NCAA TEAM Championship Results Pepperdine Was One of Eight Teams to Earn a Bid to the Inaugural NCAA Beach Volleyball Championships in Gulf Shores, Ala
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TABLE OF CONTENTS PROGRAM histoRy In January 2010, the NCAA added beach volleyball to its list of Division I emerging sports for women Program History & Quick Facts ................................3 with a start date of the 2011-12 school year. By August of 2011, Pepperdine was officially on board to Nina Matthies............................................................4 compete during the inaugural season. The sport became an NCAA-sanctioned sport in 2016 and teams Marcio Sicoli .............................................................5 across the nation battled for a chance to compete in the inaugural NCAA Beach Volleyball National Yearly Results ...........................................................6 Championship set in Gulf Shores, Ala. In the 2017 campaign, the Waves went one step further and finished as NCAA runner-up, falling in the closest match imaginable 3-2 to top-ranked USC. Awards & Honors ......................................................7 After a well-played regular season and entering the NCAA Championships ranked No. 3, Pepperdine WCC, NCAA, USAV Pairs Championship Results ...8 posted an upset over No. 2 UCLA to advance to the finals. After tying the first heat, the Waves went into 2017 Pepperdine Beach Volleyball Team .................9 the third set on all three courts of the second heat. After winning on court three and falling on one, all eyes AVCA Championship Results .................................10 went to the No. 3 duo where the pair eventually fell with a 15-13 final third set mark. AVCA National Championship Winners .............11-17 Since the first season in 2012, the Waves have proved to be a perennial power in the sport, claiming All-Time Roster/Jersey Numbers ............................18 two AVCA national team titles and earning bids to all six national tournaments (4 AVCA, 2 NCAA). Records vs. Opponents ..........................................19 Veteran coach Nina Matthies, who was a member of the grassroots effort to turn beach volleyball into a collegiate sport, has been at the helm of the program since it began. Matthies, a beach legend in her Individual Records ..................................................20 own right with 43 professional titles during her playing days, is assisted by the highly praised Marcio Sicoli. Zuma Beach ...........................................................21 Touted for his training methods, Sicoli coached Kerri Walsh Jennings and Misty May-Treanor to Olympic gold in 2012 and returned to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro to coach Walsh Jennings with partner April Ross to a bronze medal. Delaney Knudsen, a 2017 Pepperdine graduate and AVCA Beach All- QUICK FACTS American, joins the sidelines in 2017. 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 in the fall of 2011 to focus solely on beach volleyball. She was awarded the beach program’s first- Location ...................................... Malibu, Calif. 90263 ever scholarship. Summer Ross, another experienced and proven beach volleyball player, was added to the Founded ....................... 1937 (Malibu Campus 1972) 2012 roster in January prior to the inaugural season. Ross won both the FIVB Youth World Championship Enrollment .................... 8,000 (3,000 undergraduate) and the FIVB Junior World Championship in the same season and was subsequently named the 2010 USA Nickname.........................................................Waves Volleyball Beach Female Athlete of the Year. Colors ..............................................Blue and Orange Matthies boosted her beach volleyball roster with talent from the indoor squad. Kim Hill, Lilla Frederick, Home Facility ......................................... Zuma Beach 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. President .......................................Andrew K. Benton The Waves quickly established themselves as the team to beat, and barreled through the regular Athletic Director ..................................Dr. Steve Potts season undefeated at 11-0. Athletic Department phone ................ (310) 506-4150 At the inaugural AVCA Collegiate Sand Volleyball National Championship, held in Gulf Shores, Ala., Ticket Office phone .......................... (866) WAVE-TIX Pepperdine steamrolled through the team competition, shutting out the College of Charleston 2018 BEACH VOLLEYBALL 5-0 before defeating Long Beach State in the semifinal. Pepperdine Head Coach............. Nina Matthies (seventh season) and Long Beach State squared phone ........................................... (310) 506-4712 off once again in the final, but the e-mail [email protected] Waves proved to be too much and overall record ........................112-18 (six seasons) defeated the 49ers for the fifth Assistant Coach.........Marcio Sicoli (seventh season) time in 2012 to finish the season a perfect 14-0. The national title was phone ........................................... (310) 506-7298 Pepperdine’s 21st overall, but the e-mail .................... [email protected] first ever captured by a women’s Volunteer Ass’t ..........Delaney Knudsen (first season) team. Hill, Frederick, Racich and First Season .......................................................2012 Ross were named to the 10-player All-Time Record .........................112-18 (six seasons) AVCA All-American team in a ceremony following the match. NCAA Team Championship Appearances ................2 Hill also earned AVCA All- 2017 NCAA RUNNER-UP & BACK-TO-BACK WCC CHAMPIONS last ....................... 2017 (inaugural championship) American first team accolades best finish ........................................................2nd during her senior indoor volleyball AVCA Team Championship Appearances ................4 season, making her the first and only student-athlete to make the first team in both sports in a single year. last ..........................................2015 (semifinalists) Racich and Ross took home national title No. 22 for Pepperdine the following day, winning the AVCA best finish ...... NATIONAL CHAMPS (2012, 2014) Collegiate Sand Volleyball Pairs Championship. The duo rallied back from an 11-14 deficit in the third set of the championship match against Tara Roenicke and Caitlin Ledoux to win 16-14. AVCA Pairs Championship Qualifiers .......................8 In 2013, Pepperdine picked up right where they left off and went undefeated during the regular season last ................................................. 2 pairs in 2015 for the second year in a row. After garnering the top seed at the AVCA National Championships, once again best finish ............................NATIONAL CHAMPS in Gulf Shores, Ala., the Waves reached the finals despite competing shorthanded. After topping USC ................. Summer Ross & Caitlin Racich (2012) and Florida State, Pepperdine’s win streak came to an end with a 3-2 loss to Long Beach State in the title *pairs championships disbanded in 2016 season. match. 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 ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS Coach of the Year award. The Waves returned to Gulf Shores Director .................................................. Roger Horne in 2014 in a new position: the #2 seed. office phone .................................. (310) 506-4455 Pepperdine topped #4-seeded Florida e-mail [email protected] State in the quarterfinals before ousting Assistant (VB Contact) ................... Sarah Otteman top-seeded USC from the championship in office phone ................................ (310) 506-4160 the semifinals. The Waves and Seminoles met again in the finals and once again, cell phone .................................... (815) 545-0497 Pepperdine emerged with the victory e-mail [email protected] to claim its second national team title. Dykstra, Kelley Larsen, Becca Strehlow Address ....................... 24255 Pacific Coast Highway and Kellie Woolever rounded out the .............................................. Malibu, Calif. 90263 Waves’ All-American picks. Fax..................................................... (310) 506-7459 Pepperdine reached the semifinals of the 2015 national championships, and Woolever and Larsen ended their four- Official Website .............. www.pepperdinewaves.com 2014 AVCA COLLEGIATE SAND VOLLEYBALL year run with the Waves as All-Americans. Facebook Page ............ Pepperdine Beach Volleyball NATIONAL CHAMPIONS In the inaugural 2016 NCAA Twitter ......@PepperdineWaves & @WavesBeachVB Championship run, Taylor Racich and Instagram.....PeppBeachVolley & Pepperdine Waves Heidi Dyer earned AVCA All-American first team accolades. In 2017, Delaney Knudsen and Madalyn Roh were named AVCA All-Americans, while the pair along with Brittany Howard and Corinne Quiggle were also named Volleyball Magazine All-Americans. PepperdineWaves.com | @WavesBeachVB #WavesUp | 3 • Veteran coach of 35 seasons at Pepperdine. • 590-343 in 31 seasons as the Waves’ indoor volleyball coach; 112-18 in six seasons with beach team. • Inducted into the