{"id":368932,"date":"2026-10-09T14:24:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T14:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/368932\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T14:24:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T14:24:41","slug":"fall-competition-begins-this-weekend-at-manhattan-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/368932\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall competition begins this weekend at Manhattan Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TEMPE \u2013 Kicking off the fall schedule, Sun Devil Beach Volleyball is playing in the 2026 SCE West Coast Championship at Manhattan Beach Pier this Friday through Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The event is a pairs tournament, with different Arizona State pairs across all divisions. Fans can follow along through Volleyball Life on their <a href=\"https:\/\/volleyballlife.com\/event\/39263\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2026, Arizona State went 18-15 against a tough schedule, finishing ranked No. 12 in the final AVCA Coaches Poll for the third year in a row. Only eight of the 33 duals were against unranked opponents. The Sun Devils earned 10 ranked wins, including two against top-10 teams TCU and LMU.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Sand Devils graduated five from the 2026 roster. They welcome two transfers and five freshmen. ASU returns three student-athletes that earned 20 or more wins in 2026: graduates <a href=\"https:\/\/thesundevils.com\/sports\/beach-volleyball\/roster\/player\/arden-besecker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arden Besecker<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thesundevils.com\/sports\/beach-volleyball\/roster\/player\/mckenna-flaherty\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">McKenna Flaherty<\/a> and senior <a href=\"https:\/\/thesundevils.com\/sports\/beach-volleyball\/roster\/player\/kristin-gilmour\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kristin Gilmour<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow us<br \/>For exclusive content, the latest updates, and more information on the Sun Devil Beach Volleyball, follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sundevilbeachvb\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@sundevilbeachVB<\/a> on Instagram, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SunDevilBeachVB\" rel=\"nofollow\">@SunDevilBeachVB<\/a> on X, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sundevilbeachvb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sun Devil Beach Volleyball<\/a> on Facebook, and visit <a href=\"http:\/\/sundevils.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sundevils.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEMPE \u2013 Kicking off the fall schedule, Sun Devil Beach Volleyball is playing in the 2026 SCE West&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-368932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}