Morgan Beck

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Morgan Beck Miller
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NationalityAmerican
BornMorgan Elizabeth Beck
(1987-03-30) March 30, 1987 (age 36)
Newport Beach, California, U.S.
Height191 cm (6 ft 3 in)
Weight77 kg (170 lb)

Morgan (Beck) Miller (born March 30, 1987) is an American professional beach volleyball player and model.

She stands at 6 feet 3 inches tall. She was born in Newport Beach, California, and attended San Clemente High School in San Clemente, California where she made four records her senior year. These records included 39 kills in a game, 544 kills in a season, 11 service aces in a match and a .497 hitting percentage. She was named a Mizuno High School All-American. [1] She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, where she was a member of the volleyball team playing the positions of outside hitter and middle hitter. [2] She was a member of the United States women's national volleyball team. [3]

Biography

As a professional, Beck plays for AVP Pro, USA Volleyball and AVP Young Guns. [4]

She is also a model and was named by Complex Magazine "One of the 25 Hottest Athletes on the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team". [5] In 2010, she was featured in a Nike ad campaign. [6]

She married Olympic skiing champion Bode Miller on October 7, 2012, after five months of dating. [4] [7] They have a son, Nash Skan Miller, born in 2015. [8] Their daughter, Emeline "Emmy" Grier Miller (November 5, 2016 –June 10, 2018) [9] drowned at 19 months old in the swimming pool of a neighbor's home in Orange County, California. [10] Following her daughter's death, she voiced support of parental blogger Nichole Hughes, who lost her 3-year-old son to drowning around the same time as Miller, in raising awareness of childhood drowning, the number-one cause of death for children between the ages of 1 and 4. Their second son, Easton Vaughn Rek Miller, was born on October 5, 2018. [11] [12] On November 8, 2019, they welcomed twin boys Asher and Axel Miller. [13] Beck is also stepmother to Miller's two other children, Dace and Samuel Miller-McKenna. In May 2021, Beck announced that she was pregnant with a girl, due in November 2021. The daughter was born on November 26, 2021.

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  2. ↑ Morgan Beck Cal Bears Bio
  3. ↑ "Morgan Beck". Team USA. Archived from the original on September 7, 2014. Retrieved July 29, 2018.
  4. 1 2 Morgan Beck Miller. bvbinfo.com
  5. ↑ Hoare, Peter (July 26, 2012) Morgan Beck — The 25 Hottest Athletes on the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team. Complex. Retrieved on April 27, 2014.
  6. ↑ Kunnath, Avinash (October 8, 2010) Former Golden Bear Volleyball Hitter Morgan Beck Featured In Nike "Boom" Ads – SB Nation Bay Area. Bayarea.sbnation.com. October 8, 2010.
  7. ↑ Graham, Pat (November 15, 2012). "Bode Miller won't hurry back from knee injury". Aspen Times . Gunilla Asher. Archived from the original on January 17, 2013. Retrieved November 18, 2012. they were wed on Oct. 7
  8. ↑ "Bode Miller Welcomes Son Edward Nash Skan". People Magazine. May 18, 2015. Archived from the original on August 14, 2018. Retrieved November 8, 2016.
  9. ↑ Jen Juneau (November 7, 2016). "It's a Girl! Bode Miller Welcomes Fourth Child". People Magazine. Retrieved November 8, 2016.
  10. ↑ "19-month-old daughter of Olympic skier Bode Miller drowns in pool". ESPN. June 11, 2018. Retrieved June 11, 2018.
  11. ↑ "Bode Miller & Wife Morgan Welcome Son 4 Months After 19-Month-Old Daughter Emeline's Tragic Death".
  12. ↑ "I haven't formally introduced our little light, Easton Vaughn Rek Miller". Archived from the original on December 26, 2021.
  13. ↑ Johnson, Lauren (November 12, 2019). "Bode and Morgan Miller welcome twins a little over a year after losing their daughter". CNN. Retrieved January 20, 2021.
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