Beach volleyball is a team sport played by two teams of players on a sand court divided by a net. Similar to indoor volleyball, the objective of the game is to send the ball over the net and to ground it on the opponent's side of the court. Each team works in unison to prevent the opposing team from grounding the ball on their side of the court.
Kerri Lee Walsh Jennings is an American professional beach volleyball player, three-time Olympic gold medalist, and a one-time Olympic bronze medalist. She is the beach volleyball career leader in both career victories and career winnings as of 2016, with 133 victories and $2,542,635 in winnings.
Misty Elizabeth May-Treanor is a retired American professional beach volleyball player. She is a three-time Olympic gold medalist, and as of August 2012, was the most successful female beach volleyball player with 112 individual championship wins in domestic and international competition.
Nicole Christine Branagh is an American volleyball player. She has represented the United States in international competition as a member of both the indoor and beach national teams. With partner Elaine Youngs, Branagh competed in the beach volleyball tournament at the 2008 Summer Olympics, finishing fifth. She currently plays beach volleyball professionally as a right-side defender.
Tara Cross-Battle is a retired volleyball player from the United States, who won the bronze medal with the USA National Women's Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. She played NCAA women's volleyball for California State University, Long Beach, where she helped lead her team to the 1989 NCAA Championship title. In 1990, she won the Honda-Broderick Award as the nation's best female collegiate volleyball player.
The Loyola Marymount Lions are the athletic teams that represent Loyola Marymount University, a Jesuit institution in Los Angeles, California. The school competes in NCAA Division I and the West Coast Conference.
Xue Chen is a Chinese female beach volleyball player, measuring 191 centimetres in height. Her hometown is Fuzhou, but she trains in Sanya, Hainan. She has also trained in California under coach Dane Selznick. She competed at the 2020 Olympics with X. Wang in Tokyo held in 2021.
The India national under-23 football team represents India in international under-23 football and is controlled by the All India Football Federation (AIFF). A member of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), the team is eligible to compete in the Summer Olympic Games, the AFC U-23 Asian Cup, and the Asian Games, subject to qualification.
Zhang Changning is a female Chinese indoor volleyball and beach volleyball player. She is a member of China women's national volleyball team. On club level, she plays for Jiangsu Zenith Steel.
Soorya Thottangal was an Indian female volleyball player. She was part of the India women's national volleyball team.
Aishath Nazima is a retired Maldivian athlete. She competed in Volleyball, Basketball, Netball, Athletics and Handball. She was selected as Asia's 11th player of the tournament. She won one silver medal and one bronze medal. She was part of the Maldives women's national Volleyball, Athletics, Netball, Basketball and Handball teams. She is the only woman to become the Vice president of Football Association of Maldives.
Leela Hamid is a retired Maldivian female volleyball player, playing as a middle blocker. She was part of the Maldives women's national volleyball team.
Pilar Mardones is a professional Chilean female beach volleyball player, playing as an outside hitter. She was part of the Chile women's national volleyball team.
Beach volleyball at the 2018 Asian Games was held in Palembang, Indonesia from August 19 to 28, 2018. In this edition, 19 nations played in the men's competition, and 10 nations participated in women's competition.
Xiong Zi is a Chinese female volleyball player, playing as an outside hitter. She was part of the China women's national volleyball team.
Chuda Kumari Khadka is a Nepalese volleyball player. She plays for Nepal women's national volleyball team and Nepal Police Club. She participated at the 2012 Asian Beach Games in Haiyang, China and South Asian Games 2006 in Colombo, Sri Lanka and 2010 in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Yelena Ezau is a Kazakhstani female volleyball player who currently plays for the Kazakhstani domestic club Altay VC in domestic league matches.
Lyudmila Issayeva is a Kazakhstani female volleyball player. She is a member of the Kazakhstan women's national volleyball team. She was part of the Kazakhstani national team at the 2014 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship in Italy, and the 2016 FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix.
Farzaneh Zarei is an Iranian volleyball player who plays for the Iran women's national volleyball team.
Kathy Gregory is an American retired volleyball coach. Upon her retirement as the University of California, Santa Barbara's only women's volleyball head coach, after 38 seasons she amassed 882 wins, the fifth most in NCAA Division I history. As a player, Gregory represented the United States at the 1970 World Games and the 1971 Pan American Games and she was also the captain of the professional San Diego Breakers. In 1989, Gregory was inducted into the Volleyball Hall of Fame.
