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VolleyballMag photographers Mark Rigney, Stephen Burns and Will Chu shot thousands of photos last week at the NCAA’s National Collegiate Beach Volleyball Championships in Gulf Shores, Alabama. This gallery includes their favorites. Click on any image to view full size. Athletes, friends and families, if you use these shots for social media, please credit our […]

League One Volleyball (LOVB), which begins its inaugural pro season in 2025, announced Thursday  that it has entered into an agreement with ESPN to present some of its pro matches across its linear networks and digital platforms. According to LOVB, ESPN platforms will show 10 LOVB matches across its linear networks when the season begins […]

ANAHEIM, California — The respective USA Olympic volleyball coaches, Karch Kiraly and John Speraw, will both end up in Paris the third week of July, but their teams are taking different paths to get to the Olympics. Kiraly and his USA women start Volleyball Nations League play next Wednesday against Thailand in Rio de Janeiro, […]

HERMOSA BEACH, California — It wasn’t hard to guess the subject of this month’s SANDCAST mailbag: After withdrawing from the Xiamen Challenge and Brasilia Elite16, Have Tri Bourne and Chaim Schalk dropped out of the race to the Paris Olympic Games? No less than a dozen individuals asked various versions of that question, one I’ll […]

SAN DIEGO — On February 19, the San Diego Mojo got swept for the third time to start the inaugural Pro Volleyball Federation. “We just wanted to win a set at that point,” veteran Ali Bastianelli admitted. They broke through with a four-set home victory over the Grand Rapids, but still lost three of their […]

ANAHEIM, California — The Southern California Indoor Volleyball Hall of Fame honored its sixth, seventh and eighth induction classes Sunday before a sell-out audience at Anaheim’s Hwy 39 Event Center. The event, a veritable Who’s Who of volleyball in Southern California, included Olympians, great coaches  and more. A highlight was 91-year-old Alice Sanchez accepting a […]

Three playoff spots are clinched and one remains with just seven matches left in the Pro Volleyball Federation inaugural season. The Atlanta Vibe (19-5) were the first to clinch and have maintained their hold on first place as the top seed in the four-team playoffs.  The second team in was Omaha and Supernovas (14-7) have […]

On the surface, it was easy to wonder (and many did): What was going on with Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth? The No. 2 team in the world had supposedly gone through whatever a sophomore slump might look like for them, and theirs resembled nothing of the sort. A brilliant rookie season paved the way […]

The official tally of the national-title dual was 3-0, but little came easy for USC against UCLA. The wonder Women of Troy completed an unprecedented four-peat in the NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship on Sunday in Gulf Shores, Alabama, with the clinching point recorded for a second year in a row by the battle-hardened Nourse twins […]

LONG BEACH, California — UCLA’s four-set victory Saturday over Long Beach State in the NCAA’s National College Men’s Volleyball Championship match provided great action for both the crowd of 3,804 in Long Beach’s Pyramid and also a national audience on ESPN. Veteran photographer Jim Wolf, a regular shooter for VolleyballMag, was all over the point-by-point […]