Melissa Humana-Paredes and Sarah Pavan: A team of Canadian firsts
It wasn’t exactly an audacious start, was it? September 12, 2016. The first match of Melissa Humana-Paredes’ and Sarah Pavan’s partnership: A country quota against Brandie Wilkerson and – who else? – ...
10 Heinä 20191h 6min
Tim Bomgren: The humblest grinder on the AVP Tour
It was the running joke in the player’s tent of AVP New York: Nobody really wanted to play any of the teams on the bracket. Of the seven teams Tim Bomgren would end up playing in New York, five includ...
3 Heinä 201953min
AVP mid-season awards, World Champs preview
With one, final Jeremy Casebeer – or Uncle Jer Bear, as he was known at Lake Sammamish – swing in Seattle, the AVP officially reached the midpoint of the 2019 season. It has, by any measure, been a ro...
26 Kesä 201949min
Remembering Eric Zaun aka Danny Fahrenheit aka Cookie Robinson aka Midnight Verde
I’ve always been one for mythology. I loved reading the tales of Zeus and Poseidon, Hades and Hermes, Athena and even those of the Norse orient, Thor and Loki and Odin. One of my favorites has always ...
19 Kesä 20191h 13min
Tri Bourne is back on the road again
It seems an idyllic existence, to be a professional beach volleyball player. Travel the world. Explore the planet’s most breathtaking beaches. See everything there is to see, both inland and coastal. ...
12 Kesä 201941min
Kim DiCello: The art, and love, of being a good teammate
Kim DiCello was never a bad teammate, same as she has never been a bad co-worker, a bad wife, a bad anything, really. But she did have her moments where “I was this intense, fierce competitor,” she sa...
5 Kesä 20191h 14min
Chris Geeter McGee: The Art of the introduction
Chris Geeter McGee isn’t technically involved in the sport of beach volleyball anymore. He’s passed on his metaphorical emceeing torch to Mark Schuermann. But he’s still a South Bay guy, still plays i...
29 Touko 20191h
Corinne Quiggle: Winning medals via tuk-tuks
It was, of all places, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where Corinne Quiggle discovered her ideal method of travel. It isn’t by car. Or Uber. Or ferry. Or train. Or plane. It is, instead, a tuk-tuk, a type of p...
22 Touko 20191h 12min
