We shouldn’t be surprised.
If you’re Misty May-Treanor and you’ve already won more beach volleyball tournaments than any other woman and you’ve got two gold medals to boot, it’s safe to assume she’s driven.
So what do you do when you’re taking time off and healing a ruptured Achilles tendon? Oh, I don’t know. How about start a foundation, go back to school to earn a master’s degree, have a child... Yep, the Newport Harbor High graduate’s got all that on the 2009 agenda and more.
“The reason we wanted to start our own foundation is to better know where the money’s going,” said May-Treanor, the “we” referring to her husband, Detroit Tigers catcher Matt Treanor. The couple likes to generate money for charity, but sometimes it’s a mystery where it all goes, but a foundation could help them have more control over how it is spent, she said.
What causes might benefit from the Treanors’ fundraising?
“I work closely with the Special Olympics and I want to help with education and the disabled. I also want to help animals so there isn’t just one cause that we’re after,” she said.
As for starting a family, we’re all pulling for another generation of beach volleyball and baseball players.
We also checked in with several other notable Newport-Mesa figures to see what they resolve to do in 2009 and got a variety of fun insights.
Rep. John Campbell was the one leader who’s taking a pass on resolutions. Why? As he explained last year, he never manages to keep them, so why bother? We know the feeling.
“Let’s see now — do you want the ‘canned’ version? You know, work for world peace, lose weight, exercise more, er, a little, etc....
Or, do you want the real one?
I have lots of resolutions, some of which are mentioned above. Near the top of list of resolutions is:
In 2009 I will continue to be observant of municipal issues and continue to write about them to, hopefully, influence more people to be aware of things that affect their lives and encourage them to become active participants in the process of governing our city.”
Geoff West
Costa Mesa blogger
“My quest to lose 50 pounds is not finished. I have lost 40 so far.”
Scott Baugh
Orange County GOP chairman
“Tell my wife I love her more frequently, encourage my daughters more often, read more books, and walk the dog regularly.”
