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Beach Volleyball

Sweet Home Alabama

Notables

  • For just the second time in program history, No. 8 Stanford heads to Gulf Shores, Ala. to compete in the 2022 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship. The No. 9 seed Cardinal opens action Wednesday, May 4, taking on eight seed Florida Atlantic at 7 am PT. 
  • The Cardinal looks for its first win at the national championship tournament, falling in its last two chances against Florida State and Cal Poly (2021 tournament). This year’s tournament begins with a day of single-elimination play to bring the field down to eight teams, followed by three days of double-elimination bracket action to decide the eventual national champion. 
  • Stanford takes on Florida Atlantic for just the second time since the inception of the program, falling to the Owls 3-2 at the Doctors Hospital Surf and Turf Invitational in Miami, Fla. on April 3, 2015. 
  • The Cardinal enters NCAA championship play coming off of its trip to the 2022 Pac-12 Championship. The No. 3 seed Stanford earned a win over Arizona State but was eliminated from contention after losses to both two seed UCLA and four seed California on the second day of competition. 
  • Stanford has seen multiple records broken in its most recent dual matches:
    •  Against Grand Canyon, April 24: No. 1 pair Xolani Hodel and Kate Reilly earned their 29th win as a pair and became the winningest pair in program history (as of May 2, the pair currently owns 30 wins). 
    • Against Saint Mary’s, April 24: Sophomore Kate Reilly earned her 24th individual win of the 2022 season, a new program best for wins in a single season. 
    • Against Arizona State, April 27: 
      • Stanford earns its 24th program win, the most in a single season.
      • Sophomore Maya Harvey earns her 24th win of the 2022 season, matching Reilly’s program record for single-season individual wins set on April 24, 2022. 
  • Current Pairs Season/Career Records:
  • Eight members of the Cardinal's lineup hold twenty-or-more individual wins throughout 2022, the most in program history and three more than any other previous season (5 in 2021).
  • Charlie Ekstrom, Kate Reilly, and Xolani Hodel each earned Second Team All-America Honors from the AVCA on April 28, the most honors in a single season in program history. The national honors are the first for Ekstrom and Reilly and the second for Hodel, who was named a First Team All-American in 2021 (alongside partner Sunny Villapando).
  • Freshmen Emma Morris and Taylor Wilson have each earned 21 wins (so far) in their first years with the Stanford programs, just the fifth and sixth freshmen in Cardinal history to collect 20+ wins in their inaugural seasons.
  • Current Stanford student-athletes and their wins as freshmen (wins, first season):
  • Other Stanford freshmen with more than 20 wins in their first season:
    • Sunny Villapando- 23, 2018
  • Members of the Stanford beach team on the edge of matching/breaking individual/pair records:
    • Charlie Ekstrom- 1 win away from career 60 individual wins (would tie second-most individual wins in program history)
    • Maddi Kriz- 1 win away from 50 career individual wins (would tie for fifth-most in program history)
    • Xolani Hodel/Kate Reilly- 1 win away from 19 wins as a pair in 2022 (would match Stanford’s record for most wins in a single season by a pair)
  • In all but one match this season, the Cardinal's No. 3 pair's results seemed to dictate (or match) the result of the entire match-- when Stanford's threes duo wins, so do the Cardinal. When the Cardinal loses (or does not have a decision) at threes, the Stanford team also falls.