Arizona beach volleyball continued to struggle against ranked teams on Saturday, losing 3-2 against No. 8 LSU. They salvaged the weekend with a 4-1 victory over unranked TCU.
Last week in Hawaii, Arizona head coach Steve Walker began to make lineup adjustments by bringing his third pair of Olivia Macdonald and Olivia Hallaran up to the second team in place of Mia Mason and Kendra Dahlke. With the same strategy for Saturday’s match against LSU, “the Olivia’s,” as the team denotes Macdonald and Hallaran, couldn’t compete at the higher level and were taken down by the Tigers in two sets.