Palo Alto native Kirsten Mead, 16, had herself a busy volleyball weekend, both indoors and out. After starting in five matches at setter for her Valley Christian high school team at Saturday's Spikefest I tournament in San Jose, Mead hopped the last flight to LAX in Southern California.

On Sunday, Mead and her partner, Jenna Belton of Aptos, won the California Beach Volleyball Association (CBVA) 16U Junior Tour Championship in Manhattan Beach.

Mead and Belton faced a field of the 10 winners of the CBVA Roxy Tour Stop tournaments held from Santa Cruz to San Diego during the summer. Mean and Belton qualified by winning the Santa Barbara tour stop on July 24. The duo won other tourneys during the summer, including the USA Junior Beach Tour National Championships in July in Milwaukee, Wis.

Mead, who is the CBVA 16U points leader for the 2012 season, joined with Belton to finish first in pool play at Manhattan Beach -- dropping one match to last year's CBVA champions but beating Zana Muno and Mary Hernandez 21-14. (Muno was featured in Sports Illustrated's Faces in the Crowd two weeks ago for her dominance in the SoCal AAU Beach volleyball scene).

Mead/Belton beat the excellent Arizona team of Sarah Sponcil/Madeleine Mertz, 28-17, in the semifinal match. In the championship match, Mean and Belton again faced Muno/Hernandez and came from behind to win, 31-29.

Football
Former Stanford running back Jeremy Stewart was signed by the Oakland Raiders to fill out their eight-player practice squad.

The Seattle Seahawks, meanwhile, signed former Stanford tight end Evan Moore.

Polo
Supporting disabled and severely injured Bay Area-based American combat soldiers who have returned from Afghanistan and Iraq, the third annual Wounded Warriors Polo Benefit (WWPB) will be held on Sunday from at the Menlo Circus Club in Atherton from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The event is hosted by the Menlo Polo Club and sponsored by the Bay Area non-profit Commandery of St. Francis, Order of St. John, Knights Hospitaller. Proceeds fund physical rehabilitation, custom prostheses and specialized care needed to help these injured combat veterans re-enter and thrive in civilian life. Tickets for WWPB 2012 are available at www.woundedwarriorspolobenefit.org.

Swimming
A host of current and former Olympians will be on hand for the RCP Tiburon Sprint Classic II, a series of swim events in the Bay Area.

Founded by Tiburon resident and former USA National Team member Robert C. Placak, this unique event features three separate races: Battle of the Sexes, featuring 53-year-old Rowdy Gaines, the voice of the NBC Olympics swimming competition and three-time Olympic gold medalist vs. the fastest women in the world, including 2012 Olympic gold medalist and 100 fly world recordholder Dana Vollmer, four-time Olympic silver medalist Kara Lynn Joyce, American recordholder, Lara Jackson, and 2012 Olympic finalist from the Bahamas, Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace.

The Legends race brings together rivals of past, Olympic champion Matt Biondi, 47, and former world recordholder Tom Jager, 46, going head to head. Finally, the Main Event, a matchup of some of the fastest male sprint freestylers in the world, competing for a $10,000 first prize. Six men, including USA 2008 & 2012 Olympic gold medalist Ricky Berens, 2012 NCAA 50 free champ and 2012 Olympic silver medalist Jimmy Feigan, French Olympic silver medalist Fred Bousquet, 2012 Olympics fourth-place finisher (50 free) George Bovell of Trinidad-Tobago, and former 50 free American recordholder Nick Brunelli.

A guest appearance will also be made by Olympic gold medalist Jason Lezak, who anchored the famous 2008 gold medal 400 free relay team in Beijing -- a come-from-behind win over the French. There will also be a special guest appearance by French Olympic gold medalist Laure Manaudou and four-time Olympic gold medalist John Naber will lend his voice as the MC for the evening.

The RCP Tiburon Sprint Classic II is an up-close-and-personal experience being held at a private home in Atherton, with live interviews before and after each heat culminating in a final duel of the fastest two men qualifiers. A sit-down dinner and meet-and-greet with the Olympic and world champions will follow at the pool. This event will benefit the USA Swimming Foundation and Hospice By The Bay. Tickets for this special event are still available and are limited to 125 guests.

On Sunday, the 13th Annual RCP Tiburon Mile (a nautical one-mile swim from Angel Island to downtown Tiburon) will be held. The race will feature Olympic medalists as well as world champion and include more than 20 countries -- including 2012 Australian Olympian and world champion Melissa Gorman,; New Zealand national champion Kane Radford; and Russian Open Water champion Evgeny Bezruchenko; American recordholder in the 800 freestyle, Michael Klueh; and 14-year-old Becca Mann, 2012 USA Olympic alternate and age-group recordholder. All will be featured in the event's Elite Division for the $10,000 cash first-place prize.

For more information please go to www.rcptiburonmile.com or call (415) 721-9990.

— Palo Alto Online Sports

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