Mexico, USA top 2013 beach volleyball rankings 

MARACAS BAY, Trinidad, December 1, 2013 - The Mexico Volleyball Federation and USA Volleyball Federation secured the USD 5,000 winners’ checks after their men and women teams ended as the top ranked teams at the end of the 11th and final stage of the 2013 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit.

The Mexican men’s teams, led by multiple winners Lombardo Ontiveros and Juan Virgen, were fourth placed finishers at Maracas Bay, but had already accumulated an insurmountable amount points in the rankings of the 2013 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit after they won a record six gold medals.

The Mexican men’s ended with 1,980 points, with the tandem of Ontiveros and Virgen producing 1,660 resulting from six victories (200 points each), one second place (180) and two fourth places (140). Ulises Ontiveros and Tomas Aguilera finished with one bronze medal (160) and Mario Barragán and Julio Manrique had one fourth place.

Next in the men’s ranking are Canada and United States with 1,780 and 1,740 points, respectively.

In the women’s division, USA got a second place finish at Maracas after it only needed a third place (160) points to get the bonus prize of 2013.

In the end USA led by Heather Hughes and Lane Carico had two wins together while Carico also partnered Sarah Hughes for one win to end with 2,020 points just ahead of Canada 1,980 which just came up short despite Jamie Broder and Kristina Valjas' victory in T&T to add to their opening season gold medal in Cayman Islands in March while their countrywomen Heather Bansley and Caleigh Whitaker were third.

In 2012, when the prize money for the National Federations was established the teams of USA in both gender topped the rankings.