1981

Miller Brewing Company joins as major sponsor.

1982

Cash prizes for 6 tournaments.

$69,000 prize total (Miller Brewing sponsor).

Tour becomes national, with Clearwater (Florida) Open.        

1983 

Cash prizes for 12 tournaments.

$137,000 prize total (Miller Brewing sponsor).

Tour stopped in 4 states (CA, FL, NY, CO)  

AVP - Association of Volleyball
                                    Professionals  founded (July 21, 1983).        

1984 

AVP - Tour stopped in 7 states (CA, FL, NY, CO, IL, AZ, HA)

       25 total events - Miller sponsored 18,
                                    Cuervo 7 

       Player strike at World Championships, Redondo Beach.

 1985

AVP - Bolle Sunglasses joins as major sponsor

       Total tour prize money reaches $275,000.

1986

AVP - Pro Beach Volleyball
                                    receives cable television coverage via 

       "Prime Ticket", and Pro Beach Volleyball makes
                                    its network debut

       ABC's Wide World of Sports. 

International Exhibition in Rio de Janiero, with 5,000 spectators.        

WPVA - Women's Professional Volleyball Association  was  formed.

Australian Pro Beach Circuit formed.

1987

FIVB - FIVB's Mens Volleyball Championships held for first time -
                                    Ipanema, Brazil 

AVP - Tour stopped in 4 countries, 9 states (CA, FL, NY, CO, IL, AZ,
                                    OH, WI, MA). 

1988 

AVP - cash prizes
                                    for the 28 tournaments

      
                                    signs 3 year agreement with Miller, calling for $4.5 Million dollars.  

       Cuervo
                                    sponsors three $100,000 events.

       Miller hires AVP to produce 23 Lite Beer events.

 1991

AVP - King of the Beach event was added to the AVP schedule

1992

FIVB -  First Women's Event, Almeria, Spain, August 12-15

1993

FIVB -Women's World Championship Series initiated

AVP - NBC broadcasts 10 AVP
                                    events

       Estimated live attendance 600,000

      
                                    $3,700,000 total prize money.

Olympics - September 21st, the (IOC)
                                    grants Beach Volleyball Olympic medal status.

 1994

AVP - 27 total events

      
                                    Evian sponsors indoor event at Madison Square Garden

       Nestea sponsors four events

      
                                    NBC broadcasts 10 events (21 hours)

       $4,000,000 total prize money

1995

AVP - 29 total events 

       Evian
                                    Indoor Tour expands to 4 events

        (Washington, Boston, Minneapolis, New York)

1996 - First Women's Event, Almeria, Spain, August 12-15

Olympics - Olympics in Atlanta

            24 men's teams and 16 women's teams represent
                                    their countries

            in the first ever Olympic Beach Volleyball
                                    Tournaments.

1950's  Gene Selznik, Holtzman,
                                    Saenz

1960-1964    O'Hara,
                                    Bright

1965-1974    Ron
                                    Von Hagen, Lang

1975-1979    Jim
                                    Menges, Fishburn, Matt Gage, Dane Selznick 

1980's       Sinjin Smith,
                                    Randy Stoklos, Mike Dodd, Tim Hovland

1990's       Karch Kiraly, Kent Steffles