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Misty Elizabeth May-Treanor (/ ˈ t r eɪ n ər /; née May; born July 30, 1977) is an American retired professional beach volleyball player. She is a three-time Olympic gold medalist, and as of August 2012, was the most successful female beach volleyball player having won 112 tournaments in domestic and international competition.
In 2010 May-Treanor and Walsh extended a winning streak to 112 matches before losing to Olympic teammates Elaine Youngs and Nicole Branagh in the AVP Crocs Cup Shootout in Ohio. To that point the pair had won 19 straight titles. [16] Following the retirement of partner Misty May-Treanor in 2012, Walsh teamed with April Ross.
Holly McPeak (born May 15, 1969) is an American retired indoor and beach volleyball player. McPeak was three-times an Olympian in beach volleyball. In the professional circuit, she garnered 72 career beach volleyball titles, with career earnings of US$1.4 million. She is ranked third in titles won (behind Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh) and ...
Misty May-Treanor racked up an impressive career as a beach volleyball player, taking home three gold medals in the Olympics from 2004 to 2012. She has been inducted into the Volleyball Hall of Fame.
v. t. e. The Women's beach volleyball event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, was held at the Olympic Beach Volleyball Centre located at the Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex. The gold medal went to Kerri Walsh and Misty May who had a perfect record in the tournament, losing not a single set. The reigning champions from the 2000 ...
In the 2012 London Olympics, No. 4 seed Ross and Kessy won the Silver Medal by defeating Brazil's No. 1 seed team of Juliana and Larissa in a semi-final match after dropping the first set. They lost to teammates Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings in the Gold Medal final straight sets by an identical score of 16–21.
Kiraly babysat Misty May-Treanor when she was a youngster. [25] On the same day Kiraly led the national team to their historic gold medal win at the 2020 Summer Olympics, he revealed that he was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2017 and had to have doctors remove part of his colon in order to fight the disease. Trying to keep the team in good ...
The Association of Volleyball Professionals (AVP) is the biggest and longest-running professional beach volleyball tour in the United States. [1] Founded in 1983, the AVP is headquartered in Newport Beach, California. [2] The AVP operates as a 3-tiered development system with AVPFirst, a youth program; [3] AVPNext, a developmental circuit; [4 ...