UCLA announced on Apr. 30 that its women’s beach volleyball team has been seeded No. 3 for the NCAA Beach Volleyball Championships, which will take place from May 1 to May 3 at Gulf Shores Beach in Alabama. The Bruins, with a season record of 30-6, will begin their tournament run against No. 14 seed Tulane on Friday at 3 p.m. Central Time.
The event includes sixteen teams: eight automatic qualifiers and eight at-large selections, with six Mountain Pacific Sports Federation squads among the field’s top four seeds—Stanford, Texas, UCLA, and USC. The Bruins have posted a strong season performance against this group and are entering their tenth consecutive NCAA appearance since the championship’s inception.
Senior Maggie Boyd leads UCLA with extensive postseason experience and ranks fourth in career victories at the school with 122 wins. Boyd is undefeated in NCAA Tournament play (10-0) and was named an AVCA Player of the Year finalist alongside her partner Sally Perez. “Boyd becomes just the fourth Bruin ever to earn first-team All-America honors by the AVCA,” according to UCLA Athletics.
Tulane enters as a first-time participant after winning Conference USA’s tournament; this marks their first meeting with UCLA since 2022. In national rankings heading into the championship, UCLA holds third place but tops several individual pair rankings including three pairs in TruVolley/CBVB’s Top Ten.
Head coach Jenny Johnson Jordan continues her third season leading the Bruins after earning MPSF Coach of the Year honors last year and guiding previous title runs as both assistant coach and head coach.
