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AVP Announces Iconic Venues Hand-Selected for the 2025 AVP League Season

May 20, 2025February 20, 2026

AVP and Wasserman Partner to Deliver Unforgettable Sponsor Experiences League Matches to Be Broadcast Nationally on The CW Network and CBS May 19, 2025 – AVP, the preeminent professional beach volleyball league in the world, is today announcing the iconic venues that will host the 2025 AVP League – a national slate of matches bringing the sport top athletes to most exciting cities, with the season culminating in a Championship weekend at Chicago legendary Oak Street Beach. Each venue will host a full weekend of matchups featuring the AVP League…

Top Seeds in Xiamen Qualifiers Earn Tiebreak Wins to Advance to Women’s Main Draw

May 15, 2025February 20, 2026 source: Volleyball World

The two top-seeded teams in Wednesday’s women’s qualifications at the Xiamen Challenge – France’s Lezana Placette and Alexia Richard and Germany’s Linda Bock and Louisa Lippmann – played only one game each on the way to the main draw, but had to persevere through three-set battles before booking their spots among the 32 teams in the pool stage. Two teams from USA, one each from Canada, Lithuania and Ukraine, and one more from Germany also advanced to the women’s main draw at the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour event in…

2025 AVP Huntington Beach Heritage Preview: Two Final AVP League Spots on the Line

May 3, 2025February 20, 2026 BumpSpike.comandy_benesh, brandie_wilkerson, chaim_schalk, chase_budinger, hailey_harward, julia_scoles, kelly_cheng, kristen_nuss, melissa_humana_paredes, miles_evans, miles_partain, taylor_crabb, taylor_sander, terese_cannon, trevor_crabb

Two Final AVP League Spots on the Line The AVP Huntington Beach Open Heritage Event is just around the corner, and this year’s competition promises to be an electrifying showcase of professional beach volleyball. Scheduled for May 10-11, this prestigious event is the last opportunity for aspiring teams to claim a coveted spot in the 2025 AVP League. With only two of eight AVP League qualification spots remaining, this event will make or break teams’ seasons. How Teams Qualify for the AVP League Automatic Qualifiers (2024 Top-4 Duos) Men’s: Chase…

Nuss and Brasher Bring Home First Beach Pro Tour Gold for 2025

April 21, 2025February 20, 2026 BumpSpike.comcarol_solberg, kristen_nuss

Nuss and Brasher Secure First Beach Pro Tour Gold of 2025 After taking bronze in Quintana Roo and silver in Saquarema, USA stars Kristen Nuss and Taryn Brasher finally claimed gold in Brasilia as the third Elite16 event of the 2025 Beach Pro Tour concluded in the Brazilian capital. Podium Results 🥇 Kristen Nuss and Taryn Brasher (USA) – Gold 🥈 Carol Solberg and Rebecca Cavalcanti (Brazil) – Silver 🥉 Ana Patricia Ramos and Eduarda Santos Lisboa (Duda) (Brazil) – Bronze Gold Medal Match Recap The second-seeded Americans overcame the…

Pedro and Renato win all-Brazilian qualifier to make Brasilia Elite main draw

April 17, 2025February 20, 2026 andy_benesh, chaim_schalk, chase_budinger, george_wanderley, hugo_campos, joao_pedrosa, miles_evans, miles_partain, renato_lima, sam_schachter, vitor_felipe

The Brasilia Elite men’s main draw is all set for its start on Thursday. The remaining nine vacancies were taken up by the winners of the eight qualifying matches and a lucky loser team as the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour event started in the Brazilian capital on Wednesday. In the most interesting match of the day, two home pairs put up a three-set battle with Pedro Oliveira and Renato Lima securing the main draw spot after edging fellow Brazilians Gabriel Santiago and Felipe Alves. The all-Brazilian clash was the…

Boermans and De Groot hit the ground running in Brazil

April 12, 2025February 20, 2026 anders_mol, christian_sorum, david_ahman, evandro_goncalves, george_wanderley, jonatan_hellvig, jorge_alayo, moritz_pristauz, noslen_diaz, sam_cottafava, sam_schachter, stefan_boermans, yorick_de_groot

Stefan Boermans and Yorick de Groot played on Thursday, in Saquarema, their first matches since last December, but judging by their performance in the first day of the men’s main draw of the second Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Elite event of the year, it would be hard to tell the Dutch Olympians hadn’t been active for four months. The Europeans formed one of the six teams that won their pools in Brazil and advanced undefeated directly to the Round of 12 of the event – Norway’s Anders Mol/Christian Sorum,…

Schalk and Shaw beat Olympic champions to get to the semis

March 31, 2025February 20, 2026 BumpSpike.comchaim_schalk, david_ahman, david_schweiner, jonatan_hellvig, jorge_alayo, noslen_diaz, ondrej_perusic

Elite16 – Quintana Roo, MEX – 2025 The Americans will compete for medals in Mexico with the Capogrossos, Diaz/Alayo and Brouwer/van de Velde Published 02:15, 30 Mar 2025 Schalk and Shaw celebrate their incredible quarterfinal victory over Ahman and Hellvig Led by Americans Chaim Schalk and James Shaw, who eliminated reigning Olympic champions David Ahman and Jonatan Hellvig of Sweden in just their sixth tournament as partners, teams from four different countries advanced to the men’s semifinals of the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Elite event held in Quintana Roo,…

Yucatan medalists Pedrosa and Campos and Haussener and Friedli reach team highs in World Ranking

March 26, 2025February 20, 2026 aine_raupelyte, anastasija_samoilova, chase_budinger, david_ahman, david_schweiner, hugo_campos, joao_pedrosa, jonatan_hellvig, jorge_alayo, kristen_nuss, miles_evans, monika_paulikiene, noslen_diaz, ondrej_perusic, svenja_muller, tanja_huberli, tina_graudina

Yucatan Medalists Reach Career Highs in World Rankings The latest FIVB Beach Volleyball World Rankings update reflects significant movement following the Yucatan Challenge in Mexico and the expiration of points from last year’s Recife Challenge in Brazil. Men’s Rankings Highlights Reigning world champions Ondrej Perusic and David Schweiner of Czechia claimed Yucatan gold and skyrocketed 18 positions to number 24 Yves Haussener and Julian Friedli of Switzerland, Yucatan silver medalists, jumped 23 spots to a career-high number 45 Joao Pedrosa and Hugo Campos of Portugal, Yucatan bronze medalists, climbed two…

Hladun and Lazarenko shut out Carol and Rebecca to win pool in Yucatan

March 22, 2025February 20, 2026 BumpSpike.comaine Raupelyte, carol_solberg, hailey_harward, julia_scoles, monika_paulikiene, tanja_huberli, xinyi_xia

Ukraine’s Maryna Hladun and Tetiana Lazarenko stunned top-seeded Brazilians Carol Solberg and Rebecca Cavalcanti in the Pool A final at the Yucatan Challenge on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour and became the lowest seeded team to advance directly to the women’s eighthfinals in Mexico, as main draw action got underway on Thursday in Puerto Progreso. Watch the Yucatan Challenge on VBTV. 16th-seeded Hladun and Lazarenko hammered out an emphatic 2-0 (21-13, 21-15) shutout of the Brazilian favorites. The Ukrainians dominated in attack, with nine successful spikes from Lazarenko and…

AVP Strikes Historic Multi-Year Broadcast Agreements with CBS Sports and The CW Network

March 13, 2025February 20, 2026

CBS Television Network to Broadcast AVP League Championship Live on Labor Day Weekend CBS Sports Network Continues to air Additional Matches Throughout the Season. The CW Network to Air Weekly Professional Beach Volleyball Matches from Iconic Venues on Summer Saturdays Starting Memorial Day. MANHATTAN BEACH, CA, March 12, 2025 – The AVP, America’s only professional beach volleyball league, is today announcing historic national broadcast partnerships with CBS Sports and The CW Network. CBS Television Network will broadcast the 2025 AVP League Championship in a marquee television event on Sunday, August…