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Beach volleyball is a team sport played by two teams of two players each on a sand court divided by a net. Similar to indoor volleyball, the objective of the game is to send the ball over the net and to ground it on the opponent's side of the court. Each team also works in unison to prevent the opposing team from grounding the ball on their ...
United States. The NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship is an NCAA -sanctioned tournament to determine the national champions of collegiate women's beach volleyball. It is a National Collegiate Championship featuring teams from Division I, Division II and Division III, and is the 90th, and newest, NCAA championship event. [ 1 ]
These collegiate women's beach volleyball teams compete as members of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Currently, 101 college athletic programs sponsor the sport, with one more to do so in future seasons. [1] The majority of the participating programs are members of Division I, though some members of divisions II and III ...
Misty May-Treanor. Misty Elizabeth May-Treanor (/ ˈtreɪnər /; née May; born July 30, 1977) is an American retired professional beach volleyball player. She is a three-time Olympic gold medalist, and as of August 2012, was the most successful female beach volleyball player having won 112 tournaments in domestic and international competition.
U.S. Men's Beach Finishes. 1997. Silver (Lisa Arce and Holly McPeak) [ 2 ] Silver (Canyon Ceman and Mike Whitmarsh) [ 3 ] Bronze (Dain Blanton and Kent Steffes) 1999. Silver (Annett Davis and Jenny Johnson Jordan) [ 4 ] Bronze (Liz Masakayan and Elaine Youngs) did not medal [ 5 ] 2001. did not medal [ 6 ]
The beach volleyball event was inaugurated in the 2003 edition of the Southeast Asian Games, however the sport was excluded from the games since the 2013 games. It made its return during the 2019 event .
Kerri Lee Walsh Jennings (born August 15, 1978) is an American professional beach volleyball player, three-time Olympic gold medalist, and a one-time Olympic bronze medalist. [ 1 ] She is the beach volleyball leader in career victories as of 2016 having won 135 international and domestic tournaments.
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. [ 1 ] It has been a part of the official program of the Summer Olympic Games since Tokyo 1964.