NCAA Sand Volleyball Passes Override

Thanks to all of the support from avid beach volleyball players and intelligent coaches, sand volleyball passed the override vote on Jan. 15th 2010 to become a collegiate sport.

Many schools tried to override the decision for greedy reasons of having more money to spread around the indoor program. Indoor coaches fear that the indoor sport will suffer because of how popular sand volleyball will become in a college setting. What sport would people want to watch more than sand volleyball? None! So knowing that sand volleyball will bring in more money for the school in it's first year than indoor volleyball could ever produce makes the indoor coaches nervous.

The fact is that indoor will continue to have it's fans because indoor volleyball for women is in the fall and sand volleyball will be in the spring. This means that fans of volleyball will be able to attend both. Although there are many more people each year that only play sand and never touch an indoor volleyball the fan base for sand volleyball will be greater than that of indoor.

There aren't many sports that are played in college that are not played in high school, so the next question is when will high school sand volleyball start? How are you supposed to train to play collegiate sand volleyball when you don't have anywhere to formally practice?

What is very surprising is the name of the schools that were on the list to override sand volleyball from being a collegiate sport. Most surprising was BYU, who has produced many professional beach volleyball players on the AVP. The fact that they tried to deny this opportunity to future female athletes is very selfish on their part. But now that it passed I wonder if they will adopt the sport where they would have plenty of great players. Most students at BYU come from California and many of them play beach volleyball already. They would not have a difficult time recruiting great beach volleyball players but will they swallow their pride and allow girls to play this great sport at their school?