Jake Gibb and Casey Patterson have been nearly inseparable as neighbors in Huntington Beach, Calif. since teaming up in 2013.
They can often be found playing co-ed beach volleyball with their wives. They even take their kids to the same preschool.
But when Patterson recently moved roughly 75 miles to Thousand Oaks for a new job, the 2016 AVP Men’s Team of the Year decided to end their partnership.
“It’s about a two-hour drive north, at best,” Gibb said in a phone interview. “We could have tried to make it work, but it just didn’t make sense.