692 is a program in Dallas designed to train juniors in Beach Volleyball. Beach Volleyball for juniors is quickly gaining popularity in Texas and in 2005 we started a program called 692 that immediately became the most elite Beach Volleyball program in the Southwest, with our players dominating every age division of Regionals every year and going on to California to compete in Nationals. Last year we took 36 players to nationals in Manhattan Beach and our success there has brought Spalding to our team as a sponsor this year.

Our players are featured in several newspaper articles every year and were featured in Volleyball Magazine as "stars of the future" for the last two years. Beach Volleyball is an amazing tool for developing your hitting, defense, and ball control. Ask any college coach in the country and they will tell you that Beach Volleyball is the quickest way to develop your game.

Beach Volleyball is now an NCAA sport and Colleges all over the nation will be looking for beach volleyball players to represent their universities. Beach Volleyball in the past was a great way to develop your indoor game, but due to the popularity and success of the sport, it is now a new way to get a college scholarship! Some colleges are going to have separate Beach Volleyball programs and some may use some of their existing indoor players to form their beach program, but either way, knowing how to play Beach Volleyball can either get you a scholarship or help you get a scholarship playing indoor.

692 has been working in conjunction with the USA Beach Volleyball program. We hosted the Dallas stop of their national tour last year and this year we are hosting that same event, as well as the tryout for the USA High Performance Beach Team. Some of our players have been invited to the USA Beach Olympic Training Center in San Diego in 2009 to train with Angela Rock and Anjino Bacil. We took four players to the High Performance tryout in Long Beach in March of this year. They were the youngest players there and they did great! We are taking another group of players to the tryout in Phoenix in April. We are turning our focus in 2010 toward working with USA Beach Volleyball to produce players that will represent the USA and compete internationally!

While most programs are trying to expose as many girls as possible to the sport, our program is an elite team coached by professional beach volleyball players. 692 is holding it's 2010 tryout on May 8th and 9th. Our core team in Coppell practices twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:00-2:30 at Yucatan Beach Club in Coppell. These practices include a 30 minute warm-up/freeplay and a 90 minute practice combined with a training session with our professional strength and conditioning coach. I know that it is difficult to get the girls to a practice during the day when both parents work, but we feel that training the girls in the heat is a necessary part of the game and we want them to be able to make it through a weekend tournament in the middle of the summer. The conditioning portion of these sessions is specifically designed to increase the girls' verticals and develop speed and stamina in the sand. The cost for the summer is $680 and this includes a Spalding beach volleyball, a backpack, a jersey top, and a T-shirt. Your fees cover everything except tournament entry fees (which are about $15-$20/player) and your travelling expenses to out of town events. There is a tournament every Friday Night at Yucatan and also a tournament every weekend during the season. These weekend tournaments are on Saturday or Sunday, depending on your age group. All practices and all tournaments are completely optional, so if you have vacation you need to work around, no problem. Our most successful teams will be at most practices and play in most tournaments, but some of our teams will only play in a few tournaments. Your commitment level is entirely up to you.

We are adding some new facilities for 2010 in Plano. These facilities will have a seperate tryout on May 9th and will have various practice times during the day and also some practice times that are at night for parents who can't get their daughters to a daytime practice.

Check out the bios of our coaches in the coaches section and you will understand why we are the most successful beach volleyball program in the country.