17/11/2023

Volleyball Australia Releases Official November Events Calendar

The Australian Beach Volleyball season is underway with events happening all around the country. With countless domestic events scheduled for the summer, Volleyball Australia is pleased to provide a collated list of the major state beach volleyball events around the country this month. VictoriaAustralian Beach Volleyball Tour (Round 1)Rippleside Beach, Geelong17-19 November Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour – FuturesRippleside Beach,…

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25/08/2023

Scape Australian Volleyball Super League Round 3 Preview

The Scape Australian Volleyball Super League hits the halfway point of the home-or-away rounds this weekend with some intriguing match-ups ahead. The women’s competition may start to open up more this week given every side comes into the round with an identical win-loss record, making set victories all the more important. If form is any guide, the men’s competition may…

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23/08/2023

Vale Alex Borgeaud

Volleyball Australia was saddened to hear of the recent passing of Alex Borgeaud. Alex served as the Financial Director of both the Queensland Volleyball Association (now Volleyball Queensland) and the Australia Volleyball Federation (now Volleyball Australia). He became an administrator as a volunteer parent in the sport that his whole family came to love. He is father to our Women’s…

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11/08/2023

Scape Australian Volleyball Super League – Round 1 Preview

New rules, an exciting new format, unprecedented access and rapid-fire action will hit the courts in three states on Saturday when the Scape Australian Volleyball Super League gets underway. Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth will host the opening round fixtures which feature re-matches of last year’s men’s semi-final and women’s bronze medal match. Every match will be streamed live – see…

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08/08/2023

Australia top their pools at Trinbago 2023

Image courtesy of Commonwealth Games Australia Australia’s beach volleyballers have started their Commonwealth Youth Games campaigns in the best possible style, recording straight sets victories on the opening two days of competition. Mitch Croft (VIC) and Jett Rocker-Graham (NSW) were first on court on day one of competition, up against South Africa’s Jayden Cupido and Deloshen Valaitham. After claiming the…

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01/08/2023

Aussies learn lessons from U16 Asian Champs campaign

Australia have returned home from the Asian Volleyball Confederation Men’s U16 Volleyball Championships finishing eighth out of 12 teams in Uzbekistan. Like the women’s tournament earlier in the month, it is the first time the Asian Confederation has staged an Under 16 Volleyball Championship. In their first pool match, Thailand defeated Australia 3:1 (25-17, 21-25, 25-18, 25-15) in a 91…

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25/01/2023

Beach ParaVolley team set to create history in Canberra

A trio of talented sportswomen will step onto uncharted sand this week at the Australian Beach Volleyball Tour event in Canberra, simply by taking part. Carly Salmon, Jess Bayiartakis and Evie Ruffle are members of the Australian Women’s Beach ParaVolley Team, however they will line up in the able-bodied draw of this week’s women’s challenger event. It is the first…

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27/11/2022

Sara Hughes and Kelly Cheng take Women’s Torquay Challenge title

The USA team of Sara Hughes and Kelly Cheng were crowned Torquay Challenge champions today after defeating Lvwen Yuan and Jie Dong (CHN)  in the Women’s Final of the Beach Pro Tour tournament, the first of three events featured in the Great Ocean Road Beach Volleyfest. The top seeded team of the Challenge event were dominant, leading from the very…

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22/11/2022

Athletes from 24 countries will take to the court for the Beach Pro Tour Challenge event in Torquay

Seventy-three teams representing 24 different countries will take to the court in Torquay from tomorrow until Sunday 27 November to compete in the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Challenge, the first event of the Great Ocean Road Beach Volleyfest. As the Beach Pro Tour season winds down towards the inaugural Finals in Doha, Qatar (26-29 January) and the Olympic qualification…

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