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The qualifying process for the 2004 Athens Olympic Games continues
this week in Asia for women and Europe for men and the domestic tour
in the United States resumes in Huntington Beach, Calif., for both men
and women.

The SWATCH-FIVB World Tour, which determines the qualifiers for the
Athens 2004 Olympic Games in August, will see the women's competition
return to China for the seventh-straight season with an event in
Shanghai while the men compete in the Serbia and Montenegro Open at
Buda. Both events will have $180,000 in prize money with qualifying
rounds beginning Wednesday (May 23) followed by double-elimination
Main Draw play Friday with the medals awarded after Sunday's finals.

The Nissan AVP Tour stages the first of three-straight weekends of pro
beach volleyball action in Southern California with the $125,000
Huntington Beach Open. Qualifying for both men and women will be held
Friday with the Main Draw rounds Saturday and Sunday. The domestic
tour continues in Manhattan Beach (June 4-6) and San Diego (June
11-13).

Misty May and Kerri Walsh, the No. 1-ranked team in the world, are
scheduled to compete in the Huntington Beach women's bracket after
extending their winning streak to 80 matches in winning the
SWATCH-FIVB World Tour stop in Rhodes, Greece.

The title was the 14th-straight for May and Walsh, who have won two
international and three domestic events this season. The last time May
and Walsh dropped a match was last season on July 5 when Ana Paula
Connolly and Sandra Pires of Brazil scored a 21-19 and 21-15 win over
the Americans in the finals of the Norwegian Open in Stavanger.

With May and Walsh being the top-ranked team on the United States
Olympic qualifying list for the 2004 Games, the tandems of Annett
Davis/Jenny Johnson Jordan and Holly McPeak/Elaine Youngs are
competing for the second American berth in the beach volleyball
competition in Athens.

May and Walsh have compiled 3,900 points from their best eight
finishes on the SWATCH-FIVB World Tour since January 2003 to top the
list. Despite finishing second to May and Walsh in Rhodes after
defeating Davis and Johnson Jordan in the semi-finals, McPeak and
Youngs dropped to third on the Olympic Qualifying list. Davis and
Johnson Jordan now have 2,558 points followed by McPeak and Youngs at
2,554.

Davis and Johnson Jordan used their fourth-place placement in Rhodes
to net 252 points to erase an 18-point finish from last season. McPeak
and Youngs, who entered last week's event with a 26-point lead over
Davis and Johnson Jordan, netted 324 points for their silver medal
finish in Greece to erase a 120-point finish from last season.

All three teams are scheduled to miss a SWATCH-FIVB World Tour event
Japan due to their participation in the Hermosa Beach AVP stop. The
top American teams will return for the final three Olympic qualifying
events in Switzerland, Germany and Norway.

Todd Rogers and Sean Scott led the effort for the men's teams from the
United States on the SWATCH-FIVB World Tour last week by placing
fourth in Lianyungang, China. Rogers and Scott will be joined by the
tandems of Dax Holdren/Stein Metzger and Eric Fonoimoana/Kevin Wong in
the Serbia and Montenegro Open Main Draw.

Dain Blanton and Jeff Nygaard, the No. 1-ranked men's team on the
United States Olympic qualifying list, will return to the AVP Nissan
Tour this week after placing seventh last week in China to improve
their Olympic qualifying total to 2,188 points.

Rogers and Scott are second on the United States Olympic qualifying
list with 1,600 points for their best eight finishes since the start
of the Olympic-qualifying process in January 2003. Holdren and
Metzger, who placed 17th last weekend, rank third on the United States
Olympic qualifying list with 1,404 points for five Olympic-qualifying
events.

Fonoimoana, who won the gold medal at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games
with Blanton, and Wong still have a chance for the second USA spot as
the pair has compiled 746 Olympic qualifying points for five events
after placing fifth in Lianyungang, who was hosting China's first-ever
international men's event.

After the Serbia and Montenegro Open, the teams of Rogers/Scott and
Holdren/Metzger will continue their Olympic bids by participating in
Portugal while Fonoimoana and Wong are scheduled to return to the
domestic tour in San Diego. Other men's Olympic qualifying events
prior to July 11 will be held in Puerto Rico, Switzerland, Germany and
Norway.

Pro Beach Volleyball Earning Leaders


SWATCH-FIVB World Tour

Rank, Team, Country, Events, 1st, Earnings
1, Emanuel Rego/Ricardo Santos, Brazil, 3, 1, $63,000
2, Javier Bosma/Pablo Herrera, Spain, 3, 1, $40,000
3, Franco Neto/Tande Ramos, Brazil, 3, 1, $39,000
4, Stefan Kobel/Patrick Heuscher, Switzerland, 3, 0, $34,000
5, Martin Conde/Mariano Baracetti, Argentina, 4, 1, $25,800
6, Harley Marques/Benjamin Insfran, Brazil, 2, 0, $21,000
7, Todd Rogers/Sean Scott, United States, 3, 0, $19,500
8, Martin Laciga/Paul Laciga, Switzerland, 4, 0, $17,300
9, Juan Rosell/Francisco Alvarez, Cuba, 3, 0, $17,000
10, Andrew Schacht/Josh Slack, Australia, 3, 0, $16,500
10, Robert Nowotny/Peter Gartmayer, Austria, 3, 0, $16,500
12, Rogerio Para/Pedro Cunha, Brazil, 2, 0, $16,000
13, Christoph Dieckmann/Andreas Scheuerpflug, Germany, 2, 0, $14,500
14, Markus Egger/Sascha Heyer, Switzerland, 3, 0, $14,000
15, Dain Blanton/Jeff Nygaard, United States, 3, 0, $13,000
16, Dax Holdren/Stein Metzger, United States, 3, 0, $12,500
17, Eric Fonoimoana/Kevin Wong, United States, 3, 0, $12,000
18, Markus Dieckmann/Jonas Reckermann, Germany, 1, 0, $11,000
19, Bjorn Maaseide/Iver Horrem, Norway, 2, 0, $9,500
19, Satoshi Watanabe/Katsuhiro Shiratori, Japan, 3, 0, $9,500
21, Fred Souza/Pedro Brazao, Brazil, 2, 0, $9,000
21, Julius Brink/Kjell Schneider, Germany, 3, 0, $9,000
21, Stephane Canet/Mathieu Hamel, France, 3, 0, $9,000
21, Jorre Kjemperud/Vegard Hoidalen, Norway, 3, 0, $9,000

Rank, Team, Events, 1st, Earnings
1, Misty May/Kerri Walsh, United States, 2, 2, $54,000
2, Shelda Bede/Adriana Behar, Brazil, 2, 0, $32,000
3, Elaine Youngs/Holly McPeak, United States, 2, 0, $25,000
4, Larissa Franca/Juliana Felisberta Silva, Brazil, 2, 0, $23,000
5, Annett Davis/Jenny Johnson Jordan, United States, 2, 0, $18,000
6, Jia Tian/Fei Wang, China, 2, 0, $15,000
7, Nicole Schnyder-Benoit/Simone Kuhn, Switzerland, 2, 0, $14,500
8, Chiaki Kusuhara/Ryo Tokuno, Japan, 2, 0, $13,000
9, Danja Musch/Suzanne Lahme, Germany, 2, 0, $12,500
10, Whenhui You/Lu Wang, China, 2, 0, $9,500
11, Renata Ribeiro/Shaylyn Bede, Brazil, 2, 0, $9,000
11, Sandra Pires/Ana Paula Connelly, Brazil, 1, 0, $9,000
13, Jana Vollmer/Andrea Ahmann, Germany, 2, 0, $8,500
13, Kerri-Ann Pottharst/Summer Lochowicz, Australia, 2, 0, $8,500
15, Stephanie Pohl/Okka Rau, Germany, 2, 0, $7,500
15, Lina Yanchulova/Petia Yanchulova, Bulgaria, 2, 0, $7,500
17, Guylaine Dumont/Annie Martin, Canada, 2, 0, $7,000
18, Ethel-Julie Arjona/Virginie Kadjo, France, 2, 0, $6,000
18, Vasso Karadassiou/Efi Sfyri, Greece, 2, 0, $6,000
20, Eva Celbova/Sona Dosoudilova, Czech Republic, 1, 0, $5,500
21, Susanne Glesnes/Kathrine Maaseide, Norway, 2, 0, $5,000
21, Efthalia Koutroumanidou/Vassiliki Arvaniti, Greece, 2, 0, $5,000
21, Tamara Larrea Peraza/Dalixia Fernandez Grasset, Cuba, 2, 0, $5,000
21, Angela Clarke/Kylie Gerlic, Australia, 2, 0, $5,000


NISSAN AVP TOUR

Rank, Team, Events, 1st, Earnings
1, Todd Rogers/Sean Scott, 3, 1, $30,075
2, Adam Jewell/Jake Gibb, 3, 1, $21,375
3, Larry Witt/Sean Rosenthal, 3, 1, $18,500
4, Casey Jennings/Matt Fuerbringer, 3, 0, $14,850
5, Jason Ring/George Roumain, 3, 0, $14,150
6, Karch Kiraly.Mike Lambert, 3, 0, $13,850
7, Dax Holdren/Stein Metzger, 3, 0, $12,825
8, Dain Blanton/Jeff Nygaard, 3, 0, $9,025
9, Eric Fonoimoana/Kevin Wong, 3, 0, $6,600
10, Andy Witt/John Hyden, 3, 0, $6,500

Rank, Team, Events, 1st, Earnings
1, Misty May/ Kerri Walsh, 3, 3, $43,500
2, Elaine Youngs/Holly McPeak, 3, 0, $25,325
3, Annett Davis/Jenny Johnson Jordan, 3, 0, $21,400
4, Leanne McSorley/Lisa Arce, 3, 0, $15,150
5, Carrie Busch/Nancy Mason, 3, 0, $10,925
6, Barbra Fontana/Jennifer Kessy, 3, 0, $8,600
7, Gracie Santana-Baeni/Paula Roca, 3, 0, $7,600
7, Tammy Leibl/Dianne DeNecochea, 2, 0, $7,600
9, Jennifer Meredith/Wendy Stammer, 3, 0, $6,600
10, Rachel Wacholder/Ashley Bowles, 3, 0, $5,150


Pro Beach Volleyball Points Leaders


SWATCH-FIVB World Tour

Rank, Team, Country, Points
1, Emanuel Rego/Ricardo Santos, Brazil, 1,008
2, Stefan Kobel/Patrick Heuscher, Switzerland, 720
3, Javier Bosma/Pablo Herrera, Spain, 684
4, Franco Neto/Tande Ramos, Brazil, 648
5, Martin Conde/Mariano Baracetti, Argentina, 570
6, Harley Marques/Benjamin Insfran, Brazil, 468
6, Todd Rogers/Sean Scott, United States, 468
8, Juan Rosell/Francisco Alvarez, Cuba, 432
8, Andrew Schacht/Josh Slack, Australia, 432
10, Martin Laciga/Paul Laciga, Switzerland, 422
11, Robert Nowotny/Peter Gartmayer, Austria, 414
12, Christoph Dieckmann/Andreas Scheuerpflug, Germany, 360
12, Markus Egger/Sascha Heyer, Switzerland, 360
14, Pedro Cunha/Pará Ferreira, Brazil, 324
14, Dain Blanton/Jeff Nygaard, United States, 324
14, Dax Holdren/Stein Metzger, United States, 324
17, Eric Fonoimoana/Kevin Wong, United States, 306
18, Markus Dieckmann/Jonas Reckermann, Germany, 252
18, Bjorn Maaseide/Iver Horrem, Norway, 252
20, Satoshi Watanabe/Katsuhiro Shiratori, Japan, 216
20, Julius Brink/Kjell Schneider, Germany, 216
20, Stephane Canet/Mathieu Hamel, France, 216
20, Jorre Kjemperud/Vegard Hoidalen, Norway, 216
20, Fred Souza/Pedro Brazao, Brazil, 216

Rank, Team, Country, Points
1, Misty May, Kerri Walsh, United States, 720
2, Shelda Bede, Adriana Behar, Brazil, 612
3, Elaine Youngs, Holly McPeak, United States, 504
3, Larissa Franca, Juliana Felisberta Silva, Brazil, 504
5, Annett Davis, Jenny Johnson Jordan, United States, 432
6, Jia Tian, Fei Wang, China, 360
6, Nicole Schnyder-Benoit, Simone Kuhn, Switzerland, 360
8, Chiaki Kusuhara/Ryo Tokuno, Japan, 324
8, Danja Musch/Suzanne Lahme, Germany, 324
10, Whenhui You/Lu Wang, China, 252
11, Renata Ribeiro/Shaylyn Bede, Brazil, 216
11, Sandra Pires/Ana Paula Connelly, Brazil, 216
11, Jana Vollmer/Andrea Ahmann, Germany, 216
11, Kerri-Ann Pottharst/Summer Lochowicz, Australia, 216
15, Stephanie Pohl/Okka Rau, Germany, 180
15, Lina Yanchulova/Petia Yanchulova, Bulgaria, 180
15, Guylaine Dumont/Annie Martin, Canada, 180
18, Ethel-Julie Arjona/Virginie Kadjo, France, 144
18, Vasso Karadassiou/Efi Sfyri, Greece, 144
18, Eva Celbova/Sona Dosoudilova, Czech Republic, 144
21, Milagros Crespo/Imara Esteves Ribalta, Cuba, 126
21, Laura Bruschini/Annamaria Solazzi, Italy, 126
23, Susanne Glesnes/Kathrine Maaseide, Norway, 108
23, Efthalia Koutroumanidou/Vassiliki Arvaniti, Greece, 108


NISSAN AVP TOUR

Rank, Team, Points
1, Todd Rogers/Sean Scott, 954
2, Adam Jewell/Jake Gibb, 738
3, Jason Ring/George Roumain, 720
4, Dax Holdren/Stein Metzger, 702
5, Casey Jennings/Matt Fuerbringer, 684
6, Larry Witt/Sean Rosenthal, 648
6, Karch Kiraly/Mike Lambert, 648
8, Dain Blanton/Jeff Nygaard, 558
9, Eric Fonoimoana/Kevin Wong, 504
10, Andy Witt/John Hyden, 468

Rank, Team, Points
1, Misty May/Kerri Walsh, 1,080
2, Elaine Youngs/Holly McPeak, 918
3, Annett Davis/Jenny Johnson Jordan, 864
4, Leanne McSorley/Lisa Arce, 756
5, Carrie Busch/Nancy Mason, 630
6, Barbra Fontana/Jennifer Kessy, 576
7, Gracie Santana-Baeni/Paula Roca, 540
7, Tammy Leibl/Dianne DeNecochea, 540
9, Jennifer Meredith/Wendy Stammer, 504
10, Rachel Wacholder/Ashley Bowles, 432


2004 SWATCH-FIVB World Tour & NISSAN AVP Tour Beach Schedules

Dates, Tournament, Gender, Winners/Purse
January 23-25, Argentinean Satellite, Mar del Plata, M, Martin
Conde/Mariano Baracetti, Argentina
March 9-14, Brazil Open, Fortaleza, W, Misty May/Kerri Walsh, United
States
March 16-21, Brazil Open, Salvador, M, Emanuel Rego/Ricardo Santos,
Brazil
March 23-28, South Africa Open, Cape Town, M, Tande Ramos/Franco Neto,
Brazil
April 2-4, Fort Lauderdale Open (Florida), M, Sean Rosenthal/Larry
Witt
April 2-4, Fort Lauderdale Open (Florida), W, May/Walsh
April 23-25, Tempe Open (Arizona), M, Todd Rogers/Sean Scott
April 23-25, Tempe Open (Arizona), W, May/Walsh
April 30-May 2, Austin Open (Texas), M, Jake Gibb/Adam Jewell
April 30-May 2, Austin Open (Texas), W, May/Walsh
May 19-23, China Open, Lianyungang, M, Javier Bosman/Pablo Herrera,
Spain
May 19-23, Greece Open, Rhodes, W, May/Walsh, United States
May 26-30, Serbia and Montenegro Open, Budva, M, $180,000
May 26-30, China Open, Shanghai, W, $180,000
May 28-30, Huntington Beach Open (California), M&W, $125,000
June 2-6, Portugal Open, Espinho, M, $180,000
June 2-6, Japan Open, Osaka, W, $180,000
June 4-6, Manhattan Beach Open (California), M&W, $125,000
June 9-13, Puerto Rico Open, Carolina Beach, M, $180,000
June 11-13, San Diego Open (California), M&W, $125,000
June 15-20, Switzerland Open, Gstaad, M&W, $360,000
June 22-27, Germany Grand Slam, Berlin, M&W, $600,000
June 30-July 4, Norway Open, Stavanger, M&W, $360,000
July 8-11, Belmar Open (New Jersey), M&W, $175,000
July 13-18, France Grand Slam, Marseille, M&W, $560,000
July 21-25, Poland Open, Stare Jablonki, M, $180,000
July 22-25, Hermosa Beach Open (California), M&W, $175,000
July 23-25, Italy Challenger, Cagliari, W, $35,000
July 27-August 1, Ukraine Challenger, Kiev, M, $30,000
July 28-August 1, Austria Grand Slam, Klagenfurt, M&W, $540,000
August 4-8, Switzerland Satellite, Lausanne, M&W, $30,000
August 14-25, XXVIII Olympic Games, Athens, Greece, M&W, $0
August 20-22, Corsica Satellite, Porticcio, France, M&W, $20,000
August 27-29, France Satellite, Lavandou, M&W, $20,000
September 1-5, Spain Open, Mallorca, M, $180,000
September 1-5, Italy Open, Milan, W, $180,000
September 2-5, Chicago Open (Illinois), M&W, $175,000
September 9-11, Las Vegas Shootout (Nevada), M&W, $150,000
September 20-26, Brazil Open, Rio de Janeiro, M&W, $360,000
September 24-26, Hawaiian Invitational (Hawaii), M&W, $150,000
October 15-17, Los Angeles Invitational (Carson), M&W, TBD