In its fourth year under the guidance of AVP Managing Partner Donald Sun, the AVP has enhanced its seventh tournament schedule to bring the best of professional beach volleyball to fans across the country from coast to coast. The 2015 season will see tournaments return to Cincinnati; Manhattan Beach, Calif. and Huntington Beach, Calif., while the AVP will add tournaments in New Orleans, Seattle, Chicago and a new city in the Northeast U.S., which will be announced in the coming weeks.

“We are pleased with the progress we have made since 2012, and feel that the strength of the 2015 AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour schedule is a testament to our hard work and the proven appeal our sport has across the country,” Sun said. “As we enter a pre-Olympic year, this is undoubtedly a very important time for the AVP and beach volleyball; this is our year, and we will Own the Summer.”

Three tournaments return from 2014 – the AVP Cincinnati Open, AVP Championships at Huntington Beach and the legendary AVP Manhattan Beach Open, the longest running and most prestigious event in the sport. In addition, the AVP will return to New Orleans for the first time since 1999 and to Seattle for the first time since 1990. The AVP will also return to the shores of Lake Michigan for the Chicago Open, a tournament last held in 2009.

The AVP is the exclusive domestic beach volleyball home of the nation’s top athletes, including Olympic gold medalists Kerri Walsh-Jennings (2004, 2008, 2012), Todd Rogers (2008) and Phil Dalhausser (2008); Olympic silver medalists April Ross (2012) and Jen Kessy (2012); two-time Olympians Jake Gibb (2008, 2012) and Sean Rosenthal (2008, 2012); and Olympian Nicole Branagh (2008).