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, 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,...
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,...
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...
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, 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 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...
