{"id":225002,"date":"2025-11-06T10:50:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T20:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=225002"},"modified":"2025-11-06T10:50:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T20:50:34","slug":"wahine-beach-volleyball-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/11\/06\/wahine-beach-volleyball-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Rainbow Wahine beach volleyball players to compete at nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

\"AVCA<\/p>\n

Sydney Miller and Emily Heintzelman will represent the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa beach volleyball team<\/a> at the 2025 American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA<\/abbr>) Beach Pairs National Championship November 7–9, in Huntsville, Alabama.<\/p>\n

The women’s championship features a 64-pair bracket. Schools earned bids in three ways: performance in the 2025 spring season, top finishes at qualifying events held over the past six weeks, and being one of the at-large selections. Miller and Heintzelman were the top Rainbow Wahine finishers at the Surf City Challenge in October.<\/p>\n

Key matches from the AVCA<\/abbr> Beach National Championships will be streamed. Six matches from the women’s pairs event\u2014two of the quarterfinals, both semifinals, the third-place match, and the championship\u2014will be available at ESPN<\/abbr>+. An additional 20 matches will be streamed on the AVCA<\/abbr> YouTube channel. Check out the broadcast schedule<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This will be the fourth year of the AVCA<\/abbr> National Beach Championships, with six pairs of Rainbow Wahine previously competing in the event.<\/p>\n

Read more at Hawaiiathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sydney Miller and Emily Heintzelman will represent UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa at the 2025 AVCA<\/abbr> Beach Pairs National Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":225001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,9,550,80],"class_list":["post-225002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","tag-volleyball","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t