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The California Beach Volleyball Association, commonly known by the acronym CBVA, was the first governing body for beach volleyball. [1] Since its founding in 1962, CBVA has coordinated local beach volleyball tournaments for players of all skill levels. In 2017, CBVA hosted nearly 1,000 tournaments at 23 beaches in 11 skill or age divisions.
1993. Beach volleyball is a team sport played by two teams of two players each on a sand court divided by a net. Similar to indoor volleyball, the objective of the game is to send the ball over the net and to ground it on the opponent's side of the court. Each team also works in unison to prevent the opposing team from grounding the ball on ...
Sara Elizabeth Hughes (born February 14, 1995) [ 4] is an American beach volleyball player. With teammate Kelly Cheng she achieved a career-high world ranking of No. 2 in August 2023. Hughes has won six tournaments on the AVP Pro Tour and seven gold medals, one silver medal, and three bronze medals on the FIVB World Tour/Pro Beach Tour .
The beach volleyball duo went into the Olympics as the No. 2 ranked team in the world. Their goal is to “rewrite the script” of beach volleyball to prove you can succeed in the sport even if ...
NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship. The NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship is an NCAA -sanctioned tournament to determine the national champions of collegiate women's beach volleyball. It is a National Collegiate Championship featuring teams from Division I, Division II and Division III, and is the 90th, and newest, NCAA championship event. [ 1]
These collegiate women's beach volleyball teams compete as members of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Currently, 101 college athletic programs sponsor the sport, with one more to do so in future seasons. [ 1] The majority of the participating programs are members of Division I, though some members of divisions II and III ...
Kent Steffes (born June 23, 1968, in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an American former professional beach volleyball player. [ 1] Steffes received his AAA beach rating while still attending Palisades High School. [ 1] He was named the 1986 National High School Player of the Year. [ 2] He enrolled at Stanford University and played for one season before ...
College / University. UCLA. James Menges (born January 10, 1951) is an American former volleyball player, coach, and Association of Volleyball Professionals (AVP) tournament director. He played college volleyball for the UCLA Bruins under head coach Al Scates. His college teams won national championships in 1972 and 1974.