Mid-70s, slight winds and no chance of precipitation is the projected Los Angeles climate for the next few days.<\/p>\n
And with the fluctuating weather conditions, another thing changed: the Bruins slipped from their No. 1 spot.<\/p>\n
No. 2 UCLA beach volleyball (3-2) will face off against Boise State (3-1), No. 3 Cal Poly (4-0), No. 11 Long Beach (2-0) and Pepperdine (1-3) at Mapes Beach in the Battle for LA tournamentFriday and Saturday. <\/p>\n
This tournament comes after a rigorous round of matchups against five ranked teams in the high winds and rainy conditions of Honolulu last weekend. UCLA went 16-8 in sets and only lost to then-No. 2 Stanford and then-No. 16 Hawai\u2018i. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really proud of the way our team rebounded from some tougher matches where we didn\u2019t quite have the overall result we wanted,\u201d said coach Jenny Johnson Jordan. \u201cSuper proud of them for resetting and moving forward instead of looking back.\u201d <\/p>\n
And UCLA will play on its home sand for the first time in 2026.<\/p>\n
For Boise State, this weekend will mark its first matches against west coast squads, having only faced southeastern teams thus far. The Broncos are riding a 3-1 record from Florida, losing to the tournament\u2019s only ranked team, but will not face three ranked foes. <\/p>\n
Long Beach has only dropped two sets this season. 2025 Big West Pair of the Year Taylor Hagenah and Malia Gementera make up its court one duo, having set the record for the most career pair wins in program history. <\/p>\n
Falling to Long Beach this past weekend, Pepperdine enters the competition on a three-game losing streak. Court two pair Gabriella Perez and Madison Snow hold a team-best 3-1 record. <\/p>\n
But resilience is the underlying trait for all these teams.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll the athletes that play beach life are resilient because you can\u2019t make excuses,\u201d said sophomore Sally Perez. \u201cYou do your best, \u2026 you control the controllables and you try to put one step in front of the other.\u201d <\/p>\n
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Sophomore Sally Perez holds the ball and prepares to serve. Perez, partnering with senior Maggie Boyd on court one, notched a 4-1 record across her first five outings of the 2026 campaign at the Outrigger Duke Kahanamoku Beach Classic in Honolulu from Feb. 19-21. (Andrew Ramiro Diaz\/Photo editor)<\/p>\n
And the Bruins may hope to control their side of the net against the third-ranked team in the nation.<\/p>\n
Cal Poly has yet to drop a set after going 20-0 last weekend. Court one pair Ella Connor and Erin Inskeep pave the way for the Mustangs. The latter recorded a 28-7 record last season, good for the team\u2019s second-highest winning percentage. <\/p>\n
\u201c(We are) trying to prove to everybody that we are still the number one team in the country,\u201d said junior Ava Williamson. \u201cBecause we had a slow start, it\u2019s good for us because it\u2019s going to make us work harder.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mid-70s, slight winds and no chance of precipitation is the projected Los Angeles climate for the next few…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-193596","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\/193596","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=193596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}