SAQUAREMA, Brazil, April 13, 2025.- Americans Kristen Nuss an Taryn Brasher won the silver medal of the Volleyball World Beach Pro Elite event in Saquarema, Brazil, after falling in Sundays’ final to Brazilians Thamela Coradello and Victoria Lopes 1-2 (19, 21, 21-16, 10-15).
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By finishing second in Saquarema, Nuss and Brasher made their sixth-straight podium appearance on the Beach Pro Tour – they won three golds, two silvers and one bronze in the period.
The top team in the FIVB World Ranking, Germans Müller and Tillmann won their first medal in the season by taking third in Saquarema. The Europeans had a dominant performance in the bronze medal match, topping Americans Kelly Cheng and Molly Shaw 2-0 (21-16, 21-16).
The Beach Pro Tour will continue in Brazil for another week, with the country’s capital, Brasília, welcoming the third Elite event of the season from April 16-20.
QUINTANA ROO, Mexico, March 30, 2025.- Noslen Diaz and Jorge Alayo were first acknowledged as a top team in international beach volleyball after they dominated local tournaments held in the NORCECA region. Their first major victory on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour couldn’t, then, happen anywhere else in the world and so it was on Sunday, when the Cuban Olympians took gold in the Elite event held in Quintana Roo, Mexico.
With the vast support of the home fans, Diaz and Alayo emerged as the top team of the first Elite event of 2025 after beating the Argentinean Capogrosso brothers Nicolas and Tomas in the gold medal match at Playa del Carmen. American qualifiers Chaim Schalk and James Shaw completed the podium in Mexico and took bronze.
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Diaz, 22, and Alayo, 23, completed an undefeated campaign that saw them beat seven different teams in Mexico, including reigning world champions Ondrej Perusic and David Schweiner of Czechia, while dropping just one set with a 2-0 (21-13, 24-22) victory over the Capogrosso brothers on Sunday’s gold medal match.
DIAZ Y ALAYO CUBA
“We feel at home here in Mexico,” Diaz remarked. “The Mexicans are very supportive of us, and I got to meet many Cubans who were cheering on us as well this week. I hope they all enjoyed this incredible event.”
Competing regularly on the Beach Pro Tour since 2023, the Paris 2024 Olympians had been in Beach Pro Tour finals three times before, all of them in Challenge events, but were yet to win gold. Heading to Quintana Roo, the two, who also took silver at the 2023 Pan-American Games, had achieved their best result at the Elite level in Mexico, where they took bronze in Tepic last year.
“It’s our first gold medal in an Elite event and I’m very grateful that it happened here in Mexico,” Alayo reacted. “The fans were amazing, I want to thank them, my coach and my partner for this victory.”
Their opponents in Sunday’s gold medal match, Nicolas and Tomas Caprogrosso were also pursuing their first gold medals in a Beach Pro Tour Elite event. They had, however, to settle for silver for a second straight time after finishing second also at the tournament held in Rio de Janeiro last November.
The third team to step on the podium in Quintana Roo, Americans Schalk and Shaw secured their first medal as partners in their fifth event sharing the same side of the court. The two started this week’s event in the qualifier and secured five wins in seven matches, the most notable of them against reigning Olympic champions David Åhman and Jonatan Hellvig of Sweden in the quarterfinals.
On Sunday, they rewarded their excellent week with a piece of silverware after prevailing over the new Dutch team of Alexander Brouwer and Steven van de Velde 2-0 (21-19, 21-16) in the bronze medal match.
After a one-week break, the Beach Pro Tour will return with another Elite event in Saquarema, Brazil, from April 9-13.
QUINTANA ROO, Mexico, March 30, 2025.- Americans Terese Cannon and Megan Kraft captured the silver medal at the first Elite event of the 2025 Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour which came to an end on Sunday in Quintana Roo Mexico, while Kristen Nuss and Taryn (Kloth) Brasher, also representing the United States, won the bronze medal.
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In the gold medal match, Cannon and Kraft fell 0-2 (13-21, 17-21) against Brazilians Carol and Rebecca, who competed as partners for the first time at the international level.
Cannon and Kraft have a lot to take from the Quintana Roo event as they managed to continue in great form and extend their streak of podium appearance in Elite events on the Beach Pro Tour to five – they won four silver and one bronze medals in the period.
After taking three teams to the semifinals, the United States got to have two of them on the podium on Sunday. The top-seeded duo in the event, Nuss and Brasher claimed the last available spot with a 2-0 (21-16, 21-14) victory over compatriots Kelly Cheng and Molly Shaw on Sunday’s bronze medal match.
It was the 14th medal won by the Paris Olympians since they started competing internationally in 2022. Nuss and Brasher now have eight gold, three silver and three bronze medals, with ten of those coming in Elite events.
After a one-week break, the Beach Pro Tour will return with another Elite event in Saquarema, Brazil, from April 9-13.
QUINTANA ROO, Mexico, March 29, 2025.- Led by Americans Chaim Schalk and James Shaw, who eliminated reigning Olympic champions David Åhman and Jonatan Hellvig of Sweden in just their sixth tournament as partners, teams from four different countries advanced to the men’s semifinals of the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Elite event held in Quintana Roo, Mexico, on Saturday.
Sunday, the last day of action of the first Elite tournament of the 2025 season, will start at the Playa del Carmen with the semifinals, which will have the Americans facing the Argentinean Capogrosso brothers Nicolas and Tomas at 11:00 local time (16:00 GMT) and Cubans Noslen Diaz and Jorge Alayo meeting the new Dutch team of Alexander Brouwer and Steven van de Velde one hour later. The gold medal match is scheduled for 16:00 local time (21:00 GMT), with the dispute for bronze starting one hour earlier.
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Schalk, 38, and Shaw, 31, produced arguably the most shocking result of the still young Beach Pro Tour season so far in the quarterfinals, when the Americans, who started the tournament in the qualifier, took down Åhman and Hellvig in the tie-breaker (21-19, 13-21, 15-8) to secure their first semifinal appearances as partners. With the upset, the Swedes will miss the podium for just the second time in their last 13 Beach Pro Tour events.
The Americans will now face the Capogrossos for a second-straight day after falling to the South Americans in straight sets (21-17, 22-20) in the Round of 12 earlier on Saturday – Schalk and Shaw still advanced despite the defeat as one of the two best losing sides.
The American victory wasn’t, however, the only upset in the quarterfinal round in Quintana Roo. One hour earlier, Cuban Olympians Diaz and Alayo had stunned reigning world champions Ondrej Perusic and David Schweiner of Czechia, knocking them out with a 2-1 (16-21, 21-14, 15-11) victory in Mexico.
Earlier, in the Round of 12, the Caribbean had gotten the better of Norwegians Hendrik Mol and Mathias Berntsen, winning in two sets (21-18, 21-17).
QUINTANA ROO, Mexico, March 29, 2025.- Beach volleyball powerhouse the United States will fight for gold in the first Elite event of the 2025 Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour season on Sunday in Quintana Roo, Mexico, against Brazil.
The last two teams standing in the event held at Playa del Carmen, USA’s Terese Cannon/Megan Kraft and Brazil’s Carol Salgado/Rebecca Cavalcanti will duel in the gold medal match at 14:00 local time (19:00 GMT). A second American team is guaranteed to step on the podium as Kristen Nuss/Taryn Brasher and Kelly Cheng/Molly Shaw will compete in the bronze medal match one hour earlier.
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Cannon and Kraft path to the gold medal match on Saturday, started the day with a 2-1 (21-15, 18-21, 15-9) victory over FIVB World Ranking leaders Svenja Müller and Cinja Tillmann of Germany in the quarterfinals and getting a clean sweep (21-18, 21-19) against Cheng and Shaw in the semifinals a few hours later.
The Americans got a second chance in the tournament after losing to Cheng and Shaw on Friday, in the Round of 12, as they still advanced to the quarterfinals as one of the two best losing sides.
“The new format is interesting,” Kraft remarked. “We had to bounce back as quickly as we could. They’re a really good team and we knew they would give us a good game. We were happy to get a second life in the tournament and just tried to make the most of it.”
Partners since 2023, the Americans have been in great form since the 2024 season and will, in Mexico, get into the podium for a fifth-straight Elite tournament on the Beach Pro Tour. The two, however, are yet to win gold at the international level.
Brazilians Carol and Rebeca, in their second Beach Pro Tour event as partners (and the first at the Elite level), needed the tie-breaker (18-21, 21-13, 15-10) to eliminate the Austrian Klinger sisters Dorina and Klinger in the quarterfinals before sweeping (21-17, 21-11) the top-seeded Nuss and Brasher in the semifinals.
YUCATÁN, México, March 23, 2025.- USA’s Devon Newberry and Jaden Whitmarsh won the bronze medal at the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Yucatan Challenge that took place in Puerto Progreso from March 19-23.
Devon Newberry and Jaden Whitmarsh, in three Beach Pro Tour appearances as a team, the 24-year-old Americans have already collected three medals. In December, they took bronze at the Pompano Beach Futures and, earlier this month, they topped the podium at the Mount Maunganui Futures. The event in Yucatan was the duo’s first Challenge tournament. They started from the qualifiers and were seeded 31st in the 32-team main draw. After winning seven of their nine matches in Puerto Progreso, Newberry & Whitmarsh earned the bronze medal.
The all-American third-place match between Newberry & Whitmarsh and 12th-seeded Teegan Van Gunst & Kimberly Hildreth was resolved deep in the overtime of the tie-breaker. In the first set, Van Gunst & Hildreth came back from a four-point opponent lead to win it by a four-point margin. Newberry & Whitmarsh dominated the second set to level the match. The lead in the tie-breaker went back and forth a few times and the set was pushed way beyond the 15th point. After denying two opponent match points and failing to convert three of their own, Newberry & Whitmarsh finally closed it off at 2-1 (17-21, 21-15, 20-18). Newberry and Van Gunst shared the top scorer honors of the match with 23 points each.
Italy’s Valentina Gottardi & Claudia Scampoli won the gold medal in their first Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour appearance as a team beating Tanja Huberli and Leona Kernen of Switzerland, who also made their Beach Pro Tour debut as a team, 2-0 (21-17, 21-15).
WOMEN: 3. Newberry / Whitmarsh USA 4. Kim Hildreth/Teegan Van Gunst USA 8. Toni/DeBerg USA 14. Torres/ Gutierrez MEX 15. Anderson/Bauer USA 16. Scoles/Denaburg USA 24. Shields/Hodel USA 29. Vidaurrazaga /Ramirez MEX 30. Harward/Phillips USA 31. Quiggle/Loreen USA 32. Savvy/Van Winkle USA 40. Kan/Sours USA 41. Ozee/Glagau CAN 42. Roskic/Corah CAN 49. Poppinga/Lindstrom USA 50. Slabakova/Griffin USA
MEN: 6. Diaz/Alayo CUB 16. Evans/Budinger USA 19. Schachter/Pickett CAN 24. Schalk/Shaw USA 31. Bourne/Cory USA 32. Brewster/Ierna USA 39. Crabb Tr./Caldwell USA 40. Hoppe/Bradford USA 46. D. Dyner/Varela CRC 51. Lares/Carlos Andres MEX 55. Kwekel/Drost USA 56. Smith/Webber USA
MEXICO CITY, Mexico, February 17, 2025. – The National Commission for Physical Culture and Sport (CONADE) announced in a press conference the organization of two stages of the Beach Pro Tour 2025 in Mexico.
The event featured the participation of FMVB President Jesús Perales Navarro, elite beach volleyball athletes Atenas Gutiérrez, Susana Torres, Miguel Sarabia, and Jorman Osuna, as well as the governors of Yucatán, Joaquín Díaz Mena, and Quintana Roo, Mara Lezama Espinosa.
Atenas Gutiérrez, Susana Torres, Jesús Perales, Miguel Sarabia, Jorman Osuna
During the conference, Jesús Perales Navarro emphasized the Federation’s commitment to promoting beach volleyball in Mexico, expressing gratitude for CONADE’s continued support in organizing international-level events. He also highlighted the trust placed in coaches and athletes as they embark on a new cycle with the goal of qualifying for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games.
Meanwhile, CONADE Director Rommel Pacheco highlighted the importance of these competitions for the country’s economic development, as well as the valuable competitive experience they provide for Mexican players facing international rivals. He also emphasized that these events serve as inspiration for future generations, thanks to the exposure and backing provided by CONADE and state governments.
The Beach Pro Tour Stages in Mexico:
Beach Pro Tour Challenge Yucatán 2025, from March 19-23 in Playa Puerto Progreso, Yucatán
Beach Pro Tour Elite 16 Playa del Carmen 2025, from March 26-30 in the Temporary Stadium in front of Portal Maya, Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo
These tournaments will bring together the world’s top beach volleyball teams, further establishing Mexico as a key destination on the international circuit.
The FMVB encourages fans to closely follow these competitions and support Mexican athletes on their journey to Los Angeles 2028.
JANUARY 16, 2024 .- Volleyball Canada announced its 2025 roster of beach National Team athletes following the annual induction camp, held earlier this month at the Downsview training centre in Toronto.
Five out of the six 2024 Olympians are returning: On the senior women’s side, silver medalists Brandie Wilkerson and Melissa Humana-Paredes, both of Toronto, Ontario, join fellow Paris 2024 athletes Heather Bansley (Waterdown, Ont.) and Sophie Bukovec (Toronto).
The senior athletes compete for points and prize money on Volleyball World’s Beach Pro Tour.
Two-time Olympian (2024, 2016) Sam Schachter headlines the men’s team. He is joined by Tynan Gannett, Luke de Greeff, Martin Licht, Steven Abrams, Jonny Pickett and Guillaume Rivest.
Rivest, Pickett and Licht were previously part of Volleyball Canada’s summer beach team. Pickett and Licht are also affiliated with RBC Training Ground’s “Future Olympians” program.
The women’s NextGen team consists of Lea Monkhouse, Marie-Alex Belanger, Amy Ozee and newcomer Emily Anderson.
The Canadian Next Gen teams have had recent podium success on the NORCECA Tour.
“This year’s roster features an exciting blend of veteran talent and emerging stars,” said Kerry MacDonald, Volleyball Canada’s Chief Sport Officer. “Building on the incredible achievements of Brandie and Mel in Paris, along with the strong performances of our Next Gen teams to close out 2024, 2025 is shaping up to be a remarkable year for Canadian beach volleyball.”
Note: Summer athletes are announced at a later date.
Next Gen (female) Lea Monkhouse (Ontario) Amy Ozee (Hawaii, USA) Marie-Alex Belanger (Quebec) Emily Anderson (Nevada, USA)
Next Gen (male) Sam Schachter (Ontario) Tynan Gannett (Nova Scotia) Luke de Greeff (British Columbia) Steven Abrams (Ontario) Martin Licht (Ontario) Jonathan Pickett (Ontario) Guillaume Rivest (Québec)
December 18, 2024.- Volleyball World is excited to unveil the schedule for the Beach Pro Tour 2025. The highly anticipated nine-month competition promises to be bigger and better than ever as the world’s elite beach volleyball talent go head-to-head in fierce competition across five continents.
Getting underway in late March, the season will culminate with the prestigious Beach Volleyball World Championships 2025 in Adelaide, Australia, from 14 to 23 November.
The 2025 Beach Pro Tour will visit iconic destinations and exciting new host cities. For the latest Beach Pro Tour 2025 calendar, please click here.
Gstaad, Switzerland, will celebrate its 25th edition as a host, further cementing its status as a hub for beach volleyball. Brazil will host four stops of the competition, including an Elite event in Brasilia and a Challenge event in Saquarema, with two additional Elite stops to be revealed in early 2025. Mexico also makes a strong return to the tour after the success of the World Championships 2023, hosting three events: an Elite tournament in Quintana Roo, making its first appearance since 1999, and two Challenge tournaments. The Beach Pro Tour is also making a highly anticipated return to Cape Town, South Africa in 2025, marking a truly global competition that spans five continents.
Additional exciting competition stops are set to be added to the tour. Stay tuned for more details in early 2025!
The 2025 season will also feature broader global representation, with new talent joining veteran athletes on the Beach Pro Tour. Following the Olympic Games Paris 2024, the shifting team compositions promise fans exciting matchups, offering rising stars the opportunity to compete and develop alongside established champions, including Olympic Games gold medallists.
Among the women’s teams to watch are Anouk/Zoe (Switzerland), Carol/Rebecca (Brazil), Thamela/Victoria (Brazil), Hüberli/Kernen (Switzerland) and Lippmann/Bock (Germany). Meanwhile, the men’s competition features rising stars such as Gavira/A. Huerta (Spain), Pristauz/Hörl (Austria), Dressler/Waller (Austria), Horst/Leitner (Austria) and Tiisaar/Korotkov (Estonia).
Fan-favourite duos will also continue their successful partnerships in 2025. On the men’s side, Paris 2024 gold medallists Ahman/Hellvig of Sweden, bronze medallists Mol/Sorum of Sweden and semi-finalists Ahmed/Cherif of Qatar remain together, while women’s gold medallists at Paris 2024 Ana Patricia/Duda of Brazil and the USA’s Kloth/Nuss headline the women’s field as returning stars.
Following the Beach Pro Tour, the beach volleyball season will culminate in Adelaide, Australia, for the Beach Volleyball World Championships 2025, where the best teams in the world will battle for the ultimate title. The picturesque capital of South Australia will transform a state-of-the-art open-air sports venue into a beach volleyball coliseum, for a festival atmosphere set to thrill fans.
Stay tuned for more information on what is set to be a competition like no other!
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