Oakley ran an article covering the Huntington Beach Open and featured two athletes, Sean Rosenthal and Elaine Youngs. Take a look at the article and some of the cool pictures they have up. http://oakley.com/community/news/article/id/742
Many of you have been waiting for it, and it is finally here. The schedule for the 2008 AVP Crocs Tour.
The 2008 AVP Crocs Tour includes 18 stops -- 17 regular-season events and one post-regular season event, which will determine the best of the beach in Glendale, Ariz. Tickets to all 2008 Tour events will be available at www.avp.com
April 11-13 - Miami, Fla. April 18-20 - Dallas, Texas May 2-4 - Huntington Beach, Calif. May 8-10 - Charleston, S.C. May 24-26 - Louisville, Ky. May 30-Jun. 1 - Atlanta, Ga. June 6-8 - Hermosa Beach, Calif. June 20-22 - Belmar, N.J. July 4-6 - Boulder, Colo. TBA - Chicago, Ill. July 18-20 - Brooklyn, N.Y. July 25-27 - Long Beach, Calif. Aug. 1-3 - San Diego, Calif. Aug. 29-31 - Cincinnati, Ohio Sept. 6-7 - Santa Barbara, Calif. Sept. 12-14 - San Francisco, Calif. Sept. 19-21 - Manhattan Beach, Calif. Sept. 26-28 - Glendale, Ariz.
AVP Kicks off the Crocs Hot Winter Nights Tour on Thursday
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Hey AVP Fans,
The AVP Crocs Hot Winter Nights kicks off this weekend in Oklahoma City. Then from there we go to St. Louis on Friday and end the weekend in Kansas City on Saturday.
If you are in the area come by and watch the best athletes in the world.
CHARLESTON, S.C. — The city of Charleston is all about manners and etiquette. It prides itself on being the most polite city in the United States. But on Sunday, about 4,000 of its residents let their hair down and found time to get a little rowdy.
The reason?
The AVP Crocs Tour's Charleston Open championships were contested at the Family Circle Magazine Stadium, and before the main event, it was part discotheque, part best body contest and part celebrity sighting. In other words, it was all fun.
Where else could you do the wave or have the winning team spray champagne on you on a Sunday afternoon in Charleston?
And yes, there was volleyball too. The No. 4 seeded team of Mike Lambert and Stein Metzger topped No. 2 Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers, 21-19, 21-15, in 59 minutes to win their second title of the year. Their first title came on May 6 at Huntington Beach, Calif.
The victory by the No. 4 seed snapped a streak of 16 straight tournaments in which the championship wasn't won by a No. 1 or 2 seed.
Dalhausser and Rogers lead the series 6-5, including 3-2 in the finals. But on this day, Lambert and Metzger were on top.
"We got over the hump," Lambert said in reference to losing the championship last week in Atlanta to Jake Gibb and Sean Rosenthal. "We haven't played [Dalhausser and Rogers] since the first tournament of the year when they beat us in two close sets. They've been the leaders of the pack, the top team on the tour, and we wanted to play them in the final to see how we stack up."
Lambert and Metzger will split the $20,000 winner's check. Dalhausser and Rogers, who were seeking their sixth title of the year, will split $15,000.
"It is so sweet when you struggle to get them," Metzger said. "We've been struggling to win at times, and when you're not getting as many as wins as you expect, it makes it that much better when you battle and fight and turn over every stone to find a win. Now, it's time to enjoy this."
Lambert and Metzger leave for Paris in the morning to compete on the FIVB Tour. "This will make the flight that much better," Metzger said.
Lambert and Metzger have combined for seven titles. Sunday's victory gives....
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Much as the All-Star break is a welcome rest for Major League Baseball players who endure the marathon season, volleyball players will get their mid-season treat after the next stop on the 2007 AVP Crocs Tour.
The AVP Charleston Open is stop No. 9 on the tour this year and it also marks the seventh-consecutive week of touring. Once play concludes in South Carolina, stops No. 10 and 11 are spread out through the month of July.
But until then, here's a look at the midpoint stop of the 2007 season.
Charleston is a crucial event for some of the teams on tour who've yet to break through as they would have liked. Teams who do well will have strong momentum heading into the break, while teams who don't might want to do some partner and self-evaluation.
For one team, it will be a welcome back to steady play, as Nicole Branagh and Elaine Youngs took the Atlanta Open off. Branagh has been having issues with an ankle injury, and the partners have not been able match their season-opening title in Miami. But they will be back for the Charleston Open just in time for international travel on the FIVB circuit, as the AVP takes a two-and-a-half-week break.
Although they were not on a break in Atlanta, April Ross and Jen Boss, also would like to get back to how they were playing in April. They finished second in Miami and haven't been able to get back into the finals since.
Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh look to keep chugging along with their usual dominance. The duo has won eight of the last nine AVP titles in 2007. May-Treanor is hoping to tack onto her all-time title record, which stands at 76. After the win in Atlanta, Walsh moved in to take sole possession as the second all-time winner with 73, surpassing Holly McPeak's 72.
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Tour heads up the coast to Atlanta
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TAMPA, Fla. — The AVP Crocs Tour will remain in the southeast for another week, taking the beach volleyball road show northward a bit for the Atlanta Open.
This will be the sixth installment of a tournament that has been won four times by Karch Kiraly. That was in the 1990s, when he paired twice with Kent Steffes to win and also earned victories with Scott Ayakatubby and Adam Johnson.
Atlanta is also where Kiraly won his 1996 Olympic Gold Medal.
Last year, Mike Lambert and Stein Metzger emerged with the title on the men's side, while Elaine Youngs and Rachel Wacholder upended Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh in the women's draw. Atlanta also hosted a women's tournament in 1994, when Nancy Reno and Angela Rock won.
The 2007 season is Kiraly's last on tour, and he's playing a limited schedule but he's slated to appear in Atlanta. While his last victory was two years ago in Huntington Beach, the 46-year-old still has a few cards to play.
With partner Kevin Wong, Kiraly was within a victory of securing his 149th career title but ultimately fell short, as Sean Rosenthal and Jake Gibb pulled out the 21-18, 21-17 win in the AVP Esurance Tampa Open men's final.
It was the sixth final appearance in seven events this season for Rosenthal-Gibb, but their first title.
"It feels great and I'm glad we broke through," Rosenthal said. "Jake and I are trying to get here every week and to finally break through and get one is special."
The two had flown directly from Louisville to Tampa to work with coach Mike Dodd in lieu of going to California for the intervening time. It paid off as they emerged with the win, surviving a loss on Friday that sent them into the contender's bracket.
Gibb gave all the credit to his partner.
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After its past success in Tempe, Ariz., the 2007 AVP Crocs Tour will make its first ever stop in Glendale, Ariz., during the weekend of May 10-13.
The finals in the last Arizona trip, the 2006 AVP Tempe Open, featured many familiar names, as Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh sent home Jen Boss and Nancy Mason on one side, and to no one's surprise, Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers left Jake Gibb and Sean Rosenthal without a title.
As for the men this year, three teams will be itching for victory -- especially last year's Arizona finalists -- Rosie/Gibb and Rogers/Dalhausser -- who both walked away without the title in Huntington Beach.
Yet a third team, second-seeded Mike Lambert and Stein Metzger has a new spring in its step after getting back on their usual winning track.
For the women, the biggest story is Misty May-Treanor's quest to surpass Holly McPeak's 72 all-time beach titles. If she and partner Kerri Walsh can take their third-straight victory of the year, May-Treanor will tie McPeak's record as the all-time winningest female on the beach, matching the mark in Arizona of all places.
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