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Olympic beach volleyball hopefuls head to Pimlico

DALLAS -- The road to the Triple Crown meets the road to the London Olympics on Saturday when American beach volleyball hopefuls take to the sand on the infield at Pimlico. For the second straight year, the nascent National Volleyball [...]

Posted On : May, 16 2012 | Comments : 0

Two Men's Beach Volleyball Tied for Olympic Qualifying After...

The 2012 Olympic Games in London are just a little more than two months off, and remaining qualifying opportunities are beginning to wane. That's the case in beach volleyball, and with time growing short, two United States teams on th [...]

Posted On : May, 15 2012 | Comments : 0

Winnipeg's Pischke qualifies for beach volleyball worlds

Taylor PISCHKE of the University of Manitoba and her women's beach volleyball teammate Melissa Humana-Parades of York University in Toronto will represent Canada in the women's division at the 2012 FISU Beach Volleyball World Cham [...]

Posted On : May, 10 2012 | Comments : 0

GIRLS' BEACH VOLLEYBALL: Vikings' championship victory is fa...

SANTA MONICA -- For all of the impressive volleyball achievements produced by the Knudsen and Sanchez families during their careers at Valencia, it was only appropriate that they were central figures in another historical accomplishment S [...]

Posted On : May, 07 2012 | Comments : 0

TTVB boss to shift focus to beach volleyball

TRINIDAD and Tobago Volleyball Federation (TTVF) president Mushtaque Mohammed said his federation will shift their attempts at qualifying for the Olympic Games to beach volleyball. His statement comes on the heels of local volleyball w [...]

Posted On : May, 03 2012 | Comments : 0

Volleyball Beach Bash an overnight success

With the sun setting and a slight breeze blowing, teams huddled together and shouted cheers in preparation for the Beach Bash volleyball tournament 2012, which would last almost an entire night. The Beach Bash started at 6 p.m. on Friday [...]

Posted On : May, 02 2012 | Comments : 0

Beach Volleyball a success

THE second DTS beach volleyball tournament for the year took place last Saturday, with seventeen four-a-side and eighteen two-a-side teams participating in the 2012 Series. The Junior Ladies category catered for girls aged between 14 a [...]

Posted On : Apr, 26 2012 | Comments : 0

Beach volleyball: Olympic chances improve for pair

Direct entry to August's Olympic Games is back on for Tauranga's Jason Lochhead and Kirk Pitman after a good start to the world tour, although their most likely route to London remains via June's Continental Cup final in China [...]

Posted On : Apr, 24 2012 | Comments : 0

2012 Jose Cuervo Pro Beach Volleyball Series Schedule

The sun, sand and sweat of the Jose Cuervo Pro Beach Volleyball Series returns to the beach. The highest-paying and most-attended tour in the country will once again deliver intense men’s and women’s competition through a seve [...]

Posted On : Apr, 23 2012 | Comments : 0

Canadian women split beach volleyball matches

Canadian Olympic hopefuls Heather Bansley and Liz Maloney split their two matches as the FIVB beach volleyball World Tour 2012 season opened in Brasilia, Brazil on Tuesday. The Torontonians defeated Karla Borger and Britta Buthe of [...]

Posted On : Apr, 18 2012 | Comments : 0

London 2012 Olympics: female beach volleyball players permit...

The International Volleyball Federation says it will allow shorts and sleeved tops at the Olympics, in addition to bikinis and body suits. The rule already applied to Continental Cup qualifiers for the Olympics involving 142 nations. Fede [...]

Posted On : Apr, 17 2012 | Comments : 0

Beach volleyball practice for Olympics

U.S. beach volleyball player Misty May, 34, trains for the London 2012 Olympics in Manhattan Beach, Calif.

Posted On : Apr, 13 2012 | Comments : 0

Pro Beach Volleyball Tour Sold

Beach volleyball is in the headlines again. This time it’s not for the bikini mandate lifted for the London Summer Olympics, but for the sale of the Association of Volleyball Professionals. Donald Sun, a 37-year-old former computer [...]

Posted On : Apr, 04 2012 | Comments : 0

Clothing options added for women's beach volleyball

LONDON (Reuters) - Female beach volleyball players have been given the option of wearing long-sleeved tops and shorts instead of bikinis at the London Olympics. "Some countries for religious and cultural reasons required more flexibi [...]