NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship
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Official website | https://www.ncaa.com/sports/beach-volleyball |
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The NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship is an
History
The championship was approved by the NCAA Convention during the fall of 2015, and a committee was selected to determine the tournament's organizational structure. Before 2015, sand volleyball had been part of the
The sport's name was changed from "sand volleyball" to the more usual "beach volleyball" in June 2015, and the committee overseeing the sport is now named the NCAA Beach Volleyball Committee.[2]
Structure
2016–2021
The championship is held each May. From 2016 through 2021, eight teams participated, in a double-elimination style tournament with a single-elimination final, under standard beach volleyball rules. All matches consist of five sets, with each team needing to win three sets to advance.
The NCAA does not add automatic qualifiers until two championship seasons have passed; but in 2016, the top 3 teams from the east and west were given automatic bids with 2 additional teams invited at-large.
As of fall 2019, seven conferences sponsor beach volleyball, all with at least six members — the minimum number for a conference to qualify for an automatic bid to other NCAA championship tournaments. Five of these conferences were represented in the inaugural tournament; the exceptions are the Ohio Valley Conference and Southland Conference, both of which begin beach volleyball sponsorship in the upcoming 2020 season.
- ASUN Conference(7 members)
- Big West Conference (7 members)
- Coastal Collegiate Sports Association (12 members)
- Ohio Valley Conference (6 members)
- Pac-12 Conference (9 members)
- Southland Conference (9 members)
- West Coast Conference (7 members)
2022
From 2022 onwards, the championship tournament was expanded to 16 teams. As of spring 2022, eight conferences sponsor beach volleyball, and the winners of each conference will receive automatic bids for the championship.[3]
- ASUN Conference
- Big West Conference
- Coastal Collegiate Sports Association
- Conference USA
- Ohio Valley Conference
- Pac-12 Conference
- Southland Conference
- West Coast Conference
Additionally, two teams from the East Region and two teams from the West Region will be given bids by the NCAA beach volleyball committee, while the final four teams will be selected at large.[3]
2023–present
Starting in 2023, the tournament switched to a standard single elimination bracket from more complicated partially double elimination brackets used before.[4] The field was also expanded to 17 teams to allow for nine automatic qualifiers.[5]
Results
NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship | ||||||||||
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Year | Site (Host) |
Host Venue | Final | Semifinalists | ||||||
Winner | Score | Runner-up | Third Place | Fourth Place | ||||||
2016 Details |
Gulf Shores, AL (UAB) |
Gulf Shores Public Beach | USC
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3–0 | Florida State
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UCLA
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Hawaii | |||
2017 Details |
USC (2) | 3–2 | Pepperdine | Hawaii | Florida State | |||||
2018 Details |
UCLA | 3-1 | Florida State | Hawaii | USC | |||||
2019 Details |
UCLA (2) | 3-0 | USC | LSU | Hawaii | |||||
2020 | Canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic | |||||||||
2021 Details |
Gulf Shores, AL (UAB) |
Gulf Shores Public Beach | USC (3)
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3–1 | UCLA
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Loyola Marymount
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LSU | |||
2022 Details |
USC (4) | 3–1 | Florida State | UCLA | Loyola Marymount | |||||
2023 Details |
USC (5) | 3-2 | UCLA | Florida State/TCU | ||||||
2024 Details |
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2025 Details |
Long Beach State )
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Huntington Beach Pier | ||||||||
2026 Details |
Summary
Cumulative results
Team | Championships | Runners-up | Third-place | Fourth-place |
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USC
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5 (2016, 2017, 2021, 2022, 2023) | 1 (2019) | 0 | 1 (2018) |
UCLA
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2 (2018, 2019) | 2 (2021, 2023) | 2 (2016, 2022) | 0 |
Florida State
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0 | 3 (2016, 2018, 2022) | 0 | 1 (2017) |
Hawaii | 0 | 0 | 2 (2017, 2018) | 2 (2016), 2019) |
LSU | 0 | 0 | 1 (2019) | 1 (2021) |
Pepperdine | 0 | 1 (2017) | 0 | 0 |
Loyola Marymount
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0 | 0 | 1 (2021) | 1 (2022) |
Result by school and by year
Twenty-one teams have appeared in the NCAA Tournament in at least one year starting with 2016. The results for all years are shown below. The code in each cell represents the furthest the team made it in the respective tournament.
- CH National Champion
- RU National Runner-up
2016 to 2022
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2023 to present
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School | Conference | # | T4 | T2 | CH | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
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USC |
Pac-12 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 5 | CH | CH | 4 | RU | CH | CH | CH |
UCLA |
Pac-12 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 5 | CH | CH | RU | 3 | RU |
Florida State |
CCSA | 7 | 5 | 3 | - | RU | 4 | RU | 5 | 5 | RU | SF |
Pepperdine |
West Coast | 4 | 1 | 1 | - | 5 | RU | 5 | 7 | |||
Hawaii | Big West | 6 | 4 | - | - | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | • | • | |
LSU |
CCSA | 6 | 2 | - | - | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | QF | |
Loyola Marymount | West Coast | 3 | 2 | - | - | 3 | 4 | QF | ||||
TCU | CUSA | 3 | 1 | - | - | 7 | 7 | SF | ||||
Stetson |
ASUN |
4 | - | - | - | 7 | 5 | • | • | |||
Stanford | Pac-12 | 3 | - | - | - | 7 | • | QF | ||||
Cal Poly | Big West | 3 | - | - | - | 7 | 5 | • | ||||
Georgia State |
CUSA | 3 | - | - | - | 7 | 5 | • | ||||
California | Pac-12 | 2 | - | - | - | • | QF | |||||
South Carolina | CCSA | 2 | - | - | - | 7 | 7 | |||||
Long Beach State |
Big West | 2 | - | - | - | 7 | • | |||||
Florida International | CUSA | 2 | - | - | - | 7 | • | |||||
Florida Atlantic | CUSA | 2 | - | - | - | 7 | • | |||||
Grand Canyon | CCSA | 2 | - | - | - | • | • | |||||
Texas A&M–Corpus Christi | Southland | 2 | - | - | - | • | • | |||||
UT Martin | Ohio Valley | 2 | - | - | - | • | P | |||||
Arizona |
Pac-12 | 1 | - | - | - | 5 | ||||||
School | Conference | # | T4 | T2 | CH | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
Broadcasting
See also
- American Volleyball Coaches Association – previous sponsor of collegiate beach volleyball tournaments in the United States
- NCAA Men's Indoor Volleyball Championships (National Collegiate, Division III)
- NCAA Women's Indoor Volleyball Championships (Division I, Division II, Division III)
- NAIA Women's Beach Volleyball Invitational
- List of NCAA women's beach volleyball programs
References
- ^ "NCAA DII, DIII membership approves Sand Volleyball as 90th championship". NCAA News. NCAA.com. Retrieved May 30, 2015.
- ^ "NCAA's newest championship will be called beach volleyball". NCAA. June 30, 2015. Retrieved July 2, 2015.
- ^ a b Feinswog, Lee (April 19, 2022). "Postseason possibilities as NCAA beach volleyball teams eye bids to Gulf Shores". volleyballmag.com. Retrieved April 27, 2022.
- ^ "Beach volleyball championship format to change in 2023".
- ^ Fasbender, Kristin W.; Cribbs, Julie (February 6, 2023). "Memorandum" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association. p. 1. Archived (PDF) from the original on April 26, 2023. Retrieved May 1, 2023.
- ^ "Culver column: FSU beach volleyball could be a part of NCAA history". Tallahassee Democrat. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
- ^ "Turner Sports Reaches Multi-Year Agreement to Present NCAA National Collegiate Beach Volleyball Championship". NCAA. 26 April 2016. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
- ^ "NCAA awards ESPN beach volleyball rights". ncaa.com. December 20, 2017. Retrieved March 13, 2018.