Misty May was looking for a partner, I was looking to stay at home, and the beach just came calling.

At some point I go back on the sand to get my sand legs. Because it takes a good month for my legs to catch up with everything, with the displacement and all that stuff. So right now we're training on the beach six days a week for practice, and that's generally about two and a half hours. And then I'm doing pilates three times a week.

We have to fight the entire time, we can't start at the end when it's getting down to crunch time. We can't leave anything on the floor.

My mom is a constant in my life in so many ways.

At the point when I switched from indoor to beach I had been playing indoor for 12 years. And, to be honest, to make a living indoors you have to go overseas. I am such a family girl and just wanted to be home, so that didn't appeal to me. Misty May was looking for a partner, I was looking to stay at home, and the beach just came calling. And mostly I stuck with it because I loved the challenge of it, but also just the autonomy of it. It's two on two, just you and your partner, you're not one of the herd. And the lifestyle is unbeatable.

We want to seal the deal that we're the best team that's ever happened.

A true competitor works the hardest, cares the most, and makes the best of what they have.