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Misty started to play again with partner Nicole Branagh, but found her heart wasn't in it and quit, thinking she was done. When Kerri came back, she partnered up with Branagh and the two began to make plans for the Olympics. She didn't want her career to peter out the way it apparently was. She wanted another gold medal, and she wanted to win it with Walsh.

Play or retire? Go for gold or begin the second act of her life? May-Treanor so agonized over the decision, she once woke up crying at 3 a. It was then she knew she had to come back and play some more. The process from there was complicated. Misty had to get Kerri to agree to rejoin her, and that left a bitter Nicole Branagh out in the cold. Forgiveness wasn't easy to come by, but Misty and Kerri are friends above all and felt they owed it to their relationship to give it one last try.

Heading into London, Misty and Kerri are in the unusual position of not being favored to win gold. Since their return, they haven't dominated like they did going into Kerri Walsh remains confident and excited about the prospect of putting their team into the ranks of the all-time greats from ESPN :. We'll be the best there ever was in beach volleyball, and I just want that. I feel like growing later made me more accountable, because I had to do things right, which is the best way to do things anyway.

Rio will be her fifth Olympics. May-Treanor and Walsh Jennings won gold medals at the Olympics in , and By Daniel S. Updated Aug 6, at pm. Published Aug 6, at pm. I allow Heavy. ISBN Soon after winning her gold medal in the Beijing Olympics, May-Treanor ruptured her achilles tendon during dance practice for a performance on the show Dancing with the Stars. It was successfully repaired, though she did not return to competition for nearly a year.

In , she competed in season 7 of Dancing with the Stars with partner, Maksim Chmerkovskiy. May-Treanor ruptured her Achilles tendon during a training session for the show, and was consequently forced to withdraw from the competition. Misty May-Treanor and teammate Kerri Walsh Jennings were gold medalists in beach volleyball at the , and Summer Olympics. They have been called "the greatest beach volleyball team of all time.

Riding a match win streak, May and Walsh continued their winning ways through the Summer Olympics. May and Walsh defeated Brazil in the championship match to win the gold medal.

The duo did not lose a single set in all seven matches. A tattoo on May-Treanor's shoulder of an angel with the initials "B. For nearly the entire period from their initial partnering in , to their respective hiatuses in late , May-Treanor and Walsh dominated both the AVP and FIVB beach volleyball tours. At one point, May-Treanor and Walsh had a win streak of consecutive matches and 19 straight tournaments that lasted from August to August , breaking their own previous record of 89 consecutive match wins and 15 straight tournaments, set before the Summer Olympics.

May-Treanor was a member of the women's volleyball coaching staff at Irvine Valley College beginning in , though she is no longer listed as a staff member. IVC head coach, Tom Pestolesi, was her high school volleyball coach.

The season saw the team of May and McPeak find success, both in domestic and international competitions. With three FIVB tournament wins and no finishes lower than 5th, the pair qualified for one of the two US Olympic berths, a goal McPeak was looking for when she first partnered with May.

At the Summer Olympics the pair won in the opening round and in the round of 16 before losing in a hard fought quarterfinal match against Sandra Pires and Adriana Samuel of Brazil. The quarterfinal loss left the team in a tie for 5th place at the Sydney games. After completing the season with McPeak, May teamed up with a new partner Kerri Walsh, playing as a defender behind Walsh's block.

Rather than play on the newly reformed AVP tour, the duo spent the and seasons gaining valuable experience competing on the international FIVB tour. They won their first FIVB tour championship in They received "Team of the Year" honors after having an undefeated domestic season, going 39—0 in match victories with eight tournament wins. On the international tour, May-Treanor and Walsh went in match victories. May played her first professional match on the AVP tour in May while still a college senior.

After graduating from Long Beach State in , she joined the U. Women's National Volleyball Team. After a few months she quit the national team to focus on beach volleyball, teaming with Holly McPeak. During her tenure there, she racked up numerous Big West Conference and NCAA awards and honors, including the Honda Sports Award for the nation's best female volleyball player, and the Honda-Broderick Cup for the best overall female collegiate athlete —99, and back-to-back National Player of the Year awards in and May played volleyball for the Long Beach State 49ers from to The team that May captained was the first women's NCAA volleyball team to have an undefeated season.

She helped her team win the state championship in volleyball in both her sophomore and senior years, and