#1 USC vs #3 UCLA 2-22-2025 BVB
Dear Readers~ The 2025 NCAA Division 1 Beach Volleyball season has begun! The first game to be covered will be #1 USC (University of Southern California) taking on #3 UCLA (University of California Los Angeles) at the Outrigger Duke Kahanamoku Beach Classic that took place from Thursday February 20th to Saturday February 22nd in Honolulu, Hawaii. The event itself is named after Olympian Duke Kahanamoku (1890-1968) who is from Hawaii and competed in the 1912 Stockholm, 1920 Antwerp, and 1924 Paris summer Olympics as a swimmer and is known as the 'Father of Surfing'. With the history lesson over, let's get back to the beach volleyball game between the USC Trojans and the UCLA Bruins to see who walked away victorious. The reason these two teams were chosen for the first blog of the 2025 season is because they were the finalists for the 2024 National Championship that took place in Orange Beach, Alabama, where this year's national championship will ta...