San Diego\u2019s experiment with women\u2019s professional volleyball is ending after just three seasons.<\/p>\n
The San Diego Mojo will play one final home match on Thursday night before heading to Dallas for the Major League Volleyball playoffs. The club announced Tuesday that it will not return for the 2027 season.<\/p>\n
The club posted to Instagram that it was \u201cheartbroken to announce\u201d that Thursday marks the final home game in franchise history.<\/p>\n
Owner Gary Jacobs said in a statement that he wanted the Mojo to take the 2027 season off while building a long-term plan for the franchise, but that \u201cthe league believes a different direction is required.\u201d MLV remains committed to San Diego and will \u201clead the effort to identify potential new investors\u201d in the club, the Mojo said.<\/p>\n
The Mojo are offering free tickets to fans who want to attend Thursday\u2019s match at Viejas Arena. Fans can claim up to eight per person by visiting the team\u2019s social media profiles and clicking the attached link.<\/p>\n
The timing is particularly cruel. The Mojo (14-12) have thrived under first-year coach Alisha Childress, winning 13 of their last 19 matches and qualifying for the MLV Championship, a four-team tournament that will determine the league champion. The Mojo will play either the Dallas Pulse or Indy Ignite in the May 7 semifinals, with the winner advancing to the championship match.<\/p>\n
The Mojo debuted in the Pro Volleyball Federation in 2024, with a high-profile owner \u2014 beach volleyball star Kerri Walsh Jennings \u2014 and a roster that included a mix of native San Diegans and international stars. Walsh Jennings sold the club to Jacobs following the inaugural season, and the PVF merged with Major League Volleyball in January.<\/p>\n
The Mojo\u2019s shuttering is another blow to professional sports in the heart of San Diego.<\/p>\n
Major League Rugby\u2019s San Diego Legion moved north following the 2025 season, rebranding as the California Legion. The San Diego Sockers of the Major Arena Soccer League and the San Diego Strike Force of the Indoor Football League both relocated from Pechanga Arena to Oceanside\u2019s Frontwave Arena when the new, smaller venue opened in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Diego\u2019s experiment with women\u2019s professional volleyball is ending after just three seasons. The San Diego Mojo will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[181,74,76,75,127],"class_list":["post-290468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-latest-headlines","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290468","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=290468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}