Beach Volleyball Hosts CSU Bakersfield Tuesday on Senior Day, Plays at USC Thursday

Tuesday, April 14

Los Angeles, Calif.

3:00 PM (PT)

UCLA

CSU Bakersfield

Maggie Boyd, Jayla Shanks, Kenzie Brower

Photo by: Don Liebig, UCLA Photography

Beach Volleyball Hosts CSU Bakersfield Tuesday on Senior Day, Plays at USC Thursday

April 14, 2026 | Beach Volleyball

No. 2 UCLA (25-4) hosts CSU Bakersfield on Tuesday, April 14 at 3pm in its final home match of the season at Mapes Beach. The Bruins' senior class of Maggie Boyd, Kenzie Brower and Jayla Shanks will be honored at the conclusion of the match. On Thursday, April 16, the Bruins will wrap up the regular season with a dual match at USC's Merle Norman Stadium at Noon. It will be the third consecutive week the Bruins have matched up with the Trojans. UCLA won both matches – at Best of the West and at the Center of Effort Challenge – 3-2. Thursday's match will be broadcast on Big Ten Plus.

THIS WEEK'S SCHEDULE
Opponent: CSU Bakersfield
Location: Mapes Beach
Date: Tuesday, April 14
Time: 3:00 p.m. PT
Series History: UCLA leads 3-0 | Streak: Won 3
Last Meeting: W 3-0 (March 2, 2017 – at San Luis Obispo, Calif.)

Opponent: No. 4 USC
Location: Merle Norman Stadium
Date: Thursday, April 16
Time: 12:00 p.m. PT
Series History: USC leads 29-23 | Streak: Won 2
Last Meeting: W 3-2 (April 11, 2026 – Center of Effort Challenge @ San Luis Obispo, Calif.)

LAST TIME OUT
UCLA won the Center of Effort Beach Volleyball Challenge in San Luis Obispo, beating USC 3-2 in the championship match. UCLA went 4-0 in the tournament, with wins over No. 9 California (4-1), No. 6 Cal Poly (3-2), No. 13 Arizona State (5-0) and No. 4 USC (3-2). The championship match was tightly contested, with the last two matches going to third-set tiebreakers. USC scored the first point with a court 5 win, but UCLA took the next two matches, with Kaley Mathews and Ensley Alden earning a 21-17, 21-18 victory on court 2, and Sally Perez and Maggie Boyd beating Kennedy Coakley and Zoey Henson, 27-25, 21-18. USC's Kyra Zaengle and Calinda Kok fought off two match points to pull out a 27-29, 21-15, 17-15 victory on court 4 and tie the match at 2-2, but Alexa Fernandez and Harper Cooper took the match for the Bruins a few minutes later with a 19-21, 21-18, 15-11 win on court 3.

BOYD MOVES INTO TOP 5 ON UCLA's ALL-TIME WIN LIST
With three more victories last weekend, senior Maggie Boyd has moved into UCLA's Top 5 in career victories with 117, tying Lea Monkhouse (2019-22). Two more wins this week will put Boyd in a tie for fourth with Savvy Simo, who accumulated 119 wins from 2017-21. On Feb. 28, Boyd became the 11th Bruin to reach 100 career victories. She has 56 of her 117 wins with Perez, and the duo ranks No. 4 in school history for career wins as a pair, one victory behind Boyd and Lexy Denaburg, who totaled 57 from 2023-24.

UCLA Career Victories
1. Lexy Denaburg (2020-24) - 133
2. Abby Van Winkle (2019-23) - 128
3. Izzy Carey (2016-19) - 123
4. Savvy Simo (2017-21) - 119
5t. Maggie Boyd (2023-pres.) – 117
5t. Lea Monkhouse (2019-22) - 117

UCLA Career Pairs Victories
1. Megan McNamara/Nicole McNamara (2016-19) - 109
2. Sarah Sponcil/Lily Justine (2018-19) – 59
3. Maggie Boyd/Lexy Denaburg (2023-24) – 57
4. Sally Perez/Maggie Boyd (2025-pres.) – 56

TOP PERFORMERS
Sally Perez/Maggie Boyd have posted a 25-3 record on court 1, and Kaley Mathews/Ensley Alden are 18-4 overall, mainly on court 2. Harper Cooper/Alexa Fernandez are 13-3 overall, mostly on court 3. Four Bruins have reached the 25-win mark – Perez (26), Boyd (25), Alden (25) and Cooper (25). Three more Bruins have reached 20 wins - Ava Williamson (23), Mathews (20) and Mallory LaBreche (20). Fernandez is nearing 20 wins as well with 18

BRUIN COACHES
Entering her 13th year with the Bruins and third season as UCLA's head coach is Olympian, national champion and UCLA Athletics Hall of Famer Jenny Johnson Jordan. The 2025 MPSF Coach of the Year, Johnson Jordan sports an overall record of 92-18 (.836) as she continues her 2026 campaign after leading the Bruins to a 32-7 record and NCAA semifinal appearance in 2025. She guided the Bruins to the NCAA Championship finals in her first year, ending the 2024 campaign with a 35-7 record and a second-place finish at the Pac-12 Championship. As an assistant coach, she helped the Bruins win back-to-back NCAA titles in 2018 and 2019. Another Bruin national champion serves as an assistant coach. Kelly Reeves, the Bruins' first-ever beach volleyball All-American and a 2011 NCAA indoor volleyball champion, returns for her third season on staff. Former AVP Beach Volleyball star Theo Brunner is in his first year as an assistant coach.

IN THE RANKINGS
UCLA has been ranked No. 1 or 2 in every AVCA poll this week and is No. 2 for the second-straight week. Since 2018, no team has been ranked No. 1 for more weeks than the Bruins (46). USC has spent 27 weeks at No. 1 in the last seven years while TCU (10), Pepperdine (4), LSU (4), Stanford (4) and Florida State (1) round out the list. Overall, the Trojans have been ranked No. 1 a total of 50 times in the AVCA Poll, followed by UCLA (46), Pepperdine (17), TCU (10), Stanford (5), LSU (4), Hawai'i (1), and Florida State (1).

LOOKING AHEAD
UCLA will compete in the MPSF Tournament at Spiker Beach in Huntington Beach April 22-24.