Zana Muno and Crissy Jones: The 47 seed who crashed AVP Hermosa
It almost didn’t happen. The Cinderella run. The upsets over the 16, the four, the eight, the 22. The AVP semifinal that would be host to the highest seed – Q47 – in the tour’s history. The 8-3 jump Z...
7 Aug 201956min
Adam Roberts and Andy Benesh: From qualifier struggles to career finishes
The first notes on the Book of Andy Benesh came a little less than a year ago, about a six-hour drive north of Hermosa Beach. Adam Roberts was there to watch Benesh’s second-round match. Playing in ju...
31 Jul 201955min
It's a good year to be Chaim Schalk -- American Chaim Schalk
It was an otherwise innocuous Monday when the Canadian beach volleyball community reached and unleashed its peak fury which, because it’s Canada, really wasn’t much fury at all. Tri Bourne had put up ...
24 Jul 20191h 6min
The next chapter of Ryan Doherty's career begins in Hermosa Beach
The most difficult transition of Ryan Doherty’s new partnership, from John Hyden to Miles Evans, might not be the difference in playing style or personality or skill level or experience or energy leve...
17 Jul 20191h 6min
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 Jul 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 Jul 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 Jun 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 Jun 20191h 13min
