Episode 305, College Volleyball Weekly Beach Top 10-ish, Week 6 Recap with Kelly Belardi

About this episode

Kelly Belardi joins to recap the Stanford Cardinal's performance and discuss top teams in college beach volleyball.

This week Kelly Belardi rejoins CVW Beach to recap the week that was for the Stanford Cardinal that had them reclaim the No. 1 AVCA Coaches' Poll ranking for 3rd time in 2026. Kelly also gives some insight on couple of the top 10 teams to watch in the final 3 weekends of regular season play. Last weekend, Kelly achieved the 100th Career Win milestone so she also shared how important her teammates were in accomplishing that feat. In addition, Kelly and partner, Avery Jackson were honored as the AVCA National and MPSF Pair of the Week! The Stanford Cardinal are "gunning for the top" hoping to defend their MPSF Beach Tournament Champion title but are aware that teams are better and deeper than ever! From there, we break down a couple of the hot teams during Week 6: #5 Florida St. & #3 Texas.

People in this episode

Guest: Kelly Belardi

Topics covered

• College Volleyball
• Beach Volleyball
• AVCA Coaches' Poll
• Team Rankings
• Career Milestones
• MPSF Tournament

Keywords

• Stanford Cardinal
• AVCA Coaches' Poll
• MPSF
• Florida St.
• Texas
• Beach Volleyball
• Career Win

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Stanford Cardinal, AVCA, MPSF

Places: Florida St., Texas

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