2026 Beach Volleyball Roster
Roster
Sally Perez
- Height:
- 6-3
- Class:
- Sophomore
- High School:
- Middle Creek HS
- Hometown:
- Apex, N.C.
UCLA CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
• AVCA National Collegiate Beach Pairs Champion (Nov. 17, 2024)
• UCLA Student-Athlete of the Week (Nov. 12-18, 2024)
• UCLA Athletic Director's Honor Roll (Fall 2024)
FALL 2024
UCLA Beach Volleyball freshman Sally Perez and junior Maggie Boyd took down the field of 64 to capture the Bruins' first-ever AVCA National Collegiate Beach Pairs Championship on Nov. 17, 2024. Boyd and Perez were seeded fifth in pool play and posted two wins on Friday, Nov. 15, defeating Maya McNabney and Madeline Sigmon of Costal Carolina (60th seed), 21-14, 21-15 in the first match and then taking down Kristin Bobay and Millie Olsson of Texas A&M - Corpus Christi (37th seed), 21-14, 21-17, to win the pool with a 2-0 record. The duo was then reseeded at No. 7 in the Champions Bracket and opened play on Saturday, Nov. 16 with a 21-18, 21-19 straight-set win over USC's Maya Gessner and Kaileigh Truslow (26th seed). The Bruin pair then defeated Maddison Parmelly and Karin Zolnercikova of Texas (10th seed) in their second match on Saturday, 21-17, 21-16. The third match of the day saw the Bruins win a quarterfinal bout against Long Beach State's second-seeded pair of Malia Gementera and Taylor Hagenah in their only three-setter of the tournament, 21-18, 17-21, 15-12. That set up a semifinal match on Sunday morning at 6:00 a.m. PT where the UCLA tandem took out 11th-seeded Cal Poly's Piper Ferch and Erin Inskeep in identical set scores of 21-16. Ferch and Inskeep defeated the three-seed from LMU to reach the semifinals. All the Bruins had to do in the title match was take down the 10th-ranked pair in the world, TCU's top-seeded tandem of Daniela Alvarez and Tania Moreno. The duo from Spain finished fifth at the 2024 Olympic Games and has a combined collegiate career record of 88-14. The Horned Frogs pair hadn't dropped a set in the tournament and Boyd and Perez used timely blocking and aggressive serving to post a straight-set victory in the finals, 21-16, 21-17. Playing in her first season for the Bruins, Perez registered three blocks in the finals and was huge at the net. Boyd finished the match with four huge aces and put a lot of service pressure on the Horned Frogs.
HIGH SCHOOL/CLUB
Attended Middle Creek High School all four years … lettered three years in indoor volleyball as an outside hitter … notched 1,311 kills, 423 digs, and 122 service aces during her high school career … played club beach volleyball for Sinjin Beach Volleyball Club … won a bronze medal at the U19 Beach World Championships in China in Sept. of 2024 … won the 2024 USA Volleyball U19 Trials with her partner Sarah Wood … won the U18 AAU Girls Junior National Championship in 2023 …is a two-time member of the U19 USA Beach Volleyball Girl's National Team.
PERSONAL
Full name is Sally Marie Perez … born Oct. 11, 2006 in Raleigh, N.C. ... her parents are Patrick and Edi Perez … has an older brother, Samuel … decided to attend UCLA because, “I want to win national championships! It was also always my dream school and I loved the culture. The coaches and campus can also not be beaten!” … athletes she admires most include Aryna Sabalenka and Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone … describes her greatest athletic thrill as “Competing in the U21 USA Team trials over the summer of 2023 with current Bruin Alexa Fernandez.” … hobbies include playing cards, going to the movies, traveling, and going out to eat … an interesting fact about her is that she is a quarter Cuban … major is undeclared.
