{"id":161224,"date":"2026-02-19T14:25:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/161224\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T14:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:25:15","slug":"beach-volleyball-set-to-open-the-season-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/161224\/","title":{"rendered":"Beach Volleyball Set to Open the Season at Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

TALLAHASSEE\u00a0\u2013 The Florida State beach volleyball team is set to host its first tournament of the season from February 20 through the 21, featuring the program’s Paint-It-Pink event on opening day.\u00a0
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\nThe tournament begins with three matchups on Friday, with Florida State hosting UAB, Cal State Bakersfield, and Georgia State. The Seminoles improved to 12-0 all-time against UAB after a 5-0 win in 2024. FSU is 6-0 all-time versus the Blazers in Tallahassee.
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\nFlorida State is 1-0 all-time against Cal State Bakersfield after a 5-0 shutout last season. CCSA Co-Pair of the Year Audrey Koenig<\/a>\u00a0and Alexis Durish<\/a>\u00a0went 21-11 and 21-12 on court one, while Carra Sassack<\/a>\u00a0and Bailey Higgins<\/a>\u00a0went 21-10 and 21-7 on court two, making quick work of their final match of the day.
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\nThe Seminoles will finish opening day by facing Georgia State. FSU is 19-1 all-time against the Panthers, with 17 consecutive wins. Florida State went 2-0 last season against GSU, winning nine of 10 courts over two days at the Seminole Beach Bash.
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\nFlorida State will return Saturday morning at 11:30 a.m. to battle North Alabama, followed by Southeastern Louisiana at 4:30 p.m. FSU is 2-0 all-time against North Alabama, beating the Lions each of the past two seasons. The Seminoles and SELA have never competed in beach volleyball.
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\nFor more information on the Florida State beach volleyball program, check Seminoles.com and follow us on social media at fsubeachvolleyball (IG) and @FSU_BeachVB (X).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE\u00a0\u2013 The Florida State beach volleyball team is set to host its first tournament of the season from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":{"0":"post-161224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tallahassee","8":"tag-tallahassee","9":"tag-tallahassee-headlines","10":"tag-tallahassee-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}