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| 2/18/2026 |
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2026 AVP League Qualification: Three Saturdays to Earn a Spot
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The 2026 AVP League is taking shape — but the most volatile part of the season is just beginning. Several teams already earned their place in next year’s League through 2025 results...The remaining League berths will be decided across three AVP League Qualifier events, held south of the Manhattan Beach Pier on three consecutive Saturdays. |
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USA Volleyball Names Matt Fuerbringer Head Coach of U.S. Men’s Beach National Team
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Feb. 18, 2026) — USA Volleyball has named Matt Fuerbringer as head coach of the U.S. Men’s Beach National Team, marking the first head coaching appointment under the organization’s newly redesigned Beach Performance Collective and unified training model. Fuerbringer will join the beach program after finishing as the head coach of LOVB Madison in April. |
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Meet the 2026 version of Valentina Gottardi
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Throw Valentina Gottardi into the deep end and rest assured that she will find her way up! While many youngsters would crack due to the demanding nature of high level competitions, Gottardi has proved to be the complete opposite. Since making her World Championship debut at only 19 years, Gottardi has grown into one of the most promising female beach volleyball players thanks to her confidence. |
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| 2/16/2026 |
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Players from New Zealand, USA and Japan make national tour podium in Auckland
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The GJ Gardner Homes New Zealand Beach Tour held its second event of the season in Auckland over the weekend. The second-seeded international pairing of New Zealand’s John McManaway and USA’s Skyler Kaufman topped the men’s podium. In the final, they came back from a set down to celebrate a 2-1 (20-22, 21-9, 15-12) victory over Hiroki Dylan Kurokawa & Yoshiumi Hasegawa of Japan. |
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| 2/13/2026 |
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Germany’s Paul Henning: New Season, New Chapter
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There are few things that bring Paul Henning joy like donning the red, black and white colours of Germany in international tournaments. The 28-year-old Henning has been lucky to live his ‘childhood dream’ with Germany in four major competitions—three European Championships and one World Championship. “Representing Germany was always a childhood dream. |
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| 2/12/2026 |
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New Partnerships for 2026
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The 2026 AVP season begins with real disruption at the top of both the men’s and women’s fields. The breakup of the 2024 U.S. Olympic pairing of Andy Benesh and Miles Partain, Taylor Crabb aligning with Benesh, and Kelly Cheng partnering with Megan Kraft represent some of the most consequential partnership changes going into the 2026 AVP League season. |
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De Groot teams up with Van de Velde after Boermans decides to take a break
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Yorick de Groot & Steven van de Velde will be a new team on the international men’s beach volleyball stage and are expected to make their Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour debut together at the very first Elite event of the year, in Joao Pessoa from March 11 to 15. De Groot’s previous partner Stefan Boermans decided to take a break from the Dutch national team and from the Beach Pro Tour... |
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| 2/8/2026 |
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Duos from Australia and Romania snatch first Beach Pro Tour golds
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Australia’s Solomon Bushby & Justin Schumann and Romania’s Beata Vaida & Francesca Alupei marched through the first Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour event of the year undefeated to snatch the Mount Maunganui Futures gold medals, the first ones ever on the tour for each of these two pairs. Two United States teams completed the men’s podium in New Zealand. Gage Basey & Thomas Hurst earned silver... |
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| Upcoming Tournaments |
| Dates |
Tour |
Tournament |
Gender |
Purse |
| Mar 4-8, 2026 |
FIVB |
BPT Challenge Bhubaneswar, India |
M |
US$125,000 |
| Mar 4-8, 2026 |
FIVB |
BPT Challenge Bhubaneswar, India |
W |
US$125,000 |
| Mar 5-8, 2026 |
FIVB |
BPT Futures Sanya, China |
M |
US$5,000 |
| Mar 5-8, 2026 |
FIVB |
BPT Futures Sanya, China |
W |
US$5,000 |
| Mar 11-15, 2026 |
FIVB |
BPT Futures Coolangatta, Australia |
M |
US$5,000 |
| Mar 11-15, 2026 |
FIVB |
BPT Futures Coolangatta, Australia |
W |
US$5,000 |
| Mar 11-15, 2026 |
FIVB |
BPT Elite Joao Pessoa, Brazil |
M |
US$200,000 |
| Mar 11-15, 2026 |
FIVB |
BPT Elite Joao Pessoa, Brazil |
W |
US$200,000 |
| Mar 12-15, 2026 |
FIVB |
BPT Futures Haikou, China |
M |
US$5,000 |
| Mar 12-15, 2026 |
FIVB |
BPT Futures Haikou, China |
W |
US$5,000 |
| Mar 18-22, 2026 |
FIVB |
BPT Challenge Tlaxcala, Mexico |
M |
US$125,000 |
| Mar 18-22, 2026 |
FIVB |
BPT Challenge Tlaxcala, Mexico |
W |
US$125,000 |
| Mar 24-27, 2026 |
FIVB |
BPT Futures Rarotonga, Cook Islands |
M |
US$5,000 |
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