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Beach Volleyball History |
In 1950
Lois Haraughty and Norma Holtzman won the Parks & Rec State Beach Open.
It was the 1st win for Lois Haraughty, the 1st win for Norma Holtzman, and the 1st win for the team.
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In 1950
Ev Keller and Gene Selznick won the Parks & Rec State Beach Open.
It was the 1st win for Ev Keller, the 1st win for Gene Selznick, and the 1st win for the team.
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In 1966
Ron Lang and Ron Von Hagen won the Parks & Rec Will Rogers State Beach Open.
It was the 27th win for Ron Lang, the 10th win for Ron Von Hagen, and the 6th win for the team.
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In 1977
Chris Marlowe and Jim Menges won the Parks & Rec World Championships.
It was the 8th win for Chris Marlowe, the 30th win for Jim Menges, and the 6th win for the team.
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In 1982
Sinjin Smith and Randy Stoklos won the Parks & Rec Will Rogers State Beach Open.
It was the 27th win for Sinjin Smith, the 5th win for Randy Stoklos, and the 4th win for the team.
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In 1983
Sinjin Smith and Randy Stoklos won the Parks & Rec Gladstone's Men's Open.
It was the 36th win for Sinjin Smith, the 14th win for Randy Stoklos, and the 13th win for the team.
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In 1988
Sinjin Smith and Randy Stoklos won the AVP San Francisco Open.
It was the 94th win for Sinjin Smith, the 70th win for Randy Stoklos, and the 69th win for the team.
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In 1993
Karch Kiraly and Kent Steffes won the AVP Old Spice Tournament of Champions.
It was the 82nd win for Karch Kiraly, the 54th win for Kent Steffes, and the 42nd win for the team.
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In 1994
Roberto Lopes and Franco Neto won the FIVB Brazil Open.
It was the 5th win for Roberto Lopes, the 3rd win for Franco Neto, and the 3rd win for the team.
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In 1994
Barbra Fontana won the WPVA Avia Top of the Tour .
It was the 4th win for Barbra Fontana.
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In 2001
Jose Loiola and Ricardo Santos won the FIVB Goodwill Games.
It was the 52nd win for Jose Loiola, the 13th win for Ricardo Santos, and the 2nd win for the team.
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In 2001
Tatiana Minello and Sandra Pires won the FIVB Goodwill Games.
It was the 1st win for Tatiana Minello, the 18th win for Sandra Pires, and the 1st win for the team.
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In 2005
Emanuel Rego and Ricardo Santos won the FIVB Athens INFOTE Open.
It was the 59th win for Emanuel Rego, the 32nd win for Ricardo Santos, and the 16th win for the team.
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In 2005
Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings won the AVP Chicago Open Presented by McDonald's.
It was the 49th win for Misty May-Treanor, the 46th win for Kerri Walsh Jennings, and the 44th win for the team.
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In 2011
Sergiy Popov and Valeriy Samoday won the FIVB Jr/Youth SWATCH FIVB Junior (U21) World Championships.
It was the 3rd win for Sergiy Popov, the 3rd win for Valeriy Samoday, and the 3rd win for the team.
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In 2011
Nina Brunner and Joana Mader won the FIVB Jr/Youth SWATCH FIVB Junior (U21) World Championships.
It was the 1st win for Nina Brunner, the 1st win for Joana Mader, and the 1st win for the team.
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In 2011
John Hyden and Sean Scott won the U.S. Open of Beach Volleyball.
It was the 15th win for John Hyden, the 17th win for Sean Scott, and the 12th win for the team.
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In 2011
Lauren Fendrick and Brooke Niles won the U.S. Open of Beach Volleyball.
It was the 4th win for Lauren Fendrick, the 2nd win for Brooke Niles, and the 2nd win for the team.
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In 2016
Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena won the AVP Championships.
It was the 85th win for Phil Dalhausser, the 14th win for Nick Lucena, and the 11th win for the team.
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In 2016
Lauren Fendrick and Brooke Sweat won the AVP Championships.
It was the 8th win for Lauren Fendrick, the 9th win for Brooke Sweat, and the 1st win for the team.
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In 2016
Aleksandrs Samoilovs and Janis Smedins won the CEV Beach Volleyball European Championship Jurmala Masters.
It was the 16th win for Aleksandrs Samoilovs, the 14th win for Janis Smedins, and the 12th win for the team.
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In 2016
Chantal Laboureur and Julia Sude won the CEV Beach Volleyball European Championship Jurmala Masters.
It was the 8th win for Chantal Laboureur, the 7th win for Julia Sude, and the 5th win for the team.
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In 2022
Gustavs Auzins and Kristians Fokerots won the Euro Beach Volley U18.
It was the 1st win for Gustavs Auzins, the 1st win for Kristians Fokerots, and the 1st win for the team.
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In 2022
Anna Pavelkova and Katerina Pavelkova won the Euro Beach Volley U18.
It was the 1st win for Anna Pavelkova, the 1st win for Katerina Pavelkova, and the 1st win for the team.
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In 2022
Tri Bourne and Trevor Crabb won the AVP Gold Series Chicago Open.
It was the 11th win for Tri Bourne, the 13th win for Trevor Crabb, and the 7th win for the team.
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In 2022
Taryn Brasher and Kristen Cruz won the AVP Gold Series Chicago Open.
It was the 5th win for Taryn Brasher, the 5th win for Kristen Cruz, and the 5th win for the team.
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In 2022
Markus Mol and Jo Gladsoy Sunde won the FIVB 2022 VW Beach Pro Tour Futures - Warsaw.
It was the 1st win for Markus Mol, the 1st win for Jo Gladsoy Sunde, and the 1st win for the team.
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| Latest News and Feature Articles |
| 9/3/2026 |
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Battipaglia welcomes Europe’s rising stars as #EuroBeachVolleyU20 gets underway
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The 2026 CEV U20 Beach Volleyball European Championship officially got underway on Thursday at Lido Riviera Spineta in Battipaglia, where Europe’s most promising young players took to the sand to begin their quest for the continental titles. Following the qualifying rounds, the Main Draw has now brought together 32 pairs per gender, divided into eight pools of four teams each... |
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| 9/2/2026 |
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The 2026 Title Weekend
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One weekend left in the 2026 AVP League season. Two championships get decided at Oak Street Beach. The two rivalries that defined the year sit on opposite sides of their brackets. It starts Saturday morning. Four teams open in the semifinals. Each is one win from Sunday’s final and two from the crown. Here is what each of them is playing for, and why Saturday’s quarterfinal winners should... |
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16 Volleyball Empowerment men duos vie for Asian beach volleyball title in Shangluo
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The 2026 AVC Asia Beach Volleyball Championship will take place in Shangluo, China from 2 to 6 September with 16 out of the 24 participating men teams being supported by the FIVB Volleyball Empowerment Programme. Volleyball Empowerment-supported pairs from Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Lebanon, New Zealand, Oman, The Philippines, Qatar and Uzbekistan will vie for the... |
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Volleyball Empowerment pairs chase women’s title in AVC Beach Volleyball Championship
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The 2026 AVC Asia Beach Volleyball Championship will take place in Shangluo, China from 2 to 6 September. 17 out of the 24 participating women’s teams have received support from the FIVB Volleyball Empowerment Programme. Volleyball Empowerment-supported pairs from Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, New Zealand, The Philippines, Singapore, Uzbekistan and Vanuatu will... |
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| 8/31/2026 |
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2026 AVCA Junior Beach All-America Teams
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The AVCA is proud to name its 2026 Junior Beach All-Americans. This year’s honorees include 24 athletes, with eight on each of the first, second, and honorable mention teams. The 2026 All-Americans include players from eight states. California leads the way with nine, followed by Florida and Texas with four each, Arizona and North Carolina with two, and New Jersey, Ohio, and Washington... |
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Italian duos earn five podium spots at Modena Futures
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The home teams largely prevailed at the Modena Futures on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour. Italian pairs collected as many as five of the six medals, leaving only one of the silvers to a non-Italian duo. Leanne van Vegten & Jill de Groot of the Netherlands finished runners-up to home favorites Valentina Gottardi & Reka Orsi Toth, while Anna Pelloia & Maria Rachele Mancinelli completed... |
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| 8/30/2026 |
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Czech pairs collect five medals at Brno Futures
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The home teams clearly dominated the Brno Futures on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour. Czech pairs picked up as many as five of the six medals, leaving only one of the bronzes to a foreign duo. Kylie Neuschaeferova & Martina Maixnerova, Marketa Svozilova & Marie-Sara Stochlova and Andrea Lorenzova & Mariana Tomasova delighted the home fans by collecting the gold, the silver and the bronze... |
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| 8/27/2026 |
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USA Volleyball Names Carolina “Gabi” Garbato as GM of USA Beach Volleyball
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Aug. 27, 2026) – USA Volleyball has announced the appointment of Carolina “Gabi” Garbato as its new General Manager, USA Beach Volleyball, effective immediately. In this role, Garbato will lead the overall management, performance and continuous evolution of USA Volleyball’s beach program, spanning the senior national teams and the Beach National Team Development Program... |
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The 2026 League Championship Field
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The 2026 AVP League season ends where it has been pointing since May: Labor Day weekend on Chicago’s Oak Street Beach, with twelve pairs and two titles on the lakefront. The format is simple and unforgiving. Four quarterfinals on Saturday morning. Semifinals rolling in behind them. Finals on Sunday afternoon. Single elimination the whole way, which means every team in the field is at most... |
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| 8/24/2026 |
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Norway’s Kjemperuds and Slovenia’s Kotnik & Lovsin win Bujumbura Futures
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Norway’s Jonah Kjemperud & Sebastian Kjemperud and Slovenia’s Tjasa Kotnik & Tajda Lovsin topped the men’s and the women’s podiums, respectively, at the Bujumbura Futures on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour. Benjamin Vaught & Wesley Jensen of the United States and Jiri Dostal & Filip Rydval of Czechia earned silver and bronze in the men’s tournament, while two Japanese teams... |
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Thâmela and Victoria end the season with Montréal Elite gold
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Brazilians Thâmela Coradello and Victoria Lopes had to wait until the last Elite event of the 2026 Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour season to celebrate, but they are set to end the year with gold medals around their necks after triumphing in Montréal on Sunday. The South Americans have now won Beach Pro Tour Elite events in each of their three seasons as partners and have four golds in 25 events... |
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| 8/23/2026 |
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Mol says goodbye to the sand with Montréal three-peat alongside Sørum
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Playing what would be his last tournament on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour in many months, Norwegian superstar Anders Mol said his brief goodbye to the sand by doing something he got very accustomed to in the last eight years - winning! Set to make a move to indoor volleyball to play for Rana Verona in the 2026-2027 Italian League, the Olympic and world champion triumphed... |
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Estonians celebrate home-sand success at Tallinn Futures
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Estonian teams claimed three medals, including both golds, at the Tallinn Futures on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour. Mart Tiisaar & Dimitriy Korotkov triumphed in the men’s tournament, while Eva Liisa Kuivonen & Liisa-Lotta Jurgenson and Heleene Hollas & Liisa Remmelg finished first and third on the women’s side. Both silver medals went to Austrian pairs... |
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| 8/22/2026 |
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Nigeria and Morocco qualify for LA28!
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Nigeria’s Esther Onyinye Mbah & Pamela Miyoum Bawa and Morocco’s Zouheir Elgraoui & Soufiane El Gharouti emerge African champions and earn qualification to the Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028: Morocco’s Zouheir Elgraoui & Soufiane El Gharouti and Esther Onyinye Mbah & Pamela Miyoum Bawa of Nigeria are the 2026 CAVB African Beach Volleyball champions. |
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| 8/20/2026 |
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2026 History on the Pier
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The Granddaddy of them all delivered. Taryn Brasher and Kristen Cruz won their third consecutive Manhattan Beach Open title, and Taylor Crabb and Andy Benesh went through the entire men’s draw without losing a set. One team cemented a dynasty. The other started a new chapter in a family tradition that now spans nine straight finals. |
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| 8/18/2026 |
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Melissa and Brandie go for home three-peat at Montréal Elite
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The top Canadian team competing on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour and one of the very best in the entire world, Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson will try to make their country proud another time this week when they compete at home in the Montréal Elite. The Paris 2024 Olympic silver medalists enter the event, which will be held from Wednesday to Sunday at Parc Jean-Drapeau... |
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New European champs Hölting Nilsson and Andersson try to keep momentum at Montréal Elite
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Fresh from their victory at the European Championship, which earned their country a spot at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics, Swedish stars Jacob Hölting Nilsson and Elmer Andersson return to action on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour this week, trying to keep their momentum. Sitting at the top of the FIVB World Rankings, the Europeans are one of the main attractions of this week's Elite event... |
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| 8/16/2026 |
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Netherlands and Sweden qualify for LA28!
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Sweden’s Hölting Nilsson Jacob & Andersson Elmer and Katja Stam & Raïsa Schoon of The Netherlands are the 2026 CEV EuroBeachVolley champions. By winning the tournament, Sweden and The Netherlands have also secured a spot at the Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028. The winners of the 2026 continental championships will earn their respective National Olympic Committees (NOCs) a quota spot for... |
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Filipino duos triumph with gold and silver at Busan Futures
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Two Filipino duos wrote a golden page for their country’s beach volleyball by reaching Sunday’s final of the women’s Busan Futures on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour. The gold medal went to Khylem Harl Progella & Sofiah Shanine Pagara, while their compatriots Cherry Ann Rondina & Bernadeth Pons brought home bronze. Australia’s Jana Milutinovic & Jasmine Rayner completed the podium in Korea. |
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Young Swedes claim EuroBeachVolley title, book ticket to LA28
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Jacob Hölting Nilsson/Elmer Andersson of Sweden are the newly-crowned men’s Beach Volleyball European champions following a final day where the youngsters from Sweden first edged their compatriots David Ahman/Jonatan Hellvig in the semis and subsequently prevented Norway’s Anders Mol and Christian Sørum from securing their sixth continental crown. With this result, the Swedes have also secured... |
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Stam/Schoon crowned European champions in Stare Jablonki as Netherlands secure LA28 spot
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On Sunday, under a cloudy sky in Stare Jablonki, Raïsa Schoon and Katja Stam of the Netherlands could celebrate two major achievements – their very first EuroBeachVolley title and securing a spot for their National Olympic Committee to compete at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games. The final match with Spain’s sensation Tania Moreno Matveeva and Sofia Izuzquiza was truly one-sided... |
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| 8/15/2026 |
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Three Scandinavian teams plus France reach EuroBeachVolley men’s semis
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Two teams from Sweden – Åhman/Hellvig and Hölting Nilsson/Andersson, the gold and silver medal winners from last year’s World Championships in Adelaide – will lock horns in one of the men’s semi-finals at the CEV EuroBeachVolley 2026 in Stare Jablonki on Sunday. In the other semi-final, last year’s World Championships bronze medallists Téo Rotar and Arnaud Gauthier-Rat of France will challenge... |
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| Sep 2-6, 2026 |
CEV Under Age |
CEV U20 European Championships, Battipaglia, Italy |
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| Sep 2-6, 2026 |
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CEV U20 European Championships, Battipaglia, Italy |
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| Sep 3-6, 2026 |
FIVB |
BPT Futures Budapest, Hungary |
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| Sep 3-6, 2026 |
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BPT Futures Budapest, Hungary |
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| Sep 4-7, 2026 |
AVP |
AVP Heritage Contender Series Mother Lode, Aspen, Colorado |
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$10,000 |
| Sep 4-7, 2026 |
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AVP Heritage Contender Series Mother Lode, Aspen, Colorado |
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$10,000 |
| Sep 5-6, 2026 |
AVP League |
AVP League Championship - Chicago, Illinois |
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TBD |
| Sep 9-13, 2026 |
CEV Under Age |
CEV U22 European Championships, Madrid, Spain |
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€ 5,000 |
| Sep 9-13, 2026 |
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CEV U22 European Championships, Madrid, Spain |
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€ 5,000 |
| Sep 16-20, 2026 |
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CEV U18 European Championships, Izmir, Türkiye |
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CEV U18 European Championships, Izmir, Türkiye |
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| Sep 17-20, 2026 |
FIVB |
BPT Futures Corigliano Rossano, Italy |
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€ 7,500 |
| Sep 17-20, 2026 |
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BPT Futures Corigliano Rossano, Italy |
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€ 7,500 |
| Sep 18-20, 2026 |
AVP |
AVP Heritage Laguna Beach Open, California |
M&W |
TBD |
| Sep 25-27, 2026 |
AVP |
AVP Heritage Contender Series Midwest Open, Edwardsville, Illinois |
M&W |
$20,000 |
| Oct 2-4, 2026 |
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AVP Heritage Contender Series Santa Barbara Open, California |
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$20,000 |
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