Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour stays in Brazil with Saquarema Challenge
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by Travis Mewhirter
7h ago
SAQUAREMA, Brazil — There is much that will look the same this week on the Beach Pro Tour. This weekend’s Saquarema Challenge, which begins with Thursday’s qualifier, is held not far from last week’s in Recife — a few-hour flight to Rio de Janeiro, a two-hour drive to the sleepy surf-town that is Saquarema. The language is the same, the faces the same, the food the same delicious dose of acai and picanha. The field, too, is mostly the same. Key word: Mostly. Absent from this weekend’s Saquarema Challenge is Arthur Mariano and Evandro Goncalves, winners of last week’s Recife Challenge, owners ..read more
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Girls club volleyball Dream Team: Moser, Haury, Reeder, Redd, Spencer, Young, Hoecke, Hopkins
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by John Tawa
7h ago
Every Wednesday during the club season, VolleyballMag.com will recognize a Dream Team of eight girls volleyball players (15s to 18s age groups) who were standouts the weekend before. Players are selected EXCLUSIVELY from nominations. To nominate, coaches will need to get on our bulk email list (info at bottom). The team, most weeks, consists of the following: Setter or S/RS Setter, S/RS or RS OH OH MB MB Libero DS We include our eight-player Dream Team below, as well as others we considered, based exclusively upon nominations received. This week, our team includes two setters, because no defen ..read more
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Tim Brewster, Kyle Friend, and the most unique relationship in beach volleyball
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by Travis Mewhirter
14h ago
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. That is the ask, and acceptance, that changed both of their lives forever. Since 2011 or so, Friend had known he was gay. Took him two years to come out with it. Since, he has become something of a ..read more
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Pro Volleyball Federation news and recaps; AVCA, NCAA beach, NCAA men updates
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by Lee Feinswog
14h ago
In this report, we catch up on the Pro Volleyball Federation — which announced the site of its inaugural championship series — NCAA beach, USA Volleyball summer national teams and NCAA men. Pro Volleyball Federation Not surprisingly, the first-year league will play its semifinals and final in Omaha in May. From the PVF news release: Pro Volleyball Federation has announced that its first championship will take place in a city that supports professional volleyball like no other in the United States – Omaha, Nebraska. The semifinals on May 15 and title match on May 18 will take place at the CHI H ..read more
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Tawa’s Club Volleyball Dots: Yesiree for TAV! Hooray for NPJ!
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by John Tawa
1d ago
This is “Dots,” VolleyballMag’s weekly look at 10 things in club volleyball, past or present, that interest me and hopefully will interest you. Look for Dots every Tuesday through Junior Nationals this summer. • Last weekend was a busy one in the world of juniors volleyball. That statement needs no qualifier, because “qualifier” was the name of the game. From New Orleans to Minneapolis, St. Louis to Spokane, teams lined up with dreams of getting to Vegas or Baltimore to compete against the best of the best at Junior Nationals. • Let’s start in Minneapolis, where the 16s division piggybacked on ..read more
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Olympic Beach Volleyball Rankings: Bukovec-Bansley make huge jump in Cinderella run
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by Travis Mewhirter
2d ago
Heather Bansley, left, and Sophie Bukovec at the 2023 Edmonton Challenge/Volleyball World photo The race for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games officially began in February 2023 in Doha, Qatar, with the Volleyball World Elite16. The 2024 season began last week, back in Doha, and the final event of the Olympic qualification cycle will be the Ostrava Elite16, which ends on June 9. We’ll be providing these updates for the Beach Volleyball Olympic rankings throughout the next two years. Last weekend’s Recife Challenge was a weekend for the dark horses, the underdogs, the pairs making late and urgent pus ..read more
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International volleyball: Skinner, Chieri win CEV Cup; Milano-Conegliano battle set
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by VBM Staff
2d ago
Avery Skinner and Chieri celebrate/CEV photo This is our weekly update on USA women playing professional volleyball around the world. Most of the players are former NCAA standouts: CEV Cup Avery Skinner and Chieri claimed the CEV Cup, beating NUC Viteos in the final. Skinner had six kills, two aces and a block for Chieri and teammate Madi Kingdon Rushel had six kills, three blocks and an ace. The silver medal for NUC was the first for a Swiss team, which got 13 kills and a block from Madeline Haynes. Tessa Grubbs had seven kills, one block and an ace. Tia Scambray added five kills, a block and ..read more
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Evandro and Arthur feel right at home with dominant performance in Recife Challenge
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by Travis Mewhirter
3d ago
Evandro and Arthur celebrate a gold medal at the Recife Challenge/Volleyball World photo RECIFE, Brazil — The avalanche was coming, and all but two in Recife, Brazil believed it could be held back. Those two go by the names of Jorge Alayo and Noslen Diaz, a pair of sensational Cuban players who banged and bruised their way to the finals of the Recife Challenge, one thundering spike after the next. Try as they might — and indeed, they tried it all — there was no stopping Arthur Mariano, Evandro Goncalves, and the inevitable onslaught of aces off his right hand, the demise that had met every tea ..read more
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Pro Volleyball Federation signs Olympian Bartsch-Hackley; CSUN men upset Hawai’i
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by Larry Hamel
4d ago
Hawaii was stung on its home court as CSUN pulled off a huge Big West upset, BYU doubled down at Pepperdine and the MIVA produced fireworks on a busy Saturday of NCAA Division I-II men’s volleyball. Jon Diedrich of Purdue Fort Wayne exploded for 38 kills, the high for the season in men’s college ball, but his heavy lifting couldn’t get his Mastodons over the hump in a five-set defeat to MIVA pacesetter Ball State. The MIVA also saw a ranked upset as McKendree, 18th in the AVCA coaches poll, swept Loyola Chicago, which had risen to 11th in the weekly rankings. But arguably the biggest developme ..read more
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BYU beats Pepperdine; GCU, Hawai’i, Belmont Abbey win in NCAA men’s volleyball
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by Larry Hamel
5d ago
Louis Sakanoko of Hawai’i attacks against CSUN/UH Twitter BYU put a bit of drama into the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation race with a five-set victory over error-prone Pepperdine, while Grand Canyon stayed undefeated in the league, and Hawaii made middles magic to highlight men’s NCAA Division I-II volleyball on Friday. Elsewhere around the nation, Belmont Abbey took an important road triumph in Conference Carolinas and Saint Francis topped Daemen in a showdown of teams unbeaten in the Northeast Conference. The schedule for Saturday features a Big West rematch in Honolulu between Hawaii and ..read more
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