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FIVB President: "What Happened in the United States?"

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:52:14 +0000

ESPN.com published an interesting article about beach volleyball yesterday. Entitled "Beach Volleyball Tour Back" the author quotes new FIVB President Ary Graça saying a couple of things that surprised me. Since his election, we've been waiting to find out what his plans are for volleyball in the U.S. But his first quote in the article is perplexing as he asks (hopefully rhetorically) "What happened in the United States? You're much bigger than the other countries."

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Beach Volleyball Athlete Writes About Playing While Deaf

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:06:53 +0000

How often in our sport do we say that verbal communication is key? Call that you'll take the ball, call out the hitters, call the ball in or out, call out the open spots on the other side of the court. Our sport works best when there is constant chatter. What if none of that was possible? What would volleyball be like? How would it even work?

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USAV Mourns Beach Director Dave Williams

Wed, 15 May 2013 11:54:37 +0000

Sad news out of USA Volleyball this week. Dave Williams, the managing director for USAV Beach passed away yesterday at the age of 55 from cancer. Williams was the first and only person to hold the position and brought a wealth of knowledge of beach volleyball events from his many years of work with the AVP where he produced over 150 events. Williams brought energy and passion to the position which was created back in 2010 to promote the growth of beach volleyball in the U.S.

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USA Women to Compete In So Cal

Tue, 14 May 2013 19:38:42 +0000

USA Volleyball announced several opportunities to watch the women's team play in Southern California in the coming months. In an effort to strengthen ties with the community in which the USA teams train, there will be several intrasquad scrimmages and matches against international competition in the surrounding cities.

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Prince Harry Back on VB Court with Wounded Warriors

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:04:55 +0000

Prince Harry loves volleyball. There's no other explanation, the prince takes up our sport at every opportunity. I think that means something.

Last year, in the lead up to the London Games he made a point of saying how excited he was to watch beach volleyball in particular and he took to the sand to play with Brazilian stars when he traveled to Rio to promote the Olympics. He was in the stadium when Misty and Kerri won gold. This week he played sitting volleyballwith injured vets at the Warrior Games in Colorado....

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UCI Fans Earn Respect at National Championship

Wed, 08 May 2013 11:04:24 +0000

As far as fan bases go, BYU is right up there with the best of them. No matter where the Cougars play in the country, you can bet there will be hundreds if not thousands of loyal, screaming fans there to support them. So it was no surprise to see a huge turnout to root on the No. 1 BYU men's volleyball team in the national finals last weekend. What was unexpected was that the UCI crowd would rival them in numbers and in noise level. But that's exactly what happened and for the second year in a row, the UCI fans have proven that they can hang with the best.

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Gibb & Patterson Win Shanghai Grand Slam

Wed, 08 May 2013 10:00:29 +0000

American beach volleyball is looking quite good on the men's side in just the first two weeks of international action. After last week's Fuzhou Open was won by the new partnership of Phil Dalhausser and Sean Rosenthal, Rosie's old partner Jake Gibb decided to follow suit one week later. Gibb and new partner Casey Patterson won gold with a victory over Brazilians Pedro and Bruno. It was a windy, back and forth match, but Gibb and Patterson were able to pull off the victory with a 15-9 win in the third set.

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Long Beach State Wins Collegiate Sand Championships

Wed, 08 May 2013 09:45:14 +0000

Long Beach State upset No. 1 Pepperdine in the women's sand championship in Gulf Shores last weekend. Pepperdine was undefeated this season and was expected to win its second straight women's sand championship to claim back-to-back titles. But the Waves were plagued by injury from the beginning and ended up forfeiting their No. 1 match to give Long Beach the victory.

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Dalhausser & Rosenthal Win First FIVB Event

Wed, 01 May 2013 09:39:47 +0000

If you were wondering how long it might take for Phil Dalhausser and Sean Rosenthal to become contenders, the answer is no time at all. The pair finished atop the podium in the very first FIVB open event of the season in Fuzhou, China over the weekend. They are now competing in the FIVB's first Grand Slam event in Shanghai so we'll see if they can do the same on back-to-back weekends.

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Lang Ping Named Head Coach for Chinese National Team

Wed, 01 May 2013 09:08:59 +0000

The Chinese Federation announced the hiring of Lang Ping as the new head coach of the women's national team. As a player she was a legend known as the Iron Hammer. She's also the main reason the U.S. women's team does not yet have a gold medal. She snatched it from their grasp at the LA Olympics in 1984.

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