AVP beach volleyball tour returns: August 2012
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Before Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings became household names because of their back-to-back-to-back Olympic gold medals, they competed on the beaches from New York to California on the Association of Volleyball Professionals circuit. For more than 25 years, the AVP was synonymous with beach volleyball.
Countless pro players got their start on the AVP tour, including 2012 Olympic beach volleyball silver medalist Jen Kessy.
"The AVP tour is where I started and became a professional," Kessy said. "I started at the very bottom and I worked my way through qualifiers. I worked my way for a full year of not making it to a Sunday, of playing five matches a day, working really hard."
Washington Park first stop for pro volleyball tour: July 2012
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Bob Slattery, Cincinnati and beach volleyball have been good partners over the years. That partnership will add newly restored Washington Park in Over-The-Rhine this Labor Day weekend.
The Association of Volleyball Professionals (AVP) announced on Monday it was making Cincinnati the first stop on its renewed pro beach volleyball tour.
Volleyball tour has new owners: April 2012
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The AVP professional beach volleyball tour, which collapsed in bankruptcy two years ago, has been purchased by a former technology executive with the perfect name for the sexy, sandy sport.
Donald Sun grew up in Southern California playing indoor volleyball and watching AVP events on the local beaches. He stepped down from Kingston Technology, a Fountain Valley, Calif.-based maker of computer memory, last month to devote himself to reviving the domestic beach volleyball tour full time.
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