Tee Nguyen
President of the Board & CEO
Tee moved to San Diego in November 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic and immediately identified it as home forever. He wasted no time on his personal goals of improving at the sport of beach volleyball with only limited experience playing indoor volleyball growing up. However, what he could never foresee happening was the role he would play in the impressive San Diego volleyball community as a tournament organizer and director.
In February of 2021, what started as a groupchat of 10 of the best guys in a social group that he met quickly grew into 80 current and previous professional and collegiate level mens and womens competing in beach 4-man volleyball tournaments by July of 2021. This explosive growth led to an amazing opportunity to be invited by AVP brothers Riley and Maddison McKibbin to help with their 4-man AVP caliber tournament in Austin, Texas in October of 2021.
This momentum led to a sponsorship by Waterbar, a beachfront restaurant in Pacific Beach of San Diego, for a league and 10 tournaments in the spring and summer of 2022.
In 2023, he made it official by starting Finest SD and invested in more equipment for the community and dedicated more time to coming up with better systems to help organize and direct these beach volleyball tournaments and implemented them in 5 local tournaments to include the Big Kahuna Beachfest 4-man tournament that is ran every year by the long standing over 20 year nonprofit organization, San Diego Beach Improvement Group, in October. Shortly after, he was offered by then President, Laura Hendrickson, to take over the nonprofit and he officially became the President in December.
Tee’s main vision is to improve beach volleyball overall in San Diego by continuing to host more frequent tournaments every month, coaching clinics for youth and adults throughout the year, and develop/install more permanent public courts in the near future by having effective communications with the City of San Diego and Parks &Rec and most importantly having the unwavering support from the best San Diego volleyball community!