2023 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship

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2023 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship
NCAA Beach Volleyball wordmark color.svg
Logo
Teams17
Format Single-elimination
Finals siteGulf Place Public Beach
Gulf Shores, Alabama
Champions USC Trojans  (5th title)
Runner-up UCLA Bruins
Winning coach Dain Blanton  (3rd title)
Attendance11,667
Television ESPN networks

The 2023 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship (officially the 2023 National Collegiate Beach Volleyball Championship [1] ) was an intercollegiate tournament to determine the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) women's beach volleyball national champion for the 2022–23 season. The seventh edition of the tournament was held from May 3 to 7, 2023, at Gulf Place Public Beach in Gulf Shores, Alabama. The 2023 championship featured a single-elimination-only bracket for the first time, along with an expanded 17-team field. Nine of the participating schools automatically qualified by winning their respective conference tournaments, while the other eight were given at-large bids by the NCAA Women's Beach Volleyball Committee. The tournament was broadcast on ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPNU.

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Background

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) began sponsoring women's beach volleyball as a championship sport in 2016, and the sport has since experienced rapid growth at the collegiate level, with a 500 percent increase in women's collegiate beach volleyball programs in the United States from 2011 to 2020. [2] [3] The NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship is the tournament held at the end of every regular season to determine the women's national collegiate champion across all NCAA divisions. [4] It has been held annually since the inaugural 2016 event, [lower-alpha 1] and 2023 marked its seventh edition. [5] The 2023 tournament was held in Gulf Shores, Alabama, the same venue that hosted all six previous championships, and was co-hosted by Gulf Shores Orange Beach Sports & Events, the city of Gulf Shores and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. [6] [lower-alpha 2]

Popularized on the beaches of California in the 1920s, beach volleyball is a sport played by two teams on a sand court. At the professional level, teams consist of a pair of players who compete in best-of-three-set matches, where the first two sets are played to 21 points and the third set, if necessary, is played to 15 points; each set must be won by a minimum two-point lead. [8] Conversely, NCAA beach volleyball is played using a flighted team-dual format. [9] In an NCAA dual, each team fields five individual pairs who are ranked from No. 1 to No. 5 by skill level, and each pair plays a flighted best-of-three-set match against their corresponding pair on the other team. [10] The first team to win three of the five pairs' matches wins the dual. [9]

The NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship had historically been an eight-team double-elimination tournament, [11] in which all participating teams were selected by the NCAA Women's Beach Volleyball Committee. [12] However, with the growing popularity of the collegiate sport, the NCAA agreed to double the field for the 2022 championship, [11] [12] adding a 16-team opening knockout round that led into the established eight-team double-elimination bracket. [13] Along with the expanded field, the qualification process introduced eight automatic bids that teams earned by winning their respective conference tournaments. [14] Further changes were adopted for 2023, with the tournament becoming a single-elimination-only event, [13] and the field expanded to 17 teams to allow for nine automatic qualifiers. [15] [16]

Format and venue

The 2023 tournament site at the public beach in Gulf Shores 2023 NCAA Beach Volleyball National Championship Flyover (screenshot) (cropped 2).png
The 2023 tournament site at the public beach in Gulf Shores

The 2023 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship was a 17-team tournament that was held from May 3 to 7, 2023. The tournament began on Wednesday, May 3, with a play-in dual between the two lowest seeded teams. The 16-team single-elimination main bracket began on Friday, May 5, with the winning teams advancing to the quarterfinals and semifinals on Saturday, May 6, until a national champion was determined on Sunday, May 7. [17]

The tournament took place on one site at the Gulf Place Public Beach in Gulf Shores, which had been set up with five playing courts and five practice courts. [6] Over the years, the playing conditions at the Gulf Shores venue have been characterized by several factors; namely the compact sand that makes it easier for players to move and jump, the strong winds, [18] [19] and the possibility of rain during that time of the year. [20]

Participating teams

Of the 93 eligible NCAA teams, a total of 17 qualified for the tournament and were seeded from No. 1 to No. 17. Nine of the teams earned automatic bids by winning their respective conference tournaments. The remaining eight bids were allocated at large by the NCAA Women's Beach Volleyball Committee. The qualifying teams and seeding order were announced by the committee on April 30, 2023. [21]

Automatic bids

The following nine teams earned automatic bids by winning their conference tournaments. [22]

TeamConferenceDate qualifiedWin–loss record [22] AppearanceLast bidRef
Long Beach State athletics Big West April 22, 202324–142nd2017 [23] [24]
Stetson Hatters ASUN April 23, 202320–164th2022 [25]
Texas A&M–Corpus Christi Islanders Southland April 24, 202324–92nd2022 [26]
Loyola Marymount Lions West Coast April 28, 202328–83rd2022 [27] [28]
UCLA Bruins Pac-12 April 28, 202337–37th2022 [29]
Florida Atlantic Owls C-USA April 29, 202319–132nd2022 [30]
Georgia State Panthers Sun Belt April 29, 202320–163rd2022 [31] [32]
TCU Horned Frogs CCSA April 29, 202335–23rd2022 [33] [34]
UT Martin Skyhawks Ohio Valley April 29, 202327–82nd2022 [35]

At-large bids

The following eight teams were allocated at-large bids by the NCAA selection committee. [22]

TeamConferenceWin–loss record [22] AppearanceLast bidRef
California Golden Bears Pac-12 28–92nd2022 [36]
FIU Panthers Sun Belt 20–162nd2018 [37]
Florida State Seminoles CCSA 30–87th2022 [38]
Grand Canyon Antelopes CCSA26–72nd2022 [39]
Hawaii Rainbow Wāhine Big West 27–86th2022 [40]
LSU Tigers CCSA26–126th2022 [41]
Stanford Cardinal Pac-1228–123rd2022 [42]
USC Trojans Pac-1228–57th2022 [43]

Preview

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UCLA's Lexy Denaburg (left, pictured in 2022) and TCU's Tania Moreno (right, pictured in 2022) were returning AVCA first-team All-Americans for their teams.

From its inception in 2016 to 2022, only two teams had won the NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship: the USC Trojans (four titles and two-time defending champion: 2016, 2017, 2021 and 2022) and the UCLA Bruins (two titles: 2018 and 2019). [22] Both teams were in the running for the title once again in 2023. [7] UCLA entered the NCAA tournament seeded No. 1 and topping the American Volleyball Coaches Association's (AVCA) rankings. [29] Volleyball Magazine's Travis Mewhirter regarded the Bruins as the preseason favorites, writing that they had "the most loaded lineup in the country, top to bottom". [44] Headed by Stein Metzger for the eleventh year, their senior-heavy [44] roster featured nine returning starters from the team that took third-place at the previous NCAA championship, including 2022 AVCA first-team All-Americans Lexy Denaburg and Abby Van Winkle. [29] The Bruins recorded 23 dual sweep victories in the regular season, [29] and were coming off their third Pac-12 title despite being upset by Stanford earlier in the double-elimination tournament. [33] In contrast to UCLA, Mewhirter considered USC somewhat of a preseason "underdog" due to the fact that they had lost all but four of last year's championship-winning lineup, [44] and thus had a less experienced squad that relied on new transfers and freshmen. [44] [45] Among their returning players were the former U19 world champions Megan Kraft and Delaynie Maple. [44] [45] Led by Dain Blanton for the fourth year, the Trojans were ranked third in the country and received the No. 3 seed. [22] They headed to the championship having failed to make it to the Pac-12 final for the first time in program history [46] after losses to California and UCLA. [33]

Seeded No. 2 and No. 4 respectively, [22] the TCU Horned Frogs and Florida State Seminoles were looking to end the USC–UCLA dominance. [7] Under coach Hector Gutierrez, TCU entered the tournament ranked second in the country, but had also been ranked as high as first for six weeks earlier in the season. [22] Volleyball Magazine's Larry Hamel noted that the Horned Frogs' lineup had a lot of depth; [47] their roster featured the 2021 U21 world champion Anhelina Khmil of Ukraine, [44] as well as the returning AVCA first-team All-American Spanish pair of Daniela Alvarez and Tania Moreno who had finished fourth at the 2022 European Championships. [47] The 2022–23 season saw TCU defeat six-time defending conference champion [48] Florida State en route to their first-ever Coastal Collegiate Sports Association (CCSA) title. [33] Meanwhile, the three-time national runners-up Seminoles were ranked fourth, [22] with Coach Brooke Niles's program featuring seven returning starters from the previous year. [44] Despite losing five of their last ten duals, Volleyball Magazine still regarded Florida State as a strong contender for the NCAA title. [22]

Julie Cribbs, chairperson of the NCAA Women's Beach Volleyball Committee, believed that moving the tournament from a double-elimination to single-elimination format could help disrupt the dominance of the sport's perennial powerhouses. [49] With the top-four ranked teams all heading into the championship having suffered recent upsets, [33] Volleyball Magazine's Lee Feinswog noted the new format "gave the top teams reason to pause and the next group reason to hope". [50]

Bracket

The tournament bracket is as follows: [17]

Play-in
Wednesday, May 3 		First round
Friday, May 5 		Quarterfinals
Saturday, May 6 		Semifinals
Saturday, May 6 		Championship
Sunday, May 7
1 UCLA 3
16 UT Martin 0 17 A&M–Corpus Christi 0
17 A&M–Corpus Christi 31 UCLA3
8 California 1
8 California 3
9 Long Beach State 2
1 UCLA3
4 Florida State 0
5 LSU 3
12 Florida Atlantic 2
5 LSU 0
4 Florida State3
4 Florida State 3
13 FIU 1
1 UCLA 2
3 USC3
14 Georgia State 0
3 USC 3
3 USC3
6 Loyola Marymount 1
11 Hawaii 1
6 Loyola Marymount 3
3 USC3
2 TCU 2
10 Stanford 3
7 Grand Canyon 2
10 Stanford 0
2 TCU3
15 Stetson 0
2 TCU 3

Dual summaries

Play-in

The competition began with the play-in dual between the No. 16 seed UT Martin and the No. 17 seed A&M–Corpus Christi, [51] in what was the first-ever matchup between the two teams. [52] The dual was played in staggered flights, with the No. 2 and No. 4 pairs playing their matches first, followed by the No. 1, No. 3, and No. 5 pairs playing theirs to decision. [53] A&M–Corpus Christi won the first two pairs matches in straight sets, giving them a 2–0 dual lead. In the next round of matches, they were up a set on all three courts before their No. 3 pairing of Jade Bennett and Tori Johnson clinched the dual with a dominant 21–9, 21–10 match win, giving the program its first-ever dual victory at the championship. [51]

Post-tournament honors and records

All-Tournament Team

The following pairs were named to the NCAA All-Tournament Team: [54]

PairSchoolPlayer 1Player 2
No. 1UCLALexy DenaburgMaggie Boyd
No. 2TCUKate PrivetAnhilina Khmil
No. 3USCAudrey NourseNicole Nourse
No. 4USCAshlyn Rasnick-PopeJenna Johnson
No. 5UCLADevon NewberryJaden Whitmarsh

Individual match records

The following individual match records were set. [55] [lower-alpha 3]

Other records

The UCLA pairing of Lexy Denaburg and Maggie Boyd tied the all-time record for most tournament wins by a pair with four wins. UCLA also set the tournament record for total pair wins by a team with 11 wins. [57]

Broadcast and attendance

The first round duals on May 5, 2023, were broadcast live on ESPNU; the quarterfinal and semifinal duals, as well as the rescheduled Hawaii–Loyola Marymount first round dual, on May 6 were broadcast live on ESPN2; the championship dual on May 7 was broadcast live on ESPN. [58] Additionally, all individual matches were livestreamed on ESPN+. [59]

The ESPN broadcast of the UCLA–USC championship dual was watched by 380,000 viewers, while the ESPN2 broadcasts of the Florida State–UCLA and TCU–USC semifinals were watched by 107,000 and 117,000 viewers respectively. Of the ESPN2 quarterfinal broadcasts, the most-watched duals were Stanford–TCU (145,000 viewers) and Florida State–LSU (131,000 viewers). According to ESPN, viewership of the tournament as a whole increased 100% from the previous year. The tournament was also attended by a live audience of 11,667. [60]

Notes

  1. ↑ Except in 2020 when the championship was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [5]
  2. ↑ Before the NCAA-sanctioned championship, the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) also hosted a national championship for collegiate beach volleyball at the same Gulf Shores venue from 2012 to 2015. [7]
  3. ↑ A "kill" is an attack that directly scores a point. "Hitting percentage" is the number of kills minus the number of errors, divided by the number of attempts. A "dig" is a defensive play that stops an opponent's attack from being grounded. A "service ace" is a serve that directly scores a point. A "block" is a defensive play that stops an opponent's attack from crossing the net. [56]

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