Category Archives: Beach

SW Beach Team Positions Available

Posted on 04/03/2024 by Dave

If you are a Coach, want to get into beach coaching, or an experienced Beach Player, then please see below: We currently have a couple of vacancies in the SWVA Beach Coaching team to help run this summer beach program, … Continue reading →

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Volleyball Sports Halls for the 21st Century

Posted on 17/02/2024 by Dave

We recently received a question about fitting additional volleyball courts into a venue, if you are looking at someting similar, planning a new indoor venue or beach court, checkout the Volleyball England facility Strategy technical guidelines and other useful documents … Continue reading →

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Cultivating SW Beach Champions

Posted on 06/01/2024 by Dave

SW Boys coach, Dan Mrowiec gives us an insight into the SWVA Beach development work over the last few years. Our current Beach Program is built around the U18 Inter Regional Beach Championships (IRB) and the U19 International Beach Open. … Continue reading →

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Indoor (6v6) and Beach Coaching Courses 2024

Posted on 14/12/2023 by Dave

Volleyball England is pleased to announce the next Coach Award courses are open for bookings. The beach volleyball course will be led by Kirk Pitman, Beach Volleyball Performance Director and Volleyball England tutors Mark Kontopoulos and Sam Dunbavin. Both indoor … Continue reading →

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Croyde Spring Camp (Fireball) 11-14 April 2024

Posted on 05/11/2023 by Dave

After the phenomenal success of our Croyde Summer Camps we are thrilled to be bringing to life our first ever Spring Camp! The camp is open to youngsters from age 13-19 and will run over four days. We will be … Continue reading →

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Silver Medal for Rob Morgan

Posted on 24/08/2023 by Dave

It was Silver for Southwest’s Rob Morgan (left) at this year’s 2023 Commonwealth Youth Games in Trinbago, along with partner Pete Soczewka. After making it through the event with victories against Australia and New Zealand they were unable to secure … Continue reading →

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IRB 2023 Beach Volleyball Inc Video

Posted on 07/08/2023 by Dave

SW & Wales players both feature in this years 2023 Beach Volleyball Inc Promo video Many thanks to Richard Beales for the video mr_beales@hotmail.com https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-kxdGT7J/0/a88038b3/1280/i-kxdGT7J-1280.mp4 Or click on the direct link to watch: https://www.smugmug.com/gallery/n-LH4fwK/

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U19 International Junior Beach Volleyball Championships

Posted on 02/08/2023 by Dave

In its fourth year, the Inter-Beach International Junior Beach Volleyball Championships, held this past weekend in the Cardiff Beach Volleyball Centre, celebrates the aims of the event with the founder of the Inter-Beach events, Tournament Director and Great Britain International … Continue reading →

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Moving Beach Lines – In or Out

Posted on 01/08/2023 by Dave

An interesting question I noticed on FaceBook today, thanks to Denise Austin & Dave Gunter for the Q & A. Q. Today a player went diving out to save a bad pass and dragged the side line out. The very … Continue reading →

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How to Play in the Rain