After 2-year pause, beach volleyball teams back to defend titles
It’s been two years since a high school beach volleyball team in Arizona was crowned state champion. So how will that long pause in play affect the ability of the … Read More
Tag: Sand volleyball
Perry HS ends Xavier’s 6-year reign in beach volleyball
Perry 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 … Read More
ASU hires beach volleyball pro as new head coach
Stevie 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 … Read More
UA invited to first NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship
The 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 … Read More
UA wins big in first of 2 sand volleyball dates with ASU
A 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 … Read More
Sand volleyball is growing, but Xavier Prep still reigns
The 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 … Read More
Former AZ prep stars put GCU sand volleyball on nat’l stage
A 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 … Read More
3rd state title: Xavier Prep still dominating sand volleyball
Xavier 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 … Read More
Sand volleyball matching up AZ colleges at all levels
Apparently, 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 … Read More
ASU jumps on the sand volleyball bandwagon
Jason 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 … Read More
Xavier bags 2nd sand volleyball title as sport gets traction
Now 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 … Read More
Sand volleyball gets the green light as new UA program
It 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 … Read More
GCU becomes one of first colleges with sand volleyball
Spurred 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 … Read More
More sand volleyball teams needed to justify prep program
How 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 … Read More
Sand volleyball may be coming to a high school near you
Arizona’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 … Read More