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The first reshuffle of the top-five sees Hawaii and UC Irvine swap places after the Rainbow Warriors drop the first match of the season. We have another week to go before all of Division III is in action, but we still check in on those rankings as well in week two with the season slowly ramping up. The college roundup showcases some of the key matches of the week while also highlighting athletes who are part of the USA Volleyball National Team Development Program.
U.S. beach pairs won two medals this week at the Beach Pro Tour Dubai Challenge No. 1, including the first gold medal in a top-tier FIVB event since 2019.
Chase Budinger and Troy Field captured their second Beach Pro Tour medal at the Maldives Challenge over the weekend, winning silver after a 21-17, 21-18 loss to Qatar's Ahmed Tijan Janko and Cherif Younousse (No. 7 in the world).
Twelve U.S. beach pairs (four men, eight women) are in the Maldives this week for an FIVB Beach Pro Tour Challenge event.
Tim Brewster and Kyle Friend will compete for a second straight gold medal this weekend at the NORCECA Managua beach event in Nicaragua.
Five U.S. beach pairs are competing in France this week for the Elite 16 in Paris. It's the first Beach Pro Tour Elite 16 event in over a month; the top pairs last battled it out in Hamburg, Germany, Aug. 10-14.
Two-time Olympian and 20-year beach volleyball veteran Nick Lucena retired from the sport earlier this month to take a coaching job at Florida State University.
Two U.S. Beach National Team pairs - Tri Bourne/Trevor Crabb and Sara Hughes/Kelley Kolinske - won the AVP's Manhattan Beach Open last Sunday.
Three USA Volleyball athletes are finalists for the Women’s Sports Foundation’s 2022 Sportswoman of the Year award.
Kelly Cheng and Betsi Flint won the Hamburg Elite 16 Sunday, claiming the United States' first medal of any color at an Elite 16 event on the Beach Pro Tour.
Betsi Flint/Kelly Cheng and Zana Muno/Lauren Fendrick will compete at the Hamburg Elite 16 while Melissa Fuchs Powell/Tiffany Creamer play at the Cortegaca Futures this weekend.
USA Volleyball is holding a Beach ParaVolley camp this weekend Hickory Point Beach in Tavares, Florida.
Iya Lindahl and Lydia Smith are competing in the Ljubjana (Slovenia) Futures this week. They'll begin in the qualifier on Thursday, July 28.
Maddie Anderson/Molly Turner won the Ciro Marina Futures and Sarah Schermerhorn/Corinne Quiggle took silver at the Espinho Challenge Sunday.
Eleven American beach volleyball pairs will compete in international tournaments this weekend, eight of which will be at the Espinho Challenge.
Taryn Kloth/Kristen Nuss finished fifth and Megan Kraft/Emily Stockman took ninth at the Gstaad Elite 16 this weekend. Three American duos competed in the tournament.
Emily Stockman/Megan Kraft, Kristen Nuss/Taryn Kloth and Sarah Schermerhorn/Corinne Quiggle will each compete in the Gstaad Elite 16 July 6-10
Megan Kraft won her second consecutive Beach Pro Tour gold medal last weekend when she and Emily Stockman won the Bialystok Futures.
Megan Kraft and Savvy Simo won the Balikesir Futures event last weekend, and Kerri Walsh Jennings will be inducted into the International Volleyball Hall of Fame in October.
Chaim Schalk/Theo Brunner finished fourth at the 2022 FIVB Beach World Championships Sunday, falling to Brazil’s George Souto Maior Wanderley/Andre Loyola Stein in three sets.
Chaim Schalk/Theo Brunner lost a semifinal match Saturday and will play for bronze at the 2022 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships
