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2024 AVP Schedule released, including details on new AVP League

Travis Mewhirter

February 7, 2024

The 2024 AVP schedule has officially been released, and it includes a bit of the familiar, a smattering of tweaks, and the establishment of the new: a beach volleyball league that will be the first of its kind.

2024 AVP schedule

Three marquee events, known as Heritage Series, which will look and feel a lot like the erstwhile Gold Series, highlight the summer, in Huntington Beach (May 17-19), Manhattan Beach (August 16-18) and Chicago (August 30-September 1). That is the familiar.

The smattering of tweaks consist in mostly name changes — Gold Series to Heritage Series, Tour Series to Contender Events — and the qualification processes to enter into each Heritage Series. Three Contender Series — Denver July 6-7, Waupaca July 13-14, and Virginia Beach August 3-4 — round out the summer of six tournaments.

A few format changes, too, are in store. The Contenders will feature 24 teams, as the Tour Series did, but will be played in a double-elimination format as opposed to modified pool play, which was used in 2023.

Of particular, and positive, note is the lack of conflicts. None of the three Heritage Series conflict with a Volleyball World event of substance, meaning every tournament this summer is expected to have a full field. While Denver and Waupaca conflict with the Gstaad and Vienna Elite16s, respectively, the teams who will be in Switzerland and Austria would not be competing in a Contender event, so there is no real conflict there.

As the Tour Series events served as qualifiers into the Gold and Pro Series the last two seasons, so the Contenders will serve as qualifiers for the Heritage in 2024. Huntington is the only Heritage without an accompanying Contender event, so the 16-team double-elimination tournament at one of the sport’s most popular stops will have an on-site qualifier in which four teams can make the main draw.

After that, Denver, with the familiar 24-team main draw known to Tour Series players, will serve as a qualifier for Manhattan Beach, with the top four teams advancing into the 32-team main draw. Waupaca, the annual festival of volleyball in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, will also serve as a qualifier for Manhattan, with its top four teams advancing into the main draw. The top four finishers in Virginia Beach will claim a spot into the season-ending Heritage Series in Chicago, which will remain a 16-team draw.

Like Huntington, Manhattan will have an on-site qualifier, with eight additional teams advancing to the main draw, to accompany the four bids earned from Denver and Waupaca.

Introducing the AVP League

But it is in September, after the Chicago Heritage Series, that the most sizable change will take place with the onset of the AVP League.

Eight men’s teams and eight women’s teams will extend their season to compete in the inaugural AVP League, competing for eight different cities: Los Angeles, San Diego, Austin, Dallas, Miami, Palm Beach, New York, and Brooklyn. Each city will feature one women’s pair and one men’s pair and, it is relevant to note, the athletes will not have to relocate to those cities to train. The matches will be held on eight consecutive weekends, and each team will play four of the weekends, with four off weeks, each weekend consisting of a Saturday match and a Sunday match.

After the eight weeks of the League, the top four teams will advance to the League Championship on November 9-10, at a location still to be determined.

There are three potential routes for teams to qualify for the League: Win a Heritage Series, accrue enough points as a team using two of their top three finishes from Heritage Series, or wild card, which the AVP League can use on two teams per gender.

The details for the League — prize money, how the draft will work, who coaches each franchise, to name a few — will, according to the AVP, be released in the coming weeks.

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The Evolution of Beach Volleyball: Originating from sunny California in the 1920s, beach volleyball has evolved from a leisurely pastime to a fiercely competitive global sport. Its transition to professional status was marked by the formation of the Beach Volleyball World Tour, which has since become the ultimate platform for showcasing the sport’s elite talent.

The Beach Volley World Tour: The Beach Volley World Tour is a series of international tournaments sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB). From the picturesque beaches of Rio de Janeiro to the iconic shores of Copacabana, the tour spans across continents, drawing in players and fans from all corners of the globe.

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ESPN, ABC team for 13 AVP telecasts

Beach volleyball is returning to ESPN in 2010.

The AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour will have 13 events on ESPN2 and ABC this season, starting April 18 with a women's event in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. All of the events will be televised in high definition.

Four events are slated for ABC -- the men's final June 6 at Huntington Beach, Calif., the women's final July 25 in Malibu, Calif., the women's final Aug. 22 in Manhattan Beach, Calif., and the men's final Aug. 29 in Chicago (the women's final that day will be on at midnight on ESPN2).

Matches will also be streamed on ESPN360.com (soon to be renamed ESPN3.com), plus up-to-the minute scores on the ESPN ScoreCenter mobile app for iPhone and iPod Touch devices.

There will also be additional streaming video on AVP.com of early-round matches.

"This new agreement gives us a consistent national reach that will be essential to our growth as a sport, and we couldn't be more excited that both our passionate fans and a growing new audience will be able to follow us on ESPN," said Jason Hodell, Chief Executive Officer of the AVP, in a statement.

"I believe this relationship with ESPN/ABC could do more in one broadcast to legitimize our players and the game than we know," said AVP commissioner Mike Dodd, a former Olympian and AVP star. "This is a great day for volleyball."

The AVP's solution for growing beach volleyball in America? Bullriding

M ay 18—HUNTINGTON BEACH — The day before the AVP Huntington Beach Open kicked off, one by one, the league's Chief Operating Officer Robert Corvino welcomed a slew of competing teams in for a private presentation to sell a new vision for professional volleyball in the United States.

Bullriding. At least, its structure.

Despite the continued growth of beach volleyball as a sport in the United States, the AVP, as league veteran and Long Beach State grad Paul Lotman put it, has long struggled to be profitable. It went bankrupt in 2010. It's gone through numerous ownership changes. Prize money, largely, has careened. And so, as players across the landscape of the AVP have expressed the need for innovation, Corvino's vision for its future "just seemed different," Lotman recalled.

And that vision, as Lotman learned in a 20-minute meeting on Thursday, was, yes, bullriding. In November 2023, the AVP announced the formation of the AVP League, a structure of eight teams based in eight cities across the nation; teams who won at three longtime spots on the AVP Tour, like Huntington Beach, could earn an automatic bid to the league. It's a format structured nearly exactly, Lotman said, after the Professional Bull Riders' (PBR) Team Series, which features eight teams hailing from eight cities.

Lotman is 38 years old. Not many reps remain in his knees. He has four children, and runs an Airbnb business, and played with a partner this weekend — Stanford beach volleyball assistant coach Billy Allen — who he'd had all of three training sessions with before Huntington.

He was playing, this weekend, for a love of the game greater than himself. And that meant throwing his weary legs fully into a new idea that has still been only vaguely flushed out, a new idea in a long line of them, an idea he could simply only hope would work.

"I don't know how many years I have left to play," Lotman said, after a match Friday afternoon. "But I want to see it succeed, for the future of the sport."

As some of the best beach volleyball talent in the country has returned to Huntington this weekend for the Open, an annual mainstay on the AVP Tour, they've similarly aligned behind Corvino's plan.

USC alumna April Ross, a reigning gold medalist at Tokyo who made her return to the court on Friday after having a son in the fall, emphasized her excitement at the new format. Tri Bourne and Chaim Schalk had recently thrown in the towel on a year-long push for the Paris Olympics, but came back to compete at Huntington with the goal to continue advancing the game in the States. And Long Beach State alumnus Taylor Crabb, who saw 2020 Olympic dreams chased by a positive COVID-19 test 10 minutes after he hopped off a flight to Tokyo, has since moved his focus away from international play and centered on this new development within the AVP.

For years, the Open was free to all. This weekend, for the first time ever, tickets in the stands overlooking the main court cost money, at $21.60 per day. The stakes have risen, suddenly, around an event that's been a staple of Huntington Beach for decades: the winners of the men's and women's bracket automatically get the first berth in the AVP League.

"The league itself is pushing us, giving us a reason for these tournaments," Crabb said Saturday, after a win at Huntington with partner Taylor Sander to advance to Sunday's semifinal in the men's bracket. "Like, it's do-or-die."

"You want to make the league, these tournaments mean a lot. You got to win."

That's the simplest way to earn a bid to the league, ultimately. Winners of the Manhattan Beach Open in August and the Chicago Open, from Aug. 30 through Sept. 1, have the same chance. That part is easy enough. Less straightforward is how the rest of the league will be filled out.

Before the season kicks off in the fall, the AVP will hold a player draft in Manhattan Beach, to determine which pairs will represent which cities participating in the league: Los Angeles, San Diego, New York, Brooklyn, Miami, Palm Beach, Dallas and Austin. It's unclear whether teams drafted will be required to move to those cities, or how an actual connection between pairs and cities will be established.

"The public needs to see you, right?" asked beach volleyball legend Misty May-Treanor in an interview with the Southern California News Group Saturday, expressing she wasn't sure if "reinventing everything is the right way to go."

But players strongly advocated that the sport needs a city-team connection, however it's cemented. Beach volleyball, by nature, had become individualistic, as Lotman said: every team has their own coach, their own sponsors, their own motives. But the AVP needed to generate enough buzz and sell enough tickets to continue justifying the price of constructing their events, Lotman added. And having a city support a team, Lotman felt, was a "sustainable model."

The timing, theoretically, aligns perfectly for the league to capitalize off the buzz generated from American teams at the Summer Olympics in Paris. And at Huntington, thus far, the United States' best and brightest have dazzled.

Reigning Huntington Beach Open champions Sara Hughes and Kelly Cheng, who are headed to Paris, hung tough to beat Hailey Harward and Kylie Deberg 2-1 (19-21, 21-17, 15-6) in the women's quarterfinal on Saturday. Fellow Olympians-to-be Taryn Kloth and Kristen Nuss, meanwhile, took down Canada's Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson in three sets (17-21, 21-19, 15-12), and the two United States Olympic teams could well meet in the finals of the women's bracket Sunday at 2:00 pm.

It'll set the stage for an exciting final day at Huntington — the winners the first cogs in a grand, and sorely needed, experiment.

"I'm optimistic," Lotman said. "I hope everyone is, too, because like I said, AVP's struggled for a long time, and they need to figure out a way to make money and survive."

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Chase Budinger used to play in the NBA. Now, he's an Olympian in beach volleyball.

Former NBA player Chase Budinger is headed to the 2024 Summer Olympics , but he won't need his basketball shoes to compete — he will be representing Team USA in beach volleyball.

The seven-year NBA veteran qualified for the Paris Games alongside playing partner Miles Evans on Wednesday. The pair are ranked 13th in the world and are going to the Olympics because they are the No. 2 U.S. team, behind the fifth-ranked team of Miles Partain and Andy Benesh. Budinger and Evans secured their spot after the No. 3-ranked U.S. team of Theo Brunner and Trevor Crabb lost in the first round of the last qualifying tournament in the Czech Republic.

An Instagram video showed Budinger and Evans when they found out they qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics.

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Qualifying for the Olympics is a remarkable achievement for the 36-year-old given he spent the majority of his professional career on the hardwood.

Budinger played basketball and volleyball in high school, but chose to play basketball at Arizona. He was a highly-touted recruit, and was co-MVP of the 2006 McDonald's All-American Game alongside Kevin Durant . Budinger played three seasons for the Wildcats and was named the 2007 Pac-10 Freshman of the Year and earned first team all-Pac-10 honors in 2009.

Budinger was picked by the Detroit Pistons in the second round of the 2009 NBA Draft, but was traded to the Houston Rockets that same night. He played three seasons with the Rockets, where he had the better years of his career, before he was traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves . He would also play for the Indiana Pacers and Phoenix Suns and played his last NBA game in 2016. He finished his career having played 407 games, averaging 7.9 points, 3.0 rebounds and 1.2 assists per game.

Chase Budinger's transition to beach volleyball

Budinger was a volleyball standout at La Costa Canyon High School in California. He led his team to three volleyball state championships and was named National High School Player of the Year by Volleyball Magazine. He then joined the professional beach volleyball AVP tour in 2018.

"That was always the plan," Budinger told the Indianapolis Star , part of the USA TODAY Network, in 2019. "To play beach volleyball when basketball was over."

Budinger would have five different partners in his volleyball career before he began teaming up with Evans in 2023, and they've risen up the world rankings all the way to a spot in the Olympics, something he said he wanted to achieve nearly five years ago.

"Hopefully, to represent the United States in the Olympics," he said. "The goal is to become the best in the world."

When the Games begin, Budinger will become the first athlete to play in an NBA regular season game and Olympic beach volleyball, according to NBC Sports .

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Ex-NBA player Chase Budinger qualifies for Olympics in beach volleyball

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Local News | Hermosa Beach Open to return, but not as an AVP beach volleyball event

The AVP announced in November that because of scheduling conflicts with other volleyball tournaments in July, it wouldn’t host its annual Hermosa Beach tournament in 2024. Instead, the tournament, which first took place in 1984, will likely return in 2025. But the AVP will host its Junior National Championships in Hermosa Beach from July 22 to 28 and the Manhattan Beach Open will take place in August.

And the South Bay’s Mark Paaluhi and his company, Day at the Beach Events, will host a Hermosa Beach Open from Sept. 4 to 7 at the volleyball courts north of the Hermosa Beach Pier. The City Council approved the event on Tuesday,May 28.

The event is expected to attract approximately 100 professional beach volleyball players.

“It’s about keeping this tradition of the Hermosa Beach Open alive,” Paaluhi said at Tuesday’s meeting.

“I’m not trying to take over the AVP and create another league,” Paaluhi added. “(The players) acknowledge this place as the top place in the world to train, practice and play against the other best players in the world.”

The City Council lauded the return of a pro volleyball tournament to Hermosa.

“Hopefully, coming out of the Olympics, there’ll be a celebratory tone to some of the teams that are playing, maybe some metal is getting flashed,” said Councilmember Mike Detoy. “It should be a good time.”

The Olympics will take place from July 26 to Aug. 11 in Paris.

“Beach volleyball is the center of culture here in Hermosa Beach and we deserve to have a tournament every year,” said Councilmember Dean Francois. “We’re going to have the best players from all over the country, if not the world, to play right here on our beach every year and I think it’s great.”

Paaluhi, a professional volleyball player who grew up in Hermosa Beach and graduated from Redondo Union High School, said that through sponsorship money, he has a “hefty goal” of raising $200,000 in prize money for the HB Open contestants.

The City Council, meanwhile, approved a one-year agreement with the AVP on May 15, allowing the volleyball organization to host its junior event in 2024. The deal also has a mutual option for an additional year, which would allow AVP to host a pro event in 2025, though it has not yet been determined if that will happen, Hermosa’s community resources manager, Lisa Nichols, said on Wednesday.

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Former NBA forward Chase Budinger makes USA beach volleyball team for Paris Olympics

The former NBA player will now have a chance to bring home a gold medal

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We rarely get to see athletes cross over into Olympic sports and do well. Seattle Seahawks star WR DK Metcalf attempted to qualify in the 100M dash, but didn’t make it with a 10.36 time . We have seen former NFL wide receiver Devon Allen make the Olympic track and field team , so it’s not too far out of the equation. On Wednesday, a former NBA player was named to the United States’ 2024 Paris Olympics team in a totally different sport.

Former Houston Rockets wing Chase Budinger has been selected for the Olympic team in beach volleyball. Budinger and teammate Miles Evans will be competing for the gold medal in Paris at the 2024 Olympics. Watch Budinger react to being named to the Olympic team here. There’s pure joy in this video.

Former Arizona basketball star Chase Budinger just secured one of the final spots on the U.S. Olympic beach volleyball roster! Budinger and teammate Miles Evans are going to Paris this summer! ( Tape Media/IG) pic.twitter.com/rS7Spvc4OK — Justin Spears (@JustinESports) June 5, 2024

Budinger was a standout in both volleyball and basketball when he graduated high school in California in 2006. He chose to play hoops, where he was named a McDonald’s All-American, five-star recruit, and committed to Arizona. After three seasons, Budinger entered the 2009 NBA Draft and was selected in the second round.

Budinger retired from professional basketball in 2017 and since then has played beach volleyball professionally since then on the AVP tour. In high school, Budinger was a fantastic beach volleyball player, named the National player of the year in 2006 and named MVP of the Junior Olympic volleyball tournament as well.

Budinger used to throw down some big dunks in the NBA. Now he’s using that leaping ability for Team USA in beach volleyball.

Budinger will get to show off his volleyball skills in Paris this summer, and hopefully bring back a gold medal.

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2024 Huntington Beach Open: Thrilling Finals and Outstanding Performances

Whether you’re a dedicated volleyball fan or just curious about the sport, we’ve got all the exciting details from the championship matches, as well as some standout individual performances at this year’s Huntington Beach Open.

Men’s Finals Recap + More Stats:

The top-seeded duo of Taylor Crabb and Taylor Sander clinched the 2024 Huntington Beach Open title and punched their ticket to the AVP League by defeating first-time AVP finalists Cody Caldwell and Seain Cook, who entered the finals as the 5 seed. The match ended with a convincing scoreline of 21-15, 21-15.

Crabb and Sander’s impressive teamwork resulted in the best hitting percentage in any 2-set men’s match of the tournament at .639. They also recorded the most aces by a team in a single match with 6.

Caldwell and Cook’s journey to the finals was equally impressive. In the semifinals, they upset the 3-seed Tri Bourne and Chaim Schalk, who had been undefeated until then, 18-16 in a very dramatic 3rd set. Despite their semifinal loss, offensively Tri and Chaim were on point, ranking 2nd and 4th in individual hitting percentage, respectively.

Women’s Finals Recap + More Stats:

The women’s final was an absolute nail-biter, with 4th-ranked Brandie Wilkerson and Melissa

Humana-Paredes overcoming top seeded Taryn Kloth and Kristen Nuss. The match went to three sets, 23-21, 18-21, 15-13, arguably the best match of the tournament.

Melissa Humana-Paredes recorded the most hitting attempts (56) and the most digs (30) in a single match in the entire tournament. She also had the most digs in the tournament overall (98) and tied for the highest average digs per set (7) with none other than Kristen Nuss.

Despite the loss, Taryn Kloth had an exceptional tournament. She recorded six blocks in the

finals, tying for the most blocks in a finals match since the start of 2020. Kloth also led the entire tournament in hitting percentage (.546) and tied for the highest average blocks per set (1.70). She however finished second in total blocks with 17 behind Brandie Wilkerson.

Brandie dominated defensively, achieving the most blocks in the tournament with 23 (and 33 digs!).  Brandie also recorded 7 blocks in a single match against Betsi Flint and Julia Scoles, the most blocks in a 2-set match. Offensively, she came out with the most kills in the tournament (91) while managing to retain the 3rd highest hitting percentage at .479.

Other Notable Performances:

Kylie Deberg: Not only was Kylie tied for 1st in blocks per set with Taryn Kloth (1.70) but she led the tournament in total aces (14) and aces per set (1.40). Deberg’s performance is especially impressive considering 2022 was her first official AVP season. In 2023, she played in one AVP major, the Manhattan Beach Open, where she finished in 7th place despite being seeded 24th.

Kylie and her partner, Hailey Harward entered the 2024 AVP Huntington Beach Open seeded 10th finishing with a 5th.

James Shaw: Coming out of the qualifier, James Shaw led all of Huntington Beach with the most aces in the tournament (19) and played in only 4 main draw matches. This was the highest amount of aces in a 16-team draw since 2019 when Jeremy Casebeer rattled off 25 aces in 5 matches at the AVP Seattle Open. For context, the second-most total aces in the tournament was Cody Caldwell with 10 aces, however in 6 matches. James Shaw also led the tournament in aces per set (1.73), Gage Basey coming in 2nd place (1.2).

Dehana Kraft: It’s fairly normal to see Melissa Humana-Paredes or Kristen Nuss at top of the leaderboard for digs (and digs per set) but a new name rose to the top in Huntington, Dehana Kraft, which was especially noteworthy because she has primarily played as a blocker up until this point. Nuss and Melissa tied 1st with 7 digs per set, yet Dehana was right behind them at 3rd with 6.78 digs per set.

Logan Webber: Logan Webber led the tournament in highest average blocks per set (2.00) and led the tournament in average kills per set (10.17), which are impressive stats all on their own but Logan also finished the tournament 5th in hitting percentage at .485, rendering his feat of averaging that amount of kills per set even more impressive. In addition to that Webber is the first player to average at least 10 kills per set in any tournament since Jeremy Casebeer in the 2020 AVP Long Beach Cup Series.

Billy Allen: A very notable performance came from Billy Allen, who recorded the most digs in a 2-set match with 19 against Tri Bourne and Chaim Schalk. Allen also had the highest digs per set average at 5.60.

Ryan Wilcox and Devon Burki: The Cinderella Team of Ryan Wilcox and Devon Burki, who began their tournament on Thursday deep in the Qualifier as the 41 seed (3rd to last!) went back-to-back-to-back upsets to qualify for their very first AVP main draw. They then went on to upset the 9th seed, DJ Klasnic and Brian Miller and finished the tournament with a 9th.

The 2024 Huntington Beach Open showcased some of the best talents in the sport, with thrilling matches and record-breaking performances. Stay tuned for more updates and highlights from the AVP!

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