP event in Louisville, Ky. ... They won a total of 12 AVP events in 2008, with one second and one third. They won a total of $182,750... At the AVP event in Chicago on Aug. 10-13, Misty won her 100th career tournament title in 153 events, the fastest beach volleyball player to reach that milestone. She is the first female beach volleyball player to win 100 tourneys and the fifth player overall. Going into Beijing she has 102 tournament victories. 2007 - Played in 15 AVP events... Won gold at 13, silver at one and bronze at one... Won $162,250 and finished season ranked first… At the AVP event in Boston, she became the all-time earnings leader. 2006 - Played in 16 AVP events with 13 first-place finishes and three second-places... Won $236,650 and finished season ranked first. 2005 - Played in 14 AVP tournaments, winning 11 and finishing second three times... Won $183,250 and finished season ranked 1st. 2004 - Played in 10 AVP tournaments with seven first-place finishes, one second and one third... Won $73,612.50 and finished season ranked 4th. 2003 - Won eight out of eight AVP tournaments... Claimed $71,550.00 and finished season ranked 1st... 1999-2001 - Played in 10 domestic tournaments (AVP, BVA and USAV) with six podium finishes including three gold medals... Won a total of $44,475,
PARTNERS: 2009 - Kerri Walsh. 2008 - Kerri Walsh. 2007 - Kerri Walsh. 2006 - Kerri Walsh. 2005 - Kerri Walsh. 2004 - Kerri Walsh. 2003 - Kerri Walsh. 2002 - Kerri Walsh. 2001 - Kerri Walsh... Holly McPeak. 2000 - Holly McPeak. 1999 - Holly McPeak.
HONORS: 2008 - USA Volleyball Female Beach Volleyball Player of the Year... Glamour Magazine Woman of the Year... FIVB Co-Player of the Year (with China's Xi Zhang), FIVB top defensive and offensive player of the year and co-sportsperson-of-the-year with Walsh... AVP Best Offensive Player, Best Defensive Player (defender) and Most Valuable Player. AVP Team of the Year with Walsh. 2007 - USA Volleyball Female Beach Volleyball Player of the Year... FIVB Sportswoman of the Year and Best Offensive Player (with Kerri Walsh). FIVB Best Defensive Player... AVP Crocs Cup Champion and Team of the Year (with Kerri Walsh)... AVP Most Valuable Player, Best Defensive Player and Best Offensive Player. 2006 - AVP Crocs Cup Champion and Team of the Year (with Kerri Walsh)... AVP Most Valuable Player, Best Defensive Player and Best Offensive Player. 2005 - FIVB Most Outstanding Player, Best Setter and Best Offensive Player... AVP Team of the Year (with Kerri Walsh)... AVP Most Valuable Player and Best Offensive Player. 2004 – Named Most Outstanding Player of the Olympic beach volleyball tournament… AVP Best Offensive Player. AVP Team of the Year (with Kerri Walsh). 2003 - AVP Team of the Year (with Kerri Walsh). 2002 - FIVB Tour Champion (with Kerri Walsh). 2000 - BVA Rookie of the Year.
COLLEGE HIGHLIGHTS: 1998 - Led an undefeated team from Long Beach State to a national championship... Shared the award for "Most Valuable Player" of the tournament... Received the Honda Broderick NCAA Athlete-of-the-Year Award... NCCA First-Team All-American. 1997 - NCCA First-Team All-American. 1996 - NCCA First-Team All-American.
