Notables
- No. 1 Stanford takes on its sixth consecutive appearance at the NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship, entering as the No. 1 seed with a first-round matchup set against 16-seed Chattanooga May 1 at 9 a.m. PT.
- The schedule for the tournament follows a single-elimination style bracket:
- Links for live scoring for each match will be shared when available. All three days of matchups will be broadcast on the ESPN family of networks, with individual court streams available on ESPN+. Stanford's matchup with Chattanooga, its quarterfinals and semifinals matchups will all air on ESPN2, while the championship matchup is set to air on ESPN.
- Stanford enters the national title chase after its run at defending its 2025 conference title ended in the semifinals with a 3-1 loss to No. 1-ranked/No. 2 seed UCLA at the 2026 MPSF Beach Volleyball Championship. The Cardinal secured a 3-0 sweep of Washington and a 3-2 win over No. 5 USC on its way to the semifinal.
- The Cardinal enters the NCAA Championship with its highest-ever seed, having previously been ranked No. 3 (2024 and 2025), No. 6 (2021) and No. 9 (2022 and 2023). Stanford leads all top-20 ranked teams in wins (36, a single-season program record) and the Cardinal’s 36 victories throughout 2026 includes 25 wins over ranked opponents and 17 top-10 victories.
- Stanford's pairs have impressed throughout the 2026 season. Both Charlotta Bell/Logan Tusher and Elena Fisher/Chloe Hoffman surpassed the school's single-season wins record ahead of the 2026 MPSF Beach Volleyball Championship, with Bell and Tusher currently sitting with 31 wins and Fisher and Hoffman with 30 victories. Bell also set a new program single-season individual wins record when she surpassed 32 wins (previous school record set by Ashley Vincent in 2023) at the conference title chase. She now has 34 victories on the year.
- In its six consecutive NCAA appearances, the Cardinal has not one more than one game while playing on the white sands of Gulf Shores, Ala. Stanford looks to make the program's first ever appearances in the NCAA semifinals and championship dual match. The Cardinal's path to the semifinals falls against familiar foes-- with a win over Chattanooga, Stanford would take on either No. 8-seed California or No. 9-seed Long Beach State. The Cardinal has met both teams twice this season, posting 2-0 records over both potential opponents.