May-Treanor sweeps AVP player’s awards
October 27th, 2008, 5:48 pm · Post a Comment · posted by Shawn Price
Misty May-Treanor cleaned up at the annual AVP player’s banquet in Los 
Angeles last week.
Slowed by her recent achilles injury on the “Dancing With the Stars” TV show, she was still quite able to collect awards for Best Offensive Player, Best Defensive Player, Most Valuable Player and was one half of Team of the Year with partner Kerri Walsh.
The three-time AVP Crocs Cup champ and two-time Olympic gold medalist from Costa Mesa earned her fifth consecutive BOP award, fourth consecutive MVP award, third BDP award and along with Walsh, sixth consecutive team award.
On the men’s side, Olympic champs Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers took home their second Team of the Year award, with Dalhausser picking up another MVP and Best Offensive Player award. He also took home Best Defensive Player as a blocker. Rogers split BDP as a defender with Nick Lucena.
Lucena and Olympian Nicole Branagh won Most Improved Player awards, while Laguna Beach’s Whitney Pavlik was named the women’s Rookie of the Year. The 24-year old reached the top ten in 10 of the 15 tournaments she participated in, finishing a career best fifth in the Boulder, Colorado event.
