{"id":140951,"date":"2025-05-21T14:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T14:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/?p=140951"},"modified":"2025-05-21T14:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T14:07:09","slug":"australias-world-university-games-beach-teams-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/australias-world-university-games-beach-teams-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"AUSTRALIA&#8217;S WORLD UNIVERSITY GAMES BEACH TEAMS ANNOUNCED"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p><strong>Photo and information courtesy of volleyball.org.au<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Volleyball Australia is pleased to announce the selection of four athletes to represent Australia at the 2025 FISU World University Games&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 FISU World University Games will be held in Duisburg, Germany in July, with the beach volleyball competition to take place at Sportpark Duisburg from 21-26 July.<\/p>\n<p>Australia has selected one men\u2019s and one women\u2019s team to compete at the event, off the back of the 2024\/25 summer.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver Merritt (SA) will team up with Jed Walker (WA) as Australia\u2019s men\u2019s team, while Cassandra Dodd (WA) and Sarah Burton (WA) will wear the green and gold in the women\u2019s competition.<\/p>\n<p>Merritt\/Walker had an impressive summer at home, highlighted by their gold medal performance at the Australian Beach Volleyball Tour in Cobram in February.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dodd\/Burton will pair up after another successful year in their respective US college beach volleyball programs \u2013 Dodd part of the University of California (UCLA) NCAA program, and Burton currently playing for the University of Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>Volleyball Australia Beach Performance Manager Simon Naismith said: \u201cEach opportunity to wear the green and gold is one that I know our athletes do not take for granted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCompeting at the World University Games will be a valuable step in their progression, and we\u2019re excited to see them take on this next challenge and represent Australia later in the year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Volleyball Australia would like to congratulate the following athletes on their selection:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Australian Men\u2019s Beach Volleyball Team<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oliver Merritt (SA)<\/p>\n<p>Jed Walker (WA)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Australian Women\u2019s Beach Volleyball Team<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cassandra Dodd (WA)<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Burton (WA<\/p>\n<p>QUICK LINKS<\/p>\n<p>AVC Website: click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianvolleyball.net\/\">www.asianvolleyball.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AVC Facebook: click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AsianVolleyballConfederation\">www.Facebook.com\/AsianVolleyballConfederation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AVC Twitter: click: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/AsianVolleyball\">www.twitter.com\/AsianVolleyball<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AVC Instagram: click: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/avcvolley\/?hl=en\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/avcvolley\/?hl=en<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mikasa Instagram: click: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mikasasports_official\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mikasasports_official<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AVC Youtube: click: Asian Volleyball Confederation<\/p>\n<p>AVC WeChat: Asian Volleyball Confederation<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo and information courtesy of volleyball.org.au Volleyball Australia is pleased to announce the selection of four athletes to represent Australia at the 2025 FISU World University Games&nbsp; The 2025 FISU&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":140952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beach-volleyball-news","category-slider"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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