Information and photo courtesy of volleyball.org.au
Following the high-quality action of last summer, the 2024/25 Australian Beach Volleyball Tour calendar is set to deliver, with dates and venues announced for the upcoming season.
Two rounds of the event will coincide with rounds of the Australian Junior Beach Volleyball Tour, while at Volleyslam, the festival of the sport which includes the final round of the tour at Coolangatta in March will double as the Mahindra Australian Beach Volleyball Championships.
Glenelg in South Australia will play host to the Tour’s opening round in November with the first round of the Junior Tour set to immediately follow.
The Junior Tour will then head north to Caloundra on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast in January before visiting the nation’s capital city, Canberra, the following month.
The much loved Cobram venue will host the top athletes over the first weekend of March, before eyes turn to the Gold Coast for Volleyslam with a 10-day extravaganza which also includes the Australian Youth Beach Volleyball Championships, the Australian Beach Volleyball Schools Cup and a Futures round of the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour.
“The Australian Beach Volleyball Tour continues to get bigger and better every season and quality of competition is up there with any National Tour around the world,” said Verity Hanka, Volleyball Australia Events Director.
“All of our players currently representing Australia in Paris have come through the Tour and Mark Nicolaidis and Izac Carracher have openly admitted that playing the Tour last year was integral with qualifying for their Olympic debut.
“To have players of their quality competing alongside the up-and-comers and stars of the future provides not only an exciting product for fans, but is aspirational for those hoping to one day emulate their feats.
“Cobram and Coolangatta are two of our most popular Tour locations, it will be great to bring the Tour back to Canberra after last staging an event there in 2022 while the opening round in Glenelg will certainly wet the appetite for the Beach Volleyball World Championships in Adelaide next year.”
After being selected on the team in Paris, Carracher said playing the 2023/24 Australian Beach Volleyball Tour was a crucial part getting as much high-quality match practice as possible, experience which bore fruit when he and Nicolaidis guided Australia to victory in the Continental Cup and a berth on the Olympic Team.
“We said in 2023 that our biggest regret was not playing more of the domestic tour,” said Carracher. “We were forced out by injury a bit then we made the decision to prioritise international events.
“The shock of competition [on the Tour] is just different. You can’t emulate it at training as much as you try to. You can’t emulate being down 19-16 in a deciding set; you can’t emulate playing at 20-all and backing your processes in.
“That mental structure and learning how to win, and then being able to repeat those winning processes is so important to all elite sport and I think going back and starting this year by playing as many games as we could, wherever we could – that was us on the Australian Beach Volleyball Tour.”
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2024/25 Australian Beach Volleyball Season Dates
8-10 November 2024 – Australian Beach Volleyball Tour | Glenelg SA
11-12 November 2024 – Australian Junior Beach Volleyball Tour | Glenelg SA
23-24 January 2025 – Australian Junior Beach Volleyball Tour | Caloundra QLD
7-9 February 2025 – Australian Beach Volleyball Tour | Canberra ACT
28 February-2 March – Australian Beach Volleyball Tour | Cobram VIC
3-4 March – Australian Junior Beach Volleyball Tour | Cobram VIC
21-23 March – Mahindra Australian Beach Volleyball Championships | Coolangatta QLD
24-27 March – Australian Youth Beach Volleyball Championships | Coolangatta QLD
26-30 March – Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Futures | Coolangatta QLD
28-30 March – Australian Beach Volleyball Schools Cup | Coolangatta QLD
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