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CHULA VISTA, Calif.  – The No. 1 University of Hawai'i women's sand volleyball team heads to Southern California for the USA Volleyball Beach Collegiate Challenge, April 14-15. The Rainbow Wahine will play a pair of dual matches on Saturday morning before competing in pairs competitions Saturday afternoon and all day Sunday.

The Rainbow Wahine will face Grand Canyon University (10:00 a.m. PT) and TCU (12:00 p.m. PT) in dual matches on Saturday morning. The 32-team pairs competition will begin Saturday afternoon and conclude with the finals slated for 2:00 p.m. PT on Sunday.

Also competing in the event will be No. 2 Pepperdine and Cal State Bakersfield.

The 'Bows (2-0) breezed by then-No. 5 Loyola Marymount in their season opener this past Friday at Queen's Beach. They then sent shockwaves through the sand volleyball landscape by upending top-ranked and defending national champion Pepperdine, a feat that UH had not accomplished in five previous meetings.
 
In the Rainbow Wahine Invitational, UH's first pairs competition of the season, Katie Spieler and Olivia Urban battled their way to a runner-up finish.