AVP Crocs Tour – A Match Made in Heaven

My husband has a love of volleyball, I have a new love of Crocs, together the AVP Crocs Tour is a match made in heaven for the two of us. . . .

You are all not strangers to the fact that I am now in love with Crocs. Yes, I am a convert who once swore to never wear a Croc. They are just way too comfortable NOT to wear people!

My husband has been obsessed with loved volleyball for as long as I have known him. Sand volleyball to be more precise. When we first met and were dating he would play several times a week. Obviously, mostly in the summer since we live in Ohio and there are only about 5 good months for playing sand volleyball. The other 7 months he played indoor ball just as often to “stay in shape”.

Over the years, his amount of time playing volleyball has decreased dramatically. Not because he doesn’t enjoy playing but because he values our marriage and our child over the sport. (Yes, and because his wife wasn’t too supportive of that habit). LOL.

April Ross serving. . .the Women's Final Winners in Cincinnati!

At any rate, one of the things that I have enjoyed about this love of volleyball is attending the annual AVP (Association of Volleyball Professionals) Crocs Tour that comes to Mason, Ohio (Cincinnati) every year during Labor Day weekend. There is always lots to do at the event and watching my husband swoon over the players and their abilities just plain makes me laugh. We have been to tournaments in the sweltering heat and we have been to tournaments where I was practically wearing a winter coat. The weather isn’t exactly “sand volleyball” heaven, if you know what I mean.

In the six years that we have been together we have only missed one year, that one was last year when Isaac was born two weeks before. So returning to the event this year was great fun. Crocs has always done a great job sponsoring the event and the players. If you have any desire to watch volleyball it is an awesome venue because you can watch the players up close, meet them, approach them even as they are walking around. And most of the time they are literally playing so close if you reached out your hand you could touch them.

Phil Dalhausser serving in the Men's Final match.

Ryan Mariano has been posting all of the great AVP Crocs Tournament updates and we even got to see him play a match on Friday. I was going to head over to talk to him about the tournament and his visit to Cincinnati but he had just lost a match so I wasn’t sure that he would be wanting to chat it up with me. He and his partner played well and Ryan did an awesome job signing shirts and chatting with the swarm of junior high girls that surrounded him after the match, but I just didn’t want to be intrusive. You can read more about the event from Ryan’s perspective here.

This year we enjoyed the tournament courtesy of Crocs. So thanks Crocs for a great time and a great venue! We love Crocs and we love the AVP, what a great weekend.

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