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  May 9, 2010

  Mothers know best when it comes to family matters

  Lorena Ochoa, 28, the world's No. 1-ranked golfer last Sunday sobbing on a golf course in Mexico as she finished her last tournament before retirement. Ochoa, who is committed to spending more time with her new husband and his three children, is officially done with golf now. She has spoken of wanting to have a child of her own.
  
  This might not feel like a happy Mother's Day to the LPGA Tour, which has now lost its most marketable star, but the consensus among a number of women athletes is that there is no blueprint for life's decisions — and that no retirement decision is ever final.
  
  Top female sports stars such as Clijsters, Candace Parker, Lisa Leslie, Kerri Walsh, Dara Torres and Lindsay Davenport have wrestled with the same decisions that caused Ochoa to step away from golf.
  
  Two-time Olympic beach volleyball gold medalist Walsh is on a sports break now. Her second child is due sometime this month, but she says it is driving her crazy, sitting at home and watching volleyball partner Misty May-Treanor playing without her. But Walsh has already figured that she and May-Treanor will team up again to win a third Olympic gold medal, this time in London in 2012. It hasn't occurred to her, Walsh said, to use the word "retirement."

  Source: Los Angeles Times

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