Beach Volleyball Wins 3rd Straight NJCAA National Championship

The Palm Beach State College Panther's Women's Beach Volleyball program ended their season this past Saturday as they have for the past two seasons: as National Champions! This Panther team has been the most successful and dominant team in the school's history, winning a program high 27 duals.

The Panthers showed their true dominance during the postseason. They won all 3 matches on their way to clinching their 3rd back-to-back-to-back FCSAA Region 8 Championship. They followed up that performance by winning 6 more in a row to secure the National Championship 3-Peat. At the national tournament the Panthers went a perfect 6-0 in duals, 24-0 in matches and 68-0 in recorded sets played.  Jasmine Rayner and Sophia Soderberg were named the Pair of the Tournament and head coach Drew Colvin was named National Coach of the Year.

The Panthers went undefeated not only in NJCAA play but also in NAIA and CCCAA interleague play. The 6 losses on the Panthers record all came at the hands of high caliber NCAA programs: #1 TCU (newly crowned NCAA D1 National Champions), #5 USC (4x defending Nation Champions), #19 FGCU, FIU (nationally ranked at the time), PBAU (D2 third place finisher) and FL Southern (a loss that the Panther later avenged).

"I am beyond proud for Drew, Jess, and the team.  Winning 1 national championship is hard enough, but winning 3 in a row is a feat that sets the standard for NJCAA Beach Volleyball.  This puts our beach volleyball program in elite status in the NJCAA that other programs aspire to reach," says Athletic Director John Scarpino.