Joe Boone X-Travaganza Brings a Close to Successful Beach Season in Virginia Virginia Beach Field house– The next to last stop on the 2024 Tour of America was a celebration, as Virginia honored their recent national titles earned in Fargo earlier in July. Event organizers presented VAWA Beach Director Frank Lipoli and members of the 16U/Jr. National Champions with plaques, t-shirts, and commemorative event posters from the event where both Virginia’s men’s and women’s teams were crowned as Fargo Showcase Champions. Following the pre-event festivities, a great evening of beach wrestling action ensued, with wrestlers from Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey taking part. Virginia’s own Vollie Hollands picked up both a 1st and 2nd place finish as a double entry into the senior men’s 80kg and 90kg divisions, while Emily Thomas of Virginia was the senior women’s champion

Corpus Christi Welcomes Beach Wrestling to the Lone Star State Corpus Christi, Tx– They say everything is bigger and Texas. And the Texas wrestling community set out to prove that statement true in their first ever beach wrestling event held in the state. McGee Beach proved to be the prefect setting for USA Texas’ inaugural beach wrestling event, with over eighty participants from six different states taking part. The sand was hot, but the beach wrestling action was even hotter, as wrestlers of all ages competed for the title of Texas Open Champion. Texas USA Vice Chair Jose Delgado commended the event staff and local volunteers on pulling together to produce a top notch event. The event kicked off on Friday evening with early weigh-ins at the Texas House of Rock. The weather Saturday was outstanding and the competition attracted

A WAVE of Beach Wrestlers Expected in California Two highly successful Tour of America beach tournaments and a host of other local events from New York to California made for a busy weekend of beach wrestling across the country, as athletes from all over came out for the fun and sun of beach wrestling, but also to prepare for US Beach Nationals coming up in Huntington Beach, California. Saturday’s Kentucky Beach Open drew a record number of attendees from eight states, and featured “ultimate brackets”, prize money, and several new awards. Midwest Beach Nationals held Sunday at Captain Ron’s in Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri also drew a record crowd of over two hundred wrestlers and nearly four hundred paid attendees. In addition to these large national events, there were numerous smaller events across the country including New York, Washington,