2016 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship

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2016 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship
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Tournament details
DatesMay 6–8, 2016
Teams8
Final positions
Champions USC (1st title)
Runner-up Florida State (1st title match)
Third place UCLA
Fourth place Hawaii
Tournament statistics
Matches played14
2017  

The 2016 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship was the first annual tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA women's collegiate beach volleyball in the United States. The tournament was played on the beaches of Gulf Shores, Alabama, hosted by the University of Alabama at Birmingham, from May 6–8, 2016. The American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) had previously sponsored a beach volleyball championship prior to the NCAA's sanctioning of the sport in 2015.

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USC defeated Florida State in the championship match, 3 sets to 0, to clinch the inaugural national title. [1] This was the Trojans' second consecutive national title, having won the last AVCA tournament before the change in the event's sponsor.

Qualification

There is only one national championship for beach volleyball, so all sixty NCAA beach volleyball programs, whether from the Division I, Division II, and Division III, were eligible for the tournament field. A total of eight teams were ultimately invited to contest this championship. Three bids were awarded to the top three teams in both the East and West Regions, and two at-large bids were awarded to the best remaining teams from either region. [2]

Teams

TeamRecordBid TypeRegionAppearanceLast Bid
Arizona 19–5At-largeWest1stNever
Florida State 29–1At-largeEast1stNever
Georgia State 25–8At-largeEast1stNever
Hawaii 16–8At-largeWest1stNever
Pepperdine 19–3At-largeWest1stNever
Stetson 26–7At-largeEast1stNever
UCLA 19–6At-largeWest1stNever
USC 30–2At-largeWest1stNever

Format

All eight teams were subsequently seeded and paired accordingly in the first round of a double-elimination style tournament to be played across a three-day span. Matches were won by the first team to win three-of-five sets.

Bracket

Matches 1–4
Friday, May 6
Matches 7–8
Friday, May 6
Match 11
Saturday, May 7
Championship
Match 14

Sunday, May 8
1 Florida State 3
8 Stetson 0
1Florida State3
5Hawaii2
5 Hawaii 3
4 UCLA 0
1Florida State1
2USC3
3 Pepperdine 3
6 Arizona 1
3Pepperdine0
2USC3
7 Georgia State 0
2 USC 32USC3
1Florida State0
Lower round 1Lower round 2Lower round 3Lower final
3Pepperdine2
8Stetson24UCLA31Florida State3
4UCLA34UCLA34UCLA0
5Hawaii0
5Hawaii3
6Arizona36Arizona0
7Georgia State2

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References

  1. "2016 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship Results" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. Retrieved May 9, 2016.
  2. "NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship selections announced". NCAA. NCAA.org. Retrieved May 9, 2016.