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Tuesday, February 17, 2026
Database Statistics
  Men Women Total
Players: 13610 10606 24216
Tournaments: 2230 1799 4029
 
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Gary Schreiber 66
Deb Richardson 65
Ilga Celmins 61
Will Johnson 58
Rogerio Dias 56
Ken Lynch 56
Yoyi Rodriguez 55
Yaman Senol 55
Eugenio Amore 54
Erika Nascimento 51
Elena Navarro 50
Ioulia Stepanova 48
Shanon Zunker 48
Karim Oughdach 47
Dainis Bautris 45
Hidehiko Nishizawa 45
Toshiharu Kojima 43
Koshiro Kusunoki 42
Joshua Smith 42
Alexandra Tihovska 41
Sifa Quitende 41
Nathan Roberts 40
Melissa Cruz 39
Jade Machado 39
Lourdilyn Catubag 34
Lucia Mikolasova 34
Steven Khathwane 34
Valentin Turk 33
Wilhelm Nilsson 32
Star Steele 32
Teegan Van Gunst 31
Annika Rowland 31
Hugo Rojas 30
Dimitra Manavi 29
Irina Ntyam 28
Roberto Perez 27
Emilia Koivisto 27
Pablo Perez 27
David Innes 27
Alexa Kaminski 26
Brenda Churin 26
Ludovic Palmaro 25
Frola Edward 24
Hsuan-Tsen Yeh 24
Gabriel Gutierrez 24
Khachatur Asmaryan 23
Maja Windelstad 23
Janani Devendran 22
Romane Zillhardt 22
Urszula Lunio 22
Ana Burilovic 21
Yoav Chetrit 20
Alina Guerra 19
Gil Moline 17
 
Today In
Beach Volleyball History
In 1991
George Carey and Mike Stafford won the AVP Sanctioned PBVA St. Kilda Festival Open.  It was the 4th win for George Carey, the 4th win for Mike Stafford, and the 4th win for the team.
In 1991
Jane Howard and Vicki Shea won the AVP Sanctioned PBVA St. Kilda Festival Open.  It was the 2nd win for Jane Howard, the 1st win for Vicki Shea, and the 1st win for the team.
 
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2/16/2026
Players from New Zealand, USA and Japan make national tour podium in Auckland
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
Germany’s Paul Henning: New Season, New Chapter
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
New Partnerships for 2026
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
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
Duos from Australia and Romania snatch first Beach Pro Tour golds
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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2/7/2026
Duos from USA, Japan, Romania, Australia and New Zealand to battle for year’s first Beach Pro Tour medals
The first Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour event of the year is approaching its climax. Three teams from the United States, two from Japan and one each from Australia, Romania and host nation New Zealand reached the semifinals of the Mount Maunganui Futures. The semis and the medal matches will be played on Sunday, February 8, and will be streamed live on the Beach Volleyball World YouTube channel.

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2/5/2026
A Breakdown of the 2026 AVP Season
The 2026 season introduces League stops in Belmar, New Jersey; Aspen, Colorado; and Las Vegas, Nevada, while continuing to showcase the sport in established markets like Miami, Los Angeles, New York, Dallas, and Chicago. For fans, that means more variety, more unique venues, and a League schedule that continues to adapt while delivering compelling competition at the highest level of the sport.

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Ahmed Tijan: How fatherhood changed me
Ahmed Tijan needs little or no introduction in the world of volleyball. Since 2018, the beach volleyball star has alongside his long-term partner Cherif Younousse, put Qatar on the global map with their terrific performances notably the bronze medal feat in the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. Their impressive resumé also features a fourth-place finish in the Olympic Games Paris 2024...

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