Beach Update: Two U.S. Teams in World Tour Final
The U.S. teams of Kristen Nuss/Taryn Kloth and Kelly Cheng/Sara Hughes are competing this week in the World Tour Finals in Doha, Qatar.
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Chase Budinger and Miles Evans finished just off the podium over the weekend at the BPT Challenge in Recife, while Alaina Chacon/Mariah Whalen won their second straight medal in a BPT Futures event. Check out the results of both tournaments in this week's beach update and look ahead to Challenge Saquarema where three of the top U.S. men's beach volleyball pairs face off again.
The U.S. teams of Kristen Nuss/Taryn Kloth and Kelly Cheng/Sara Hughes are competing this week in the World Tour Finals in Doha, Qatar.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Dec. 15, 2022) – The U.S. beach team of Betsi Flint/Julia Scoles won the gold medal while the men’s team of Theo Brunner/Chaim Schalk took bronze at the 2022 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Tour Finals on Sunday in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. In the women’s gold medal match, Flint/Scoles beat Allanis Navas/María González...
The U.S. women’s beach team of Sara Hughes/Kelly Cheng won its second-straight gold medal on the Beach Pro Tour on Saturday, beating Betsi Flint/Julia Scoles, 2-0 (21-17, 21-11) in the Elite 16 event in Torquay, Australia
The reunited U.S. women’s beach team of Kelly Cheng/Sara Hughes got its 2024 Olympic run off to a good start by winning gold at the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour challenge event in Torquay, Australia
U.S. beach pairs won two medals this week at the Beach Pro Tour Dubai Challenge No. 1, including the first gold medal in a top-tier FIVB event since 2019.
Chase Budinger and Troy Field captured their second Beach Pro Tour medal at the Maldives Challenge over the weekend, winning silver after a 21-17, 21-18 loss to Qatar's Ahmed Tijan Janko and Cherif Younousse (No. 7 in the world).
Twelve U.S. beach pairs (four men, eight women) are in the Maldives this week for an FIVB Beach Pro Tour Challenge event.
Tim Brewster and Kyle Friend will compete for a second straight gold medal this weekend at the NORCECA Managua beach event in Nicaragua.
Five U.S. beach pairs are competing in France this week for the Elite 16 in Paris. It's the first Beach Pro Tour Elite 16 event in over a month; the top pairs last battled it out in Hamburg, Germany, Aug. 10-14.
Two-time Olympian and 20-year beach volleyball veteran Nick Lucena retired from the sport earlier this month to take a coaching job at Florida State University.
Two U.S. Beach National Team pairs - Tri Bourne/Trevor Crabb and Sara Hughes/Kelley Kolinske - won the AVP's Manhattan Beach Open last Sunday.
Three USA Volleyball athletes are finalists for the Women’s Sports Foundation’s 2022 Sportswoman of the Year award.
Kelly Cheng and Betsi Flint won the Hamburg Elite 16 Sunday, claiming the United States' first medal of any color at an Elite 16 event on the Beach Pro Tour.
Betsi Flint/Kelly Cheng and Zana Muno/Lauren Fendrick will compete at the Hamburg Elite 16 while Melissa Fuchs Powell/Tiffany Creamer play at the Cortegaca Futures this weekend.
USA Volleyball is holding a Beach ParaVolley camp this weekend Hickory Point Beach in Tavares, Florida.
Iya Lindahl and Lydia Smith are competing in the Ljubjana (Slovenia) Futures this week. They'll begin in the qualifier on Thursday, July 28.
Maddie Anderson/Molly Turner won the Ciro Marina Futures and Sarah Schermerhorn/Corinne Quiggle took silver at the Espinho Challenge Sunday.
Eleven American beach volleyball pairs will compete in international tournaments this weekend, eight of which will be at the Espinho Challenge.
Taryn Kloth/Kristen Nuss finished fifth and Megan Kraft/Emily Stockman took ninth at the Gstaad Elite 16 this weekend. Three American duos competed in the tournament.
Emily Stockman/Megan Kraft, Kristen Nuss/Taryn Kloth and Sarah Schermerhorn/Corinne Quiggle will each compete in the Gstaad Elite 16 July 6-10