HONOLULU – The College of Hawai’i seashore volleyball team kicks off the 2023 time with the Outrigger Duke Kahanamoku Seashore Typical, Feb. 23-25, at Queen’s Beach. Signing up for the No. 10 BeachBows are preseason No. 1 UCLA, as very well as No. 7 Stanford, Saint Mary’s and Stephen F. Austin. The team’s will enjoy a round-robin format all-day Thursday and Friday in advance of competing in championship bracket play on Saturday.
Brief Established
What: Outrigger Duke Kahanamoku Seaside Typical
Who: No. 2 UCLA, No. 9 Stanford, No. 10 Hawai’i, Saint Mary’s, Stephen F. Austin
When: February 23-25
Exactly where: Queen’s Seaside – Waikiki
Admission: Free
Live Scoring: HawaiiAthletics.com
Timetable

Thursday, February 23
Hawai’i vs. Saint Mary’s…………………9:00 a.m.
Stephen F. Austin vs. Stanford………10:15 a.m.
UCLA vs. Saint Mary’s………………….11:30 a.m.
Hawai’i vs. Stanford……………………. 12:45 p.m.
Stephen F. Austin vs. UCLA………….. 2:00 p.m.
Friday, February 24

Hawai’i vs. Stephen F. Austin………….9:00 a.m.

UCLA vs. Stanford……………………….10:15 a.m.

Saint Mary’s vs. Stephen F. Austin….11:30 a.m.

Hawai’i vs. UCLA………………………….12:45 p.m.

Stanford vs. Saint Mary’s………….. …..2:00 p.m.
Saturday, February 25

Quarterfinal…………………9:00 a.m.

Semifinal #1………………..10:15 a.m.

Semifinal #2………………..11:30 a.m.

3rd Put Match……………12:45 p.m.

Championship Match…….2:00 p.m.
All-Time Series Information: UH is 6-12 versus UCLA…the Bruins have won the past 9 matches and 10 of the past 11, together with three conferences last year…UCLA has opened the time five of the final six several years in Honolulu and UH is 1-6 against them at home…UH is 10-2 versus Stanford, together with 7-1 in Honolulu…like UCLA, this is the fifth time in the very last 6 seasons the Cardinal open the time in Hawai’i…UH is a best 5- towards Saint Mary’s with four of those people wins coming at home….Stephen F. Austin and UH will sq. off for the initial time.


The Squad: UH’s roster totals 22 players….the BeachBows return approximately a dozen gamers from final year’s group that went 24-17 general, concluded runner-up in the Major West, and placed No. 13 in the remaining AVCA rankings.…headlining the returnees are very first-crew All-Individuals Brooke Van Sickle and Kaylee Glagau..all-convention picks Ilihia Huddleston, Kylin Loker, Anna Maidment, Sofia Russo, Jaime Santer and Riley Wagoner also return…UH also welcomes eight newcomers on the squad, which includes the team’s initially-ever recruits from Australia in Sarah Burton and Jesse Mann..…two crossovers from UH’s 2022 NCAA Tournament indoor squad are on the workforce in Wagoner and Maui indigenous Chandler Cowell…the roster features gamers from eight unique states (Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawai’i, Ohio, Oregon, New Jersey, and Washington), as effectively as Australia, Canada and Germany.


The Skipper: Evan Silberstein enters his ninth season all round in the application and his second period as the head mentor for the BeachBows…Silberstein was named co-Significant West Coach of the Yr after foremost UH back again to the NCAA Event…all through his time as both a head mentor and assistant he aided lead UH to three Big West titles and six article-time appearances, like five in the NCAA Match…UH also welcomes the return of Danny Alvarez as an assistant coach after a two-year hiatus…Alvarez served as a volunteer assistant for the initially eight decades of the method, enjoying an instrumental function in building various All-American and all-conference gamers.


The Schedule: The Outrigger Duke Kahanamoku Seaside Common is a single of three situations that UH will host this 12 months at Queen’s Seashore…the ‘Bows will also hold the Heineken Queen’s Cup, March 10-12, and the Big West Championship, April 21-22 …UH will also host Nebraska (March 14), Texas (March 14), Arizona (15-16) and Georgia State on campus at the Ching Complex….all of Hawaii’s common-season matches this 12 months will be performed in Honolulu and 4 other web sites in California… in all, UH will confront 11 squads that are in the AVCA preseason Best 20 and 5 groups that are in the Prime 10.…the BeachBows host the Large West Championship for the initially time given that 2018, the very last time they claimed the crown…the 2023 NCAA Championships will after all over again be held in Gulf Shores, Ala., Could 5-7, with the field expanded by a single to 17 teams.


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