Photo: Martin Reader
Our Canadian beach volleyball athletes have started their training for the 2012 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour and there are some new partnerships representing our country. Martin Reader and Josh Binstock will be competing together this upcoming year on the tour and the road to the Olympic Games. Here is what Martin had to say about his new partnership with Josh and about his (now) former partner Chaim Schalk:
I am very pleased to announce to that I will be competing on the 2012 FIVB tour as well as qualify for the Olympic games with Sir Josh Binstock. This is a move that may surprise some of you, especially after winning the 2011 Continental Cup with Chaim Schalk. To those skeptics, Chaim and I definitely had a good run but over the span of 2 seasons we weren't able to put together our best performances at more than a few events. Granted we both dealt with injuries (the most recent and severe being my back) but there were plenty of opportunities to step up and we never found a strong enough rhythm to consistently improve our results. I thank Chaim for a very memorable 2 years but this isn't a blog about the past, it is about the exciting future for a team that has been destined to happen for a long time!
For more information about Martin and his new partnership with Josh check out his blog.
Martin also just released a video over on his YouTube channel. Check out the video after the jump.
Sadly, that time has come. The final event of the 2011 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour is here and we must start to say goodbye to the warm sand. The final event of the tour this year is a women's only event set in Phuket, Thailand. The Phuket Thailand Open will take place from November 1st - 6th, 2011 and Canada is sending four teams to close of the tour. Returning to Thailand to better their 9th place finish from last year, Heather Bansley and Elizabeth Maloney are the highest ranked Canadian team and have enough entry points this tournament to get a direct entry into the main draw. Behind them are Marie-Andrée Lessard and Annie Martin who have had a little bit of a disappointing season starting out with 860 points in their first event of the summer and direct main draw entries for their first four events. Team Lessard-Martin (now with only 320 entry points) will now have to go through the qualification part of the tournament. The remaining two Canadian duos that will be joining Annie and Marie in the qualification round are Victoria Altomare and Caleigh Whitaker and the team of Jamie Lynn Broder and Kristina Valjas.
As always check back to Kill on Two for results, live streams, matches and anything else we can find.
Canadian Teams in Phuket
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Altomare-Whitaker |
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Bansley-Maloney |
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Broder-Valjas |
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Lessard-Martin |
Results, live streams and more after the jump.
The 2011 Pan American Games are currently going on down in Guadalajara, Mexico. Canada has four volleyball teams participating in the tournament, one of each gender on the beach and one of each gender on the court. This article will follow the results of the two Canadian beach duos, Heather Bansley and Elizabeth Maloney on the women's side of the tournament and Christian Redmann and Ben Saxton on the men's.
Canadian Teams at The 2011 Pan Am Games
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Bansley-Maloney |
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Redmann-Saxton |
Live streams, scores and results after the jump.
Just when you thought that The FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour was done for the season, you remember about the fall events. I must admit, I was already making my transition into indoor and getting ready for the startup of NCAA, CIS and CEV volleyball when I remembered these last couple FIVB beach events. This week (October 4th - 9th) the men conclude their 2011 tour with the last stop in Agadir, Morocco. I know some of the Canadian men's teams had planned on going to Morocco, but the current registered teams list on fivb.org doesn't show any registered yet. Anyways, here are some teams to lookout for.
Men's Teams To Watch In Morocco
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Xu-Wu |
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Pedro-Ferramenta |
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Marcio Araujo-Benjamin |
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Cunha-Ricardo |
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Brink-Reckermann |
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Fuerbringer-Lucena |
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Gibb-Rosenthal |
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Jennings-Wong |
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Heuscher-Bellaguarda |
Live streams and results after the jump.
The summer isn't over yet folks, we've still got some beach volleyball going on this weekend. The Jose Cuervo Pro Beach Volleyball Series wraps up today in Hermosa Beach, California with a dual gender event. Canadian Josh Binstock is still down in the US continuing his US domestic tours swing. We'll have Josh on the Kill on Two Volleyball Podcast in the near future to talk about his last couple weeks in the States.
Canadians in Hermosa
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Josh Binstock | and |  |
Ty Tramblie |
Brackets
As always with the Cuervo events, the great folks over at BVBInfo are handling the brackets.
Live video after the jump.
After three days of play at the 2011 FIVB Junior World Beach Volleyball Championships in Halifax, we are down to quarter final action on both the men's and women's side of the tournament. Canada saw five teams make it out of pool play and into the elimination round. Sidgwick-Kazhamiaka won their pool and joined Demyanenko-May and Del Bianco-Chow on the men's side of the tournament to represent Canada in the later rounds of the tournament. On the women's side two teams made it out of pool play as well. Hudson-Sider and Altomare-Humana-Paredes will continue on in the elimination part of the tournament. Unlike a normal FIVB grand slam event, this event is single elimination. Matches, results and brackets and live streams below.
First Round Men's Matches
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Kaszas O.-Kaszas S. | vs. |  |
Demyanenko-May | 1-2 (21-18, 16-21, 12-15) |
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Sidgwick-Kazhamiaka | vs. |  |
Glöckner-Stork | 2-0 (21-13, 21-15) |
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Del Bianco-Chow | vs. |  |
Haralds-Armands | 0-2 (13-21, 18-21) |
More match results, brackets and live streams after the jump.
The 2011 FIVB Beach Volleyball Junior World Championships starts today in Halifax, Nova Scotia and will run until September 4th. Canada was chosen to host this year's event due to Garret May and Sam Schachter winning the gold medal last year in Turkey. Garret is back this year with a new partner, Danny Demyanenko. On the women's side of the tournament, recent bronze medalists at the 2011 Canadian National Beach Volleyball Championship Melissa Humana-Paredes and Victoria Altomare are also in Halifax with a direct main draw entry. Due to Canada hosting as well as previous finishes, every Canadian team on the men's and women's side of the tournament will begin in the main draw. Main Draw action starts on September 1st. Check out the links below for live streaming video information.
Canadian Women's Teams
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Altomare-Humana-Paredes |
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Gosselin-Robichaud |
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Hudson-Sider |
Canadian Men's Teams
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Demyanenko-May |
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Sidgwick-Kazhamiaka |
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Del Bianco-Chow |
Live Streams after the jump.
After a great weekend of beach volleyball here in Canada for the 2011 Beach Volleyball National Championships on the east coast in Toronto, I have come home to watch more beach volleyball this time from the west coast. The Jose Cuervo Pro Beach Volleyball Series is in Manhattan Beach Open this weekend and luckily there is live streaming available for the men's final right now.
Men's Final
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Hyden-Scott | vs. | |
Allen-Keenan |
Live Stream (7:00 p.m. EST)
Live stream after the jump.
Thursday is here and that means that we are into main draw action over in The Netherlands in this stop of the 2011 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour. The HP Beach Open sees only one Canadian team remaining in this tournament and that is the women's team of Marie Andree Lessard and Annie Martin. As you would recall, they have direct entry into the main draw thanks to a wild card. Because this is just a regular open tournament and not a grand slam, the main draw is a double elimination format. Matches, results, and live streams below.
Canadians in the Main Draw
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Lessard-Martin |
Women's Teams to Watch
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Xue-Zhang Xi |
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May-Treanor-Walsh |
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Keizer-Van Iersel |
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Larissa-Juliana |
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Kessy-Ross |
Men's Teams to Watch
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Fijalek-Prudel |
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Fuerbringer-Lucena |
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Marcio Araujo-Benjamin |
Matches, results and live streams after the jump.