Two Stanford University alumni who hail from Santa Cruz — siblings, too — helped lead Team USA to gold in beach volleyball 4×4 at the inaugural ANOC World Beach Games at Katara Beach in Doha, Qatar.

Chaoyang Park, Beijing's largest park, was home to a temporary 12,200-seat stadium that held 17,000 tons of sand from Hainan, off the southern coast of China. Following a concerted effort to train ...

Volleyball is a sport that can be played virtually on any surface, whether on grass, hardwood, sand or even in the pool. Beach volleyball was introduced to the Olympics as a demonstration sport in the ...

All Olympic beach volleyball matches are best two-out-of-three sets. The first two sets are played to 21 points by rally scoring. The third set, if necessary, is played to 15 points. In each set, a ...

The team practices and plays home games in a city park. The players, who do not receive athletic scholarships, have had to use a public restroom with no doors on the stalls. At times, they’ve driven ...