BOCA RATON, Fla. – With Conference USA’s announcement on Friday of adding beach volleyball as a sponsored sport, the Florida Atlantic University Sandy Owls will be making the move to the league starting this upcoming 2021-22 season.
“I’m very excited Conference USA has taken on beach volleyball!” said head beach volleyball coach Capri Grotowski. “Beach has come so far from where we started not too long ago. Now we have the opportunity to be a part of FAU C-USA and it really shows. We get to be in the same conference as many other FAU athletic programs and continue to represent the school as a rising university in Paradise. Go Owls!”
The conference’s pool of the beach volleyball programs is made up of C-USA institutions FAU, FIU, Southern Miss and UAB, as well as three Sun Belt teams: Coastal Carolina, Georgia State and Louisiana Monroe. In conjunction with the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association, the 2022 C-USA Beach Volleyball Championships are set to be held from April 28-30 at the John Hunt Park Sand Volleyball Complex in Huntsville, Alabama.
Prior to the move to C-USA, the Sandy Owls belonged to the CCSA along with new C-USA members FIU, Southern Miss, UAB, Georgia State and ULM. These six schools along with Coastal Carolina will make up the first C-USA beach volleyball membership.
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