The two-day AVP League Championships began Saturday at Chicago’s Oak Street Beach, with half of the teams for Sunday’s finals determined.

Just because someone says I’m old at 45 doesn’t mean I can’t play,” Phil Dalhausser said after winning the AVP League Championship on Sunday with teammate Trevor Crabb.

Taryn Kloth Brasher made a smooth transition from superstar at indoor volleyball for LSU to the rough and tumble AVP Tour.

Most visibly, the AVP league departs from traditional beach volleyball, where twosomes traveled and competed for themselves, by teaming a men’s pair with a women’s pair and assigning them a ...