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Friday, April 26, 2024
Database Statistics
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Players: 12674 9751 22425
Tournaments: 2096 1664 3760
 
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Marise Brandao 58
Shawn Davis 58
Akyeli Yalcin 57
Marco Freitas 56
Jeff Hall 53
Nathan Davenhill 50
Christopher Steines 49
Sarah Thomson 47
Sandy Martin 47
Susan Poole 47
Dave Pacevich 46
Teresa Zunzunegui 43
Francisco Abreu 42
Sara Johnson 42
Felix Rinner 42
Dimitrios Niopas 41
Tracy Kirk 40
Alexandre Maison 40
Ragnar Pahn 40
Flore Gravesteijn 37
Stephanie Wolf 37
Sonia Berkioune 37
Maximiliano Santiago 37
Lara Dal Canto 36
Stephanie Barry 36
Chase Ross 35
Meghan Mannari 33
Carissa Whalen 32
Skyler McCoy 31
Aiste Simuntyte 30
Venla Vaarala 29
Rafail Baniotis 29
Chin-Ju Wang 28
Jose Tammenga 27
Ofek Berman 26
Ismail Ayirici 26
William Picariello 26
Luke Salm 25
Maja Kaiser 25
Dane Johnson 24
Valma Prihti 23
Kasper Benjaminsson 22
Pieter van Driel 19
Aleksi Hanninen 18
Muriel Bossart 18
Lukas Vasicko 18
Mille Bassoe 16
 
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Beach Volleyball History
In 1987
Sinjin Smith and Randy Stoklos won the AVP Hawaii Open.  It was the 73rd win for Sinjin Smith, the 49th win for Randy Stoklos, and the 48th win for the team.
In 1998
Jose Loiola and Kent Steffes won the AVP Miller Lite Fort Myers Open.  It was the 27th win for Jose Loiola, the 101st win for Kent Steffes, and the 14th win for the team.
In 2009
Emanuel Rego and Ricardo Santos won the FIVB Banco do Brasil presents the KIA Open.  It was the 78th win for Emanuel Rego, the 51st win for Ricardo Santos, and the 35th win for the team.
In 2014
Daniele Lupo and Paolo Nicolai won the FIVB Fuzhou Open.  It was the 1st win for Daniele Lupo, the 3rd win for Paolo Nicolai, and the 1st win for the team.
In 2015
Jamie Broder and Kristina May won the FIVB Fuzhou Open.  It was the 3rd win for Jamie Broder, the 3rd win for Kristina May, and the 3rd win for the team.
In 2015
Nivaldo Diaz and Sergio Gonzalez won the NORCECA Norceca Beach Volleyball Circuit Cayman Islands.  It was the 4th win for Nivaldo Diaz, the 11th win for Sergio Gonzalez, and the 4th win for the team.
In 2015
Jenny Kropp and Whitney Pavlik won the NORCECA Norceca Beach Volleyball Circuit Cayman Islands.  It was the 14th win for Jenny Kropp, the 16th win for Whitney Pavlik, and the 14th win for the team.
In 2015
Matt Henderson and Piotr Marciniak won the   Madeira Beach Championships.  It was the 3rd win for Matt Henderson, the 3rd win for Piotr Marciniak, and the 2nd win for the team.
In 2015
Kristen Batt-Rohr and Priscilla Lima won the   Madeira Beach Championships.  It was the 5th win for Kristen Batt-Rohr, the 6th win for Priscilla Lima, and the 1st win for the team.
In 2021
Anders Mol and Christian Sorum won the FIVB Cancun Hub - 2nd Event.  It was the 20th win for Anders Mol, the 18th win for Christian Sorum, and the 17th win for the team.
In 2021
Agatha Bednarczuk and Duda Lisboa won the FIVB Cancun Hub - 2nd Event.  It was the 10th win for Agatha Bednarczuk, the 14th win for Duda Lisboa, and the 6th win for the team.
 
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4/25/2024
All the info on the NCAA’s 2024 National Collegiate Beach Volleyball Championship
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4/24/2024
Zana Muno: Rediscovering herself on a trip of a lifetime
HERMOSA BEACH, Calif. — They called her Susie, and for seven weeks, Susie, a 27-year-old American working a farm in rural Sicily, lived a life that Zana Muno had long dreamed of. She’d be on a bus by 8 in the morning, piling in with 13 others from around the globe, ranging from 70-year-old women from Sweden to peers her age from Germany and everywhere and every demographic between...

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Conference-by-conference breakdown as NCAA beach volleyball heads into postseason
In the penultimate week of the collegiate beach volleyball season, our report features a conference-by-conference breakdown of the tournaments that will determine the automatic qualifiers in the NCAA’s National Collegiate Beach Championship, a 17-team, single-elimination tournament May 3-5 in Gulf Shores, Alabama. Equally important, we dissect the chances of the logical contenders...

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Race for Paris 2024 tickets continues in Xiamen
There are three more Elite16 and two more Challenge tournaments to go on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour before the provisional Olympic rankings become final and 17 tickets to Paris 2024 per gender are handed out to those who earned them through these rankings. That means there is plenty of time and opportunities for changes that can affect those lists...

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Åhman and Hellvig make it to the top of the Olympic Rankings
The top spot in the men’s FIVB Olympic Rankings changed hands following the conclusion of last week’s Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Elite16 event in Tepic, Mexico, as Swedish David Åhman and Jonatan Hellvig are now above everyone else following their victory in the tournament. The rankings, which will determine 17 of the 24 teams that will compete in this year’s Paris Olympics...

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4/23/2024
Ahman & Hellvig are the new world’s number one team!
David Ahman & Jonatan Hellvig are the new number one team in the men’s FIVB Beach Volleyball World Ranking! After winning gold at the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Tepic Elite16 last week in Mexico, the 22-year-old Swedes dethroned Norway’s Anders Mol & Christian Sorum, who had been on top of the chart for 82 consecutive weeks, since October 3, 2022.

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FIVB Volleyball Empowerment Coach Guides Stam & Schoon To Elite16 Silver
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Ukraine’s National Beach Volleyball Tour Continues In Full Swing
Another Masters stop on the Ukrainian national beach volleyball tour was held over the weekend at the SUNRISE indoor beach sports complex in Kyiv, with the participation of 14 women’s and 14 men’s teams. Inna Makhno & Diana Lunina topped the women’s podium following a great comeback in Sunday’s final against Maryna Hladun & Tetiana Lazarenko.

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4/22/2024
36 tandems at Varadero NORCECA Beach Volleyball Tour
HAVANA, Cuba, April 22, 2024.- The second phase of the 2024 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Tour, hosted in the tourist city of Varadero, will feature 36 tandems, 18 in each gender, from May 2nd to 5th. Mireya Luis, former triple Olympic volleyball champion, confirmed the information as supervisor of the event and organizer since 2011 as this attractive venue has been hosting an annual stop...

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Olympic Beach Volleyball Rankings: Cuba continues rising with Tepic bronze
The rise of Cuba’s Jorge Alayo and Noslen Diaz has been as swift as it has been astonishing. Entering the 2024 beach volleyball season, they had less than 4,000 Olympic points to their name and only five of the required 12 finishes. It wasn’t so much a matter if they could qualify, but if they would even play enough events to be in the discussion. They were, at best, an afterthought.

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Apr 25-28, 2024 FIVB BPT Challenge Xiamen, China M US$75,000
Apr 25-28, 2024 FIVB BPT Challenge Xiamen, China W US$75,000
May 1-5, 2024 FIVB BPT Elite16 Brasília, Brazil M US$150,000
May 1-5, 2024 FIVB BPT Elite16 Brasília, Brazil W US$150,000
May 3-5, 2024 NORCECA NORCECA Beach Volleyball Continental Tour - Varadero, Cuba M TBD
May 3-5, 2024 NORCECA NORCECA Beach Volleyball Continental Tour - Varadero, Cuba W TBD
May 7-10, 2024 NORCECA NORCECA Beach Volleyball Continental Tour - Juan Dolio, Dominican Republic M TBD
May 7-10, 2024 NORCECA NORCECA Beach Volleyball Continental Tour - Juan Dolio, Dominican Republic W TBD
May 9-12, 2024 FIVB BPT Futures Madrid, Spain M € 5,000
May 9-12, 2024 FIVB BPT Futures Pingtan, China M US$5,000
May 9-12, 2024 FIVB BPT Futures Pingtan, China W US$5,000
May 12-14, 2024 NORCECA NORCECA Beach Volleyball Continental Tour - Juan Dolio Final, Dominican Republic M TBD
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May 16-19, 2024 FIVB BPT Futures Cervia, Italy M € 5,000
May 16-19, 2024 FIVB BPT Futures Cervia, Italy W € 5,000
May 16-19, 2024 FIVB BPT Futures Madrid, Spain W € 5,000
May 16-19, 2024 FIVB BPT Futures Qingshan, China M US$5,000
May 16-19, 2024 FIVB BPT Futures Qingshan, China W US$5,000
May 17-19, 2024 AVP Huntington Beach Heritage Series M&W TBD
May 22-26, 2024 FIVB BPT Elite16 Espinho, Portugal M US$150,000
May 22-26, 2024 FIVB BPT Elite16 Espinho, Portugal W US$150,000
May 23-26, 2024 FIVB BPT Futures Battipaglia, Italy M € 5,000
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