Jake Gibb isn't finished playing just yet
There are exactly two indicators in Jake Gibb’s house that there is a professional volleyball living there. One is a panorama of the 1976 Manhattan Beach Open, the year Gibb was born. The other is a p...
22 Aug 201848min
Tri Bourne is BACK ON THE BEACH
Phil Dalhausser stands, hands on his hips, shaking his head. “That,” he says, “looks so boring.” He’s watching a young man play volleyball by himself, tossing a ball, hitting it line, tossing another,...
15 Aug 201856min
Caitlin Ledoux: Just doux you
It’s a wonder how Caitlin Ledoux did it, given that she operates with the same 24 hours a day, the same seven days a week, as the rest of us. There she was, working full-time at Lululemon. There she w...
8 Aug 20181h 4min
Steve Obradovich: The last true beach volleyball entertainer
Rolling with laughter. That’s likely what Steve Obradovich would be doing at the level of trash talk – what little there is, anyway – on today’s AVP Tour. Passive aggressive Instagram comments? Stared...
1 Aug 201849min
Rafu Rodriguez-Bertran: Winning weird in semi-retirement
Rafu Rodriguez-Bertran was not supposed to win an AVP this year. Heck, he wasn’t even sure if he’d play an AVP this year. This past winter, he had a son, Nico, his first child. His club in Temecula, V...
25 Jul 20181h 12min
Suckin' down Lobes and sharing sarcasm with Brian Cook
In December of 2017, the AVP made a landmark announcement: It would be partnering with Amazon Prime for the upcoming season, and several seasons after that. The partnership would include a much-improv...
18 Jul 201821min
Emily Day and Betsi Flint: Weekend warriors
It was a look that featured a strange blend of joy and exhaustion, one athletes know all too well. Emily Day and Betsi Flint had just wrapped up their first day at AVP San Francisco, playing the maxim...
11 Jul 201823min
Chase Budinger: Dunking over P Diddy to bouncing on the AVP
Oh, God. It was happening again. Chase Budinger had felt this before. He’d felt these nerves, that extra surge – no, surge might not do it justice, the extra deluge – of adrenaline. He knew what happe...
4 Jul 20181h 25min
