The Olympic Gold Medal-winning volleyball player discusses growing up with her Olympian father, how alcoholism plagued her home, and her mother's untimely death from cancer, and tells behind-the-scenes stories from her rise to volleyball stardom.

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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 U.S. Olympian who also is considered one of the best coed doubles players in history, and her mother, Barbara, a nationally ranked tennis and top amateur volleyball player. Misty graduated with a bachelor's degree in kinesiology from Long Beach State, where she was a vital member of the 1998 NCAA Championship team and received the Honda-Broderick Cup as the nation's most outstanding collegiate female athlete. After a brief stint with the U.S. national indoor volleyball team, she transitioned to the sand, subsequently revolutionizing the sport of beach volleyball and becoming the best women's player ever. Misty lives in Florida with her husband, Major League Baseball catcher Matt Treanor, and their dogs Gruden and Boogi.
Jill Lieber steeg, a graduate of Stanford University, has won numerous national awards as a 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. A pioneering female sportswriter, bestselling author, and Pulitzer Prize nominee, she has covered every pro and amateur sport and major event imaginable, including twenty Super Bowls, seven Olympics, the World Series, the U.S. Open and British Open, the World Series, the U.S. Open and British Open, the World Cup, the NCAA basketball tournament and Final Four, the Indianapolis 500, and the Westminste Kennel Club Dog Show. She lives with her husband, Jim Steeg, a legendary sports executive who developed and oversaw the NFL's Super Bowl for twenty-six years, and their dogs Fenway and Lexi.

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