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Sara Hughes-Kelly Cheng-Paris Elite16

Kelly Cheng, Sara Hughes thrive in Paris Elite16 with new-look offense

Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth are claiming to have quite a bit of fun in France at the Paris Elite16 -- and, with a...
Kristen Nuss-Montreal Elite16

Kristen Nuss, Taryn Kloth having all of the fun with two sweeps in Paris...

There was a time, not all that long ago, when it was something of a pleasant surprise if Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth were...

Q&A with beach volleyball book Burning Sand author R.J. Ruggiero

BURNING SAND is the debut novel from R.J. Ruggiero, a screenwriter and playwright living near Boston. It's rare to have a novel about beach volleyball,...
Terese Cannon-Paris Elite16

Megan Kraft celebrates 21st in style with qualifier wins at the Paris Elite16

The Paris Elite16 has only been an event for two years. Already, it has established a peculiar penchant for celebrating birthdays in style. Last year,...
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Laird Hamilton, Gabby Reece: Good stewards of the high-performance community

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9BcQWN79zs MALIBU, CALIFORNIA -- Gabby Reece isn’t trying to fool anyone. All those workouts that she and her husband, big wave surfer Laird Hamilton, host...
Alix Klineman

Paris Elite16 101: Alix Klineman to make her post-partum debut on Wednesday

The unofficial fall break, the six-week beach volleyball hiatus between the Hamburg Elite16 and this week’s Paris Elite16, comes to an end on Wednesday,...

Huge step for It’s Called Normal: Bringing adaptive beach volleyball to Motherlode

By John Kriescher for VolleyballMag.com John Kriescher is an adaptive athlete, fundraising professional, writer, and soon-to-be father based in Houston. Through work with It’s Called...
Jon Alvarez-Volleyball Life

Jon Alvarez, Volleyball Life, and “volleyball people doing cool stuff for volleyball”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQueWRtmimA HERMOSA BEACH, CALIFORNIA -- Jon Alvarez’s professors at the University of Denver's Daniels College of Business had to have been tired of it. Every...

Big change: Beach Olympian Sponcil goes indoors, signs with PVF’s Grand Rapids

The next, perhaps surprising, stop on Sarah Sponcil’s volleyball career, as a highly touted player on the upstart Grand Rapids Rise in the inaugural...
Trevor Crabb-Jurmala Challenge

Trevor Crabb is always taking receipts, now he’s literally cashing in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ9j31McStU HERMOSA BEACH, California -- Trevor Crabb doesn’t do guarantees anymore. Retired from that game after a not-very-well-thought-out, spur-of-the-moment, emotionally fueled guarantee to win the...
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