The most important detail about beach volleyball college recruiting tournaments is that they are not all created equally. Each organization operates by their own standards. So do your research…friends & family who may have already been, social media, etc. At BVNE, we started operating college recruiting events in 2014 at the dawn of beach volleyball as an NCAA championship sport. Since then, we have worked every year to provide transparency and an effective venue for players and coaches to come together for beach volleyball recruiting.
We provide coaches with all of the information a coach would need to make the most of their time at our event. We also maintain records of pool play, finals, and searchable overall rankings of over a thousand players just in the last 12 months. We believe we provide the most effectively run beach volleyball college recruiting events anywhere.
Remember, you are not trying to fill a specific skill set on a team. Your goal is to show you can complete in doubles beach volleyball with whole package of skills.
Well before you arrive on event day, make sure to email coaches from schools you are interested in that you will be at BVNE. Due to regulations, many can’t reply to you until after a specific date, see above, so don’t worry if you don’t hear back. On some occasions coaches may even want to talk to your coach or recruiter the day of the event so make sure that person is available by phone.
On event day when you arrive at BVNE, be prepared. Have your medical waiver filled out. Write your grad year on one leg, and the first few letters of your last name on the other. If you have a SendRecruits.com number, write that on your arm.
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Player and partner must check in at the tournament desk together. With your medical waivers already filled out check in goes very fast, a minute so. Court and pool play assignments, and the court map, will be available at showcase.bvne.org the morning of the event.
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College coaches each have their own goals on event day. They usually arrive around 8 am. Most coaches want to see everyone play and will make rounds throughout the event. Some coaches may even make a special trip to follow up on a player they are watching. Coaches will usually blend in as best they can. They want you to play the way you normally do so they will not announce themselves.
Be open to any school who might watch your game. Where you want to attend is important, but if the coach has already recruited for your grad year it might not work out. You want to make a good impression on all coaches.
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On event day when the tournament is setup before you arrive and our videographer is planning out his day, the focus will be on you, the BVNE player. The coaches will review their information, and pool play will start. This is the players opportunity to showcase their skills, teamwork, and communication. Good luck to all the potential recruits out there at the BVNE National College Recruiting Showcase, the largest in the U.S. and Canada!
Take a look at our BVNE showcase website for schedules and details: showcase.bvne.org
We are excited to announce Flourish Beach is joining BVNE as our newest affiliate in Minneapolis, Chicago, and summer 2019 in Santa Monica! TMP Beach Volleyball has been “attacking Life and Sport Since 2001” and has grown once again in 2019. Their Project U organization will be in Santa Monica with BVNE in July 2019 for a college coaches clinic.
The Project U Open on June 15th and the top 2 teams from each division will be awarded bids for the 2020 Kauai Bikini National Championship and the College Recruiting International Championships!
Only authorized BVNE affiliates can award bids for what will be the most competitive international college recruiting event in North America and the only tournament that brings out more competitive spirit than earning a new rating or college scholarship, the Kauai Bikini Championships.
We are excited to announce Flourish Beach is joining BVNE as our Colorado affiliate location. Director Nate Yang qualified at the grand daddy of them all AVP Manhattan Beach. Nate’s knowledge, experience & passion for the game will be a great addition to the BVNE team!
The top two teams in each division will earn a bid to either the 2020 Kauai Bikini Championships or the 2020 BVNE International College Recruiting Championships.
Only authorized BVNE affiliates can award bids for what will be the most competitive international college recruiting event in North America and the only tournament that brings out more competitive spirit than earning a new rating or college scholarship, the Kauai Bikini Championships.
You’ve seen @lole prizes at our events. Did you know they have clothing too! Lolë opened a new location in Playa Vista at the Runway Mall. Stop by and check them out! They were so generous to provide prizes for our players! You can get yours now for just $29, just check them out on Lolë’s website.
Have you won a Lolë water bottle yet at BVNE? Here’s all the details about them from Lolë!
Lolë stainless steel water bottles are insulated to keep your drinks hot or cold all day. Widemouth design for easy drinking, leak-proof cap, non-slip base, and a carrying strap make this water bottle essential to your lifestyle.
Keeps your drinks cold or hot for 24 hours
Mouth is wide enough for ice cubes
Fits standard size cup holder
100% Stainless Steel High-Grade 18/8 Stainless Steel. BPA and Toxin Free. FDA approved.
As big as recent events may seem, it does appear isolated to a specific group of people and does not reflect on our beach volleyball community as a whole. At BVNE we do our best to bring transparency and integrity to the sport of beach volleyball. There are many organizations out there who also help maintain integrity in our sport and we’re excited to continue to be a positive part of the beach volleyball community. In case you have’t seen coverage on the story, give these two articles a read.
At BVNE, we our best for our customers, both players and coaches. How do we bring transparency to our events? We maintain an online list of international player results from our past events so everyone can see them. Our online records include pool play and playoff results. This helps us do the best we can so that pools are properly arranged by ranking/ability. Our pools are arranged by points by software designed by BracketPal. This software arranges the players in order of ranking, and then we do our best to make sure pools are organized so that players from different clubs or schools play each other using the ranking provided by the software. The software helps remove human manipulation from the process and is visible to everyone, such as in this event from February.
Our online event records can also show year over year player growth, as with this live example, demonstrating players who improve their skills and finish higher as they continue playing, and are doing so in front of collegiate coaches at our college recruiting events.
Each event we do our best to bring everyone the best run events in the nation, and hope to see you there!
There have been lots of social media challenges. This one is different. Jeremy CaseBeer filled his bucket with trash from the sand and put it in a proper trash can. This is something everyone can do, and it will help save our environment, and it only takes 5 minutes! Why isn’t everyone doing this? Check out BVNE this weekend and see our results! Follow us on Instagram @BVNEvents to see….
On February 2nd under driving rain and under 1,300 square feet of tents the Kauai Bikini Tournament brought serious competitors to Santa Monica California from states and provinces from coast to coast. First, an important thank you to the dad/coach who helped protect our tents from being flooded out. Not everyone helps out especially when no one is there to see it or say thank you. Then you let us know what was happening and never even took credit for how much work you did. We were able to have a great and uninterrupted event for the players to shine through the rain because of your help. Next, another important thank you to Steven Ascher from King & Queen of the beach® for bringing a huge supply of tents to help players, parents, and coaches on a rainy weekend. Thank you both from BVNE™.
The day actually started with the college coaches clinic with players checking in at 6:45 am in the rain. This was an epic rain and didn’t slow down the toughest upcoming players in beach volleyball. The BVNE College Coaches Clinic brought together Anna Collier Head Coach from USC, Jenny Johnson Jordan from UCLA, John Daze from Pepperdine, Mike Campbell from Long Beach State, Zane McFarlane from LMU with small groups of players on each of their courts.
At 9:30, balls were in the air at the Kauai Bikini Tournament! This wasn’t just rain. Did you hear about what was happening in nearby Malibu? Check it out below. Bad weather for sure! These players showed how well organized they are and the quality family support these players came to the event with. You can’t make it through a rainy day alone, and these players seemed to be very prepared for an event in uncontrollable weather, just like gulf shores a few years ago. We hope you all take those skills with you through college!
At the end of the day the sun came out for a while and the sunset college coaches clinic with USC’s Gustavo Rocha went until about 5:20 pm. Most, maybe all of these players had just spent the day at the Kauai Bikini Tournament in the pounding rain. Even so they still had a great experience with a coach who has been to the championships with USC legend Anna Collier.
The next morning under more rain the BVNE™ College Recruiting Showcase hosted players from 15 states and provinces and collegiate coaches from:
UCLA
USC
Pepperdine
Cal Berkeley
Stanford
UC Davis
LMU
Long Beach State
TCU
South Carolina
ASU
Stephen F Austin University
Vanguard University
WestCliff University
University St Katherines
California Marymount
Cal State University Bakersfield
This was a day with calm skies and periods of pounding and loud rain. Players put on their best game with seventeen coaches watching throughout the day. These players earned their wins by staying organized and by planning ahead to stay warm when not playing and taking advantage of the conditions whenever possible. Congratulations to all the winners!
To all the players, parents, and coaches, a big thank you from BVNE. You were traveling from some places where the day before it was thirty degrees below zero. Rain was forecast for the event weekend and you put your trust in BVNE to bring you a great event after your hard work getting to Santa Monica. Everyone weathered the storm and showed college coaches who where in attendance both days that BVNE players come prepared and ready for collegiate level athletics.
