ATLANTA -- Making its fourth straight trip to National Collegiate Beach Volleyball Championship and sixth overall, three-peat Sun Belt Conference champions, Georgia State, earned the No. 15 seed and will face No. 2 seed TCU in the opening round.

The 2025 NCAA National Collegiate Beach Volleyball Championship is scheduled for May 2-4 at Gulf Shores Public Beach in Gulf Shores, Ala. The Panthers and the Horned Frogs will meet Friday, May 2 at 1:00 p.m., and the match be nationally televised air on ESPN2.

Head coach Beth Van Fleet's Panthers earned their automatic bid by defeating UNC Wilmington in the SBC title dual, Saturday afternoon. The Sandy Panthers are 12-0 in all-time Sun Belt Tournament competition.

Georgia State fell to TCU, 4-1, earlier this season. Overall, the Sandy Panthers have won 4 of 12 duals against the Horned Frogs. 

In addition to their current run of four straight NCAA berths, Georgia State made appearances in the national championship tournament in 2015 (then known as the AVCA Championship) and 2016. GSU's most successful tournament was in 2022, when the Panthers won a pair of matches, including an upset of No. 2 TCU, and reached the final six.

First-round, quarter-final, and semi-final action will be broadcast on ESPN2. The championship will be aired on ESPN. Visit NCAA.com for more information on the 2025 National Collegiate Beach Volleyball Championship.