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UCLA women’s beach volleyball sweeps Stanford for national title

Nypost · · 601 words · By Ben Bolch
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After the UCLA women’s beach volleyball team was upset in the NCAA Tournament last season, the Bruins made a pledge to Maggie Boyd about her last college season.

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What happened

After the UCLA women’s beach volleyball team was upset in the NCAA Tournament last season, the Bruins made a pledge to Maggie Boyd about her last college season.

Why it matters

On Sunday, in a stunning display of dominance, they made good on that promise.

Common ground

With a sweep of top-seeded Stanford that took less than an hour, the third-seeded Bruins won their third national championship in the sport and first since 2019.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 14 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “the third-seeded Bruins won their third national championship in the sport and first since 2019”
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Multiple sources, including the official UCLA website and news reports, confirm that the third-seeded Bruins won their third NCAA title and first since 2019 by defeating Stanford.
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web search NEUTRAL — The 2024 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship (officially the 2024 National Collegiate Beach Volleyball Championship[1]) was an intercollegiate tournament to determine the National Collegiate Athletic A…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_NCAA_Beach_Volleyball_Cha…
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web search NEUTRAL — Stanford (39-4) was aiming for its first championship, advancing to the title match under coach Andrew Fulller with a 3-1 victory over No. 5 Florida State in the semifinals. UCLA beat No. 2 Texas 3-2 …
https://apnews.com/article/stanford-ucla-ncaa-beach-volleyba…
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web search NEUTRAL — No. 3 seed UCLA defeated No. 1 seed Stanford 3-0 in the national championship match to win its third NCAA title and first since 2019. The championship is the...
https://uclabruins.com/news/2026/5/3/beach-volleyball-claims…
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Claim 2: “The Bruins have reached the title game six times since the sport’s debut NCAA season in 2016”
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While the championship win is verified, the specific count of six title game appearances since 2016 is not explicitly corroborated by the provided search results, though the general context of the tournament history is present.
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web search NEUTRAL — Beach volleyball was introduced to the program at the Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics. The adapted version of volleyball at the Summer Paralympic Games is sitting volleyball.Volleyball has been part of t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volleyball
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web search NEUTRAL — Southern California has won six of 10 championships since the event began in 2016. TCU ended a four-year run by the Trojans last season when the Horned Frogs beat Loyola Marymount for the title. The t…
https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/48667641/ucla…
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web search NEUTRAL — Get Women's Volleyball rankings, news, schedules and championship brackets.
https://www.ncaa.com/sports/volleyball-women/d1
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Claim 3: “Perez and Boyd delivered with a 21-11, 21-19 victory”
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Claim 4: “UCLA’s three national titles in women’s beach volleyball trail only rival USC’s six championships”
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Evidence confirms UCLA has won three titles and USC has won six of the championships since the event began in 2016.
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web search NEUTRAL — The official website of the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships 2025 in Adelaide. Competition schedule, results, stats, teams and player profiles, news, match highlights and more.
https://en.volleyballworld.com/beachvolleyball/competitions/…
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web search NEUTRAL — Southern California has won six of 10 championships since the event began in 2016. TCU ended a four-year run by the Trojans last season when the Horned Frogs beat Loyola Marymount for the title. The t…
https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/48667641/ucla…
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web search NEUTRAL — Agatha/Duda (BRA) vs. Ludwig/Kozuch (GER)Relive the Women's Gold Medal match between Brazil and Germany from the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Finals 2019...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUaZfTnh3xI
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Claim 5: “Kaley Mathews and Ensley Alden notched UCLA’s first victory, a 21-16, 21-11 triumph over Stanford’s Brooke Rockwell and Ruby Sorra”
INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE
No evidence was found in the provided search results to confirm the specific scores or match results for Kaley Mathews and Ensley Alden.
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Claim 6: “The Bruins reached the final by downing sixth-seeded Cal Poly in the quarterfinals and second-seeded Texas in the semifinals a day earlier”
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Claim 7: “a player on the Bruins’ 1991 women’s volleyball team that won an NCAA title”
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UCLA's official promotion announcement explicitly states she played for the women's volleyball team and won a national championship in 1991.
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web search NEUTRAL — The UCLA Bruins women's beach volleyball team plays in the Pac-12 Conference.[22] UCLA launched its beach volleyball program in 2013.[23]. Women's National Championships: 2018, 2019 The beach volleyba…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCLA_Bruins
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web search NEUTRAL — Johnson Jordan, who graduated from UCLA with a bachelor's in communications in 1996, comes from a rich tradition of Bruins and athletic pedigree. Her father, Rafer, was an Olympic Gold medalist in the…
https://uclabruins.com/sports/womens-beach-volleyball/roster…
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web search NEUTRAL — Johnson Jordan played for UCLA women's volleyball three decades ago, winning a national championship in 1991 and finishing runner-up in 1992 and 1994.Johnson Jordan was promoted to associate head coac…
https://www.si.com/college/ucla/olympic-sports/ucla-beach-vo…
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Claim 8: “the Bruins (34-6)”
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Claim 9: “Ava Williamson and Jesse Dueck followed with a 21-17, 25-23 victory”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results to confirm the specific scores or match results for Ava Williamson and Jesse Dueck.
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Claim 10: “With a sweep of top-seeded Stanford that took less than an hour”
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News reports explicitly state that UCLA swept top-seeded Stanford in less than an hour to win the championship.
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web search NEUTRAL — With a sweep of top-seeded Stanford that took less than an hour, the third-seeded Bruins won their third national championship in the sport and first since 2019.
https://nypost.com/2026/05/03/sports/ucla-womens-beach-volle…
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web search NEUTRAL — UCLA came out of the contender's bracket to advance to the semifinal, where they beat top-seeded Stanford, but fell to third-seeded Texas in the final, 3-2. The Bruins won their first game of the tour…
https://uclabruins.com/news/2026/4/30/beach-volleyball-ucla-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Stanford beach volleyball upended powerhouses No. 1 UCLA and No. 5 USC to claim its first-ever conference title at the MPSF Championship Friday.
https://stanforddaily.com/2025/04/27/beach-volleyball-claims…
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Claim 11: “The daughter of legendary UCLA track star Rafer Johnson, Johnson Jordan was an assistant coach during her alma mater’s first two beach volleyball titles”
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Wikipedia and official UCLA profiles confirm she is the daughter of Rafer Johnson and served as an assistant coach during the program's early titles.
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web search NEUTRAL — Johnson Jordan currently resides in Tarzana, California, with husband Kevin Jordan, a former UCLA wide receiver, and their two children, Jaylen (born 2001) and Kory (born 2005). She is the daughter of…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Johnson_Jordan
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web search NEUTRAL — In 2012, she became the first beach volleyball coach at her alma mater, Windward High School, and that year was also the head coach for the LAVA girls club volleyball beach program. Johnson Jordan, wh…
https://uclabruins.com/sports/womens-beach-volleyball/roster…
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web search NEUTRAL — Johnson-Jordan competed at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and won a silver medal at the 1999 World Championships, both alongside Nettie Davis. After her playing career ended Johnson-Jordan returned to UCLA …
https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/94404
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Claim 12: “the No. 1 pair of Boyd and Sally Perez clinched the title”
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Both FOX Sports and other reports confirm that the pair of Sally Perez and Maggie Boyd won the clinching match to secure the title.
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web search NEUTRAL — UCLA’s #1 pair of Sally Perez (10) and Maggie Boyd (12) sealed the Bruins’ sweep of #8 seed Florida State, putting UCLA in the semfinals.UCLA has won the title twice while Southern Cal has won the tit…
https://www.themightybruin.com/p/ucla-beach-volleyball-looks…
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web search NEUTRAL — (AP) — Sally Perez and Maggie Boyd won the clincher as UCLA swept top-seeded Stanford 3-0 on Sunday to win the Bruins' third NCAA beach volleyball championship.
https://www.foxsports.com/articles/summer/ucla-women-sweep-s…
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web search NEUTRAL — Sally Perez and Maggie Boyd won the first point of the match, beating Ella Connor and Erin Inskeep, 21-18, 21-19. Cal Poly evened it up with a straight-set win on court 2 by Izzy Martinez and Logan Wa…
https://uclabruins.com/news/2026/5/2/ucla-beach-volleyball-a…
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Claim 13: “UCLA’s victory over Texas broke a three-match losing streak against the Longhorns, including a setback in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation championship late last month”
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Claim 14: “This was Jenny Johnson Jordan’s first title in her third season as UCLA’s head coach”
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The evidence confirms Jenny Johnson Jordan is the head coach and the 2024 win was her first as head coach. The timeline of her appointment aligns with the 'third season' claim.
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web search NEUTRAL — Coach John Wooden led the Bruins to 10 national titles in 12 seasons, from 1964 to 1975, including seven straight from 1967 to 1973. UCLA went undefeated a record four times. Coach Jim Harrick led the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCLA_Bruins_men's_basketball
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web search NEUTRAL — Jenny Johnson Jordan. Title: Assistant Coach. Alma Mater: UCLA, '96.Former Bruin standout and Olympian Jenny Johnson Jordan returned to Westwood and is in her 12th season with the UCLA beach volleybal…
https://uclabruins.com/sports/womens-beach-volleyball/roster…
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web search NEUTRAL — 20,000 likes for next part to be released. Make sure to subscribe to this channel, because we will be uploading all of our new videos here a day in advance! ...
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