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Beach Volleyball

Big Weekend Test

NOTABLES
  • No. 12 Stanford beach volleyball puts its school record-tying, 11-match winning streak on the line Saturday when it hosts No. 5 Cal Poly and No. 9 Cal at Stanford Beach Volleyball Courts. The Cardinal is 12-3 overall.
  • Cal Poly is 13-3 overall and winner's of 10 straight. Their lone losses this season came to Florida State, USC and UCLA, all ranked in the Top 5.
  • Cal is 8-3 on the season and winner's of three straight. The Golden Bears have wins over UC Davis, Hawai'i, Washington and Utah, all teams that Stanford has also beaten in the last week.
  • Stanford's No. 2 pair of Xolani Hodel and Kate Reilly, both freshmen, is 12-2 on the season and has won each of their 11 matches during the Cardinal's winning streak.
  • During the 11-match winning streak, Stanford's No. 1 pair of Charlie Ekstrom and Sunny Villapando has gone 9-2, while the No. 3 pair of Maddi Kriz and Maya Harvey is 8-3. 
  • Jordan McKinney joined Maddie Dailey at the No. 4 flight nine matches ago, and the pair has gone 7-2 since joining forces. Amelia Smith joined Emmy Sharp at No. 5 over the weekend, and that duo has proceeded to go 4-0 since, winning eight of nine possible sets so far.