TEMPE – The 2025 Sun Devil Beach Volleyball schedule has been announced, which will be the first in the Big 12 for the Sand Devils under second-year head coach Kristen Glattfelder.
The schedule features two home tournaments and two additional duals in home sand. Arizona State will face 11 of the 15 teams in the 2024 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship (not including ASU, which was in the bracket), including all of the final four (USC, Cal Poly, LSU and UCLA) and reigning champion USC. On the schedule are also 15 teams that were in the final top 20 AVCA Coaches Poll ranking.
Following the preseason Maroon and Gold Scrimmage on February 15 at home, the Sand Devils will start the season in paradise. Arizona State will travel to Hawaii to begin the season with a tournament there from February 20-22. ASU will take on numerous successful programs there, facing Hawaii, LMU, Stanford, TCU, USC and UCLA.
The next two weeks of the season will be in state. From February 28 to March 1, the Sun Devils will play in the Cactus Classic down in Tucson, playing Boise State, Stetson, Oregon and Grand Canyon. The home opener will be the Sun Devil Classic from March 7-8, when ASU will host Texas A&M Corpus Cristi, Coastal Carolina and Cal Poly.
In the East Meets West Tournament in Austin, Texas from March 21-22, the Sand Devils will play more challenging opponents in FIU, Georgia State, LSU and Texas.
Staying in Arizona, ASU will host in-state rival Arizona on March 26 in a single dual. That weekend from March 28-29, Arizona State will co-host a tournament with Grand Canyon. In Tempe, ASU will take on UAB, Washington, UTEP and South Carolina. Kicking off April, the Sun Devils will be back in Tucson for the Wildcat Spring Challenge from April 4-5, playing Pepperdine, Arizona, Utah and TCU.
The final regular-season road tournament will be the COE Challenge at Cal Poly on April 11-12 when Arizona State will take on TCU, UCLA and LMU, with a playoff happening at the end. Senior night and the home finale for the Sand Devils will be on April 18 against Benedictine.
The first Big 12 Beach Volleyball Championship will be held at TCU from April 24-25. The 2025 NCAA Championship will be held in Huntington Beach, California from May 2-4.
Led by first-year ASU head coach Kristen (Rohr) Glattfelder, Arizona State had a stellar season in 2024. In the…
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