USF Beach Volleyball Abigail Lagemann and Josephine Sek Lead USF at AVCA Beach National Championships

TAMPA, Fla., Nov. 6, 2025 – The University of South Florida seaside volleyball workforce will compete this week on the 2025 AVCA Beach National Championships in Huntsville, Ala., with Abigail Lagemann and Josephine Sek representing the Bulls as a pair. The remainder of the USF workforce will compete on the UAB Tournament in Birmingham, Ala., wrapping up the autumn season.

The girls’s pairs nationwide championship runs Friday via Sunday at John Hunt Park, that includes a 64-pair bracket with no pool play. Lagemann and Sek will face Arizona State University of their opening match on Friday at 8 a.m. ET. The event consists of a number of high packages from final season’s AVCA Collegiate Beach Final Poll, together with Cal Poly, Stanford, USC, Long Beach State, UCLA, TCU, Loyola Marymount, Texas, Florida State, Arizona State, California, North Florida, Stetson, LSU, Washington, and Hawaii. Schools earned bids via spring 2025 efficiency, current qualifying occasions, and at-large alternatives.

In the West Qualification Bid Division competitors, Josephine Sek teamed with Zoey Mitchell, taking each No. 3 UCLA and Pepperdine to a few units, with every match determined by simply two factors after opening in opposition to Boise State 1s. The pair performed Boise State 3s to a decisive third set, falling 13-15.

Abigail Lagemann, competing with Morgan Anderson, pushed Boise State 2s (receiving votes for nationwide rating) to a 3rd set, falling narrowly 13-15 within the last body. The duo additionally confronted nationally ranked opponents No. 8 Florida State and No. 10 Long Beach State, together with Saint Mary’s, the place they dropped a tightly contested first set 19-21.

Lagemann and Sek enter the National Championships trying to construct on these shut matches and proceed their robust play in opposition to top-level competitors.

Although the workforce shall be competing throughout two places, the weekend represents an necessary alternative for South Florida’s younger program to proceed creating on the nationwide stage in opposition to top-level collegiate competitors.

 

About USF Beach Volleyball

The University of South Florida Beach Volleyball program is without doubt one of the latest additions to USF Athletics, turning into the twenty first varsity sport on the college and marking an thrilling new period for the Bulls. Led by Head Coach Pri Piantadosi-Lima, who was named South Florida’s first-ever seaside volleyball head coach on June 6, 2023. A nationally acknowledged chief within the sport, Coach Pri additionally serves as the pinnacle coach of the U.S. Beach National Team Development Program and was honored because the 2022 USA Volleyball Female Junior Coach of the Year. Before becoming a member of USF, she guided Eckerd College to its first AVCA nationwide championship and two consecutive NCAA championship podium finishes. USF Beach Volleyball formally competes on the NCAA Division I degree as a member of Conference USA, starting with the 2025–26 season. The Bulls proceed to construct a championship basis via elite competitors, tradition, and participant improvement as they take their place among the many nation’s high collegiate seaside packages.

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