January 19, 2024 | Issue 5

The AVCA is excited to recognize 10 athletes from CCCAA and NJCAA DII as the Two-Year College Women’s Beach Players to Watch going into the 2024 season.

The TCU pair defeated Xolani Hodel & Brooke Rockwell from Stanford 21-17, 19-21, 15-12 to earn the victory. Listen to their interview with Anne Marie Anderson at the 2023 AVCA All-America/Players of the Year Banquet (presented by the NVA).

The Big 12 will add beach volleyball starting in 2024-25. The Big 12 lineup in beach volleyball will include Arizona, Arizona State, TCU and Utah. Read more

The Mountain Pacific Sports Federation has announced the addition of beach volleyball beginning with the 2025 season. MPSF Beach Volleyball will feature California, Grand Canyon, Oregon, Stanford, UCLA, USC, and Washington. Read more

Cal State Bakersfield announced Andy Fulenwider as the fourth Head Coach in the history of the Roadrunner beach volleyball program. Read more

The University of South Florida Bulls Beach Volleyball program and head coach Pri Piantadosi-Lima have announced the hiring of Jae-Lyn Visscher as assistant head coach. Read more

Allen, an AVP Beach Volleyball Tour member, comes to The Farm after a season at California. Read more

Ginny Busse, a member Austin Peay State University’s 2017 and 2018 Ohio Valley Conference championship volleyball teams, returns to her alma mater as its interim head beach volleyball coach. Read more

Nominations close March 1, 2024. Questions? Contact alice.rogers@avca.org

Download athlete and coach award certificates here! Categories include: All-America, All-Region, USMC/AVCA Team Academic, Best and Brightest, and Player of the Week.

Only 204 days until opening ceremonies at the 2024 summer Olympics! Click here for a preliminary schedule for all sports.

Unlike girls high school beach volleyball, boys beach volleyball is not currently a sanctioned sport in California. In 2013, regional coaches from high schools throughout San Diego County got together to bring the sport of boys’ beach volleyball to the high school level. Read more

• AAU GRAND PRIX SPRING QUALIFIER (February 10-11)
• AAU Jr Beach Winter Qualifier #2- Austin (February 17)
• VolleyOC Spring Tournament Series (March 1-June 15)

The AVP had a 40th Anniversary that did not disappoint. We look back at the drippiest season (literally) for our pro beach volleyball athletes: The matchups that were, the matchups that weren’t, the Comeback of the Decade™ by Besti Flint and Julia Scoles, and maybe a little of 2024 through the looking glass.The AVP had a 40th Anniversary that did not disappoint. We look back at the drippiest season (literally) for our pro beach volleyball athletes: The matchups that were, the matchups that weren’t, the Comeback of the Decade™ by Besti Flint and Julia Scoles, and maybe a little of 2024 through the looking glass. 2023 Highlights

Many high school players are side setters, which may work indoors, but it can be problematic on the beach. Side setting is when you are more parallel along the net and vision is also more to the sidelines than the net and court in front of you. Read more

In the final beach update of 2023, we take a look at the results of the two most recent NORCECA tournaments, both of which took place in Juan Dolio, Dominican Republic. The U23 Continental Tour and the Beach Finals closed out the competition schedule until the new year, so we will look one more time at the rankings. The U.S. also did well at the King and Queen of the Court series. Read more