SANTA MONICA, Calif. - The 2025 West Coast Conference Beach Volleyball Tournament will be held at Ocean Park Beach in Santa Monica, Calif. The event runs Thursday, April 24 to Friday, April 25.
The tournament returns to Santa Monica once again where all except one of the previous WCC Beach Volleyball Tournaments had been held except for 2021.
LMU is the defending five-time WCC Champion after capturing its inaugural title in 2019. That year, the Lions upended three-time champion Pepperdine who did not drop a point in winning the debut event in 2016 and repeating in 2017 and 2018. The Lions beat Pepperdine twice in elimination matches on day two of the 2019 tournament to take the crown before topping the Waves in four straight finals from 2021-24.
LMU (32-6) enters the tournament ranked No. 4 in the latest AVCA poll after registering a program record-tying 32 wins this season. The Lions have beaten the top teams in the country No. 1 TCU and No. 2 UCLA over the course of the season, as well as defeating the other West Coast Conference teams during the regular season.
No. 2 seed Pepperdine (17-13) enters championship weekend riding a four-match winning streak.
Pepperdine owns most of the success in WCC postseason history, highlighted by two AVCA National Championships in 2012 and 2014. The Waves competed in four-straight national championships from 2016-19, highlighted by an NCAA Runner-Up showing in 2017. After its fifth-straight WCC Championship last season, LMU knocked off Hawai'i before falling to eventual national champion USC in the 2024 NCAA Tournament.
2025 WCC Women’s Beach Volleyball Tournament Seedings:
- LMU
- Pepperdine
- Saint Mary's
- Santa Clara
- San Francisco
- Portland
- Pacific