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Beaches for all
are paying off. During the past two years, the tour’s events have more than doubled – from 28 tournaments in 2013 to over 60 this year.
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Those events will be played this spring and summer by juniors aged 10-18 in 25 states around the country, which means we’re halfway to one of our biggest goals: juniors beach tournaments in all 50 states.
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Beach volleyball — or sand volleyball, as it is sometimes called – has fi rm roots in California, Hawaii and Florida. But both the Junior Beach Tour, launched by USAV in 2006, and the collegiate sand game, now a full-fl edged NCAA sport after beginning as an emerging sport in 2012, are ramping up interest in states that weren’t originally hot spots. As many in the volleyball community like to say, “The beach is blowing up.” If you check out the full schedule for the 2015 Junior Beach Tour at
USAVolleyball.org, you may be surprised at some of the cities where it will stop. In May alone, along with tourna- ments in California and Florida, there will be four JBT events in Texas (Cedar Park, Galveston, Rockwall, Austin) as well as stops in North Carolina (Apex), Indiana (Fort Wayne), Washington (Vancouver), Ohio (Cincinnati) and Georgia (Cart- ersville). The tour continues through the spring and well into the summer, culminating in the USAV Junior Beach Tour National Championships July 24-26 in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Visit our website or use the QR Code on this page for more details on the Junior Beach Tour. One of the things I like best about the Junior Beach Tour is that it
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offers terrifi c competition opportunities for all levels of players. Some may have their sights set on eventually playing for one of our High Performance teams, but when I spoke recently about the tour with Veronica Sanchez, our Junior Beach Tour manager, she emphasized how many kids there are who participate simply for the pure fun of it. “A lot of kids just want to compete, and then there are kids who are playing because they love beach volleyball,” she told me. She added that a lot of indoor coaches are encouraging kids to play beach. “They’re recognizing that it’s a good way to keep them healthy,” she said. “There are clearly cross-training benefi ts.” Last year, more than 300 teams competed for trophies and bragging rights at the Junior
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Beach Tour Championships in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. We expect more this year, and our long-term goal is for this event to have the same impact on the beach game as our highly suc- cessful Boys’ and Girls’ Junior National Championships have on the indoor game. I have every confi dence that it will get there. Beach is fun, competitive, social and a true family sport. At some of our JBT tournaments, multiple family members can be seen playing on the same day, at the same location. One-stop volleyball, you might say. A nice way to spend the weekend.
Doug Beal
he beach isn’t everywhere quite yet, but we’re working on it here at USA Volleyball. And the rapid growth of USAV’s Junior Beach Tour is a prime example that our efforts
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