Beach Volleyball Falls To USC In NCAA Championship First Round

GULF SHORES, Ala. – No. 12 seed North Florida beach volleyball fell to No. 5 USC in the first round of the 2025 NCAA Championship in Gulf Shores, Ala. on Friday. 
 
North Florida concludes its season at 26-11. In addition to a program-record win total, North Florida earned its highest ranking in program history at No. 14 in the latest 2025 AVCA Collegiate Beach Coaches Top 20 Poll. The Ospreys added its sixth Atlantic Sun Conference title and its second-ever and second-straight berth to the NCAA Championship. 

Junior tandem Presley Murray and Mackenzie Murphy collected AVCA Top Flight Pair 1 honors, which recognizes pairs who compete in at least 15 matches together at a specific flight and win at least 75 percent of their matches.

 

USC claimed the dual with wins at the one, two and four lines. The tandem of senior Mariana Feliciano Sanchez and junior Madison Espy forced a third set at three, 15-21, 21-17, while redshirt sophomore Sophia Notaro and senior Andrea Da Silva were tied 17-17 in the second set at five prior to the moment that the decision was clinched. 

 

No. 5 seed USC 3, No. 12 seed North Florida 0

1.   Maddy White/Zoey Henson (USC) def. Cameron Humphries/Taylor Pierce (UNF), 21-16, 21-19

2.   Kennedy Coakley/Ashley Pater (USC) def. Presley Murray/Mackenzie Murphy (UNF), 21-19, 21-16

3.   Madison Espy/Mariana Feliciano Sanchez (UNF) v. Maya Gessner/Mabyn Thomas (USC), 21-15, 17-21

4.   Delaney Karl/Ella Larkin (USC) v. Eden Anderson/Hayden Wooldridge (UNF), 21-15, 21-14

5.   Madison Goeliner/Kaileigh Truslow (USC) v. Andrea Da Silva/Sophia Notaro (UNF), 21-18, 17-17