Pepperdine Remains #1, UCLA Jumps To #2 In AVCA Beach Poll

  0 Carly DeMarque | March 12th, 2018 | ASUN Conference, Beach, Big West, CCSA, College - Beach, News, Pac-12, West Coast Conference

Pepperdine remains the #1 team in the country after escaping the East Meets West Tournament with a 4-0 mark. UCLA climbs up to #2 following the tournament after completing the same feat against the Eastern teams.

USC fell back to #3 after losing to LSU in the East Meets West Tournament. The Tigers are just the 6th team to take down the Trojans in a varsity beach volleyball match and move up to #7 from #9 after the accomplishment, despite that being their only win of the weekend. Florida State moves to #4 while Hawaii falls back to #5 from #3 following the big tournament. This comes as a shock as Hawaii went 3-1 for the weekend while the Seminoles ended 1-3.

The back half of the top-20 saw teams move up by one position while Florida Atlantic fell back to #20 from #15 after losing to Florida Gulf Coast and Georgia State at the Burrow Beach Bash.

Falling out of the top-20 was TCU as they struggled at the East Meets West Tournament, falling to all of their opponents for a 0-4 weekend.

RANK SCHOOL 2018 RECORD PREVIOUS RANK
1 Pepperdine 10-2 1
2 UCLA 11-3 4
3 Southern California 8-4 2
4 Florida State 9-3 5
5 Hawai’i 7-3 3
6 Cal Poly 10-2 6
7 LSU 6-6 9
8 Long Beach State 3-1 7
9 South Carolina 9-1 8
10 Arizona 6-2 10
11 Georgia State 10-3 11
12 Grand Canyon 5-4 12
13 Florida International 6-5 13
14 Stanford 8-4 14
15 Stetson 6-5 16
16 Loyola Marymount 4-4 17
17 Tulane 5-3 18
18 Washington 2-1 19
19 California 7-1 NR
20 Florida Atlantic 6-6 15

Others receiving votes: TCU, Arizona State, Saint Mary’s, Florida Gulf Coast, College of Charleston, Cal State-Northridge, New Mexico, Houston Baptist, Coastal Carolina, San Jose State

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Carly DeMarque has been involved with competitive volleyball for the majority of her life, playing competitively at the club and collegiate level for 15 years and coaching club for five. Now a retired Division I volleyball athlete out of McNeese State University, she continues her volleyball enthusiasm by stepping back into …

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