Misty: My Journey Through Volleyball and Life

The passionate, poignant, and triumphant story of two-time Olympic gold medal-winning beach volleyball icon Misty May-Treanor.

More than any Olympics in history, the 2008 Beijing Summer Games captured the world's imagination, and Misty May-Treanor bec

Author: Misty May-Treanor
Publisher: Scribner Books Co
Published: 06/14/2011
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.75h x 5.82w x 0.85d
ISBN13: 9781439148556
ISBN10: 1439148554
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Sports
- Sports & Recreation | Volleyball
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs

About the Author
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.