After a canceled 2020 season and months of waiting for answers, the two-time defending national champion Long Beach State men’s volleyball team will officially get a chance to defend its crown. The team released its schedule this week, which will be a 10-game Big West conference slate, with the Big West Tournament and potentially the […]
Long Beach State split its season opening series with Sanford on Friday at the LBSU Sand Courts 3-2 and 1-4. LBSU pair Skyler Germann and Alice Pratesi bounced back from a first set loss to take their No. 4 match 18-21, 21-17, 15-8 and were the only LBSU pair to win in the second contest. […]
Photo courtesy Long Beach State The future is bright for the Long Beach State men’s volleyball team, which just signed the best recruiting class of any program in the nation according to VolleyballMag.com. “It’s an incredibly talented group with a lot of volleyball IQ and experience,” said LBSU coach Alan Knipe. “We pretty much cover […]
No. 5 Long Beach State men’s volleyball got back to winning ways and picked up a pair of four-set victories at the Ohio State Tournament last weekend. The Beach (7-1) opened the road trip with a 24-26, 26-24, 25-19, 25-19 win over No. 9 Penn State, and then finished the week by taking down host […]
A consistent big block helped No. 8 UCLA upset No. 4 Long Beach State at Walter Pyramid on Saturday night 25-23, 25-18, 22-25, 25-23 to snap a record-setting home winning streak for the Beach. NCAA Men’s Volleyball: Long Beach State vs. UCLA Visit The562.org for more Long Beach sports coverage. The Bruins outblocked the Beach […]
Photos by Stephen Dachman
After dropping the first set to visiting USC on Friday night, No. 5 Long Beach State men’s volleyball bounced back to win 18-25, 25-21, 25-15, 25-22. The Beach (4-0) has now won a program-record 44 straight matches at Walter Pyramid. Redshirt sophomore outside hitter Spencer Olivier led the way for LBSU with a career-high 14 […]
Long Beach State defeated USC in four sets and we’ve got some great shots from Stephen Dachman.
As his team was in Canada playing some preseason matches, Long Beach State men’s volleyball coach Alan Knipe had a funny realization. “Looking out at the court, there were some rotations where not a single guy out there played a point last year,” said Knipe with a laugh. The problem with that from Knipe’s perspective, […]
We’ve got great shots of Long Beach State’s season-ending loss from photographer Stephen Dachman.