{"id":124846,"date":"2026-01-08T07:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T07:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/124846\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T07:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T07:05:11","slug":"national-finalists-unveil-2026-lmu-beach-volleyball-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/124846\/","title":{"rendered":"National Finalists Unveil 2026 LMU Beach Volleyball Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                 LOS ANGELES \u2013 The six-time defending West Coast Conference Champions and 2025 NCAA Tournament finalists look to continue to rewrite history this spring. The LMU beach volleyball team, ranked second in the nation to close out last season, has announced the completed schedule for the 2026 season.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Lions will once again open play at the Hawaii&#8217;s OUTRIGGER Duke Kahanamoku Beach Classic in a loaded field that features games against Cal, USC, UCLA, Texas, Stanford, and Hawaii over three days in February. Last season, LMU went 5-1 in the opening event at Queen&#8217;s Beach.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nLMU will make their home debuts on Feb. 27 and 28, hosting Concordia, Long Beach State, Boise State, and CSUN on the LMU Beach Volleyball Courts on campus.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe next two weekends will feature Friday and Saturday matches in Long Beach and Manhattan Beach to begin March.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Lions return home for a single battle against Concordia on March 20 before heading to Malibu for Saturday matches against Pepperdine and Tulane.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe next three weekends feature travel to Santa Cruz, Tallahassee, then San Luis Obispo.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe final regular season competion returns to campus for home matches against USC, CSUN, and Grand Canyon on April 17-18.<\/p>\n<p>The West Coast Conference Championship returns to Ocean Park Beach in Santa Monica from April 23-24, 2026.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe NCAA Championships will once again be played in Gulf Shores, Ala., from May 1-3, 2026, to determine the National Champion.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nAll home matches are free to attend this season on LMU&#8217;s campus.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nDonate Today:<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFans interested in making a contribution to the Lions Athletic Fund can do so by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/securelb.imodules.com\/s\/1013\/giving\/interior.aspx?sid=1013&amp;gid=1&amp;pgid=1701&amp;cid=2753\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/securelb.imodules.com\/s\/1013\/giving\/interior.aspx?sid=1013&amp;gid=1&amp;pgid=1701&amp;cid=2753\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">clicking here<\/a>. Your gift will help provide a transformational student-athlete experience athletically, academically, and culturally for every LMU student-athlete. We appreciate your continued support of LMU Athletics.\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFollow Along With The Action:<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFor complete coverage of Loyola Marymount University athletics, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lmulions.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"lmulions.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LMULions.com<\/a>. We encourage you to follow along with all the action on social media as well. Follow along by following us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lmulions\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lmulions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, liking us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LMULions\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LMULions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, and following us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/lmulions\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/lmulions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram<\/a>.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; LOS ANGELES \u2013 The six-time defending West Coast Conference Champions and 2025 NCAA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-124846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}