Notables
- No. 8 Stanford begins postseason action and looks for its first ever conference title Wednesday through Friday, April 26-28, hosting the 2023 Pac-12 Championship at the Stanford Beach Volleyball Stadium. The Cardinal enter the tournament as the No. 4 seed and will first take on No. 5 seed and No. 13 nationally-ranked Washington.
- Live Scoring vs. Washington
- Additional live scoring links will be updated on Beach Volleyball's schedule page throughout the tournament.
- All matches throughout the Pac-12 Championship will be broadcast on the Pac-12 Networks. Information regarding the championship can be found at the 2023 Pac-12 Championship Tournament Central webpage.
- The Cardinal enters the postseason on a four dual-match win streak, topping No. 7 Grand Canyon, No. 9 California, Santa Clara and Pacific April 21-22. Stanford has now upset three top-10 opponents in its last six matches.
- Freshman pair Kelly Belardi and Ashley Vincent broke the program record for wins as a pair in a single season Saturday, April 8 with their come-from-behind victory over No. 9 California on court four. The freshman duo now owns 25 victories through 30 collegiate matches played together. As a duo, they sit third on the career wins as a pair list (five away from the top of the list).
- Freshman Ashley Vincent leads the team in victories, currently owning 29 victories in 34 matches played. The Atlanta, Ga. native set a new program record for wins in a single season in Louisiana when she topped both North Florida and LSU. She leads a group of six Cardinal with 20-or-more wins this season, including partner Kelly Belardi (25), Charlie Ekstrom and Maddi Kriz (23) and Maya Harvey and Kate Reilly (21).
- When looking at Stanford's Career Wins (individual) records, six current Stanford players sit in the top-10-- Charlie Ekstrom (1st, 82 wins), Maddi Kriz (2nd, 72 wins), Kate Reilly (4th, 65 wins), Maya Harvey (5th, 64 wins), Xolani Hodel (6th, 63 wins), and Emmy Sharp (7th, 62 wins). Four (Reilly, Sharp, Hodel, Sharp) are members of the 2019-20 signing class (first played during the 2021 season), largely regarded then as the most decorated incoming freshman class to come to The Farm since the inception of the program. Since 2021, the Cardinal has recorded three back-to-back-to-back 20+ win seasons and two consecutive appearances to the NCAA Championships.
- Stanford's 2023 squad has continued its success from the previous season, breaking many of the program records set in '22.
- Ashley Vincent topped sophomore Kate Reilly's record set in 2022 (April 24, 2022) for individual wins in a season, topping North Florida for her 25th individual victory and LSU for her 26th.
- The Cardinal set a new record for program wins in a season this past weekend, sitting at 26 victories (previous record was 24, set in 2022).