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Beach Volleyball

No. 3 Cardinal Takes on Final Weekend of Regular-Season Action

Notables

  • No. 3 Stanford ends the regular season at home Friday and Saturday, welcoming No. 8 California, No. 12 Washington, No. 17 Grand Canyon and UC Davis to The Farm for two days full of action. 
  • All matches against the Cardinal will be streamed on Stanford Live Stream and will have live stats available at the links below. 
  • After Saturday's matches, the Cardinal will honor its senior class of Abby Converse, Ellie Gamberdella, Maya Harvey, Xolani Hodel, Asha Johnson, Kate Reilly, and Emmy Sharp with a post-match ceremony. 
  • The Cardinal enters its final weekend of regular-season play after a week of three sweep wins of San Francisco, then No. 17 Arizona and Pacific. Stanford's last five wins all came in "sweeping" style, besting their opponents 5-0 including topping the ranked Wildcats twice in less than a week (April 6, April 12). 
  • Freshman Chloe Hoffman and sophomore Kelly Belardi are unstoppable as a duo, going 13-0 since being paired together back on March 15. In thirteen matches together, the pair has only dropped three sets. 
  • The pairing of junior Taylor Wilson and freshman Ruby Sorra has proven to be a great one for the Cardinal. The duo spent time training in the fall for the U21 World Championships (Taylor, for Team USA and Ruby, for Team Canada) and found a rhythm playing together. They are the Cardinal's winningest pair (total number of wins), sitting at 20-6 with all losses coming to top-15 ranked pairs. 
  • The Cardinal has spent the entire 2024 season as one of the top three teams in the nation according to the AVCA Coaches Poll. This is largely in part to its leadership by three of the winningest players in program history— Kate Reilly (first, 90 wins), Xolani Hodel (second, 81 wins) and Maya Harvey (fourth, 80 wins). All three 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 (each growing the program's record win total for a single season) and three consecutive appearances to the NCAA Championships. 
  • The Cardinal’s lineup also boasts four powerhouse first-year players— Ruby Sorra, Clara Stowell, Brooke Rockwell, and Chloe Hoffman— three of whom (Sorra, Rockwell, Hoffman) have seen playing time in every single match this season. 
  • More than half of Stanford’s pairs in all matches this season have come from players in their first or second years playing collegiate beach volleyball. In fact, there is not a single pair that has played this season for the Cardinal that has not featured an underclassman as one of its two members. 
  • Stanford next takes on its conference opponents at the 2024 Pac-12 Championship in Tempe, Ariz., April 24-26 hosted by Arizona State. The Cardinal looks to bring home its first-ever league title in the final edition of the event.