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No. 10 Long Beach State Beach Volleyball Set To Begin Their 2024 Season
2/20/2024 11:21:00 AM | Women's Beach Volleyball
The Beach will play their first games of the season in Malibu, Calif. this Saturday.
LONG BEACH, Calif. — Long Beach State will head to Malibu to face Vanguard and the hosts No. 19 Pepperdine. The team will face Vanguard at 11 a.m. and No. 19 Pepperdine shortly after at 1 p.m.
Long Beach is ranked No. 10 coming into the 2024 season, continuing an incredible streak that has seen the Beach ranked every week in the history of the AVCA rankings. The two other Big West schools that made the rankings were Hawai'i at No. 9 and Cal Poly who ranked 20th in the poll.
The preseason rankings can be found at https://www.avca.org/polls-awards
This year's roster brings back most of the Big West Championship team along with some new additions. The team is led by sophomores Malia Gementera and Taylor Hagenah, who garnered multiple accolades after an incredible freshman season. Both players were Big West Co-Freshman of the Year, as well as being named 2023 All Big West First Team and 2023 AVCA Top Flight Award recipients. Other returners are Julia Westby, who was named to the 2023 All Big West Second Team and Megan Widener and Natalie Glenn, who received Honorable Mentions.
The newcomers are headlined by Savannah Standage, who was named to the WCC All Freshman Team during her season at Pepperdine. The Beach also welcomes another player who is no stranger to the Big West Conference. Emily Sparks joins the team after a successful career at CSUN where she received an All Big West Honorable Mention during the 2022 season.
Live stats for the games can be found here:
