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

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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. She graduated from the

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, where she was a member of the volleyball team playing the positions of outside hitter and middle hitter. She was a member of the

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Biography

As a professional, Beck plays for AVP Pro,

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and AVP Young Guns.Morgan Beck Miller
bvbinfo.com She is also a model and was named by ''

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'' "One of the 25 Hottest Athletes on the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team". In 2010, she was featured in a

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ad campaign. She married

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skiing champion

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on October 7, 2012, after five months of dating. They have a son, Nash Skan Miller, born in 2015. Their daughter, Emeline "Emmy" Grier Miller (November 5, 2016June 10, 2018) drowned at 19 months old in the swimming pool of a neighbor's home in

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. 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. On November 8, 2019 they welcomed twin boys Asher and Axel Miller. 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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{{DEFAULTSORT:Beck, Morgan 1987 births Living people American women's volleyball players American women's beach volleyball players California Golden Bears women's volleyball players Female models from California Sportspeople from Newport Beach, California Outside hitters Middle blockers 21st-century American women