COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – USA Volleyball has announced the 24 women’s and 12 men’s pairs that will compete in the USA Volleyball Collegiate Beach Championships, part of the Team USA Summer Champions Series, presented by Comcast.
The double-gender Collegiate Beach Championships, to be held May 11-13 at Hermosa Beach Pier in California, will serve as a Team USA Trials. Teams will play for a spot on a USAV collegiate beach national team.
In the women’s bracket, Pepperdine and Southern California each have four pairs competing, and four schools have two pairs in the competition. On the men’s side, most partnerships hail from the same university, though a few offer mixed backgrounds. UC Irvine has the most male athletes competing at the event, with five.
| WOMEN | ||||
| Player 1 | Player 2 | School | ||
| McKenna Witt | Madison Witt | Arizona | ||
| Jessalyn Kinlaw | Megan Rice | Florida Atlantic | ||
| Leigh Andrew | Brooke Kuhlman | Florida State | ||
| Victoria Paranagua | Vanessa Freire | Florida State | ||
| Delaney Rohan | Chelsea Ross | Georgia State | ||
| Sarah Sponcil | Savannah Slattery | Loyola Marymount | ||
| Rachel Nieto | Kobi Pekich | Long Beach State | ||
| Claire Coppola | Kristen Nuss | LSU | ||
| Olivia Powers | Katie Lindelow | LSU | ||
| Delaney Knudsen | Madalyn Roh | Pepperdine | ||
| Corinne Quiggle | Brittany Howard | Pepperdine | ||
| Skylar Caputo | Heidi Dyer | Pepperdine | ||
| Anika Wilson | Deahna Kraft | Pepperdine | ||
| Lindsey Knudsen | Payton Rund | Saint Mary’s College (CA) | ||
| Katie Smith | Adrianna Culbert | South Carolina | ||
| Macie Tendrich | Katie Zimmerman | South Carolina | ||
| Kelly Claes | Sara Hughes | Southern California | ||
| Terese Cannon | Nicolette Martin | Southern California | ||
| Abril Bustamante | Joy Dennis | Southern California | ||
| Jenna Belton | Jo Kremer | Southern California | ||
| Amy Neal | Jaelyn Greene | TCU | ||
| Kamila Tan | Jordan Anderson | UCLA | ||
| Elise Zappia | Madi Yeomans | UCLA | ||
| Crissy Jones | Tia Scambray | Washington |
| MEN | ||||
| Player 1 | Player 2 | School | ||
| Nathan Vander Meer | Logan Webber | Davenport/Cincinnati Christian | ||
| Brett Rosenmeier | Colton Cowell | Hawaii | ||
| Matthew Yoshimoto | Jake Walenga | Lewis | ||
| Louis Richard | Matt Butler | Long Beach State | ||
| Alex Vohland | Brett Cooper | Mount St. Joseph | ||
| Tyler Hedley | Vincent Pizzuti | Palomar College/Long Beach State | ||
| Brian Ross | Bobby Costigan | Sacred Heart | ||
| Andy Benesh | Chris Orenic | Southern California | ||
| Lucas Yoder | Michael Saeta | Southern California/UC Irvine | ||
| Grant Friedman | Scott Stadick | UC Irvine | ||
| Reid Dominguez | Dillon Hoffman | UC Irvine | ||
| Jackson Bantle | Hagen Smith | UCLA |
Seeding and pool play designations will be decided on May 10 at the player’s preliminary inquiry and technical meeting. Seeding for pool play will follow this order: USAV Beach Ranking (combined total points) as of May 8; a drawing of lots for all pairs with: the same combined total points, a combined total of zero points; where possible, pools will not have more than one pair per university; FIVB regulations will be followed for moving teams of the same university to a different pool.
Used as an official Team USA Trials, participants are limited to U.S. citizens. There was no limit to how many pairs from a single school could compete in the 24-pair women’s bracket and 12-pair men’s bracket. The USA Volleyball Collegiate Beach Championships is the first event of the Team USA Summer Champions Series, May 11-13 in Hermosa Beach, California. The women’s final will air live on NBCSN, May 13, 6 p.m. ET, followed by the men’s final on tape delay.
In need of a family daycation? We say hit the beach with us May 11-13 for Collegiate Beach Championships! @TeamUSA https://t.co/a7q6T1HrGp pic.twitter.com/0jN7hy1MzM
— USAV Beach (@USAVBeach) May 4, 2017