No. 1 USC Set for Four Top-Five Duals This Week
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2 0 1 8 U S C B EACH V O LLEY B ALL 2016 & 2017 NCAA Champions • 2015 AVCA Champions • 4 Pairs National Champions: 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017 2-Time Pac-12 Champions • 2014 AVCA National Coach of the Year Anna Collier • 14 AVCA All-Americans For release: February 26, 2018 University of Southern California Sports Information • 3501 Watt Way • HER103 • Los Angeles, Calif. • (213) 740-8480 • Fax: (213) 740-7584 Assistant Director: Jeremy Wu • Office: (213) 740-3807 • Cell: (213) 379-3977 • E-mail: [email protected] No. 1 USC Set for Four Top-Five Duals This Week 2018 SCHEDULE AND RESULTS MATCH #5 • Wednesday, Feb. 28 • 2:30 p.m. PT 4-0 Overall Merle Norman Stadium • Los Angeles, Calif. 0-0 Home • 2-0 Away • 2-0 Neutral No. 1 USC (4-0) vs. No. 3 UCLA (3-1) AVCA Poll: No. 1 • DiG Magazine Poll: No. 1 Series History: USC leads, 8-1 (.889) • Streak: W1 Last Meeting: W, 3-2 (Apr. 28, 2017 • Tucson, Ariz.) FEBRUARY TV: P12N/LA (Anne Marie Anderson & Holly McPeak) 24 at No. 10 Grand Canyon W 3-2 Opponent Web: UCLABruins.com at Arizona State 1 W 3-2 25 vs. Nebraska 1 W 5-0 MATCH #6 • Wednesday, Feb. 28 • 4 p.m. PT vs. No. 14 Cal Poly 1 W 3-2 Merle Norman Stadium • Los Angeles, Calif. 28 No. 3 UCLA (P12N/LA) 2:30 p.m. No. 1 USC (4-0) vs. No. 5 Pepperdine (2-1) No. 5 Pepperdine (P12N/LA) 4 p.m. Series History: USC leads, 10-8 (.556) • Streak: W6 MARCH Last Meeting: W, 3-2 (May 7, 2017 • Gulf Shores, Ala.) 3 at No. 5 Pepperdine 2 9 a.m. TV: P12N/LA (Anne Marie Anderson & Holly McPeak) vs. No. 3 UCLA 2 10:15 a.m. Opponent Web: PepperdineWaves.com 10 vs. Florida International 3 10:30 a.m. vs. Louisiana State 3 12:30 p.m. MATCH #7 & #8 • Saturday, March 3 • ZUMA CLASSIC 11 vs. Florida State 3 12 p.m. Zuma Beach • Malibu, Calif. vs. TCU 3 4 p.m. at No. 5 Pepperdine (2-1) • 9 a.m. PT 17 vs. Grand Canyon 4 10 a.m. HT vs. No. 3 UCLA (3-1) • 10:15 a.m. PT at Hawai’i 4 11:30 a.m. HT vs. Nebraska 4 2 p.m. HT 18 vs. Nebraska 4 8:30 a.m. HT BARE E-SAND-SHELLS at Hawai’i 4 9:45 a.m. HT • USC is the three-time defending national champion and won the 24 vs. California 5 10 a.m. first-ever NCAA title in the sport in 2016 (AVCA, 2015). The Trojans vs. Arizona State 5 2 p.m. are also the two-time defending Pac-12 Champions. 25 vs. Arizona 5 10 a.m. • The Women of Troy have won 104 of their last 107 dual matches. vs. Stanford 5 1 p.m. • 7th-year head coach Anna Collier is 150-18 (.893) and was the 31 vs. Saint Mary’s College 6 10:10 a.m. first coach to reach 100 career victories; now just one of two. vs. Loyola Marymount 6 12:30 p.m. • Only five teams have ever beaten the Trojans in a dual: Pepperdine (8), Long at Pepperdine 6 1:40 p.m. Beach State (5), Florida State (3), Hawai’i (1), and UCLA (1). APRIL • The USC-Pepperdine dual is a rematch of the 2017 NCAA title match. The Trojans 4 at UCLA (P12LA) 4 p.m. won, 3-2, and have beaten the Waves in each of their last six meetings. 10 Pepperdine (P12N/LA) 5 p.m. • USC went 38-1 in 2017, but the lone loss was dealt by crosstown rival UCLA in the 14 at Washington 7 12 p.m. Pac-12 championship semifinals. The loss also snapped a 62-dual winning streak. vs. Stanford 7 2 p.m. • The Trojans are 42-4 (.913) all-time at Merle Norman Stadium. USC has won 16 15 vs. California 7 10 a.m. consecutive home duals since a 3-2 loss to Florida State on March 11, 2016. vs. Oregon 7 1 p.m. 17 Long Beach State (P12+) 4 p.m. 26-28 Pac-12 Championship * (P12BA) TBA LOS ANGELES – No. 1-ranked USC (4-0) rekindles its two most heated rivalries with back-to-back duals against No. 3 UCLA (3-1) and No. 5 Pepperdine (2-1). The MAY Trojans face the Bruins and the Waves at Merle Norman Stadium on Wednesday 4-6 NCAA Championship ^ (ESPN) TBA 10-12 USAV Collegiate Pairs Championship 8 TBA (Feb. 28) and then meet the two teams again on Saturday (March 3) on Zuma Beach for the Zuma Classic hosted by Pepperdine. All times PST unless otherwise noted Bold indicates home match at Merle Norman Stadium Wednesday’s matches are USC’s home openers at Merle Norman Stadium where 1 Arizona State Invitational • PERA Club • Tempe, Ariz. the Trojans are 42-4 all-time. USC and Pepperdine faced off in the NCAA title 2 Zuma Classic • Zuma Beach • Malibu, Calif. 3 UCLA East Meets West Invitational • Manhattan Beach, Calif. match last May. The Trojans won, 3-2, and have won six straight over the Waves. 4 Outrigger Hawai’i Invitational • Queen’s Beach • Honolulu USC’s only loss last season was dealt by UCLA in the Pac-12 semifinals. 5 Pac-12 South Invitational • Ocean Park Beach • Santa Monica 6 Pepperdine Invitational • Zuma Beach • Malibu, Calif. 7 Pac-12 North Invitational • Alki Beach • Seattle, Wash. * Pac-12 Championships • Stanford Sand VB Courts • Stanford, Calif. ANTICIPATED USC LINEUP ^ NCAA Championship • Gulf Shores Beach • Gulf Shores, Ala. 8 USAV Collegiate Pairs Championship • Manhattan Beach, Calif. PAIRING DUAL OVR. ALL-TIME STREAK No. 1 :: Abril Bustamante/Terese Cannon 4-0 4-0 4-0 W4 No. 2 :: Haley Hallgren/Sammy Slater 3-1 3-1 3-1 L1 No. 3 :: Joy Dennis/Brianna Sizemore 2-2 2-2 2-2 W2 @USCBeach No. 4 :: Jenna Belton/Jo Kremer 4-0 4-0 39-9 W4 No. 5 :: Maja Kaiser/Alexandra Poletto 0-1 1-1 1-1 L1 2018 USC WOMEN OF TROY ## NAME HEIGHT YEAR HOMETOWN (PREVIOUS SCHOOL) 2 Alexandra Poletto 6-3 Gr. Toronto, Ontario, Canada (De La Salle HS/Colorado State) 3 Maja Kaiser 6-0 Fr. Bulverde, Texas (Smithson Valley HS) 4 Sammy Slater 5-10 Fr. Ventura, Calif. (Ventura HS) 5 Peri Green 5-7 Fr. Honolulu, Hawai’i (La Pietra) 10 Abril Bustamante 6-0 Jr. Redondo Beach, Calif. (Redondo Union HS) 11 Joy Dennis 6-0 So Cypress, Calif. (Keystone Academy) 12 Haley Hallgren 6-1 Fr. Southlake, Texas (Carroll HS) 13 Lainy Thomas 5-10 So. Frisco, Texas (Frisco HS) 14 Tina Graudina 6-0 Fr. Jurmala, Latvia 20 Katrina Kernochan 5-9 Jr. Manhattan Beach, Calif. (Mira Costa HS) 24 Cammie Dorn 6-0 So. Laguna Beach, Calif. (Laguna Beach HS) 25 Jo Kremer 5-8 Sr. Pacific Palisades, Calif. (Harvard-Westlake HS/Notre Dame) 30 Brianna Sizemore 6-0 Jr. Carlsbad, Calif. (Carlsbad HS/Point Loma Nazarene Univ.) 31 Jenna Belton 6-1 Sr. Aptos, Calif. (Aptos HS) 41 Terese Cannon 6-3 Sr. Pittsford, N.Y. (Our Lady of Mercy HS/Georgetown) Head Coach Anna Collier (7th year), USC ‘77 Assistant Coach Gustavo Rocha (1st year), Park ‘06 Volunteer Assistant Coach Dain Blanton (4th year), Pepperdine ‘94 Athletic Trainer Louis Duran Strength & Conditioning Coach Kelly Dormandy Graduate Assistant Sara Hughes Undergraduate Managers Roman Bertozzi, Reed Malone USC HEAD COACH ANNA COLLIER PRONUNCIATION GUIDE Anna Biller Collier, who coached women’s beach volleyball teams Bustamante ............... April, like the month in two Olympic games, is in her seventh season as USC’s first-ever Cannon ............................................ ter-EES head coach of beach volleyball with a 150-18 (.893) overall record. Collier .............................. AW-nuh CALL-yur Hallgren .......................................... HAY-lee Collier has led the Trojans to three national championships (AVCA Graudina .............................. grah-DEE-nah 2015) including the first two NCAA titles in history. USC went 38-1 in Green ............................................. PAIR-ee 2017 and was 34-2 in 2016 when it finished on a 30-match winning Kaiser .............................................. MY-uhh streak. The Trojans are the first team ever to win back-to-back crowns Kernochan .............................. KER-nah-KIN and are also the first to win three in a row. Under her care, USC Kremer ...................................... CREMM-err has also won consecutive Pac-12 titles (2016-17). In 2015, USC was Poletto ...................................... puh-LED-oh undefeated (28-0) and won the AVCA’s national championship. Sizemore ................................ bree-AW-nuh USC pairs have claimed four national titles under Collier. Sara Hughes and Kelly Claes won the 2015 AVCA and the 2017 USAV championships. Kirby Burnham and Hughes won the COLLIER’S CAREER RECORD 2014 championship; and Burnham and Stevi Robinson won the 2013 crown. YEAR RECORD H A N In 2014, USC was 23-3 and and Collier was named the 2014 AVCA National Coach of the 2012 7-4 2-0 1-2 4-2 Year. The Trojans went 16-8 in 2013 and made their first-ever AVCA semifinals appearance 2013 16-8 7-3 2-2 7-3 as a team. Burnham and Robinson became USC’s first-ever All-Americans in the sport. 2014 23-3 8-0 3-1 12-2 Collier took USC to a 7-4 record in 2012, the sport’s inaugural season as an NCAA emerging 2015 28-0 10-0 5-0 13-0 sport, and sent two USC teams to the pairs championship of the first VCAA pairs tourney.