Just because someone says I’m old at 45 doesn’t mean I can’t play,” Phil Dalhausser said after winning the AVP League Championship on Sunday with teammate Trevor Crabb.

The two-day AVP League Championships began Saturday at Chicago’s Oak Street Beach, with half of the teams for Sunday’s finals determined.

Video: Watch former Iredell high school volleyball star Julia Donlin and her teammate, Lexy Denaburg, win the AVP Beach ...

Manhattan Beach is like the Wimbledon of American beach volleyball. Nuss and Brasher repeated as champions there, something not done on the women’s side in nearly a decade. “Winning it again was ...

Kristen Nuss and Taryn Brasher, a pair of former LSU standouts and Olympians, defeated Terese Cannon and Megan Kraft in the finals (15-21, 21-18, 15-13).

Most visibly, the AVP league departs from traditional beach volleyball, where twosomes traveled and competed for themselves, by teaming a men’s pair with a women’s pair and assigning them a ...

Taryn Kloth Brasher made a smooth transition from superstar at indoor volleyball for LSU to the rough and tumble AVP Tour.

The 27th-seeded pair of Kelly Belardi and Natalie Myszkowski, both Manhattan Beach natives, knock off the sixth- and 11th-seeded teams in their first appearance in the main draw.

Playing indoors at the Intuit Dome offers a somewhat surreal experience for AVP players who express excitement over what this might mean for the sport.

With the help of 16 truckloads of sand, AVP will host its first beach volleyball event in an NBA arena at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood.

The free event, which will take place from Thursday to Sunday, Sept. 4 to 7, features 64 teams and $150,000 in total purse.