Beach Schedule Hunt 2016

Photo Credit: Hawaii Athletics

The Rainbow Wahine Beach Volleyball team are coming off their run to the first NCAA Tournament in Gulf Shores, Alabama. Now they will attempt to get back there for the postseason in a quest for their first National Championship. In order to get back to Alabama, they will have to go through tough 2017 opponents and a competitive Big West conference.

The 2017 roster has been posted listing remaining beach only players from last years roster including four seniors, two juniors, and two sophomores. Also listed are the seven freshman and one junior transfer. Returners crossing over from the indoor to the beach team are Clare-Marie Anderson, Casey Castillo, Gianna Guinasso, Emily Maglio, and Nikki Taylor. New players from the indoor team crossing over are Norene Iosia, Savanah Kahakai, Kirsten Smith, and Emma Smith while Tayler Higgins will return after playing beach her freshman season. However, All-American Taylor's decision to play beach is unsure due to her possibilities of playing overseas and resting her body after the indoor season.

Now the schedule hunt for the beach team has started as schools are releasing their 2016-17 schedules.

This post will be updated with the release of other schools schedules (Check my twitter for updates)

2017 Schedule

• March 3-4 - Grand Canyon Tournament (Teams: Grand Canyon, Colorado Mesa, LMU)
• March 3-4 - Arizona Invitational (Teams: Arizona, Arizona State, Jacksonville)
• March 10-11 - Hawaii Invitational (Teams: Loyola Marymount, Stetson)
• March 17-18 - Hawaii Tournament (Teams: Arizona, Utah, USC)
• March 26 - Stanford Tournament (Teams: Stanford, Irvine Valley)
• March 29 (1:00 PM PT) - at Pepperdine
• April 1-2 - Big West Challenge (Teams: Cal Poly, CSUN, Long Beach State, Sacramento State)
• April 7 (TBA) - vs Pepperdine, Cal Poly
• April 8 (TBA) - vs Pepperdine, Cal Poly
• April 13-14 - Outrigger Aloha Invitational (Teams: Florida Atlantic, Grand Canyon, Long Beach State, USC)
• May 5-7 (TBA) - NCAA Tournament - Gulf Shores, Alabama

Sand Bow Commit From San Diego

Sydney Kidd who is a 5'5" sand player has committed to the University of Hawaii. Kidd currently attends La Costa Canyon HS and plays for San Diego Beach Volleyball Club.

She recently took an unofficial recently to the islands and has committed. Because of her height, she aspires to be like current Sand Bow Katie Spieler. Kidd will return to Hawaii in the summer to participate in the Pan Pacific Tournament hosted at Queen's Beach. Her and her partner have earned a bid to the Junior Olympic Tournament as well.

Sydney becomes the sixth player to commit to Hawaii in the 2016 class for sand volleyball.

Big day for me today! Just committed to playing for University of Hawaii Sand Volleyball. Go SandBows!
Posted by Sydney Kidd Beach Volleyball on Friday, April 17, 2015

Congrats to SD Beach Athlete Sydney Kidd for committing today to the University of Hawaii to play Sand Volleyball on 2016!! So happy for you going to play fro your dream school! #dreamschool #sdbeach #hawaii #hawaiibows #gobows #gosdbeach #beachvolleyball #collegeprep #sdbeachcollegeprep

A photo posted by San Diego Beach Vb Club (@sdbeachvbc) on Apr 17, 2015 at 9:34pm PDT