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Post by JB Southpaw on Dec 18, 2017 14:59:17 GMT -5
www.flovolleyball.tv/video/6062936-kerri-walsh-jennings-is-launching-a-beach-volleyball-tour-in-2018During a meet and greet with the 2017 First Team Under Armour High School All-Americans, Kerri Walsh Jennings announced she is launching a professional beach volleyball tour in 2018, and she plans on competing on it with Nicole Branagh. The four-time Olympic beach volleyball medalist boycotted the established domestic beach volleyball tour, the Association of Volleyball Professionals, in 2017 because of a dispute over the AVP player contract. Instead, Walsh Jennings competed in a handful of FIVB international tournaments and the World Series of Beach Volleyball, an event founded by her agent and former AVP CEO and commissioner Leonard Armato, before suffering yet another shoulder injury in July.
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Post by bigfan on Dec 18, 2017 15:07:36 GMT -5
PLEASE LET THIS BE TRUE........................WHAT A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS PRESENT!
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Post by JB Southpaw on Dec 18, 2017 15:12:37 GMT -5
need a bunch more info.
AVP getting their news out 1st is important.
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Post by wilsonthevolleyball2 on Dec 18, 2017 15:16:10 GMT -5
Well hey, kudos for going all in, but the thing is: the AVP is the pro tour. Not "a" pro tour, the pro tour for beach volley in the U.S. Unless this is more of a kind of semi-pro grass roots set-up, I don't see how it gains traction. The top players won't/can't play, plus with the troubles with the NVL I'm not sure how many people believe that there can be more than one pro league anymore. Hey, I could be wrong, just not seeing it.
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Post by JB Southpaw on Dec 18, 2017 15:30:21 GMT -5
going to be interesting. It can't be a 1 year commitment, will have to stick it out for 5 years if she really wants it to take off.
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Post by bigfan on Dec 18, 2017 15:31:14 GMT -5
Kerri Walsh Jennings is genius as a athlete, as a intellectual and as a VISIONARY.
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Post by tamz on Dec 18, 2017 15:36:23 GMT -5
Wait... what??
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Post by goudey on Dec 18, 2017 15:41:02 GMT -5
Kudos for putting her money where her mouth is, but I don't see this happening without her finding a way to wipe out the AVP and the exclusive contracts.
Again.. who is going to play?
So I am assuming she will somehow piggyback off the world series, NVL cluster and create the first asics fivb nvl kerri walsh nicole branaugh world series of long beach open.
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Post by JB Southpaw on Dec 18, 2017 16:02:18 GMT -5
AVP contracts from last year were for multiple years if I remember correct??
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Post by donnyw on Dec 18, 2017 16:10:29 GMT -5
Good For her & Everyone else involved. Hope it works out for all involved..If you don’t like something, attempt to fix it...I’ll reserve judgment...I’ll leave it the Walsh haters to bash her...
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Post by volleyballjim on Dec 18, 2017 16:15:11 GMT -5
AVP was a 4 year deal from what I recall. I would assume this would be kind of a "one-off" exhibition, possibly using FIVB players? AVP players would have to be barred from this obviously. Since most US "consumers" are relatively unaware of many AVPers, less so with the FIVB icons, can't imagine who'd populate the tour. NVL is way too low of the "radar" to market any reasonable audience; with that said, we'll have to see what the product looks like, but hard to believe, with the rise of the AVP who is now linked to Amazon Prime, this could be pulled off... Healthy, she is still the formidable player/force in beach . . .
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Post by tamz on Dec 18, 2017 16:15:21 GMT -5
Good For her & Everyone else involved. Hope it works out for all involved..If you don’t like something, attempt to fix it...I’ll reserve judgment...I’ll leave it the Walsh haters to bash her... Yeah, I won’t comment either...cause I don’t know how to respond.
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Post by haze on Dec 18, 2017 16:15:45 GMT -5
So Branaugh is just done with AVP? She did sign the contract.
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Post by hustleslowly on Dec 18, 2017 16:18:40 GMT -5
So Branaugh is just done with AVP? She did sign the contract. She can make more money on the new tour as there'll be no competition. Just show up and win.
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Post by haze on Dec 18, 2017 16:21:11 GMT -5
So Branaugh is just done with AVP? She did sign the contract. She can make more money on the new tour as there'll be no competition. Just show up and win. Does she know what the tour specs are? Kind of strange to tie the rest if your career to kerri walshs right shoulder.
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