Four Australian teams will be lining up for the first Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Elite 16 event of the season this week in Tepic, Mexico. Olympic silver medallists Taliqua Clancy and Mariafe Artacho del Solar take their place as fourth seeds in the women’s draw, with two Australian men’s teams attempting to qualify for the men’s event. Chris McHugh…
Queensland pair Bryce Poland and Christopher Blake have won their first Australian Beach Volleyball Tour title, while a pair of Chinese Olympians also claimed victory in Wollongong. More than 100 teams took part in Wollongong as part of the third stop of the Australian Beach Volleyball Tour. In the elite men’s competition, Poland and Blake defeated round two winners Mateusz…
Three local players have relished competing at home and taken victory at the Australian Junior Beach Volleyball Tour in Wollongong today. Adax Brienen hails from Woonona, just 15 minutes up the road from North Wollongong Beach, and along with partner Adam Fejes (NSW) entered the tournament as favourites after winning the last Tour event in Brisbane. The top seeds made…
North Wollongong Beach is set to play host to some of the best players in the country when the Australian Beach Volleyball Tour (ABVT) hits town from Friday. Following successful events in Torquay and Canberra in 2022/23, the Tour heads to NSW with many players making their first appearance in the Illawarra region. “I’m looking forward to heading to Wollongong,”…
The third and final leg of the Australian Junior Beach Volleyball Tour hits Wollongong on Wednesday with some of the best young players in the country vying for glory. Western Australia’s Cassie Dodd will be aiming to make it three straight women’s under 21 tournament victories, having claimed the opening leg in Canberra alongside Lizzie Alchin (WA), before winning in…
It was a tournament where the favourites largely lived up to their rankings when the Australian Junior Beach Volleyball Tour hit Brisbane over the weekend. In the four categories contested, three of the top seeded pairings went all the way and were in dominant form throughout the tournament. The Under 21 women’s event saw the number one-ranked team Cassie Dodd…
The Australian Beach Volleyball Tour hits Canberra this weekend where some of the country’s top talent will go head-to-head as they strive for a victorious start to 2023. Canberra is a new stop on the Tour for this summer due to Cobram being affected by flood waters. Following the first tournament of the season in Torquay in December, the Tour…
The Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour returns to Australia next week, with some of the best international beach volleyball players battling it out in Torquay, VIC on the last stop on the road to the Beach Pro Tour Finals. The Elite 16 tournament – the highest level on the Beach Pro Tour – is billed as the main event of…
Three Australian Teams will represent the green and gold at this week’s Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) 2022 Asian Senior Men’s Beach Volleyball Championships in Bandar Abbas, from 14-18 November. The Australian contingent will be headlined by Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games gold medallists and defending Asian Senior Men’s Beach Volleyball Champions Chris McHugh and Paul Burnett. They will be joined by…
A worthy recipient and pioneer of women’s beach volleyball in Australia, Anita also started her volleyball career on the indoor floorboards, representing Queensland in junior and senior teams, as well as Australia at the junior and senior level, where she played 28 games for the Senior Indoor team before making the move to the beach. Making her mark on the…
