JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The EKU beach volleyball team is the No. 6 seed in the 2023 ASUN Beach Conference Tournament and will begin play in the double-elimination tournament against No. 3-seeded North Florida at 1:30 p.m. on Friday.
The winner of EKU-UNF will advance to play the winner of Florida Gulf Coast-Austin Peay on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. The losers will meet Friday at 4:30 p.m. in an elimination match. All tournament matches will be televised on ESPN+.
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SCOUTING
North Florida
- Tied program's regular-season wins record with a 21-9 mark to earn the tournament's No. 3 seed.
- Chantel McMillan ranks third in UNF history with 64 career wins.
Florida Gulf Coast
- Went 16-16 in the regular season en route to earning the No. 2 seed.
- Kacie Johnson and Maddison Parmelly lead the Eagles with 16 wins at the No. 1 flight.
Austin Peay
- Enters with a 16-10 record as the tournament's No. 7 seed.
- Marlayna Bullington and Kelsey Mead have earned a team-high 19 victories at No. 1.
EKU OVERVIEW
- EKU posted a program-record 15 wins this season and notched the first winning record ever in the regular season.
- The Colonels won five consecutive matches from Mar. 3-11, the longest winning streak in program history.
- Hannah Keating currently owns the program record with for regular-season wins, entering the postseason with a 20-8 individual record.
- Keating, Sarah Mitchell, Paityn Walker, and Shannon Stone are all currently tied for the program's career wins record with 28 each.
- Rachel Mueller and Bella Williams have a team-leading 12 wins this season and are one away from tying the program's single-season record.
- Keating and Stone own a program-record 19 career wins as a pair. The two set another program record with 10 consecutive wins from Mar. 24-Apr. 8.
