BEACH VOLLEYBALL
Beach Volleyball with Fresno Heat
Beach volleyball offers a fantastic way to improve your skills, stay fit, and enjoy the summer. Its unique challenges require a different approach than indoor volleyball. Our coaches provide expert training to sharpen your skills, develop your strategy, and build teamwork. Plus, we'll participate in summer tournaments and events, giving you opportunities to compete and showcase your progress. We look forward to seeing you back on the sand!
Beach season 2026
Skills evaluations will be held on May 27th and 29th to assess each player's beach volleyball skills. We welcome boys and girls aged 9 and older of all skills levels, ensuring an inclusive environment for all participants. Sign Up for Evaluations Now
Players will be directed towards advanced or beginner groups and can register for full or half-season options. Get ready for sun, sand, awesome volleyball, expert coaching, exciting tournaments, and a summer of beach volleyball excellence!
2-Day Evaluations
- Cost: $30 (Attending both is highly recommended)
- May 27: Skills Assessment at HEAT West sand courts (6:00 PM - 7:30 PM)
- May 29: Game Play Evaluation at Clovis Bicentennial Park (6:30 PM - 8:00 PM)
- Sign Up for Evaluations Now
Summer Season Options
- Full Season: $400 (June - July 18 practices)
- Half Season: $300 (June or July only - 9 practices)
- Half and Full Season include a Shirt
- Individual sessions: $40 (Non-refundable)
- Register for Club Season Now
Full and Half Season Participants get Half of Beach Tournaments
25% Sibling discount for additional registrations
Practice Schedule
- Option 1: Advanced Players
- Location: Bicentennial Park
- Days: Tuesdays and Thursdays
- Time: 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
- Note: Please arrive at 6:00 PM if you are able to help set up the nets
- Option 2: New to the Beach
- Location: HEAT West
- Days: Mondays and Wednesdays
- Time: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Beach Tournament Series
- Team Cost: $50 per team
- Member Discount: 50% discount for all Heat Beach members
- Registration: One parent will register and pay for both players on the team.
- Saturday: Girls U14 - U18 @ Sierra Bicentennial Park, Boys U14 - U18 @ HEAT West
- Sunday: Girls U10 - U13 @ Sierra Bicentennial Park, Boys U10 - U13 @ HEAT West
- Time: 7:00 AM - 12:00 PM
- Register for Tournaments Now
Tournament Dates
- June 6 and 7
- June 20 and 21
- June 27 and 28
- July 11 and 12
- July 18 and 19
- August 1 and 2
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WHY BEACH?
The game of volleyball has always had a presence on the beach. Lately that presence has found its way to the Olympics, and even more recently to college campuses all around the country. As organized beach competitions for our youth has evolved we at Fresno Heat have evolved with it and now have a competitive beach program.
Beach volleyball is an all inclusive game. With only 2 players per team, each player is required to perform ALL volleyball skills at a proficient level. Opponents regularly expose and accentuate flaws in certain aspects of an individuals game, thus requiring constant work on an athletes weakest assets. All of this leads to the overall improvement of the individual skills rapidly.
BEACH COACHES
MARTINA GREGUSOVA
MARTINA GREGUSOVA
MARTINA GREGUSOVA
Martina was born in Slovakia and came to the US at the age of 19, due to being recruited to play NCAA Division I Volleyball at Mississippi State. In her first year playing Division I Volleyball, she was named Player of the Week multiple times and made the TOP 8 Freshman honors by the end of the year. As a Sophomore, She transferred to Fresno Pacific University and in three seasons with the team, was named All-GSAC three times, First team NAIA All American twice and NAIA National Tournament MVP twice. She was also named GSAC player of the year while leading the Sunbirds to two NAIA national championships.
Volleyball
AWARDS & HONORS:
Women's Volleyball Champion, 2009- 2010 (MVP of 2 tournaments);
Most outstanding player of Golden State Athletic Conference, 2010:
All-American NAIA First Team, 2009,20210,2011;
FPU Captain’ Award 2011:
COACHING EXPERIENCE:
Eight grade boys, Clark Intermediate, Fresno, California, 2012-2013
(Results: League Champion 2013)
JV Clovis High School Girls, Clovis, California, 2012 (Results: Area Champions 2012)
Varsity assistant head coach Clovis High School, Clovis, California,2013-2014 (Results:2014 TRAC and Valley championship)
Varsity head coach Bullard High School, Fresno, California 2015-2017
Varsity head coach SJM, Fresno 2017-Present (Results 2019 DIV III Valley Champ)
CLUB VOLLEYBALL EXPERIENCE
Tsunami Club volleyball
18 ,14 & 12’s Girl Head Club Coach and club co-director , Clovis, California 2010-2014
Clovis volleyball boys club
14’s Boys Head Club Coach, Clovis, California 2012-2014
(Results: North region Champions 2012 qualified to Junior Olympics in Summer 2013,finished 5th)
Fresno volleyball club
Club director, Fresno, California 2015-2017
Fresno heat volleyball club
Club Director 2017-present
Beach volleyball played in Europe during her college years and played for Slovak national team.
GENE NELSON
MARTINA GREGUSOVA
MARTINA GREGUSOVA
Gene started his coaching/playing career in the mid 80’s and has been coaching/playing volleyball at various levels for the past thirty five years. Gene started his volleyball coaching career as a student assistant coach at Western Oregon State College. WOSC was a successful NAIA program in Monmouth Oregon and nationally ranked. He then traveled to Memphis State University and was hired as the assistant women’s head coach for the lady Tigers. This was an up in coming, Div I program. Gene was in charge of recruiting, conditioning and day to day practices. During his tenure at MSU the team was ranked in the top 25 nationally, they made the NCAA playoffs and lost in the 1993 NIT championship match.
After coaching at MSU he trained with the USA National B team for several years. After playing indoor volleyball Gene made the switch to beach volleyball. He competed in various beach tournaments throughout the nation. During his time playing beach volleyball, Gene also traveled and put on volleyball camps around the United States for indoor and beach volleyball.
He has recently been involved in coaching at the elementary, middle school and high school levels. Gene has coached both boys and girls volleyball during this time. He has been fortunate to have had great athletes who were able to win multiple Fresno Unified and CIF championships. I currently Gene is the head Junior Varsity coach at San Joaquin Memorial High School and the head coach for the U14 Gold Fresno Heat girls’ team.
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