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Recent Articles
- ASU baseball opens critical season with 46-run series
- B.J. Burries ends prep hoops career as state’s top scorer
- Do 5 straight losses show deeper problems for UA hoops?
- Liberty, Sunnyside win state titles in D-I, D-II wrestling
- Local prep grads setting records in GCU track program
- ‘Super Bowl’ will decide best AZ prep football team in 2019
- Chandler has a new football coach…a break for Hamilton?
- Paul Moro’s death closes historical chapter in prep football
- Lawsuit is latest effort to save community college football
- Xavier’s Shannon Shields is Gatorade AZ volleyball POY
- Sunnyside wrestling defends Flowing Wells Invite title
- College basketball is dying a slow death in Flagstaff
- ASU’s QB Manny Wilkins…how will he be remembered?
- Prep football: interesting coaching hires as 2018 closed
- They’re for real…UA women get hoops upset of #17 ASU
- Stroke sidelines HS football coaching legend Paul Moro
- Desert Mtn. only AZ hoops team to win a title at Nike TOC
- Bobby Hurley gets signature win at ASU, stuns #1 Kansas
- Merry Christmas, Herm…elite QB recruit signs with ASU
- Eno sets ASU rushing record, but Devils lose bowl game
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SportZine Magazine Archive
Sand volleyball Archive
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Perry HS ends Xavier’s 6-year reign in beach volleyball
Posted on May 1, 2018 | No CommentsPerry High School will have its toughest challenge so far in the beach volleyball state tournament tonight when it faces off against No. 1-seeded Sandra Day O’Connor High School […] -
ASU hires beach volleyball pro as new head coach
Posted on May 20, 2016 | No CommentsStevie Mussie is wasting little time in laying the foundation for her tenure as head coach of the Arizona State women’s volleyball program. Hired a little over three months […] -
UA invited to first NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship
Posted on May 5, 2016 | No CommentsThe University of Arizona decided in January of 2013 to put together a sand volleyball program and wasted no time in building the new varsity sport into a presence on […] -
UA wins big in first of 2 sand volleyball dates with ASU
Posted on April 15, 2016 | No CommentsA dozen Arizona State athletes and a couple of coaches packed up their gear yesterday and headed to the beach. Not the picturesque beaches of nearby California. This trip […] -
Sand volleyball is growing, but Xavier Prep still reigns
Posted on April 28, 2015 | No CommentsThe number of Arizona high school teams participating in sand volleyball has grown considerably in the four years since the sport was introduced at the prep level. But the […] -
Former AZ prep stars put GCU sand volleyball on nat’l stage
Posted on April 26, 2014 | No CommentsA couple of former Arizona prep volleyball stars came together this year to create a team of two that will give Grand Canyon University a national presence in college’s […] -
3rd state title: Xavier Prep still dominating sand volleyball
Posted on April 11, 2014 | No CommentsXavier Prep saw an opportunity three years ago to get on board early in the movement to introduce a new sport at the high-school level. And now it’s turning […] -
Sand volleyball matching up AZ colleges at all levels
Posted on April 3, 2014 | 2,988 CommentsApparently, what it takes to level the playing field in college sports is a few truckloads of sand. A small private Christian school like Grand Canyon University, which is […] -
ASU jumps on the sand volleyball bandwagon
Posted on July 15, 2013 | 4,032 CommentsJason Watson, the head volleyball coach at Arizona State, has enjoyed considerable recruiting success these past couple of years, pulling in nationally-ranked recruiting classes in 2012 and 2013. Now he […] -
Xavier bags 2nd sand volleyball title as sport gets traction
Posted on April 12, 2013 | 994 CommentsNow that the state tournament for sand volleyball wrapped up this week, a couple of things have become apparent in Arizona’s effort to become the pioneer for instituting the sport […] -
Sand volleyball gets the green light as new UA program
Posted on January 24, 2013 | 2,765 CommentsIt looks like the Wildcats are planting a ‘Bear Down’ flag in the soft Sonoran Desert sand. The University of Arizona has just added sand volleyball as a women’s varsity […] -
GCU becomes one of first colleges with sand volleyball
Posted on August 20, 2012 | 4,813 CommentsSpurred on by this summer’s Olympics and the accompanying national television exposure, the beach volleyball phenomenon continues to spread across Arizona, first into the high schools and now the college […] -
More sand volleyball teams needed to justify prep program
Posted on March 29, 2012 | 2,042 CommentsHow well is Arizona’s experiment in high school sand volleyball working out? If numbers mean anything, probably not too well. When the Arizona Region of USA Volleyball proposed the idea […] -
Sand volleyball may be coming to a high school near you
Posted on October 20, 2011 | No CommentsArizona’s governing body for high school sports is sticking its collective toe in the sand as it considers adding a new varsity sport to the landscape. Sand volleyball is riding […]