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23-01-12 Melissa Ruru and Lydia McCormack have won the Karapiro Beach Volleyball Open, the first event of the 2012 International Tour. It the Men's Julius Brink and Jonas Reckermann narrowly defeated Ben O'Dea and Kirk Pitman 15-13 in the 3rd set.

18-01-12 Click on the left hand side of the page for the results from the 2012 NZ Age Group Beach Volleyball Champs.

17-01-12 After day 1 of the NZ Age Group Beach Volleyball the top 8 in the 6 divisions have been found, Quarter final action kicks off at 9am Wednesday morning, with finals between 2 and 4pm at the Main Beach.

15-01-12 Rotorua's Melissa Ruru has won the NZ Beach Volleyball National Champs with her partner Lydia McCormack. The pair narrowly got through their semifinal match in a 3 set nail biter, the final was more comfortable over Jessie Muggeridge and Hannah Croad. 

31-12-11 Julia Tilley and Micah Lindsay-Brown have won the women's Mauao Grand Slam, while Paora Morunga and Griffin Muller have taken out the men's event.

19-12-11 The BOP Junior IPC Boys have finished 2nd after a high quality final against Auckland. The BOP Junior Girls were also knocked out by Auckland in a close semi final, after which they secured 3rd with a win over Manukau.

16-12-11 The Bay Junior IPC Girls and Boys teams won all their games yesterday and are through to the knockout stage today. 

11-12-11 Rachel Morgan and the FSU Seminoles have made it to the final 4 of the Division 1 US College Volleyball Champs. This is the ex-Otumoetai College outside hitters final year of college volleyball and we are all hoping that she can finish with an NCAA title. The semi final match against UCLA will be played 2pm Friday NZ time, with the final Sunday NZ time. Click here to see Rachel interviewed in the build up to the sweet 16 match and click here to see highlights of that match.

11-12-11 The Bay of Plenty Junior Rep team was trialed on Saturday and a boys and girls team selected. Both team have also now had 2 very good trainings and are looking strong ahead of the Northern Zone IPC tournament on the 15th and 16th of December in Otara. Click here to see the teams. 

11-12-11 NZL have made a positive start to the Asian champs with 3 wins, 2 for Kirk and Jason, and 1 for Sam and Ben, click here to read more.

7-12-11 Kirk Pitman and Jason Lochhead have upset the 8th ranked team in the World to win the lastest Asian Beach Volleyball event in China. This is the ideal preparation for the Asian Champs that start this week. Click here for more details. 

7-12-11 Congratulations to the BOP athletes selected into the North Island Junior Tournament team. Click here to see the boys and girls teams

6-12-11 Congratulations to Mt Maunganui College Girls Junior A team who have won the North Island Junior Volleyball Champs for the first time after defeating Tauranga Girls College in the final in 3 sets. 

5-12-11 Congratulations to Tauranga Boys College Year 10's, Western Heights High School Year 9 Boys, Otumoetai College Year 10 Girls, and Bethlehem Year 9 Girls who took the gold medals at the North Island Junior Beach Champs. 

22-11-11 Congratulations to Mt Maunganui College Girls and Tauranga Boys College A who have won the BOP SS Volleyball Champs and in doing so secured the #1 seeding for next weeks North Island Junior Volleyball Champs.

14-11-11 Congratulations to Matt Kilpatrick & Keanu White (TRGB), Holly Boyle & Katie Wood (OTUM), Caleb Aperahama & Tom Reid (TRGB), and Michaela Wooler and Lauren Anning (BTHC) who took the Gold medals at the BOP Polytechnic Secondary Schools Beach Volleyball Champs over the weekend. Click here to see all the results.

7-11-11 Results of NZ Senior Women vs China (Tianjin Club) 25-12, 25-7, 25-12 to China. 

31-10-11 NZ Senior Women vs China (Tianjin Club) match at QEYC Friday November 4th at 7pm.  Adult entry $10, Students $5 or primary aged kids free. 

14-10-11 Speight's Traverse Social Beach Volleyball has been given the green light to go ahead on the Mount Main Beach. Click here to see the first weeks draw. If you would still like to enter a team please call Tim on 027 2678 225.

14-10-11 The NZ senior women's team has been announced for a 2 match test series against the Tianjin Club team from China. Lisa Claassen and Leigh Tozer both from the Tauranga Club have made the team. Click here to view the full team.

08-10-11 Paora Morunga and Griffin Muller have won the Men's Challenger at Mt Maunganui today. Andrea Tauai and Dylan Vaetoe took out the Women's Challenger after the top seeds failed to get out of first gear this morning. 

04-10-11 Sam and Ben O'Dea have made a strong start to the Zhangjiajie Open in China. They won their pool then beat Indonesia and Malaysia in the elimination rounds to advanced to another semi final on the Asian Beach Volleyball Tour. They will now play China in the semi final.

04-10-11 The BOP Junior Prelims were a huge success in the new TECT Arena, 37 teams were all vieing for the top 6 pool. Click here to see who made it. 

29-09-11 For the third time this season Sam and Ben O'Dea have taken a podium finish on the Asian Beach Volleyball Tour. They have finished 3rd at the (US$15,000) Changasha Open. Sam was struck by a bout of food poisoning the night before the semi final so was playing under stress in the semi against China. The boys fought hard and lead 8-5 in the third set before the heat and the chinese crowd conspired against the kiwi's, with the chinese taking the final set 15-11. In the bronze medal match the O'Dea's defeated Indonesia in another 3 set marathon 19-21, 23-21, 15-11. Now they head the Zhangjiajie Open.

28-09-11 Sam and Ben O'Dea have once again made it to the semi finals on the Asian Beach Volleyball Tour, this time in China. After getting through a tough pool, they progressed to the knock out phase where they beat Maylasia 2-0, then Oman 2-1 to progress to the semi's where they will play the top China team.

06-09-11 Manukau South have beaten Tauranga Women in the final of the National Club Championship. Tauranga have now recorded 2 golds, a sliver and a bronze over teh past 4 seasons. Tauranga Men defeated Scorpians in their final game to finish 11th. 

02-09-11 Stewart Henderson will be looking to add a 3rd Club National title on Saturday when his Tauranga Women's team take on Manukau South in the final at 4pm. Tauranga defeat Hamilton 3-0 in their semi today. North Harbour Raiders will take on Sparta in a repeat of last years men's final at 6:30pm Saturday

31-08-11 Jenny Kirk and Stewart Henderson have been honoured by VNZ at club nationals as 2 of 6 recipient of life member ship to VNZ. Congratulations to them both and thanks for their many years of service.

31-08-11 Tauranga Women's have started their nationals defence with a comfotable 3-0 win over eastern angels (CHCH), while Tauranga Men have been defeated 3-0 by defending champs Sparta (AKLD)

29-08-11 It was a privilege to attend the opening of the new TECT Arena last Thursday. A special mention was made of Bob Addison past Councillor and of our members who have dedicated a huge amount of volunteer hours in the process of this massive project. Thanks to Mike Dudson, Greg Cummings and Tim Cleaver who have worked hard in ensuring we get a facility that will meet the needs of our Volleyball community. Many , many meetings over many years now seem all worth it as it has been built to our expectations and will most certainly blow you all away !.  And so to the SPORT users – get in there and enjoy it. Get yourself involved in a team and help make projects such as these a reality not just a thing on the wish list !.    Yours in anything Volleyball  - Jenny Kirk Executive VBOP

26-08-11 Jason Lochhead and Kirk Pitman have lost their first match against the Netherlands in the main draw 2-0 (21-16, 21-13). Their second match resulted in a 2-1 win against Norway (21-23, 21-16, 15-13). They now have a match against Italy tonight at 9pm NZ time.

25-08-11 The Women's Grand Prix has started in Macau, Hugh McCutcheon has lead his USA Women's team to a 3-0 victory over Japan. Click here to watch the match and all the matches for free online.

25-08-11 Jason Lochhead and Kirk Pitman have qualified for the main draw at the HP Open in The Hague. Tonight they will play the Netherlands in their first main draw match. O'Dea / O'Dea and Petersen / Watson both lost their first qualification match and were eliminated.

24-08-11 Three NZ teams will once again attempt to qualify for the main draw at the latest round of the Swatch World Tour. Sam and Ben O'Dea will face Bulgeria at 9pm NZ time, Mark Petersen and Mike Watson will face Austria also at 9pm NZ time. Kirk Pitman and Jason Lochhead have a bye through to the 2nd round. Follow the teams here.

18-08-11 Pitman / Lochhead have qualified for the main draw after 2 wins in the qualifying tournament. O'Dea / O'Dea  manage 1 impressive win before going down to the experienced Ces Brothers from France, Watson / Petersen were beaten in their first match together on the World Tour. 

17-08-11 Three NZ teams will play the qualifier over night in PAF Open of the World Beach Tour in Finland, Pitman Lochhead have a bye in the first round, O'Dea O'Dea play Austria and Watson Petersen play Italy.

08-08-11 Ben and Sam O'Dea have finished in 13th place in the latest German Beach Tour Event. After winning 3 qualifying games to make the top 16, they were then seeded to play Dollinger / Windscheif (who finished 9th at the 2011 World Champs). The Kiwi's took the first set but lost 2-1 (15-21, 26-24, 15-13). They then moved into the losers bracket where they had a 2nd 3 set loss to Berken / Romund (16:21, 21:19, 15:10). The boys now travel to Finland where they will train for a week with other BOP boys Kirk Pitman, Jason Lochhead, Mark Petersen and Mike Watson, before they all compete in the World Tour Event the following week.

01-08-11 NZ Junior Women have finished 16th in their tournament of 24 teams at the USA High Performance Championship. The team have now arrived home after the 12 day trip. Well done to all the players and coach Stewart Henderson and manager Jenny Kirk.

29-07-11  NZ Junior Women have finished their pool in with 3 wins and 2 losses. They now go into cross over matches. Lots of great match reports and comments on the blog. 

26-07-11 NZ Junior Women will take to the court over early tomorrow morning for the first of their 5 pool games at the US High Performance Tournament in Arizona. More info from team manager Jenny Kirk is available on her blog or Click here to follow the team on the tournament website.

25-07-11 Kirk Pitman and Jason Lochhead have finished 9th at the Quebec Open in Canada, winning 3 matches. They now move to Poland for the next round of the World Tour. Sam and Ben O'Dea failed to qualify in Quebec, and will now try to qualify for a German tour event.

21-07-11 NZ Junior women depart for Arizona today. The team have been in a training camp in Tauranga for 3 days culminating in a match against club champions Tauranga. Tauranga won the match 3-2. While in Arizona the NZ team will play in the US HP tournament. Click here to follow the team. 

21-07-11 Sichuan have defeated NZ men in the first of 4 test series. Last nights game was very tight and an extremely high level. Sichuan took the first 2 sets, before NZ regrouped to take the third. Sichuan pulled away again to win the 4th and the match 3 - 1 (25-15, 28-26, 18-25, 25-17). Click here for the match report 

18-07-11 NZ Men are coming to Tauranga this wednesday to play an international match against a Chinese club team, Sichuan, which features 2 national team players. Click here for more details. 

13-07-11 NZ Junior Men and NZ U17 boys and girls have all started their Australian Junior State Champs campaign this week. The Junior Men are competing in the U21 section and are 0 from 3 games, they play South Australia today. The U17 teams are both 2 from 4 games with 2 more pool games today. Click here to check the results website. 

13-07-11  Jason Lochhead and Kirk Pitman are seeded 9th in the qualification tournament at the Moscow Grand Slam in Russia. Tonight they will face BLR and if they win they will play BRA for a spot in the main draw.

12-07-11 Sky Sport has coverage of the Swatch FIVB World Tour and the FIVB Men's World League. Tuesday the 12th - 11pm (beach), Wednesday the 14th - 9:30am (beach), 4:30pm & 6pm (indoor), Thursday the 14th - 9:30am (indoor) & 8:30pm (beach)

06-07-11 Jason Lochhead and Kirk Pitman are seeded 6th in the qualification tournament at the Gstaad Grand Slam in Switzerland. Tonight they will play the Czech Republic, if they win they will play 1 more game to qualify for the main draw. 

05-07-11 Congratulations to Mauao Sports Men's Volleyball team who defeated Sparta (defending NZ club champions) this weekend in the Northern Zone League 3-1 (25-23, 16-25, 25-17, 25-20). Mauao Sports now sit in 5th place in the league after a slow start. Tauranga Women also recorded a win over rivals Sparta this weekend and sit atop the Northern Zone League.

04-07-11 Congratulations to Alice Bain (C), Sage-Maree Hemara, Simone Te Kani, Jemma Shaw, Te Pae Aporo, and Katie Wood who have all been selected into the NZ under 17 volleyball team. Click here to see the whole team and program.

04-07-11  Jason Lochhead and Kirk Pitman have finished 25th at the Norway Grand Slam.

01-07-11 Jason Lochhead and Kirk Pitman have won 1 and lost 1 overnight in Norway. Tonight they will play Austria in their pool, currently all teams have 1 win and 1 loss so a victory could place them 1st in pool, a defeat could see them finish last and miss the post section. 

30-06-11 Kirk Pitman and Jason Lochhead have recorded the closest win of the world tour this year to qualify for the main draw of the Stavenger Grand Slam in Norway. NZL beat Estonia 2-1 (21-16, 15-21, 31-29), NZL will now face BRA, AUT and NOR in their pool. starting with a centre court appearance tonight against the local Norwegians. This game should be streamed live here at 10pm NZ time.

29-06-11 Congratulations to Liam Whareaitu, Tiaan Flavell, Jordon Schuster and Talor Kahu who have all been selected into the NZ under 17 volleyball team. Click here to see the whole team and program.

27-06-11 Morgan and Sonny have finished 9th equal at the under 19 world champs. They won their pool winning all three games, in the round of 16 they lost to Ukraine 2-0 (22-20, 21-19) a disappointing result after a very strong start to the tournament. Poland took the gold in both genders this year, continuing their age group success.

24-06-11 Morgan and Sonny have won their first pool game at the U19 world champs beating Czech Republic 2-0 (22-20, 21-13). Tonight they will play their last 2 pool games, firstly against Canada at 9pm (NZ time), then Germany at 3am.

22-06-11 Griffin Muller (Otumoetai College) & Tom Hartles (North Harbour) have failed to qualify for the main draw at the U19 Beach World Champs. They lost their first game to Latvia 1-2 (13-21, 21-15 and 8-15). Sonny Hirini & Morgan Seymour will face the Czech Republic tonight in the first of their 3 pool games in the main draw.

21-06-11 Griffin Muller (Otumoetai College) with his partner, Tom Hartles (North Harbour) will attempted to qualify for the main draw of the Under 19 Beach Volleyball World Champs Wednesday night (NZ time). 18 teams will be vying for 4 main draw spots. Sonny Hirini (Tauranga Boys) and Morgan Seymour (Whakatane) have automatically qualified for the main draw. 

17-06-11 Jason Lochhead and Kirk Pitman have finished 3rd in their pool at the Beach Volleyball World Champs in Rome. They have been able to clinch one of the lucky 3rd spots in the top 32. For their next game they have been drawn against 1 of the 12 pool winners and have been lucky to draw a less experienced German team, a win tonight would give them a top 10 result.

16-06-11 Jason Lochhead and Kirk Pitman have won 1 and lost 1 in their pool at the Beach Volleyball World Champs. They will play Denmark tonight in a crucial game to progress through from their pool to the top 32. Jason was interviewed yesterday after their loss to Brazil, click here to view the interview.

14-06-11 Kirk Pitman and Jason Lochhead will play tonight at 2am at the Beach Volleyball World Champs. Games start at 7:30pm tonight and there is free coverage streaming here, there is also an iPhone app (search FIVB) which has live scoring. 

13-06-11 The beach volleyball World Championships starts in Rome tonight with Kirk Pitman and Jason Lochhead not scheduled to play until Tuesday night. First they will face Brazil, who have just come off a win in Beijing on Saturday. NZ also have Ukraine and Denmark in their pool, so if they can produce an upset over Brazil they will be in good stead to make it out of their pool.

 31-05-11 NZ Men's and Women's Beach teams have both cruised to victory in the Oceania Sub round of the Olympic Qualifying. The next stage is the Oceania round which will be held in January / February 2012 in either NZ or Australia, here NZ will need to finish in the top 3 out of 6 to progress to Asian round. Well done to both squads for this first achievement.

27-05-11 NZ Beach teams have kicked off their Olympic Qualification campaign today against Samoa and Tonga. Click here to see the blog from the trip.

25-05-11 The NZ Junior Men's team has been announced and local Otumoetai College player Griffin Muller has been selected for the tour of Australia. Also involved with the tour is Manager Don Thwaites from Tauranga. Click here to read more

20-05-11 8 athletes and 5 support staff will travel to Samoa this weekend to compete in the first round of the Confederation Olympic Qualifying. Click here for more details.

05-05-11 Three NZL mens teams have been competing in the Shanghai Open on the Asian Beach Volleyball Tour over the past week. Tim Cleaver is an official referee for the tournament. Click here to see results and photos.   

24-04-11 Both NZL mens teams have reached the semi finals at the Batam Open on the Asian Beach Volleyball Tour. Sam and Ben O'Dea, along with Edwin O'Dea and Brendon Heath will both face teams from Kazakhstan in their semis. Click here to read more. In the womens it has also been a good tournament with Jessie Muggeridge and Lydia McCormack finishing 5th, while Hannah Croad and Julia Tilley picked up a 9th place. Click here for more details.

24-04-11 Kirk Pitman and Jason Lochhead have made a positive start to their 2012 Olympic campaign picking up a 13th placing at the first World Tour stop in Brazil. For more detail click here. Another important step for the pair has been the signing on of a new coach for the Olympic qualification period, click here for more details. 

18-04-11 NZ U19 women's team announced with a strong BOP flavour. It is not surprising after collecting gold and silver at the NZSSVC the NZ U19 team features 8 BOP athletes. Click here to see the team. 

18-04-11 Ben and Sam O'Dea have restarted the Asian tour with a bang, winning the first event of 2011 in Thailand. The O'Dea's were 3rd seeds after some top results last year. The pair now travel to 2 more Asian tour events before stepping up to the World Tour Event in Shanghai at the start of May. Click here for press release

04-04-11 Congratulations to Andrea Tauai who was named tournament MVP at NZSSVC. Also named in the tournament team were Toni Bullock, Stephanie Pierce (TGC), Alyse Barclay, Melissa Cairns, Amy Hunter (OC) and Beniece Douch (BC). On the boys side Maia Westrupp, Jimi Lyford (Trident) and Sonny Hirini (TBC) made the tournament team.

02-04-11 Another great year for Bay of Plenty Schools at School Volleyball Nationals. In Div 1 Tauranga Girls picked up Gold, Otumoetai Girls Silver, Trident Boys Silver, Tauranga Boys Bronze. In Div 2 Otumoetai Boys Gold, Western Heights Boys Silver, Western Heights Girls Bronze.

31-03-11 Three BOP team have made the Finals at NZ School Nationals. Tauranga Girls and Otumoetai Girls have both cruised through their semi finals against Waimea College and Marlborough Girl College respectively. They will now face off in tomorrow afternoons final. On the Boys side Tauranga Boys and Trident High School meet in their semi final, the match went down to the wire, in the 5th set Trident produced some big blocks and took the match to book a place in the final against Westlake Boys High School.

30-03-11 Trident High School Boys and Girls, Whakatane High Girls, Bethlehem College Girls, Tauranga Girls College A and B, Otumoetai College Girls, Mt Maunganui College and Tauranga Boys College have all made division 1 at the National Secondary School Champs. Today they play there last 2 pool games which will decide who progress to the quarterfinals.

28-03-11 Tauranga Boys and Tauranga Girls have both started the National Secondary Schools Champs with a win. Both are top seeds, with TGC looking to repeat their victory from last year. In an upset Otumoetai College Boys A were beat by Manurewa High School this morning.

23-02-11 The BOP SS Volleyball Competition starts this weekend. After this weekends prelim tournament teams will be split into pools of 5 for the first round of competition. Click here for more details. 

24-02-11 The NZ Senior Men's Volleyball Team will be holding trials at One Tree Hill College Gym on March 5th. Along with the NZ Men's team a development team will also be selected both will compete at the South Pacific Challenge, held April 25 - 29. Click here for more details.

16-12-10 The BOP Under 15's have had quite a successful day at the Northern Zone IPC, in the Girls the BOP A team topped their pool closely followed by BOP B, so both will play semi finals at 10am Friday. In the boys, BOP B upset BOP A to advance to the Final against Auckland at 2pm Friday. Your support for the teams would be appreciated. The tournament is at QEYC Stadium, Tauranga.

13-12-10 Congratulations to Western Heights Junior Boys who won the North Island Junior Volleyball Championships.

13-12-10 Congratulations to all the Junior Athletes who have been selected to the BOP U15 Rep volleyball teams for  the Northern Zone Interprovincial Championships, on the 16th and 17th of December. Click here to see the Boys team lists. Click here to see the Girls team lists. 

2-12-10 BOP schools have secured 5 of the 8 semi final spots in Div 1 at the North Island Volleyball Champs. Mt Maunganui Girls are making their first trip to the semis after nudging passed Bethlehem. Otumoetai Girls have knocked out Kawerau to make the semi again, and Trident and Tauranga Girls are still battling each other for the last semi spot where they will face Mangere. In the boys Tauranga Boys and Western Heights (who knocked out Trident) are into the semis, while Mt Maunganui boys lost a 3 set battle with De La Salle.

 20-11-10 Congratulations to Paul Barr (SS Coach of the Year), Trident High School Senior Boys Volleyball (SS Team of the Year) and Tauranga Girls Senior Girls Volleyball (SS team of the Year), for their awards at teh BOP Sports awards.

31-10-10 Western Heights Boys, Tauranga Girls and Whakatane Girls are the only teams in the top 6 to finish the first day of qualifying undefeated. Click here to see the results.

21-10-10  The Bay of Plenty Junior Secondary Schools Champs have been completed. In the Girls TGC, Otumoetai, Trident and Mount College were undefeated in their pools. In the boys Trident, Western Heights, Otumoetai and TBC topped their pools. Click here to see the results.

11-10-10 Sam ODea and Mike Watson have won the first Men's Mauao Challenger. On the Women's side Hannah Croad and Jessie Muggeridge have taken the title. Click here for more info

7-10-10 The top 4 team have been found at the Volleyball Men's World Championships, Cuba will play Serbia, Brazil will play Italy. Click here to follow the finals matches.

21-09-10  The NZ Under 19 Girls have finished 12th at the Asian Junior Champs after losing their last game to Australia 3-1.

18-09-10 Sam and Ben O'Dea have been knocked out of the U21 Beach Volley World Championships. The pair finished tied with Russia and Australia in their pool with Russia coming out on top of the count back to progress to the top 16.

18-09-10 The NZ Under 19 Girls will play again tonight after a rest day. They will face Iran and will be looking for their 2nd win of th tournament after they beat Fiji on Thursday night.

16-09-10 The NZ Under 21 Women's beach volleyball team have won 1 and loss 1 at the beach volleyball world champs. Jessie and Lydia beat USA 2 21-16, 21-16, next they faced a very strong Russian team, who beat them 9-21, 8-21, to knock NZ out of the tournament. Ben and Sam O'Dea play Australia at 9pm tonight in the main draw.

16-09-10 The NZ Junior womens indoor team have had a disappointing 3-0 loss to India at the Asian Junior Champs. They will now play Fiji tonight. Click here to view the blog of the team.

15-09-10 The NZ Under 21 Women's beach volleyball team, Jessie Muggeridge & Lydia McCormack, will compete in Alanya, Turkey tonight against USA 2, if they win this game they will have 1 more game in order to progress to the main draw. Sam and Ben O'Dea have automatically qualified for the main draw and will start play Thursday evening.

14-09-10 The NZ Under 19 Women's team have lost their 2nd pool game against Kazakhstan, click here to follow the teams progress.

14-09-10  Volleyball BOP is please to announce the BOP Under 17 Girls Volleyball teams. Click here to see the teams.

13-09-10 Volleyball BOP is please to announce the BOP Under 17 Boys Volleyball teams. Click here to see the teams. The girls team will be announced tomorrow.

13-09-10 Congratulations to iNdoorstarZ (Tauranga), who won the 2nd annual BOP 4 a side club championships in Tauranga on Saturday. They defeated TBC1 in the finals, with Wot Eva (Rotovegas) 3rd.

09-09-10 New Zealander Hugh McCutcheon has coached the US Women's team to a World Grand Prix Gold. McCutcheon who has been coaching the Women's team for 2 seasons now lead the team to an undefeated finals campaign in China. 

30-08-10 Tauranga Women have won the National Club Championship for the 3rd time! Lead by sereval experienced players Tauranga defeated Scorpians (Dunedin) in the final 3 - 0, to finish the tournament without dropping a single set. Shannen Bagge was named best setter, Taina Savage was named best passer and 20 year old Lisa Claassen was named MVP. Tauranga Men finished a solid 7th, Tauranga Womens Raiders finished 10th and Tauranga Womens B finished 5th in Division 2.

22-08-10 Sam and Ben O'Dea have won the latest tournament on the Asian Beach Volleyball Tour. The pair are now travelling to The Hague in Holland to compete in their first World Tour event together. Click here to read the press release.

22-08-10 Kirk Pitman and Jason Lochhead have finished 17th in Aland, Finland. This draws their world tour season to an end as they will not play in The Hague in order to keep a high seeding for next years tour. Congratulations to them both for doing the Bay of Plenty proud.

16-08-10 Kirk Pitman and Jason Lochhead have finished 5th in Norway, after beating 2 top 10 ranked teams. This is their best result in 2 years, when they finished 3rd at the same tournament.

13-08-10 Kirk Pitman and Jason Lochhead have won both games on the first day of the Otera Open in Norway. This is the first time the pair have achieved this, and it guarentees them a top 10 finish. Click here to read the press release.

06-08-10 Jason Lochhead and Kirk Pitman have won 1 from 2 matches over night in Poland, the win, over Spain, was a major stepping stone as they are 1 of the most consistent teams in the World. The lost was to the Polish, who seem to thrive at their home events.

05-08-10 Jason Lochhead and Kirk Pitman start their next tournament on the beach volleyball world tour tonight. They are now in Poland for the Stare Jablonki Grand Slam. In their pool they will play Spain and Poland tonight and Norway tomorrow. Spain knocked NZL out of the last tournament in a close match so the Kiwis will be looking to reverse this result. 

02-08-10 Paora Morunga and Morgan Seymour have finished 9th at the Under 19 Beach Volleyball World Championships. NZL won 2 of their 4 games, and were eventually knocked out by Germany, who went on to finish 3rd. 

02-08-10 Kirk Pitman and Jason Lochhead have finished 17th at the Klagenfurt Grand Slam. They won 1 game in their pool play to make it into post section, where they were beat by Spain. USA won the tournament.

30-07-10 Morgan Seymour and Paora Morunga have won their first game at the Under 19 Beach Volleyball Championships. The pair, who automatically qualified for the main draw beat the Dutch team 21-16, 21-18. Click here to follow their results. 

28-07-10 Jason Lochhead and Kirk Pitman kick off their Grand Slam campaign tonight in Austria, they will face the top Austrian team at midnight tonight on centre court. Their 2nd match will be against the in form German pair of Koreng / Klemperer. Tomorrow night they will have their last pool matches against the Swiss. Click here to follow their results.

28-07-10 The NZ Under 19 squad had a tough day in Portugal. All 3 qualifying teams went down in their first match. Steph Pierce and Kelsie Wills performed well to take a set off their opponents Norway. Paora Morunga and Morgan Seymour, who have automatic entry to the main draw, will play tonight against the Netherlands

27-07-10 The New Zealand Under 19 teams start their World Champs Campaign in Portugal tonight. 3 of the 4 teams will be in action in the qualifying, Sonny Hirini and Tyler Hamlin, Steph Pierce and Kelsie Wills, & Danielle Quigley and Charlotte Joy. Click here  for a live feed from the centre court for tonights games. Paora Morunga and Morgan Seymour will have a rest day before the main draw starts tomorrow night.

26-07-10 3 BOP men have been selected in the NZ U20 teams, Luka Craig, Cameron Shaw and Rene Kapa. The team will compete at the 15th Asian Junior Men's Volleyball Championships in Thailand in October.

26-07-10 The NZ U19 beach volleyball squad has arrived in Porto, Portugal for the U19 Beach Volleyball World Champs. The Squad features Whakatane's Paora Morunga and Morgan Seymour (NZL1), Tauranga's Sonny Hirini (NZL2) in the boys and in the girls, Tauranga's Steph Pierce (NZL1). Click here to follow all the action which starts Wednesday.

26-07-10 The NZ mens and womens indoor teams will start their competition today at the Oceania Volleyball Championship in New Caledonia. 

26-07-10 The NZ mens beach team featuring Mt Maunganui's Tim Cleaver have finished 3rd at the Oceania Beach Volleyball Championships in New Caledonia.