Blogs Posts in Beach Volleyball category; 455 blog posts

UST, FEU lead UAAP beach volleyball bets

University of Sto. Tomas is poised to reign anew in the men’s division while Far Eastern University will have a formidable foe in the distaff side when the 72nd UAAP beach volleyball starts on Saturday at the UE-Caloocan Campus. Both [...]

Posted On : Sep, 05 2009 | Comments : 0

Banking on beach volleyball duo to deliver

The Malaysian Volleyball Association (Mava) are counting on Beh Shun Ting and Luk Teck Hua to win honours in the Laos SEA Games women’s beach volleyball competition. The duo, who ended Malaysia’s 10-year medal drought by winnin [...]

Posted On : Sep, 04 2009 | Comments : 0

Indonesian Beach Volleyball Pairs Relish Return to World Sta...

After a three-year absence from the FIVB World Tour, Indonesia’s beach volleyball team is scheduled to make its return in the last series of the season. Men’s and women’s teams will compete in China and Thailand provided [...]

Posted On : Sep, 03 2009 | Comments : 0

Beach volleyball: Local girls' duo seeks success

Juniors Alyssa Walton from Flintridge Sacred Heart and Amber Hawthorne from Granada Hills will be partners in the 16-and-under division at the California state championships in beach volleyball set for Sunday in Manhattan Beach. Hawthorne [...]

Posted On : Sep, 01 2009 | Comments : 0

Valley girls are a hit at beach

In contributing to the first-year success of Legacy Volleyball Club, Amber Hawthorne and Alyssa Walton are quickly establishing their own legacy on the beach. Not bad for two juniors who train in the Santa Clarita Valley, not exactly known [...]

Posted On : Aug, 31 2009 | Comments : 0

Locals win in AAU beach volleyball championships

While the beach volleyball professionals were playing in the AVP Crocs Tour event in Muskegon, Mich., last weekend, more than 100 amateur boys’ and girls’ teams competed in the AAU Tour Championships that took place on the north [...]

Posted On : Aug, 28 2009 | Comments : 0

ONLINE FIRST Hatch wins beach volleyball bronze at Canada Su...

Maverick Hatch of Courtenay earned a bronze medal in beach volleyball at the Canada Summer Games in Prince Edward Island on Aug. 21. With partner Steve Marshall of Abbotsford, Hatch led B.C. to a 4-0 record and first place in their pool. B. [...]

Posted On : Aug, 27 2009 | Comments : 0

Clarington Grizzlies' duo wins beach volleyball bronze

The team of Robyn Carroll and Soraya Weaver, representing the Clarington Grizzlies Volleyball Club, recently brought home the bronze medal from the U15 Beach Provincial Championships at Ashbridges Bay in Toronto. The girls started the tour [...]

Posted On : Aug, 26 2009 | Comments : 0

Jensen Beach volleyball team is loaded for another playoff r...

Despite losing seven seniors to graduation and another two to transfer this season, Jensen Beach volleyball coach Mike Sawtelle is confident his team will remain one of the area’s best. Returning five starters from last year’s [...]

Posted On : Aug, 25 2009 | Comments : 0

Maldives actively promotes beach volleyball

Volleyball Association of Maldives in cooperation with the Ministry of Youth and Sports and Male’ Municipality has built a new Beach Volleyball Court — Dhongandu Beach Volleyball Court Male, which was officially inaugurated earl [...]

Posted On : Aug, 24 2009 | Comments : 0

New Hudson volleyball coach gets her hands dirty

First-year Hudson volleyball coach Shayna Munson is hands on in the truest sense of the term. During the first day of her second week on the job, Munson, 28, was correcting miniscule flaws. She cautioned players not to drop their elbows a [...]

Posted On : Aug, 22 2009 | Comments : 0

Have A Heart Beach Volleyball Bash Draws Dozens To Coopers F...

For more than three hours, 26 teams went back and forth, spike for spike, in the second annual Have A Heart Beach Volleyball Bash on Tuesday night at Coopers Beach. It was a perfect night between the setting sun, soothing beach music, wall- [...]

Posted On : Aug, 21 2009 | Comments : 0

Beach volleyball quartet looks for gold at nationals

They're built for speed and not height. In the world of beach volleyball, that's not necessarily a bad thing. Success in the two-player team concept relies on quickness and anticipation as it does on raw power. So when Nanaimo's Jenna [...]

Posted On : Aug, 20 2009 | Comments : 0

P.E.I. drops second match of day in male beach volleyball

Team P.E.I.’s Andrew Costa of Summerside and Brian Hansen of Alberton dropped two games in male beach volleyball at the 2009 Canada Summer Games on Tuesday. P.E.I. lost a heart-breaking 2-0 (21-15, 27-25) decision to New Brunswick in [...]