NCAA Champs Preview! Why 2026 Is "The Most Exciting, The Most Dramatic" Year Yet
4/29/202616 min
Welcome back to SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, where Madison Fitzpatrick is taking over the mic for the week. She's talking about the upcoming 2026 NCAA Beach Volleyball National Championships in Gulf Shores, Alabama. She breaks down the bracket, pondering:
- If this will finally be Stanford's year to win the NCAA title
- Texas shocking the NCAA world with its conference victory in the MPSF, taking out UCLA twice and USC
- Can FSU, on the heels of its second best regular season ever, deliver on the national stage?
- Will Jenny Johnson Jordan and the UCLA Bruins return to the top?
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Travis Mewhirter· Host0:29
What's up everybody, and welcome to Sandcast Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis McWhorter, and today, Madison Fitzpatrick. So today, uh, this week rather, is the NCAA Championships in Gulf Shores, Alabama. If you have not been, I cannot recommend enough. It is one of the coolest, one of my favorite events that I look forward to every year, and this was before I was a college coach. The city does a magnificent job. ESPN's there. They treat it like any other sport. It's big-time production. It's, it- it's sort of like Omaha is with the College Baseball World Series, and I don't know, it, it just has... It's special. It's a special thing. And the 16-team field is decided. Uh, Florida State,