3C2A Beach Volleyball Championships descend upon West Valley College beginning Thursday
3C2A Beach Volleyball Championships Information
SARATOGA - Saratoga will be the center of the community college beach volleyball world this Thursday through Saturday when West Valley hosts the 3C2A Beach Volleyball State Championships. Competition in the three-day tournament begins with the team championship Thursday morning at the beautiful West Valley Beach Volleyball Complex.
The pairs competition takes center stage Friday with pool play action. The tandem field will be whittled down by half by the end of the day, setting up single-elimination bracket play on Saturday to determine the state champions.
Fans can follow Thursday's team championship action with updated results here. Pairs action will be updated throughout the day Friday and Saturday as well. Friday's morning wave will be updated here while the afternoon wave can be followed here. Follow Saturday's bracket action here.
Thursday’s six-school team tournament will look dramatically different than last year. Only perennial participants Feather River and Ventura return. The Golden Valley Conference champion Golden Eagles (18-5) will be the north’s top seed, while the Pirates (19-5), the champions of the Western State Conference, are the south’s #2 seed.
Pool A features south #1 San Diego Mesa (20-3), the Pacific Coast champions, north #2 Fresno City (22-2), the champions of the Coast, and south #4 El Camino (16-6), the South Coast titlist. North #1 seed Feather River tops Pool B, followed by Ventura and Pacific Coast runner-up and 2017 champion MiraCosta (16-9).
The teams in each pool will play one another starting at 9 a.m., with the pool winners facing off for the state championship at the end of the day. 2023 champion Grossmont tops the all-time team champions list with three (2016, 2019, 2023), followed by Irvine Valley with two (2015, 2022).
Grossmont’s Madison Bogle and Alana Embry took the 2023 pairs championship with an epic 10-21, 21-18, 15-12 reverse-sweep win over Orange Coast’s Corinne Williams and Brisa Zapata-Reeves. American River’s top-seeded Kylie Matthews and Addison DeMarse captured the 2024 north regional title, while Santa Barbara’s Olivia Medina and Ashley Rossi won the south regional and are the south’s #1 seed.
Feather River leads the pairs competition with three tandems, while American River, Irvine Valley, Moorpark, San Diego Mesa, Santa Barbara City, Sierra and Ventura are sending two pairs apiece.
(Matt Folsom, West Valley College Athletics)