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Thank You Nina Nina Matthies - 35 years at the helm of a Pepperdine team with a 727-366 (.665) overall record - 137-23 (.856) record after seven years on the beach - 590-343 (.632) record after 31 years indoors Coaching Honors - AVCA Sand Volleyball Coach of the Year (2013 - inaugural winner) - Three-time WCC Beach Volleyball Coach of the Year (2016, 2017, 2018) - Led team to three-straight NCAA Championship appearances and to a runner-up finish in 2017 Team Accolades & Awards - 18 AVCA All-Americans (most of any school) - Four Volleyball Magazine All-Americans, two to first team - 18 All-WCC honors, including 13 first team and six second team - Six named to WCC All-Freshman Team - 2018 WCC Player of the Year - 2018 WCC Defender of the Year - 2018 WCC Freshman of the Year TABLE OF CONTENTS PROGRAM HISTORY In January 2010, the NCAA added beach volleyball to its list of Division I emerging sports for women with a Program History & Quick Facts ................................3 start date of the 2011-12 school year. By August of 2011, Pepperdine was officially on board to compete during Yearly Results ...........................................................4 the inaugural season. The sport became an NCAA-sanctioned sport in 2016 and teams across the nation battled Awards & Honors ......................................................7 for a chance to compete in the inaugural NCAA Beach Volleyball National Championship set in Gulf Shores, Ala. WCC, NCAA, USAV Pairs Championship Results ...8 In the 2017 campaign, the Waves went one step further and finished as NCAA runner-up, falling in the closest 2019 Pepperdine Beach Volleyball Team .................9 match imaginable 3-2 to top-ranked USC. AVCA Championship Results .................................10 Since the first season in 2012, the Waves have proved to be a perennial power in the sport, claiming two AVCA National Championship Winners .................. 11 AVCA national team titles and earning status as one of only two programs nationally that have earned a bid to all eight national tournaments (4 AVCA, 4 NCAA). All-Time Roster/Jersey Numbers ............................18 Veteran coach Nina Matthies, who was a member of the grassroots effort to turn beach volleyball into Records vs. Opponents ..........................................19 a collegiate sport, was at the helm of the program since it began and officially retired from the sidelines after Individual Records ..................................................20 the 2018 season. Marcio Sicoli, highly praised in his own right and an assistant for Matthies in all seven beach Zuma Beach ...........................................................21 seasons, was elevated to head coach, and completed his first year at the helm in 2019. Sicoli coached Kerri Walsh Jennings and Misty May-Treanor to Olympic gold in 2012 and returned to the QUICK FACTS 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro to coach Walsh Jennings with partner April Ross to a bronze medal. Before the 2019 campaign, Sicoli hired Jon Dazé as his assistant coach. Dazé was a volunteer with the Waves Location ...................................... Malibu, Calif. 90263 during the team’s 2014 AVCA National Championship run and has helped coach Sicoli at the Olympic level. Founded ....................... 1937 (Malibu Campus 1972) Delaney Knudsen, a 2017 Pepperdine graduate and AVCA Beach All-American, joined the sidelines in 2017 as a Enrollment .................... 8,000 (3,000 undergraduate) volunteer. She was the program’s first-ever beach-only scholarship recipient. Caitlin Racich, who came to Pepperdine as an outside hitter for the women’s indoor volleyball team, decided Nickname.........................................................Waves in the fall of 2011 to focus solely on beach volleyball. She was awarded the beach program’s first-ever scholarship. Colors ..............................................Blue and Orange Summer Ross, another experienced and proven beach volleyball player, was added to the 2012 roster in January Home Facility ......................................... Zuma Beach prior to the inaugural season. Ross won both the FIVB Youth World Championship and the FIVB Junior World President .......................................Andrew K. Benton Championship in the same season and was subsequently named the 2010 USA Volleyball Beach Female Athlete Athletic Director ..................................Dr. Steve Potts of the Year. Athletic Department phone ................ (310) 506-4150 Matthies boosted her beach volleyball roster with talent from the indoor squad. Kim Hill, Lilla Frederick, Ticket Office phone .......................... (866) WAVE-TIX Stevi Robinson, Kelley Larsen, Victoria Adelhelm, Kellie Woolever, Emily Cook, Michaela Christiaansen and Kelli Branning all saw playing time during the 2012 season, which ran from March to the end of April. 2019 BEACH VOLLEYBALL The Waves quickly established themselves as the team to beat, and barreled through the regular season undefeated at 11-0. At the inaugural AVCA Collegiate Sand Volleyball National Championship, held in Gulf Shores, Ala., Head Coach...Marcio Sicoli (2nd season, 9th overall) Pepperdine steamrolled through the team competition, shutting out the College of Charleston 5-0 before defeating phone ........................................... (310) 506-7298 Long Beach State in the semifinal. Pepperdine e-mail [email protected] and Long Beach State squared off once again in Assistant Coach.....................Jon Dazé (2nd season) the final, but the Waves proved to be too much phone ........................................... (310) 506-7298 and defeated the 49ers for the fifth time in 2012 e-mail [email protected] to finish the season a perfect 14-0. The national Volunteer Ass’t ......... Delaney Knudsen (2nd season) title was Pepperdine’s 21st overall, but the first ever captured by a women’s team. First Season .......................................................2012 Hill, Frederick, Racich and Ross were All-Time Record ...........................157-34 (8 seasons) named to the 10-player AVCA All-American team in a ceremony following the match. NCAA Team Championship Appearances ................4 Hill also earned AVCA All-American last .................................................................2019 first team accolades during her senior indoor best finish ............................................ 2nd (2017) volleyball season, making her the first and only AVCA Team Championship Appearances ................4 student-athlete to make the first team in both last ..........................................2015 (semifinalists) sports in a single year. best finish ...... NATIONAL CHAMPS (2012, 2014) Racich and Ross took home national title WCC CHAMPIONS - 2016, 2017, 2018 AVCA Pairs Championship Qualifiers .......................8 No. 22 for Pepperdine the following day, winning last ................................................. 2 pairs in 2015 the AVCA Collegiate Sand Volleyball Pairs Championship. The duo rallied back from an 11-14 deficit in the third best finish ............................NATIONAL CHAMPS set of the championship match against Tara Roenicke and Caitlin Ledoux to win 16-14. ................. Summer Ross & Caitlin Racich (2012) In 2013, Pepperdine picked up right where they left off and went undefeated during the regular season for the second year in a row. After garnering the top seed at the AVCA National Championships, once again in Gulf *pairs championships disbanded in 2016 season. Shores, Ala., the Waves reached the finals despite competing shorthanded. After topping USC and Florida State, Pepperdine’s win streak came to an end with a 3-2 loss to Long Beach State in the title match. ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS Frederick, Hill and Racich all repeated as AVCA All-Americans, and were joined by fellow teammate Lara Dykstra on the 14-person roster. Matthies was voted the inaugural winner of the AVCA College Sand Coach of the Assistant Director of Athletics - Communications ....... Year award. ......................................................... Roger Horne The Waves returned to Gulf Shores in 2014 in a new position: the #2 seed. Pepperdine topped #4-seeded office phone .................................. (310) 506-4455 Florida State in the quarterfinals before ousting top-seeded USC from the championship in the semifinals. The e-mail [email protected] Waves and Seminoles met again in the finals and once again, Pepperdine emerged with the victory to claim its Director of Marketing & Communications .............. second national team title. Dykstra, Kelley Larsen, Becca Strehlow and Kellie Woolever rounded out the Waves’ All-American picks. .................................................... Sarah Otteman Pepperdine reached the semifinals of the 2015 national championships, and Woolever and Larsen ended their office phone ................................ (310) 506-4160 four-year run with the Waves as All-Americans. cell phone .................................... (815) 545-0497 In the inaugural 2016 NCAA Championship run, Taylor Racich and Heidi Dyer earned AVCA All-American first e-mail [email protected] team accolades. In 2017, Delaney Knudsen and Madalyn Roh were named AVCA All-Americans, while the pair Assistant Director - Communications ...... Ricky Davis along with Brittany Howard and Corinne Quiggle were office phone .................................