Bears To Play 4 Matches At Stanford Beach Volleyball Stadium
BERKELEY – The No. 9 California beach volleyball team (23-6) is set for it first of two straight weekends at the Stanford Beach Volleyball Stadium beginning this Friday at the Stanford Invitational. The Golden Bears open with a pair of matches with two teams they are undefeated against this season in No. 10 Stanford (22-10) and Saint Mary’s (12-15), and finish on Saturday with a contest versus No. 7 Grand Canyon (20-5) and Pacific (0-18).
The Bears are winners of five straight and 11 of their last 12. They need four more wins to break the program record of 26 set last season.
Milestone Watch
Several Bears are nearing career milestones and program records as the 2023 season comes to a close. Sophomore Ella Dreibholz (46), junior Maya Gessner (46), senior Lexi McKeown (46) and junior Ava Mann (44) are all approaching 50 career wins as individuals. Senior Ainsley Radell boasts 77 wins, which is just three away from ranking second all time and seven from breaking the all-time record. The pairs of Dreibholz and McKeown, and Radell and Delgado each has 25 victories, which is four short of ranking second all time.
Bears Go 3-1 at Pac-12 North Invite
This past weekend Cal took its talents to the site of the Pac-12 Championships – the Stanford Beach Volleyball Stadium. After suffering their first 5-0 loss of the season to No. 4 UCLA, the Bears bounced back with three straight wins, topping No. 13 Washington, Arizona State and No. 10 Stanford. The second edition of the Big Spike with the rival Cardinal was one to remember as it came down to a court-one showdown. Momentum swung back and forth to both teams, but the duo of junior Liz Waters-Leiga and sophomore Sierra Caffo ended the home team’s hopes of evening the season series with a 21-11, 18-21, 15-10 win to seal the dual. The two court-one pairs met at 7-7 in the third set before Waters-Leiga and Caffo went on a 8-3 run to end it.
Radell and Delgado Named AVCA/CBVB National Pair of the Week
After an incredible outing at the Mustang Invitational last weekend, Ainsley Radell and Ashley were named the AVCA/CBVB Pair of the Week
The captain duo became the first Golden Bear pair to earn the national honor after leading the team to a 4-0 record and posting a 4-0 record of its own. On the season the two boast a 16-4 overall record and have won six straight…
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