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USC Trojans beach volleyball>USC (6)USC Trojans beach volleyball>USC (6)ESPN, TruTV, TBS (TV network)>TBS| website =https://www.ncaa.com/sports/beach-volleyball }}The NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship is an NCAA-sanctioned tournament to determine the national champions of collegiate women’s beach volleyball. It is a National Collegiate Championship featuring teams from Division I, Division II and Division III, and is the 90th, and newest, NCAA championship event.WEB, NCAA DII, DIII membership approves Sand Volleyball as 90th championship,www.ncaa.com/news/ncaa/article/2015-01-17/ncaa-dii-diii-membership-approves-sand-volleyball-90th-championship, NCAA News, NCAA.com, May 30, 2015, It was the first new NCAA championship to be created since the NCAA Division III Men’s Volleyball Championship in 2012, and the first for women since the NCAA Bowling Championship in 2004.

History

The championship was approved by the NCAA Convention during the fall of 2015, and a committee was selected to determine the tournament’s organizational structure. Before 2015, sand volleyball had been part of the NCAA Emerging Sports for Women program (which included women’s ice hockey, bowling, rowing, and water polo in the past). As such, a separate championship had been contested annually, since 2012, by the American Volleyball Coaches Association. Before 2012 several championships were televised by Collegiate Nationals. As of 2015, over 50 schools (from Divisions I, II, and III) had sponsored sand volleyball, ten more than the total number of required programs.The sport’s name was changed from “sand volleyball” to the more usual “beach volleyball” in June 2015, and the committee overseeing the sport is now named the NCAA Beach Volleyball Committee.WEB, NCAA, NCAA’s newest championship will be called beach volleyball,www.ncaa.com/news/ncaa/article/2015-06-30/ncaas-newest-championship-will-be-called-beach-volleyball, June 30, 2015, July 2, 2015,

Structure

2016–2021

(File:2016 National Champs USC.jpg|right|thumb|300px|USC at the inaugural tournament)The championship is held each May. From 2016 through 2021, eight teams participated, in a double-elimination style tournament with a single-elimination final, under standard beach volleyball rules. All duals consist of five matches, with each team needing to win three matches to advance.The NCAA does not add automatic qualifiers until two championship seasons have passed; but in 2016, the top 3 teams from the east and west were given automatic bids with 2 additional teams invited at-large.As of fall 2019, seven conferences sponsor beach volleyball, all with at least six members — the minimum number for a conference to qualify for an automatic bid to other NCAA championship tournaments. Five of these conferences were represented in the inaugural tournament; the exceptions are the Ohio Valley Conference and Southland Conference, both of which begin beach volleyball sponsorship in the upcoming 2020 season.

• ASUN Conference (7 members)
• Big West Conference (7 members)
• Coastal Collegiate Sports Association (12 members)
• Ohio Valley Conference (6 members)
• Pac-12 Conference (9 members)
• Southland Conference (9 members)
• West Coast Conference (7 members)

2022

From 2022 onwards, the championship tournament was expanded to 16 teams. As of spring 2022, eight conferences sponsor beach volleyball, and the winners of each conference will receive automatic bids for the championship.

• ASUN Conference
• Big West Conference
• Coastal Collegiate Sports Association
• Conference USA
• Ohio Valley Conference
• Pac-12 Conference
• Southland Conference
• West Coast Conference

Additionally, two teams from the East Region and two teams from the West Region will be given bids by the NCAA beach volleyball committee, while the final four teams will be selected at large.WEB,volleyballmag.com/ncaa-beach-volleyball-041922/, Postseason possibilities as NCAA beach volleyball teams eye bids to Gulf Shores, volleyballmag.com, Lee, Feinswog, April 19, 2022, April 27, 2022,

2023{{ndash}}present

Starting in 2023, the tournament switched to a standard single elimination bracket from more complicated partially double elimination brackets used before.WEB,www.ncaa.org/news/2022/7/15/media-center-beach-volleyball-championship-format-to-change-in-2023.aspx, Beach volleyball championship format to change in 2023, The field was also expanded to 17 teams to allow for nine automatic qualifiers.WEB,ncaaorg.s3.amazonaws.com/championships/sports/volleyball/nc/beach/2022-23NCBVB_InformationMemo.pdf, Memorandum, National Collegiate Athletic Association, February 6, 2023, Kristin W., Fasbender, Julie, Cribbs, 1, May 1, 2023, April 26, 2023,web.archive.org/web/20230426073334/https://ncaaorg.s3.amazonaws.com/championships/sports/volleyball/nc/beach/2022-23NCBVB_InformationMemo.pdf, live,

Results{| class“wikitable” style@text-align:center”

! style={{CollegePrimaryStyle|National Collegiate Athletic Association|color=white}} colspan=10| NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship! rowspan=“2” style="width:5%;“|Year ! rowspan=“2” style="width:10%;“|Site(Host)! rowspan=“2” style="width:9%;“|Host Venue! style="width:1%;” rowspan=“57“|!colspan=3|Final ! style="width:1%;” rowspan=“57“|!colspan=3|Semifinalists!width=12%|Winner !width=5%|Score !width=12%|Runner-up !width=10%|Third Place !width=10%|Fourth Place2016 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship>DetailsGulf Shores, Alabama(UAB Blazers>UAB)Gulf Shores Public BeachUSC Trojans beach volleyball>USC 3–0Florida State Seminoles beach volleyball>Florida State UCLA Bruins beach volleyball>UCLAHawaii Rainbow Wahine beach volleyball>Hawaii2017 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship>Details| USC (2) 3–2Pepperdine Waves>Pepperdine| Hawaii| Florida State2018 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship>Details| UCLA 3-1| Florida State| Hawaii| USC2019 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship>Details| UCLA (2) 3-0| USC LSU Tigers women’s beach volleyball>LSU| Hawaii|2020Canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic2021 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship>DetailsGulf Shores, Alabama(UAB Blazers>UAB)Gulf Shores Public BeachUSC Trojans beach volleyball>USC (3) 3–1UCLA Bruins beach volleyball>UCLA Loyola Marymount Lions beach volleyball>Loyola MarymountLSU Tigers women’s beach volleyball>LSU2022 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship>Details| USC (4) 3–1| Florida State| UCLA| Loyola Marymount2023 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship>Details| USC (5) 3–2|UCLAFlorida State/TCU2024 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship>Details|USC (6)3–0|UCLACal Poly/LSU2025 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship>DetailsHuntington Beach, California(Long Beach State Beach>Long Beach State)Huntington Beach Pier||||2026 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship>Details||||

Summary

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Team Titles{| class“sortable wikitable”

! Team! #! class=“unsortable” |YearsUSC Trojans ‘’’USC}}’’’| 62016 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship>2016, 2017 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship, 2021 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship>2021, 2022 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship, 2023 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship>2023, 2024UCLA Bruins ‘’’UCLA}}’’’| 22018 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship>2018, 2019

Result by school and by year

Twenty-one teams have appeared in the NCAA Tournament in at least one year starting with 2016. The results for all years are shown below. The code in each cell represents the furthest the team made it in the respective tournament.

• {{colorbox|FFA500|CH}} National Champion
• {{colorbox|ACACAC|RU}} National Runner-up

{{col-begin|width=auto}}{{col-2}}2016 to 2022

• {{colorbox|DFD794|3}} 3rd place
• {{colorbox|F0E68C|4}} 4th place
• {{colorbox|9AE5E5|5}} Tied for 5th place
• {{colorbox|C4EBEB|7}} Tied for 7th place
• {{colorbox|EEEEEE|•}} Round of 16 (2022 only)

{{col-break|gap=2em}}2023 to present

• {{colorbox|F0E68C|SF}} Semifinals
• {{colorbox|AFE8E8|QF}} Quarterfinals
• {{colorbox|EEEEEE|•}} Round of 16
• {{colorbox|F4F4F4|{{color|555555|P}}}} Play-in Round

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Broadcasting

Turner Sports held broadcast rights to the tournament for the first two years (2016 and 2017), with early-round coverage airing on TruTV, and the championship game broadcast on TBS.WEB, Culver column: FSU beach volleyball could be a part of NCAA history,www.tallahassee.com/story/sports/college/fsu/2016/05/03/culver-column-fsu-beach-volleyball-part-ncaa-history/83905886/, Tallahassee Democrat, 8 May 2016, WEB, Turner Sports Reaches Multi-Year Agreement to Present NCAA National Collegiate Beach Volleyball Championship,www.ncaa.com/news/beach-volleyball/article/2016-04-26/turner-sports-reaches-multi-year-agreement-present-ncaa, NCAA, 27 April 2016, 26 April 2016, In December 2017, ESPN signed a multiyear agreement to broadcast the NCAA Women’s Beach Volleyball Championship through 2022.WEB,www.ncaa.com/news/beach-volleyball/article/2017-12-20/ncaa-awards-espn-beach-volleyball-rights, NCAA awards ESPN beach volleyball rights, ncaa.com, December 20, 2017, March 13, 2018,

See also

• American Volleyball Coaches Association – previous sponsor of collegiate beach volleyball tournaments in the United States
• NCAA Men’s Indoor Volleyball Championships (National Collegiate, Division III)
• NCAA Women’s Indoor Volleyball Championships (Division I, Division II, Division III)
• NAIA Women’s Beach Volleyball Invitational
• List of NCAA women’s beach volleyball programs

References

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External links

• NCAA Awards 2016 and 2017 National Championship Sites
• NCAA Emerging Sports: Sand Volleyball {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170825015906www.ncaa.org/about/resources/inclusion/emerging-sports-sand-volleyball |date=2017-08-25 }}
• College Beach Volleyball

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