{"id":170550,"date":"2026-02-26T21:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T21:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/170550\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T21:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T21:11:07","slug":"eagles-travel-to-tallahassee-for-fsu-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/170550\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles travel to Tallahassee for FSU Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     TALLAHASSEE, Fla. \u2013 Florida Gulf Coast beach volleyball will play its second tournament of 2026 in Tallahassee this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles will open against South Florida at 9 a.m. on Friday, February 27 before facing No. 7 TCU at noon on Friday. FGCU and Tampa will play at 9:45 on Saturday, February 28, and the fourth matchup of the weekend will be determined based on results from the first three matches.<\/p>\n<p>FGCU enters at 2-2 after knocking off South Carolina during the JU Season Opener. The Eagles also beat the Dolphins, but fell to North Florida and Stetson. The Eagles&#8217; No. 1 pair of <a href=\"https:\/\/fgcuathletics.com\/sports\/womens-beach-volleyball\/roster\/alexis-keeter\/10315\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10315\" target=\"_blank\">Alexis Keeter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/fgcuathletics.com\/sports\/womens-beach-volleyball\/roster\/ava-lilliquist\/10316\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10316\" target=\"_blank\">Ava Lilliquist<\/a> has gotten out to a 3-1 record, including the decisive win over the Gamecocks.<\/p>\n<p>TCU is ranked seventh after winning the 2025 national championship. The Horned Frogs are 3-1 in 2026 after losing to then-No. 11 Arizona State, but beating No. 13 Grand Canyon, Arizona, and UC Davis.<\/p>\n<p>USF is also 3-1 after the opening weekend of play. The Bulls boast wins over Tulane, Texas A&amp;M Corpus Christi, and New Orleans. Their lone blemish came against LSU.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on FGCU beach volleyball, follow @FGCU_BeachVB on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fgcu_beachvb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FGCU_BeachVB\" rel=\"nofollow\">X (Twitter)<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fgcubeachvb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, and visit <a href=\"http:\/\/fgcuathletics.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fgcuathletics.com<\/a>.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; TALLAHASSEE, Fla. \u2013 Florida Gulf Coast beach volleyball will play its second tournament of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":{"0":"post-170550","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\/170550","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=170550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}