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2023 NCAA Advance

Women's Beach Volleyball

BeachBows Face Loyola Marymount in NCAA Championship Opener

GULF SHORES, Ala. — The No. 11-seed University of Hawai'i beach volleyball team makes its sixth appearance in the NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship and will face No. 6 seed Loyola Marymount on Friday, May 5 in a Round of 16 matchup. First serve is at  4:00 p.m. CDT/11:00 a.m. HT and the match will be broadcast on ESPNU. All five courts can also be streamed on ESPN+.

NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship - No. 11 Hawai'i (27-8, Big West) vs. No. 6 Loyola Marymount  (28-8, WCC)
Opponent | Date | Time Loyola Marymount |  Friday, May 5, 2023  | 4:00 p.m. CT/11:00 a.m. HT 
Location Gulf Shores, Ala. 
Television ESPNU
Live Stream ESPN / ESPN+ (Subscription required)
Game Notes Hawai'i 
Social Media @UHBeachVolley Twitter |  @UHBeachVolleyball Instagram | Facebook Facebook
Tournament Bracket Interactive Bracket
Tournament Website NCAA.com
 

ALL-TIME IN THE NCAA TOURAMENTAppearances: Sixth
Record: 9-9

ALL-TIME RECORD vs. LMUOverall: UH leads, 12-3
In the NCAA Tournament: LMU, 1-0

NCAA TOURNAMENT STORY LINES
  • UH competes in its sixth NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship. The BeachBows have made six of seven NCAA Tournaments, missing out only in 2021.
  • The Rainbow Wahine are 9-9 all-time in the tournament. UH has advanced to Championship Sunday twice, finishing third overall each time (2017, '18).
  • This marks the second straight year UH and LMU face off in the NCAAs. The No. 4 seed Lions defeated the No. 13 seed BeachBows, 3-0, in last year's opening round. UH leads the overall series 12-3 though LMU has won the last two meetings.
  • LMU (28-8) won their fourth-consecutive West Coast Conference Tournament title last week and will be making its third straight trip to the NCAAs.
  • The NCAA Tournament field increased by one to 17 teams this year and will now be a single-elimination tournament. 
  • The winner of the UH-LMU match will advance to the quarterfinals to face the winner of the (3) USC-(14) Georgia State match on Saturday at 1 pm CT.
  • Five of UH's eight losses have come by a 3-2 margin, including a pair of tight decisions to Long Beach State and Cal Poly in the 2023 Big West Championship.
  • UH put together an 18-match win streak stretching the near entirety of March for the second longest streak in program history and the longest since the 'Bows won a school-record 32 matches in 2018.. The loss was snapped by then-No. 2 UCLA, 4-1, in Los Angeles on March 29.
  • UH is No. 11 in the latest AVCA Beach Poll. UH was No. 10 in the preseason poll and moved to as high as eight where they spent five straight weeks.
  • UH is 12-3 on the mainland so far this year and finished 15-5 in Honolulu.
  • UH has played eight of the teams in this year's NCAA field during the regular-season. The BeachBows have gone a combined 8-7 so far against those squads with wins over Cal, Long Beach State (3), LSU and Georgia State (3).
  • UH is led by two-time Big West Pair of the Year and 2022 AVCA All-Americans Kaylee Glagau and Brooke Van Sickle who are 29-3 this season with wins over UCLA, Florida State, LSU, Cal and Georgia State among others.
 
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Players Mentioned

Kaylee Glagau

#7 Kaylee Glagau

6' 2"
Junior
Brooke Van Sickle

#2 Brooke Van Sickle

5' 9"
Graduate Student

Players Mentioned

Kaylee Glagau

#7 Kaylee Glagau

6' 2"
Junior
Brooke Van Sickle

#2 Brooke Van Sickle

5' 9"
Graduate Student