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Misty May-Treanor is a native of Costa Mesa, California, where she grew up on Southern California's best beaches learning from the greatest players in the sport.  Her father, Robert "Butch" May, was a 1968 indoor volleyball Olympian who competed with the U.S. Men's Olympic Team that placed 7th at that event.  Her late mother, Barbara, was also a world class athlete in tennis.  Misty's cousin, Taylor Dent, was a 2004 U.S. Olympian in tennis and competed alongside Misty while in Athens.

In 1988, Misty led the Long Beach State University women's volleyball team to the NCAA Women's Volleyball National Championship, ending the season with a perfect 36-0 record never before achieved by a team in NCAA history.  She was awarded the Co-Most Valuable Player honors at the 1997 and 1998 NCAA Championships, and selected the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Player of the Year.   She earned Volleyball Magazine's Player of the Year honors in those same seasons.  Misty was a 4-time collegiate All-American from 1995-1998, and led the nation in assists.  She was awarded the Honda Broderick Award as the nation's top female collegiate student-athlete, an honor held by only 3 women in the sport of volleyball.  That same year, Misty was named a finalist for the prestigious Sullivan Award, presented to the nation's top amateur athlete.  Misty May ended her Long Beach State career ranked second in school history in assists (5,045), second in service aces (160), third in digs (1,277) and sixth in hitting percentage (.344), as a setter.  She still holds those records today.

She joined the U.S. National Team in May 1999 and within 2 weeks of her arrival at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado, she was named the team's starting setter.  She led the team to the bronze medal at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, then Misty made a command decision that would change the course of her career.  After learning there was an opportunity to play with beach volleyball veteran, Holly McPeak, Misty left the indoor team and returned to her roots on the beach in hopes of qualifying for the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.  In September 2000, she hit the sands of Bondi Beach and made an amazing rookie run, falling just short of the medal rounds placing 5th with McPeak after suffering an abdominal injury during the Games.

The 2004 Athens Olympic Games may well have been renamed the "Misty May Show" for the total amount of media coverage that Misty and her compelling story drew.  Her USA vs. Brazil gold-medal final was viewed by 25 million viewers in the U.S., and close to an additional 100 million more viewers worldwide.  Her touching testament to her mother, the late Barbara May, by spreading her ashes on center court following her gold-medal victory, was perhaps the most poignant moment in Olympic beach volleyball history, and certainly one of the most memorable of the Athens Olympics.  But it is Misty's strength of character that has drawn most people to her accomplishments in the sport.  Misty experienced a pre-Olympics injury, a strained abdominal muscle that made its first appearance during the 2000 Sydney Olympics.  Determined not to be defeated by the injury, Misty rehabilitated during her Olympic qualification run, and traveled to Athens 100 percent healthy to challenge for the gold medal.  Experts call it a remarkable recovery, friends call it par for the course.

Misty married Major League Baseball player, Matt Treanor, on November 13, 2004, putting the final touches on an Olympic year filled with expectation and fulfilled dreams.  In the future, she looks forward to pursuing a master's degree and a coaching career.  She currently resides with her husband in both Long Beach, California and Coral Springs, Florida, and is in the process of making another Olympic run in Beijing 2008.

Accomplishments:
2004 Olympic Gold Medalist; 2004 Women's Sports Foundation Sportswoman of the Year (Team); 2004 Olympic Committee Spirit Award; AVP Tour Best Offensive and Defensive Player and Team of the Year (multiple awards); 2002 and 2003 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Champion; 2000 BVA Tour Rookie of the Year; 2000 U.S. Olympian; Gold Medalist, FIVB World Tour (multiple); U.S. Indoor Women's National Team Member (1999); Bronze Medalist, 1999 Pan American Games; 2-time AVCA and Volleyball Magazine Player of the Year (1997, 1998); NCAA National Champion (Long Beach State, 1998); 4-time collegiate All-American; 1998-99 Honda Broderick Award Winner for nation's top collegiate athlete (all sports); Gatorade High School Athlete of the Year (Newport Harbor HS); USA Volleyball All-American (Junior and Adult Open levels); Gold Medalist, USA Junior Olympic Volleyball Championship; Inducted into the Long Beach State University Sports Hall of Fame (2004)

World Records:
Most consecutive match victories (15)
Most consecutive game victories (90)

Misty May is represented by Octagon Sports.  Inquires can be directed to tracey.milburn@octagon.com