May 5 Is Texas In The East? TCU celebrates is first National Championship Good morning, beach volleyball fans, One of the funnier things about beach volleyball is that, in some circles, anything outside of California is technically considered the East. So it goes with TCU, who claimed not only its first National Championship on Sunday in Gulf Shores with a thrilling 3-2 win over LMU -- who was also making its NCAA Finals debut -- but the first National Championship for any school outside of...

April 28 There's No Place Like Gulf Shores Good morning, beach volleyball fans, The first open tournament I ever played was in Gulf Shores, Alabama, in May of 2015, on a few courts backed up against the NCAA Championships. Though I didn't know it at the time, it was the first time I had ever crossed paths with Delaney Knudsen, who was then a court one standout for Pepperdine (and would narrowly lose in three in the finals to a team you may have heard of, Kelly Claes and Sara Hughes). I...