UCLA BEACH VOLLEYBALL UCLA Athletic Communications / J.D. Morgan Center / 325 Westwood Plaza / Los Angeles, CA 90095 Beach Volleyball Contact: Ryan Finney / rfi [email protected] / o: (310) 206-4701 / c: (424) 832-0676 2019 UCLA BVB SCHEDULE/RESULTS No. 1 UCLA Heads to Pac-12 South Tournament in Tucson, Ariz. Overall Record: 6-0 Saturday & Sunday, March 2-3, 2019 (1-0 Home / 2-0 Road / 3-0 Neutral) Tucson, Ariz. (Bear Down Beach) February TOURNAMENT INFORMATION Thu. 21 (6) CAL POLY W 5-0 Opponents: Arizona State/Washington/No. 11 California Sat. 23 vs. (11) Stanford 1 W 5-0 Dates: ASU March 2/UW March 2/CAL March 3 Sat. 23 vs. (RV) Saint Mary’s 1 W 5-0 Times: ASU 8:00 AM PT/UW 1:00 PM PT/CAL 9:15 AM PT vs. Sun. 24 at (5) Hawai’i 1 W 5-0 Series History: UCLA leads ASU 3-1/UW 4-0/CAL 4-0 Sun. 24 vs. (4) Pepperdine 1 W 4-1 Last Meetings: See below in SERIES HISTORY note 2-1 0-0 2-0 6-0 Wed. 27 at (2) USC P12N W 3-2 March 2 FIRST SERVE Sat. 2 vs. (RV) Arizona State P12N 8:00 a.m. Top-ranked UCLA (6-0) heads to Tucson, Ariz., to compete in the Pac-12 South Tournament at Bear Down Beach on Saturday and Sunday, 2 Sat. 2 vs. (RV) Washington P12N 1:00 p.m. March 2-3. The Bruins will face three Pac-12 teams in Arizona State (2-1), Washington (0-0) and California (2-0). UCLA opens with ASU at 2 Sun. 3 vs (11) California P12N 9:15 a.m. 8:00 a.m. PT on March 2 and will face UW at 1:00 p.m. PT later that day. UCLA and California will square off at 9:15 a.m. PT on Sunday, Wed. 6 at (3) Pepperdine 12:00 p.m. March 3. Every game will be televised live on the Pac-12 Networks. Calling all of the exciting action will be Anne Marie Anderson (play-by- Sat. 9 (4) LSU 3 10:30 a.m. play), and Holly McPeak (analyst) in the morning games and Camryn Irwin (play-by-play) and Nicole Branagh (analyst) in the afternoon games. Sat. 9 (9) FIU 3 1:30 p.m. Sun. 10 (5) FLORIDA STATE 3 12:00 p.m. SERIES HISTORY Sun. 10 (RV) TCU 3 4:00 p.m. ARIZONA STATE: This is the fi fth meeting between UCLA and ASU with the Bruins leading the all-time series, 3-1. The Sun Devils won the Sat. 16 (3) PEPPERDINE 10:00 a.m. fi rst-ever meeting (Apr. 18, 2015) in Santa Monica, Calif., but the Bruins have won the last three, all by identical 5-0 scores, including at Tue. 26 OREGON 12:30 p.m. last year’s Pac-12 South Tournament at Ocean Park Beach in Santa Moncia, Calif. (Mar. 24, 2018). WASHINGTON: This is the fi fth meeting Tue. 26 (13) LOYOLA MARYMOUNT 2:30 p.m. between UCLA and UW with the Bruins winning all four previous duals, including the last meeting at the Pac-12 South Tournament at Ocean Fri. 29 vs. (4) LSU 4 5:30 a.m. Park Beach in Santa Monica, Calif. (Mar. 25, 2018) by a score of 4-1. CALIFORNIA: This is the fi fth meeting between UCLA and Cal with Fri. 29 at (15) STETSON 4 11:30 a.m. the Bruins winning all four previous duals, including a 5-0 sweep in the last meeting at the Pac-12 South Tournament at Ocean Park Beach Sat. 30 vs. (5) Florida State 4 7:30 a.m. in Santa Monica, Calif. (Mar. 25, 2018). 4 Sat. 30 vs. (9) FIU 12:30 p.m. RECAPPING THE LAST DUAL April Top-ranked UCLA won 3-2 at No. 2 USC (Feb. 27) for the second straight season. The Bruins won in straight sets on courts 2, 4 and 5 with the Wed. 3 (13) LOYOLA MARYMOUNT P12N 12:00 p.m. court two pair of junior Lily Justine and senior Sarah Sponcil clinching the dual with a 21-18, 21-14 win over Terese Cannon and Sammy Slater. Wed. 3 (2) USC P12N 3:00 p.m. 5 TOUGH SCHEDULE Sat. 6 vs. (2) USC 9:00 a.m. Another tough schedule awaits UCLA in 2019 as 23 of its 29 opponents during the regular season are currently ranked in the latest AVCA 5 Sat. 6 vs. (11) California 12:00 p.m. Top 20 Poll. During the regular season, the Bruins are currently slated to play 17 duals against teams ranked in the Top 10 with 11 of them 5 Sun. 7 vs. (RV) Washington 9:00 a.m. currently in the Top 5. Of the six duals scheduled against unranked teams, fi ve are receiving votes and one, Saint Mary’s, cracked the Top Sun. 7 at (12) Stanford 5 12:00 p.m. 20 after the Bruins defeated them in the fi rst week of competition. Only one opponent, Oregon on March 26, is not receiving votes in this Sat. 20 (19) GRAND CANYON 9:30 a.m. week’s AVCA Top 20 Poll. Sat. 20 (8) LONG BEACH STATE 3:30 p.m. Thu. 25 at Pac-12 Championship 6 P12N TBD RECAPPING 2018 Fri. 26 at Pac-12 Championship 6 P12N TBD UCLA won its fi rst-ever NCAA Championship in beach volleyball in 2018 with an overall record of 40-4 (.909). The 40 wins were a school Sat. 27 at Pac-12 Championship 6 P12N TBD and NCAA single-season record. UCLA also won a school-record 31 consecutive duals during the 2018 campaign and won its fi rst-ever Pac-12 Conference Championship, defeating the defending champions USC twice on the same day to win the title. The Bruins beat the best May all season long with 33 of their 40 victories coming in wins over nationally-ranked teams and going 5-1 on the year against the defending Fri. 4 at NCAA Championship 7 ESPNU TBD NCAA Champions, USC. Additionally, all four losses on the year were to teams ranked in the top four. During the school-record winning Sat. 5 at NCAA Championship 7 ESPNU TBD streak, the Bruins swept 17 opponents (5-0, one truncated in NCAAs) with 26 of the 31 victories coming against ranked teams (13 of them Sun. 6 at NCAA Championship 7 ESPNU TBD ranked in the top 10 and seven of them ranked in the top fi ve). The streak came to an end when No. 4 Florida State defeated top-seeded NOTE: Ranking in parenthesis indicates ranking in AVCA Top 20 Poll UCLA, 3-1, in the second match of the 2018 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship. Additionally, then-junior Izzy Carey and then-freshman KEY: Megan Muret set the UCLA record for most consecutive match victories on any court at 28. The streak was snapped by USC’s Alexandria Poletto and Haley Hallgren in three sets in the winner’s bracket fi nal of the Pac-12 Championship, 12-21, 21-17, 15-12 (tied the dual at 1 Outrigger Duke Kahanamoku Beach Classic (at Queen’s Beach, Honolulu, 1-1, UCLA eventually won the dual 3-2, and then defeated USC again, 3-1, in the title game to win its fi rst Pac-12 Championship). Hawaii) 2 Pac-12 South Tournament (at Bear Down Beach, Tucson, Ariz.) 3 East Meets West Challenge (at Manhattan Beach Pier, Manhattan Beach, FAMILIAR FACES Calif., hosted by UCLA) The 2019 UCLA starting lineup should be very familiar as the Bruins return 9-of-10 starters from a year ago on the fi ve courts. Courts 1 4 Surf ‘N’ Turf Invitational (at Lummus Park Beach Courts, Miami, Fla., (seniors Megan McNamara and Nicole McNamara), 2 (junior Lily Justine and senior Sarah Sponcil), and 5 (senior Izzy Carey and sophomore hosted by FIU) Megan Muret) are the same. The Bruins took court 3 (senior Zana Muno and junior Savvy Simo) and split up the dynamic duo. Muno is 5 Pac-12 North Tournament (at Beach Volleyball Stadium, Stanford, Calif.) currently paired with freshman Abby Van Winkle, the only newcomer to crack the top 10, and is on court 3. Simo is paired with sophomore 6 Pac-12 Beach Volleyball Championship (at Merle Norman Stadium, Stanford, Calif.) Mac May and is on court 4. UCLA said goodbye to only one senior that played last year, Elise Zappia. Zappia was paired with May on court 7 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship (at Gulf Beach, Gulf Shores, Ala.) 4 for most of the 2018 season. HALL OF FAME MENTORS U.S. Olympian and UCLA Hall of Famer Stein Metzger is in his seventh season at the helm of the UCLA Beach Volleyball program. He sports an overall record of 110-38 (.743) and has gone 70-10 (.875) in the last two seasons. His 100th career victory came in a 4-1 win at No. 13 Stanford on April 8, 2018. Metzger was named the Pac-12 Coach of the Year in 2017 and 2018 and was also named the USMC/AVCA National Coach of the Year in both of those seasons. Metzger now has four NCAA Championships to his credit (three as a player in 1993, 1995 and 1996 and one as a coach in 2018). Entering her sixth year with the Bruins, Assistant Coach Jenny Johnson Jordan is also a U.S.