Texas Beach Volleyball!

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We will have to steal a couple from S. Car to not go defeated in conference in '25. 

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S Car, and GCU are beatable. I guess we chose to align with the other SEC schools 

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Grand Canyon ain't in anymore. 

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This is the second season of Beach Volleyball for Texas and the team joins current members Florida State, LSU and South Carolina. 

https://ccsasports.org/news/2024/6/11/general-ccsa-announces-addition-of-texas-to-beach-volleyball.aspx

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The Grand Canyon beach volleyball program will transition to the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation beginning in the 2024-25 academic year, joining a newly formed and regionalized beach volleyball conference with nationally competitive programs.

GCU will join six schools who are departing members of the Pac-12 Conference including California, Oregon, Stanford, UCLA, USC and Washington.

https://gculopes.com/news/2023/11/9/beach-volleyball-lopes-to-join-west-coasts-elite-in-mpsf.aspx

They gonna get massacred. 

[Funk Doctor Spock 13275]

On 7/4/2024 at 3:28 AM, gsoda3 said:

she has prominent kidneys

Now all we need is a bathtub and some ice. 

[JesusSweatDuck 18086]

 

 

[BadgerHorn 147]

Crossposting from the AVP Thread...

PSA: Molly is teaming up with Kylie Wickley at the Manhattan Beach Open in Aug

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Registration link: https://apps.ideal-logic.com/utexasparticipant?key=BWKT-5P785_K9KH-5PTF_393f6df5798f&fbclid=IwY2xjawFZpPlleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHQ8Se_wQPXPlXHAKj1acwe4tyfo4eLOAYC7Dbb97J8r5stYFm4dPxvJrXg_aem_DDmetewRdP2nndzr8PWfaA

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Open to any & all, but limited to all these qualifiers. 

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Carys Patton, left in pic 1, hasn't really played competitively in 2 years. 

[perfectchaos007 6780]

A player on Boise State's beach volleyball team is going viral. I don't need to point out which player it is

 

Edited October 4 by perfectchaos007

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Yowza. 

 

Going to kill a couple hours at TCU's courts tomorrow, hopefully some of our girls are in action at the time. No real official schedule is out there, basically just round robin scrimmages with Houston Christian & A&M-CC too. 

[gsoda3 3362]

On 9/28/2024 at 7:02 PM, shadow_operative2.0 said:

 

Carys Patton, left in pic 1, hasn't really played competitively in 2 years. 

Any relation to Ava?

28 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:

A player on Boise State's beach volleyball team is going viral. I don't need to point out which player it is

 

One small hint?

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3 minutes ago, gsoda3 said:

Any relation to Ava?

Yes. 

On 4/10/2024 at 8:58 PM, shadow_operative2.0 said:

4 pics of the Patton sisters on National Siblings Day. 

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2 minutes ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

Yes. 

Why didn't she play for two years? And is she better than Ava?

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She was too young to crack TCU’s squad in ‘23, redshirted like most of our girls last season. 

Hopefully she’s better, Ava should be playing line 4 at best on a real roster. 

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Got lucky, we’re playing CC now. Ms. Wickley is thicc. 

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Ava, on the other hand, has not gained a pound. 

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Saw their first set against TCU. Redhead is a freshman from the Netherlands, may eventually be our best player. She's #11 on the roster, but Chloe's dad said her 11 jersey didn't fit. 

[10SNE1 124]

Didn't see a Beach Volleyball Recruiting thread.

 

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We’ll be at TCU on March 7-8 with FSU, FAU, & Boise (the goth chick).

I’ll shall be in attendance. 

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*I shall 

Practice pic from the other day. 

 

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14 hours ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

*I shall 

Practice pic from the other day. 

 

Do you expect the team to be competitive this year or are they still a ways away?

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No, they’re not much better skill-wise than last year. All the extra practice time for the redshirts will certainly help, but this is still a roster without much top-end talent. Top 12-15 is likely their ceiling. 

There’s really only 5 schools in this sport: USC, UCLA, FSU, LSU, TCU. Sometimes another CA school will sneak in around there. TCU has the best pair in the nation, so they’re basically starting every dual up 1-0. USC is still the champs until someone proves otherwise. 

 

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16 minutes ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

No, they’re not much better skill-wise than last year. All the extra practice time for the redshirts will certainly help, but this is still a roster without much top-end talent. Top 12-15 is likely their ceiling. 

There’s really only 5 schools in this sport: USC, UCLA, FSU, LSU, TCU. Sometimes another CA school will sneak in around there. TCU has the best pair in the nation, so they’re basically starting every dual up 1-0. USC is still the champs until someone proves otherwise. 

 

How long has TCU had their program?

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2015, but their current coach took over two years later. He's from the Canary Islands & Tenerife, his top assistant from Guatemala, so you'll hear as much Spanish as English at their tourneys. That's why they have the stud Olympic pair, they've known them since they were young. 

[Hornbeliever 737]

Would being a #12 team this year, let’s say, be a victory or a disappointment?

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Victory. That's making the tourney, 17 teams do (16/17 play-in to get killed by #1).