Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh are the legendary couple of women's beach volleyball. They dominated and won 3 continuous gold medals at the 2004 Athen Olympic Games, the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and the 2012 London Olympic Games.
During that time, the couple won 21 consecutive wins at the Olympic Games while in other tournaments, they won 112 matches in 19 consecutive tournaments and became an obsession of any opponent.
Beach volleyball was first appeared in the 1992 Olympic Games as a performance and four years later, it was included in the official playlist. The dominance of the couple Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh is indisputable.
May-Treanor played for the first time at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. At that time, she paired up with Holly McPeak and finishes in the fifth place. The decision to find a new companion brought her to Kerri Walsh and this brought success.
Both grow up and play football in California as well as familiar with each other's play. This cooperation was right, their dominance only ended when May-Treanor retired.
The last time the couple played together at the London Olympic Games, where they won the third in a row. After May-Treanor retired, Walsh paired with April Ross and won bronze medal in the Rio 2016 Olympics.
The couple is also the first beach volleyball players to win 3 gold medals in a row at the Olympics. Walsh was also honored by the Guinness World Records with the number of consecutive victories at the Olympic Games with 22 matches at 4 Olympic Games from 2004 to 2016.
Not only that, Walsh is also the beach volleyball player with the highest award with 2,656,635 USD and her teammate May-Treanor in the next position with 2,144,383 USD.
The couple had 104 victories, more than 56 matches with the behind and the total prize they got were US $ 3,658,015. May-Treanor was also honored at the 2016 volleyball boulevard.
Currently Walsh is reminding the continuation of winning tickets to the Paris Olympic Games 2024 as well as developing the company with her husband and male vendor Volleyball Casey Jennings.
Meanwhile, May-Treanor does not participate in sports tournaments after retirement. She is busy with the life of a mother 3 children and a master's degree. She is currently working as a volleyball manager at Long Beach University.