Pepperdine & UCLA Beach Surpass Florida State In Week Two Coaches Poll

  0 Carly DeMarque | March 13th, 2017 | ASUN Conference, Beach, Big West, CCSA, College - Beach, Independents, News, Pac-12, Rankings, West Coast Conference

USC remains as this weeks #1 after taking down FIU and #8 LSU, to stay undefeated on the season.

This week was a struggle for Florida State as they faced a pair of tough matches against now #2 Pepperdine and #3 UCLA to move to #4 in this weeks beach rankings. With the win for Pepperdine, they were able to crack the NCAA’s top-10 plays of the week.

Despite having a 2-5 record, LSU ties for #8 this week with Georgia State, moving up two spots from last weeks poll, with Georgia State falling just one spot. Also moving up, to break the top-10 are Arizona State and South Carolina who are tied for #10. Stetson falls three positions after going 0-4 at the Hawaii Invite.

Entering the top-15 for the first time this season is California, who enters in at #14 after taking down Utah and Stanford, a team that was previously in the top-15. Cal Poly makes their 2017 debut into the top-15 after taking down Georgia State and FIU.

RANK SCHOOL 2017 RECORD PREVIOUS RANK
1 Southern California 4-0 1
2 Pepperdine 3-1 3
3 UCLA 6-2 4
4 Florida State 4-2 2
5 Hawai’i 8-0 5
6 Long Beach State 7-1 6
7 Arizona 4-2 8
T-8 Georgia State 6-4 7
T-8 LSU 2-5 10
T-10 Arizona State 4-2 T-12
T-10 South Carolina 7-0 15
12 Stetson 2-7 9
13 Grand Canyon 8-2 11
14 California 6-0 NR
15 Cal Poly 4-6 NR

Others receiving votes: Florida International, Loyola Marymount, Florida Atlantic, Stanford, Saint Mary’s, Tulane, TCU, New Mexico, Washington, Utah

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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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