Beach World Championship Field, Pools Set

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (June 6, 2022) – The 2022 Beach Volleyball World Championships field is set, and six U.S. Beach National Team pairs will compete for a world title in Rome June 10-19, 2022.

Representing the United States will be:

Betsi Flint/Kelly Cheng
Kelley Kolinske/Sara Hughes
Emily Day/Emily Stockman
Sarah Sponcil/Terese Cannon
Chaim Schalk/Theo Brunner
Taylor Sander/Taylor Crabb

Flint and Sander will make their Beach Worlds debuts. Everyone else has played in at least one previous Championship, although this will be Schalk’s first in the Stars and Stripes; he represented his native Canada in 2013 and 2015.

Day was originally partnered with April Ross, but Ross withdrew due to injury. Stockman and Day played together at the AVP event in Austin, Texas, last month and took third. It is their only tournament as partners.

Ross and Alix Klineman won silver at the last World Championships in 2019. Hughes finished fifth with then-partner Summer Ross, and Cheng/Sponcil combined for a ninth-place finish. Leading the American men, Tri Bourne/Trevor Crabb finished fourth. Taylor Crabb took ninth with the now-retired Jake Gibb.

The Beach Volleyball World Championships consist of 12 pools of four teams for both genders. After round robin pool play, the top two pairs from each pool plus the four best third-place finishers advance directly to a 32-team knockout bracket. The remaining third-place finishers will play for one of the final four knockout berths.

All matches of the Beach Volleyball World Championships will be streamed on VolleyballWorld.TV.

Below are each U.S. duo’s pools: