The 18th ranked Arizona Wildcats beach volleyball team (12-3) has five matches on the slate this week, starting on Wednesday at Arizona State followed by the Wildcat Spring Challenge at Bear Down Beach on Friday and Saturday.
 
The schedule for the week looks like this:
 
Wednesday, March 29
Arizona at Arizona State, 2:30pm PT
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Friday, March 31
Arizona vs. Missouri State, 11:00am PT
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Arizona vs. Santa Clara, 3:00pm PT
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Saturday, April 1
Arizona vs. Colorado Mesa, 11:00am PT
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Arizona vs. UTEP, 1:00pm PT
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* The 2023 season marks the 10th for Arizona head coach Steve Walker at the helm of the Wildcats program. He's the only head coach the program has had since it was started in 2014. Walker's overall record as head coach at Arizona is 171-73.
 
* The Wildcats checked in at No. 18 in this weeks AVCA Beach Volleyball Top 20 rankings, up one spot from last week after wins against Texas A&M Corpus Christi and Central Arkansas.
 
* This weekend will feature two teams that have already paid a visit to Tucson this year in Colorado Mesa and UTEP. The Wildcats opened the 2023 season with a 5-0 win over UTEP and then the next day defeated Colorado Mesa, 3-2.
 
* Super senior Sarah Blacker opted to use her extra year of eligibility and return to the Wildcats in 2023. In doing so, she has a chance to become the winningest player in Arizona Beach Volleyball history. Blacker has 84 career wins entering this weekend, just three away from passing the trio of Madison Witt, McKenna Witt and Brooke Burling that have 86 to hold the Arizona career wins record.
 
* The pair of Alana Rennie and Grace Cook are 13-2 overall on the season and 13-1 at the No. 3 pair position in the lineup. They are ranked as the second-best pair in the country at No. 3 by collegebeachvb.com.
 
* In 15 matches this season, Rennie and Cook have gone to a third set just once.
 
* Also playing at a high level are the No. 5 pair of Annie Kost and Miranda Error. They are 11-3 on the year and 10-3 at the No. 5 spot. White and Fitzsimmons are 3-1 in 3 set matches this season.
 
* Blacker and Alex Parkhurst have been the No. 1 pair for the Wildcats this season and have compiled a 5-3 record so far. Last week at Pepperdine, the pair logged wins against the Waves and San Francisco.
 
* The No. 1 pair of Sarah Blacker and Alex Parkhurst are 10-5 on the season but have won their last four matches and seven of the last eight overall.
 
* Recent additions to the lineup have been Kali Uhl and Dilara Gedikoglu at the No. 4 and No. 5 spots and they are 5-0. They have played a total of 11 sets in those five matches and opponents have score 15 or more points in just two of those sets.
 
* Abby Russell and Hope Shannon are 9-5 at the No. 2 spot in the lineup this season and have won their last four matches.
 
* Caroline White and Kylee Fitzsimmons are 8-3 on the year at the No. 4 spot.
 
* The 2023 Arizona roster features 10 players listed as a senior, with two of those being transfers – Grace Cook (Missouri State) and Caroline White (TCU).