AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Visits Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas Strip September 7 – 9, 2006
AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour’s is headed to Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas Strip for the Gods and Goddesses of the Beach Tournament September 7 – 9, 2006.
The AVP Las Vegas Gods and Goddesses of the Beach takes place at Caesars Palace on the famous Las Vegas strip September 7 – 9. Join the world’s best pro beach volleyball players as they compete for $200,000 in this postseason invitational event. Buy tickets today at AVP.com.
The AVP Las Vegas Gods and Goddesses of the Beach features the top 12 men and women from the 2006 AVP Crocs Tour. The tournament is a King of the Beach individual format where the players will rotate partners every match until the top two players are determined based off games won. The top two finishers will then select a partner from the remaining ten players for the championship match, with the caveat that one cannot choose their regular playing partner.
The top 12 women from the 2006 AVP Crocs Tour are lead by 2004 Olympic Gold Medalists Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh. May-Treanor won the title as Goddess of the Beach last year in Las Vegas. This year Walsh and May-Treanor dominated the AVP Crocs Tour winning12 of the 14 open events setting the record for most events won in AVP Women’s history. The duo also became the first AVP Women to win $200,000 in a season, won their 50th and 60th career team titles and last weekend in Cincinnati became just the second women’s team in Pro Beach Volleyball history to earn over $2,000,000 as a team. May-Treanor and Walsh enter Caesars Palace having won 32 straight matches.
Their competition will be stiff as the rest of the field includes Olympic Bronze Medalists Holly McPeak and Elaine Youngs, 2005 AVP Best Defensive player and runner up from last year’s Las Vegas event Rachel Wacholder, 2005 AVP Rookie of the Year Nicole Branagh, 2000 Olympians Jenny Johnson Jordan and Annett Davis, three-time indoor Olympian Tammy Leibl, AVP tallest player at 6’ 4” Dianne DeNecochea, three-time finalist in 2006 Nancy Mason and 2004 AVP Most Improved Player Jen Boss.
The Men enter Caesars Palace having completed an amazing season where the top two teams captured 12 of the 14 open events, ending with an incredible finals match in AVP Crocs Tour season finale in Cincinnati. Second-seeded Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser defeated top-seeded Mike Lambert and Stein Metzger in the Cincinnati finals to capture their seventh title of the year. However, it was Lambert and Metzger that clinched the season long AVP Crocs Cup point race as the duo made every semifinals on the 2006 AVP Crocs Tour. Metzger, Lambert, Dalhausser and Rogers will have the top four seeds in Las Vegas and receive a bye through the first round.
The top four players are joined by 2005 AVP MVP Jake Gibb, three-time Open winner Sean Rosenthal, five-time open winner Sean Scott, 14-time Open winner and Olympian Dax Holdren, three-time Olympian and 7-time Open winner Jeff Nygaard, two-time Olympian John Hyden, four-time Open winner and Las Vegas native Casey Jennings, and four-time Open winner Matt Fuerbringer.
The competition is sure to be fierce and you do not want to miss a single serve, dig or spike. Log on to avp.com for tickets.
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