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Beach volleyball is a team sport played by two teams of two to four 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.
Merle Norman Stadium is a beach volleyball facility located in Los Angeles, California, United States. [1] The on-campus USC facility, built in 2013, serves as the home of the USC Trojans women's beach volleyball. [1] The facility has three sand courts where USC plays its home matches and holds practices. [2] [3]
Beach tennis – derivative of lawn tennis, played entirely through volleys due to the ball being unable to bounce on sand; the ball is more depressurized than usual to cause it to travel more slowly and allow for longer rallies. The net is also raised much higher; beach volleyball courts are typically used for play.
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Popularized on the beaches of California in the 1920s, beach volleyball is a sport played by two teams on a sand court. At the professional level, teams consist of a pair of players who compete in best-of-three-set matches, where the first two sets are played to 21 points and the third set, if necessary, is played to 15 points; each set must be ...
Indoor sand volleyball teams vary from two to six members, college teams having six. Normally, rather than using a purpose-built hall, an indoor basketball court is converted. A protective tarpaulin covers the floor of the basketball court and "soft" sand is laid a foot deep over it. The boundaries are commonly marked off with lines in the sand.
Horse Guards Parade hosted the beach volleyball events at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Copacabana Stadium hosted the volleyball preliminaries for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. For the Summer Olympics there are seven venues that have been or will be used for beach volleyball .
When the player also slides their hand under a ball which is almost touching the court it is called a "pancake". The pancake is frequently used in indoor volleyball, but rarely if ever in beach volleyball because the uneven and yielding nature of the sand court limits the chances that the ball will make good, clean contact with the hand.