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According to the 2010 Sports Participation in America survey, the number of people ages six and over who participated in sand volleyball increased by 7.3 percent between 2008 and 2009. The 7.3 percent increase represented over 300,000 new participants.

Making sand volleyball and softball the only team sports to gain over 300,000 participants. In fact, of the 23 team sports tracked by the SGMA, 16, including the largest sports baseball, basketball, football and soccer, all showed declines in participation.

Sand volleyball is a beautiful sport and I am proud to announce that Tulane has decided to offer it beginning starting in 2011 when it becomes an official NCAA sport. The addition of the sport takes the Green Wave’s Athletics Department back into compliance with NCAA rule that states every DI school must offer a minimum of 16 sports (as you probably didn’t know they dropped down to 8 sports in 2005 because of money issues).

Warner University just announced yesterday that they would be adding sand volleyball team for the 2010-11 school year. I know it’s an NAIA school and nobody gives a flying f-ck about them, but I really wanted to post some more college beach volleyball pics…so don’t hold it against me. And FYI: Sand Volleyball needs 40 schools to sign up to offer it and then they can have a championship tournament.

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Morgan Beck - Cal

There is not a sport that I am more excited to see than College Beach (Sand) Volleyball. It doesn’t become an official sport until Fall 2011, but already there are tournaments going on around the country and the sport looks absolutely delicious. If I could I’d become a male cheerleader just so I could travel around to different beaches with hot chicks.

And now the sport just got a whole lot better because Florida State just announced that it will be adding women’s beach volleyball as a sport starting next year. They’ll start off giving three scholarships and increase to six by 2011. And as many hot girls that they have at that school, there is bound to be some Jenn Sterger look-a-likes on the team.

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2009 College Beach Volleyball Champions USC’s Jessica Gysin & Alex Jupiter

Today we had a national champion crowned in our favorite sport here at the FratHouse, Beach Volleyball. The American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA), AVP, and CBS College Sports Network all teamed up to put on the College Beach Volleyball Championship as part of the AVP Santa Barbara Open this weekend.

In all 12 two player teams competed in this years championship that began with a round robin tournament used to determine seeding in a double-elimination round that ended in crowning of a new college beach volleyball national champion.

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Even though “Sand Volleyball” isn’t scheduled to become an official NCAA sport until 2011-12, many schools are creating beach tournaments and fielding teams.

Over the weekend 24 collegiate women’s beach volleyball teams competed in 3 divisions at the USAV Beach Collegiate Challenge at Will Rogers Beach and for the 2nd year in a row USC won the team competition, this time tying with Pepperdine. While USC’s Geena Urango and Alex Jupiter won the individual championship, defeating Pepperdine’s Kiah Fiers and Caitlin Racich in the final (16-21, 21-16, 15-7).

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This year 6 schools from the SEC competed in the 3rd annual SEC Coaches Beach Volleyball Championship. Teams from Florida, LSU, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, and South Carolina all competed to see which school would be crowned SEC Beach Champion.

In the end, LSU, the team that ended Florida’s 18-year stranglehold on the indoor championship by capturing the SEC title in November, narrowly defeated the Gators to sweep the indoor and (unofficial) beach championships for 2009-2010.

In individual SEC Coaches competition, the top division featured an all Florida Gator final, with Kelly Murphy and Kristy Jaeckel defeating Callie Rivers and Lauren Bledsoe.

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