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Dear Readers~     Welcome to the final blog covering the regular season for the 2025 NCAA Beach Volleyball season. Today we'll see how #6 California Polytechnic (Cal Poly for short) based in San Luis Obispo, California, and University of Texas based in Austin, Texas, did as their last tournament of the regular 2025 season has ended.  This game took place as part of the Lone Star Invitational held by Texas in their capital of Austin at the Wright-Whitaker Sports Complex.      As for how the Lone Star Invitational played out up to this point, this is the second game for Cal Poly as well as for Texas. Cal Poly came off of a 5-0 win against Texas A&M Corpus Christi while Texas came off of a 5-0 win against Southern Mississippi. As for the season, Cal Poly currently sits at 23-6 while Texas sits at 22-8. The last loss for Cal Poly was at the Center of Effort Challenge against TCU Cal Poly hosted back in mid-April while Texas' last loss was against USC at the...

 Dear Readers~     Welcome to today's blog covering 2025 NCAA Division 1 Beach Volleyball. Today's blog will cover USC (University of Southern California) taking on Stanford. This game took place at the Center of Effort Challenge in San Luis Obispo, California hosted by California Polytechnic, or Cal Poly for short.      These teams have played each other a few times so far this season. The first time was in Hawaii to start the season back in February where Stanford beat USC 3-2 at the Duke Kahanamoku Beach Classic. The next time they would play each other would be at the MPSF Midseason Rumble a few weeks later at Stanford, where USC would come out on top with a final score of 3-2. The third and most recent time they've played each other this season was in Laguna Beach, California for the Best in the West, where USC won 4-1. With USC winning twice and Stanford winning once, who do you think will win this matchup? Will Stanford tie it with each team winning ...

Dear Readers~     Welcome to the latest blog covering 2025 NCAA Division 1 Beach Volleyball. Today's blog will cover the game between #2 UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles)  and #3 LMU (Loyola Marymount University) that took place on Saturday, April 5th in Laguna Beach, California, southeast of Anaheim and Long Beach. The tournament they played in was the Laguna Best of the West. Going into this game, LMU beat Cal Poly and North Florida but lost to Stetson while UCLA beat Hawaii and Washington but lost to Cal Poly. This matchup between each other was the final game of the tournament for each other. Going into the game, LMU was 25-4 while UCLA was 24-3. The last time the two played each other was in Hawaii at the start of the season where UCLA won 3-2. Will UCLA beat LMU again or will LMU redeem themselves and beat UCLA? Let's get started to find out who comes out on top in Laguna Beach, California.      For those who don't know, NCAA and Profession...

 Dear Readers~     Welcome to today's blog that's covering the matchup between #1 UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) and #2 TCU (Texas Christian University).  I know my latest blog was about TCU but there's a reason UCLA and TCU are some of the top teams in the nation. Today's match up took place on Saturday, March 29th in Baton Rouge, Louisiana at the Death Volley Invitational, hosted by LSU (Louisiana State University). The name 'Death Volley' is a play on words to Death Valley, a national park in the deserts of Southern California (and the lowest point in the western hemisphere for those geography lovers), if the name may sound familiar and also explains why the scoring is the way it is at the end of the game, so stay tuned for that.     As for how the tournament went up to this point, UCLA played LSU, Texas, and Florida State. UCLA won all 3 of those and moving their record up to 22-1 for their season as well as 17 wins in a row since their la...