Tyra Turner (

née A birth name is the name of a person given upon birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name, or the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a birth certificate or birth re ...

Harper, born July 21, 1976) is a professional

beach volleyball Beach volleyball is a team sport played by two teams of two or more players on a sand court divided by a net. Similar to indoor volleyball, the objective of the game is to send the ball over the net and to ground it on the opponent's side of the ...

player from the United States who plays on the AVP Tour. Turner is a graduate of the

University of Central Florida The University of Central Florida (UCF) is a public research university whose main campus is in unincorporated Orange County, Florida. UCF also has nine smaller regional campuses throughout central Florida. It is part of the State University ...

, where she played volleyball all four years. In 1998, she was named UCF's Scholar Athlete of the Year and Female Athlete of the Year. Turner was inducted into the UCF Athletic Hall of Fame in 2004. Turner has been married to fellow AVP pro Chad Turner since January 2005. They have three sons - Myles, Blake, and Preston - and live in

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Q & A with the AVP's Tyra Turner
* * 1976 births Living people American women's volleyball players American women's beach volleyball players University of Central Florida alumni 21st-century American women UCF Knights women's volleyball players {{US-volleyball-bio-stub