By Daily Press staff
The 11th annual Amateur Athletic Union Junior Beach Volleyball National Championships will be held July 10 and 11 on the north side of the Hermosa Beach Pier. With each year, the championships have added more events and have hosted more teams. The 2003 National Championships was the largest youth tournament in the country with 197 teams on 41 courts — a vast increase from the 1994 championships which hosted only 16 teams.
In other volleyball news, the Cobra Junior Beach Volleyball Tour will sponsor 14 events in six states this summer. The tournaments are open to boys and girls two-person teams, ages 9-18. A complete schedule, age divisions, rules, information and registration are available on-line at www.aaubeach.org.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on June 16, 2004. Read the original PDF.