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| 9/2/2026 |
The 2026 Title Weekend
One weekend left in the 2026 AVP League season. Two championships get decided at Oak Street Beach. The two rivalries that defined the year sit on opposite sides of their brackets. It starts Saturday morning. Four teams open in the semifinals. Each is one win from Sunday’s final and two from the crown. Here is what each of them is playing for, and why Saturday’s quarterfinal winners should...
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| 8/27/2026 |
The 2026 League Championship Field
The 2026 AVP League season ends where it has been pointing since May: Labor Day weekend on Chicago’s Oak Street Beach, with twelve pairs and two titles on the lakefront. The format is simple and unforgiving. Four quarterfinals on Saturday morning. Semifinals rolling in behind them. Finals on Sunday afternoon. Single elimination the whole way, which means every team in the field is at most...
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| 8/20/2026 |
2026 History on the Pier
The Granddaddy of them all delivered. Taryn Brasher and Kristen Cruz won their third consecutive Manhattan Beach Open title, and Taylor Crabb and Andy Benesh went through the entire men’s draw without losing a set. One team cemented a dynasty. The other started a new chapter in a family tradition that now spans nine straight finals.
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| 8/13/2026 |
AVP announces wave of new blue chip brand partners in 2026 amid record growth
August 13, 2026 – The AVP, the premier professional beach volleyball league in the world, today announced a slate of new blue chip brand partnerships as the league continues its rapid growth during the 2026 summer season. Leading the announcements, Progressive Insurance has signed on as title sponsor of the AVP League and AVP Manhattan Beach Open while also becoming...
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| 8/12/2026 |
The 2026 AVP Progressive Manhattan Beach Open Preview
Established in 1960, the Manhattan Beach Open is synonymous with the word iconic in the sport of beach volleyball. The Granddaddy of them all returns this Friday through Sunday with the biggest draw of the season and the highest stakes — 64 teams across the two main draws, 160 more fighting Thursday for just 16 qualifier spots, and free general admission on the sand surrounding...
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| 8/5/2026 |
The Final League Championship Spots Will Be Decided in Dallas
The 2026 AVP League regular season ends under the lights at Comerica Center. Dallas is the last stop, and it doubles as a playoff play-in. Four cities are done and watching: Palm Beach, Miami, Brooklyn, and New York. The other four — Dallas Dream, LA Launch, Austin Aces, and San Diego Smash — play their final matches this weekend with playoff spots on the line.
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| 7/30/2026 |
Palm Beach Passion Win the AVP League Cup
Palm Beach Passion has won the 2026 AVP Cup. Their season ended eleven days ago, in Central Park. The Cup itself was decided this past weekend at East Hampton, where a substitute pair beat Miami on Sunday to end Miami’s Cup chase by one match point. Brooklyn Blaze’s Lexy Denaburg and Devon Newberry, subbing in for injured 2025 League Champion Julia Donlin, beat Miami Mayhem’s...
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| 7/23/2026 |
2026 East Hampton League Preview
The 2026 AVP Cup comes down to a single weekend and a single condition. Palm Beach Passion finished its regular season at 13-3, the outright Cup leader. Miami Mayhem plays its final event this weekend at East Hampton with a chance to catch them — but only under one exact scenario: Miami must win all four of its East Hampton matches, and at least one of those wins must come in straight sets.
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| 7/16/2026 |
New York Nitro’s Season Comes Home. Brasher/Cruz Meet Humana-Paredes/Wilkerson on CBS
Central Park is where the season comes home for one team and where the marquee women’s matchup of the year takes place for two others. New York Nitro closes its 2026 AVP League regular season at home in Wollman Rink on July 18-19, with both pairs at 1-5 and the math saying their playoff hopes can end here. Austin Aces’ Taryn Brasher and Kristen Cruz face Palm Beach Passion’s...
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| 7/9/2026 |
Long Beach Is the Season’s Most Decisive Weekend
No other stop on the calendar concentrates this much elimination pressure. All four teams in the field — LA Launch, Brooklyn Blaze, Miami Mayhem, and Dallas Dream — arrive with a men’s pair, a women’s pair, or both directly in the playoff bubble. And Long Beach is the second-to-last event for every one of them. Three storylines carry the weekend.
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| 7/1/2026 |
The 2026 AVP League Reaches the Halfway Point of the Season
The 2026 AVP League has reached its midpoint. Four events done, four to go. Belmar, Aspen, Miami, and Las Vegas are in the books. Los Angeles, Central Park, East Hampton, and Dallas are still to come. On the men’s side, one pair has clinched a playoff spot. Three more are in strong position. Four teams are still alive and fighting to avoid the bottom two spots that miss the playoffs entirely.
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| 6/25/2026 |
2026 AVP Las Vegas League Recap
The 2026 AVP League’s biggest weekend of the season — measured in playoff stakes — went to Palm Beach Passion. The Florida franchise swept all four of their Vegas matches across both men’s and women’s matchups, vaulting them to the top of the AVP Cup standings; and locking in the first playoff spot of the season. New York Nitro went in needing to keep their playoff hopes alive...
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| 6/17/2026 |
AVP Heads to Las Vegas for Week 4 of League Play
Three weeks of AVP League play are in the books. The playoff picture is starting to take shape — and Las Vegas is the weekend that begins to settle it. Week 4 takes the 2026 AVP League to Resorts World Backlot in Las Vegas on June 19-20 — Friday and Saturday night sessions, the first AVP League event ever held in Las Vegas, and the first weekend of the regular season where playoff math...
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| 6/9/2026 |
Florida City Rivalry Comes to Miami
Week 3 takes the 2026 AVP League to Sephora Arena in Miami on June 12-13 — an indoor arena setting for the second installment of the Florida City Rivalry between Palm Beach Passion and Miami Mayhem; the League debuts for both Texas teams (Austin Aces and Dallas Dream ); and 10 of 16 athletes on the schedule who have competed in an Olympic Games.
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| 6/4/2026 |
The AVP Heads to Aspen for League Week 2
Week 2 takes the 2026 AVP League to Aspen, Colorado at the base of its slopes — the first AVP League event ever held in Aspen. Four teams. Eight duos. The first of two Crabb Brothers matchups of the regular season. A 2025 Women’s League Championship final rematch. And two city rivalries playing out across the weekend.
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| 6/2/2026 |
AVP Announces 2026 National Broadcast Schedule Across CBS Sports and The CW Network
The Association of Volleyball Professionals (AVP), the premier professional beach volleyball league, today announced its 2026 national broadcast schedule across CBS Sports and The CW Network as part of year two of the league’s landmark multi-year media partnerships. New for the 2026 season, AVP events airing on The CW Network later this summer will also stream live within the ESPN app...
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| 5/27/2026 |
The 2026 AVP League Season Opener
The 2026 AVP League season opens May 30-31 in Belmar, New Jersey. Four teams. Eight duos. Two city rivalries built into the schedule. And in the opening round, the first head-to-head between the only two teams to have ever won an AVP League title. LA Launch, New York Nitro, San Diego Smash, and Brooklyn Blaze make up the Belmar field.
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| 5/21/2026 |
2026 Huntington Beach Recap
The 2026 AVP season opened this past weekend at the Huntington Beach Pier with two championships that shared a remarkable parallel: both winning teams were playing their first AVP main draw together as partners. Andy Benesh and Taylor Crabb won the men’s title in their first AVP event as a duo. Thâmela Coradello and Victoria Lopes won the women’s title in their first AVP event as a duo.
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| 5/13/2026 |
2026 Season Opens This Weekend at Huntington Beach
With the first Heritage event of the year running Friday through Sunday. The main draw begins tomorrow morning and brings together a field that includes three internationally ranked wildcard teams, the AVP League’s top duos, and the players who earned their way in through three qualifier weekends this spring. The international wildcards were announced earlier this month...
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| 5/7/2026 |
BREAKING: Huntington Beach Open International Wildcards Announced
The AVP is excited to announce three international wildcard teams joining the field at the 2026 AVP Huntington Beach Open on May 15-17 – the first Heritage event of the 2026 season. These six athletes bring Olympic medals, World Championship appearances, and current top-10 FIVB World Rankings to the Huntington Beach Pier next week. The addition of these world class athletes...
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