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Beach Volleyball

Regular Season Winds Down

NOTABLES
  • No. 11 Stanford beach volleyball will play its final four matches of the regular season this weekend at the Stanford Beach Volleyball Courts, beginning on Thursday vs. Santa Clara. The Cardinal will then host No. 5 Loyola Marymount on Saturday at 12 p.m. before closing the regular season on Sunday vs. No. 8 Grand Canyon (1 p.m.) and San Jose State (5 p.m.). The match vs. San Jose State will serve as Senior Day, where the Cardinal will recognize Kat Anderson, Chelsea Red-Horse Mohl, Shannon Richardson, Amelia Smith and Sunny Villapando.
  • Stanford has defeated four Top-10 programs and eight total ranked teams so far this season, with two more chances to pick up signature wins this weekend heading into the Pac-12 Tournament.
  • Sunny Villapando owns the school record with 60 career wins, while Amelia Smith moved into second all-time last weekend with 53 career victories. 
  • Maddie Kriz and Maya Harvey, at 16-7 on the season as a pair, are the second-winningest pair in school history for a single season, only behind Morgan Hentz and Amelia Smith, who won 18 matches in 2018. Four other pairs - Emmy Sharp/Amelia Smith (12-2), Jordan McKinney/Maddie Dailey (12-7), Charlie Ekstrom/Sunny Villapando (12-8) and Xolani Hodel/Kate Reilly (12-8) - are tied for the 10th-most wins in a single season by a pair.
  • Kriz and Harvey are tied for seventh in individual wins in a season with their 16, while Dailey, Xolani Hodel, Smith and Villapando are all tied for ninth-most with 15.