Misty May-Treanor just won back-to-back gold medals in beach volleyball, but all I can think is the dance.

“When I wake up, it’s like I can not wait to dance,” said the Olympic packing after three hours of testing in the dance studio here. “I can not wait to get back there to see if the soaked overnight.”

As a competitor for the seventh season of “Dancing with the Stars,” May-Treanor traded on the beach to be linked. Her bathing suit and bare feet have been replaced by swing skirts and high heels. For 31 years athlete is loving every minute.

“I saw the show and I never thought in a million years I would like to participate in the show that pairs of stars with professional dancers to compete week in the perfectly choreographed routines, said.” It’s something deeper where I was like, ‘ Oh, it would be so much fun being in this show. ”

May-Treanor swept around the room, her Champagne-colored wood floors Key heels in perfect time. She is so graceful and elegant, it is difficult to believe that this is the same woman who is known as a murderer in the judicial arena.

She learned that I would be going into the cast while she was in Beijing, where one partner Kerri Walsh defeated China to win his second gold medal.

“She lost in the closing ceremony to come and start training maksu,” executive producer Conrad Green said, referring to his professional dance partner, Maksim Chmerkovskiy. “He shook his straight to the test.”

Chmerkovskiy and Latin dance championships and a veteran of the fair, also traveled with his student over the last volleyball tournament of the season, that the invited his eye on the ball and your mind of the dance floor.

However, the May-Treanor said it is willing to put aside their sport and concentrate on something new, for some time.

“It’s nice for me, especially playing for so long,” he said, adding that does not have a summer off since I was 11 years. “It takes my mind of volleyball … It’s good to just move on.”

It is not treading into unknown territory. From May to studies TREANOR dancing as a child in Los Angeles, assembly, ballet, jazz and Baton Twirling-between lessons in football and volleyball practice.

The main task now is to deprive a position of power in recent years devoted to sports training and recovery effort, the light-at-your-leave of elegance.

“This is what I was trying to do and that brings back the passion, as it aims to be funny and using his body to the flow instead thunk,” he says, stomping his feet on the ground.

She her full faith in his mentor and monitor what gives meaning. Tell you what, exercise is surely a good fat burner!

“I am in the world, by allowing you to decide everything,” he says. “If the sand, then I was like, ‘OK, you have to be in shorts and this is what we do.”

May-Treanor was consistent student - used constantly and allow to choose Chmerkovskiy moves, music and apparel - which could lose its reputation as pragmatic.

“I know what I did, and I think I do not have to prove it,” says Chmerkovskiy. “She thinks that my best plan is that the best we can.”

Will compete with singers Lance Bass and Toni Braxton, TV personality Brooke Burke and Kim Kardashian, actor Cloris Leachman, Cody Linley, Susan Lucci and Ted McGinley, comedian Jeffrey Ross, chef Rocco DiSpirito; NFL stars Warren Sapp and fellow gold medalist Maurice Greene. The first pair will be eliminated on Tuesday.

(Chmerkovskiy, however, believe that enough has already ordered a maximum of five weeks of the costumes are wardrobe.)

This is the largest cast assembled for the ABC show, and boasts the youngest (Linley, 16) and oldest (Leachman, 82) contestants in its history.

Do not think, even dancers Green said, but the athletes have an advantage.

“They know how to train. They do not know how to get drawn into. They are accustomed to accepting the order, and are used to enforce their bodies,” he said, noting that the two gold-medal Olympians - Kristi Yamaguchi and Apollo Anton Ohno - He won the last contests. “They certainly have an advantage, but it is not unfair, because there is no reason to believe that a player, beach volleyball would be good at dancing.”

May-Treanor already has ideas for the free dance, which comes at the end of the competition, green and said I could go all the way.

A light house Mirrorball trophy presage a new career of a star volleyball?

“Now I’m busy with this and have a great time, so if something based on what comes after,” he says. “But this is not what I was looking for. It’s not like I hope I will this reality show (scheduled). I’m doing something new to learn and have fun.”