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3/27/2024
Tim Brewster, Kyle Friend, and the most unique relationship in beach volleyball
HERMOSA BEACH, California — How many times had Tim Brewster asked Kyle Friend to play a beach volleyball tournament with him? Ten? Fifteen? Twenty? They laugh when thinking about the number, the exact total of which remains unknown. The only one that actually matters is the final offer, the one in which Friend, partnerless heading into the 2022 Denver Tour Series, shrugged his shoulders and agreed.
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3/11/2024
Beach volleyball on the decline?
I’ve often heard that beach volleyball is one of the fastest growing sports around the world. Volleyball World even mentions volleyball is the 4th largest sport in the world with over 800 million fans worldwide. So, I wanted to see if the sport I love to play is as popular as it’s made out to be! I used google trends data as well as a browser extension to get the raw volumes of google searches across a bunch of keywords like “tennis”, “beach volleyball”, “pickleball”, “avp”, etc.
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3/6/2024
Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth set out to “rewrite the script.” They’ve done just that.
HERMOSA BEACH, California — They sat in silence for a moment. A warm and welcome silence that is heavy for all of the proper reasons. A silence we should all most want to feel one day, though only the truly exceptional of us shall ever know. It was an otherwise sleepy, drizzly Friday in January, a day no one would have marked down as one of any significance on the beach volleyball calendar.
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2/14/2024
SANDCAST Mailbag: Taking all questions about the new-look AVP Tour
HERMOSA BEACH, California — The 2024 AVP schedule was not intended to be announced as it was last week: Accidentally posted on their own website and shared by a slew of fans and various beach volleyball groups on Facebook before it was taken down from the website. But the cat was out of the bag, pandora out of its box, and, in a few hours, the schedule was back on the website.
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2/7/2024
2024 AVP Schedule released, including details on new AVP League
The 2024 AVP schedule has officially been released, and it includes a bit of the familiar, a smattering of tweaks, and the establishment of the new: a beach volleyball league that will be the first of its kind. Three marquee events, known as Heritage Series, which will look and feel a lot like the erstwhile Gold Series, highlight the summer...
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1/24/2024
Betsi Flint, the Supermom of professional beach volleyball
MANHATTAN BEACH, California — Dawn has not yet broken on the morning of August 20. It is just before 5 a.m., that blurry time where, for some, it is late in the night and, for others it is early in the morning. This is not an unusual time for Betsi Flint to be awake.
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1/17/2024
Cody Caldwell is having the time of his life, and is thriving because of it
HERMOSA BEACH, California — If one is ever to wonder how and why Cody Caldwell makes many of the decisions he does, the answer can often be derived from a simple matrix: When given two options, which is the most likely to lead to a good bit of fun? It’s easy to wonder, when watching Caldwell, a 6-foot-6, 30-year-old who has won AVP Tour Series events...
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1/10/2024
Corinne Quiggle’s 2023 didn’t go as planned, and it was perfect
HERMOSA BEACH, California — In the midst of a season that had, by early summer, known mostly lows — losing in one qualifier in Mexico and two in Brazil, skipping a pair of guaranteed-money AVPS in the process, going 0-2 in the first AVP of the season — Corinne Quiggle and Sarah Schermerhorn dropped to an even further level in early July.
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1/3/2024
Matt Prosser — player, coach, cancer survivor, now volleyball commentator — has come full circle
HERMOSA BEACH, California — In 2021, Volleyball World TV was in search of announcers for the Italian SuperLega to which it had recently acquired the rights. The pool for such talent is not the largest or the deepest; rare is the individual who can both speak eloquently while also being well-versed in a sport that has traditionally had little fanfare in the United States.
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12/20/2023
Beach Volleyball Mailbag! Thoughts on the new AVP? Paris predictions?
HERMOSA BEACH, California — The 2023 beach volleyball season was as long as any in recent memory, one that began in Doha, Qatar in January and ended back in Doha just a few weeks ago for the Beach Pro Tour Finals. It criss-crossed continents and hit both new cities and old. New hierarchies were established, new pairs formed. Some worked. Many didn’t.
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12/14/2023
Reach the Beach: Avery Drost
The very first time I ever played beach volleyball was at East Beach in Santa Barbara, CA. I had just started school at Westmont College in SB, and some of my new friends were taking the quick shuttle down the hill from Montecito to the beach to hit the ball around. If you know East Beach, you know those courts have some of the most legendary history in the game.
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11/22/2023
2023 Athlete Awards vs. Stats
It’s official: We’ve announced all the winners of the 2023 AVP Athlete Awards on @AVPBeach Instagram. But were the intangibles indiscernible through box scores and stat lines at play? Was there popularity involved? Existing player perceptions? We’ll never know the exact mix that influenced each of the voting athletes. What we can do is dive into this season’s stats...
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Terese Cannon: Scrapping a six-year Olympic plan to “go play because you like playing”
HERMOSA BEACH, California — It was early September, and Scott Davenport had a terrible idea. A wonderful idea. A terrible, horrible, no good, positively brilliant idea. He was going to take Terese Cannon, a left side blocker, and partner her with Megan Kraft … another left side blocker. Come again? In Davenport’s defense, this was not the originally intended plan.
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11/15/2023
Seain Cook: “An idiot who plays beach volleyball? That’s good.”
HERMOSA BEACH, California — Seain Cook is an idiot. His words. “What’s my brand?” he wondered aloud on SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter. “An idiot who plays beach volleyball? That’s good.” Cook is the one who once competed in a Santa outfit — sleeves cut off, mullet glorious, mustache perfect — at the AVP Central Florida Pro Series in 2022.
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11/13/2023
Big AVP happenings: 8-city league starts in 2024, plus new tour format
The AVP is making a major addition in 2024. A lot of details are obviously still to come, but: The domestic pro beach volleyball tour announced Monday that the AVP League — eight teams in both genders — will begin in September. The eight men’s and eight women’s teams will play head-to-head in a regular season that will run through November.
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11/8/2023
Megan Rice was always just “one opportunity away” from her breakout 2023
HERMOSA BEACH, California — It was a hypothetical at first. There was only a space of four days between the AVP Denver Tour Series and the Hermosa Pro Series this past July. Savvy Simo and Toni Rodriguez, after a finals run in Denver, opted to take the ensuing Monday and Tuesday off. A light practice Wednesday also finished early, as Rodriguez nursed a perpetually sore knee.
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10/30/2023
2023 VolleyballMag Women’s AVP Awards: Year of the TKN Takeover
A few notes about our VolleyballMag 2023 AVP Awards: The awards are subjective, as awards go, and we enjoy debating them. There was no polling process. The awards were decided on a mixture of stats, finishes, and film from tournaments throughout the 2023 AVP season. We did not take into account Tour Series events, except for Rookie of the Year and Most Improved.
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10/29/2023
2023 VolleyballMag Men’s AVP Awards: Miles Partain, Andy Benesh steal the show
A few notes about our 2023 VolleyballMag AVP Awards: The awards are subjective, as awards go, and we enjoy debating them. There was no polling process. The awards were decided on a mixture of stats, finishes, and film from tournaments throughout the 2023 AVP season. We did not take into account Tour Series events, except for Rookie of the Year and Most Improved.
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10/25/2023
DJ Klasnic is living the volleyball dream — and then some
HERMOSA BEACH, CALIFORNIA — DJ Klasnic laughs through the friendly jabs. “You guys always make fun of me for being the oldest college player,” says the 28-year-old Serbian who, yes, is still in college, studying computer science and competing for the Westcliff University men’s beach volleyball team. It was quite a steal for Westcliff coach Fernando Sabla when Klasnic moved from Florida to California.
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10/22/2023
AVP Retirees – Class of 2023
Our 40th Anniversary season was one to remember, especially as we launched three unmatched AVP veterans into post-AVP life. John Hyden, Emily Stockman, and Ed Ratledge have all been AVP Champs and staples on the AVP tour. Now each adds one more accolade as they enter the annals of retired AVP legends.
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10/15/2023
“Quigglehorn,” Cook-Caldwell win AVP Laguna Beach titles; Rigney photo gallery
That’s a wrap on the 2023 AVP season after both top seeds won tournament titles Sunday at Laguna Beach, California. Corinne Quiggle and Sarah Schermerhorn-Murphy, fondly referred to as “Quigglehorn” beat second-seeded Brook Bauer and Megan J. Rice, 21-17, 19-21, 15-12 in Sunday’s women’s final of the AVP Tour Series Laguna Beach Open.
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9/19/2023
Seain Cook: Reach the Beach
Volleyball has defined my life and given me almost everything I have – my wife, my son, our life, and some of my closest and best friends. I rub shoulders with Olympians and some of the all-time greats. I never thought I would be here. I shouldn’t be here, but I am. And I want more. When I was 8, I remember very explicitly finishing a swimming training session and speaking with my coach.
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