Morgan Beck
{{Short description|American beach volleyball player}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2014}}
{{Infobox volleyball biography
| name = Morgan Beck Miller
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| birth_name = Morgan Elizabeth Beck
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| father name = Ed Beck
| mother name = Cindy Beck
| nationality = American
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1987|3|30}}
| birth_place = Newport Beach, California, U.S.
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| height = 191 cm
| weight = 77 kg
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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.{{Cite web|date=2019-07-24|title=Morgan Beck, Bode Miller's Wife - Facts About The Beach Volleyball Player|url=https://answersafrica.com/morgan-beck-bode-millers-wife-facts-beach-volleyball-player.html|access-date=2021-03-07|website=Answers Africa|language=en-US}} 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.[http://www.calbears.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=208195548 Morgan Beck Cal Bears Bio] She was a member of the United States women's national volleyball team.{{Cite news|url=https://www.teamusa.org/usa-volleyball/athletes/morgan-beck|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140907120112/http://www.teamusa.org/usa-volleyball/athletes/morgan-beck|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 7, 2014|title=Morgan Beck|work=Team USA|access-date=2018-07-29|language=en}}
Biography
As a professional, Beck plays for AVP Pro, USA Volleyball and AVP Young Guns.[http://www.bvbinfo.com/player.asp?ID=11646 Morgan Beck Miller]. bvbinfo.com
She is also a model and was named by Complex Magazine "One of the 25 Hottest Athletes on the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team".Hoare, Peter (July 26, 2012) [http://www.complex.com/sports/2012/07/the-25-hottest-athletes-on-the-2012-us-olympic-team/morgan-beck Morgan Beck — The 25 Hottest Athletes on the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team]. Complex. Retrieved on April 27, 2014. In 2010, she was featured in a Nike ad campaign.Kunnath, Avinash (October 8, 2010) [http://bayarea.sbnation.com/2010/10/8/1739680/morgan-beck-cal-women-volleyball-nike-boom-ads Former Golden Bear Volleyball Hitter Morgan Beck Featured In Nike "Boom" Ads – SB Nation Bay Area]. Bayarea.sbnation.com. October 8, 2010.
She married Olympic skiing champion Bode Miller on October 7, 2012, after five months of dating.{{cite news | first = Pat | last = Graham | title = Bode Miller won't hurry back from knee injury | date = November 15, 2012 | publisher = Gunilla Asher | url = http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20121115/SPORTS/121119909/1077&ParentProfile=1058 | archive-url = https://archive.today/20130117085653/http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20121115/SPORTS/121119909/1077&ParentProfile=1058 | url-status = dead | archive-date = January 17, 2013 | work = Aspen Times | accessdate = November 18, 2012 | quote = they were wed on Oct. 7 }} They have a son, Nash Skan Miller, born in 2015.{{cite web |url=http://celebritybabies.people.com/2015/05/18/bode-miller-welcomes-son-nash-skan/ |title=Bode Miller Welcomes Son Edward Nash Skan|date=May 18, 2015 |publisher=People Magazine |access-date=November 8, 2016|archive-date=August 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180814173329/http://celebritybabies.people.com/2015/05/18/bode-miller-welcomes-son-nash-skan/|url-status=dead}} Their daughter, Emeline "Emmy" Grier Miller (November 5, 2016{{snd}}June 10, 2018){{cite web|url=http://people.com/babies/bode-miller-welcomes-daughter-morgan-beck/|title=It's a Girl! Bode Miller Welcomes Fourth Child|author=Jen Juneau|date=2016-11-07|accessdate=2016-11-08|publisher=People Magazine}} drowned at 19 months old in the swimming pool of a neighbor's home in Orange County, California.{{cite web|url=http://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/23765505/olympian-bode-miller-19-month-old-daughter-dies-drowning|title=19-month-old daughter of Olympic skier Bode Miller drowns in pool|author=|date=June 11, 2018|accessdate=June 11, 2018|publisher=ESPN}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://people.com/parents/bode-morgan-miller-welcome-son/|title = Bode Miller & Wife Morgan Welcome Son 4 Months After 19-Month-Old Daughter Emeline's Tragic Death}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/BtZZkvkjNh5/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/s/instagram/BtZZkvkjNh5 |archive-date=December 26, 2021 |url-access=registration|title =I haven’t formally introduced our little light, Easton Vaughn Rek Miller}}{{cbignore}} On November 8, 2019, they welcomed twin boys Asher and Axel Miller.{{cite web|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/12/us/bode-miller-twins-born-trnd/index.html|title=Bode and Morgan Miller welcome twins a little over a year after losing their daughter|last=Johnson|first=Lauren|date=12 November 2019|accessdate=20 January 2021|publisher=CNN}} 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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Category:American women's volleyball players
Category:American women's beach volleyball players
Category:California Golden Bears women's volleyball players
Category:Female models from California
Category:LOVB Salt Lake players