UCLA CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
• FIVB U21 Beach Volleyball World Champion (2025 with Stanford's Avery Jackson)
• AVCA National Collegiate Beach Pairs Champion (Nov. 17, 2024)
• AVCA All-American (First Team - 2025)
• AVCA Top Flight Award (Court 1 - 2025)
• MPSF All-Tournament Team (2025)
• All-MPSF (First Team - 2025)
• MPSF Freshman of the Year (2025)
• MPSF All-Freshman Team (2025)
• AVCA/CBVB National Pair of the Week (Mar. 10, 2025)
• 2-time MPSF/Molten Pair of the Week (Mar. 11, 2025, Apr. 15, 2025)
• UCLA Student-Athlete of the Week (Nov. 12-18, 2024)
• 3-time UCLA Athletic Director's Honor Roll (Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025)
2025
Ended the season with an overall record of 31-4 (31-4 career) … partnered the entire season with Maggie Boyd (all on court one) … the Bruins faced 32 ranked opponents in the 39 duals on the year with Perez going 26-4 against ranked teams … recorded a season-best winning streak of 13 duals (active streak) which began vs. No. 19 Washington (Apr. 4) … Perez clinched nine victories in dual matches on the year for the Bruins with the biggest coming in a 3-2 victory over No. 5 USC on Apr. 17 on "Senior Day" … Boyd and Perez went 6-0 in postseason play (3-0 at NCAAs and 3-0 at MPSFs) … Perez went 16-2 in two-set matches and 15-2 in three-set matches on the year.
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: Sally Marie Perez … born 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 psychology.