MIAMI (April 29, 2018) – The FIU beach volleyball team made school history on Sunday night as the Panthers earned the programs first-ever NCAA Championship Finals bid. FIU is one of eight teams selected for the 2018 NCAA National Collegiate Championships, being held May 4-7 in Gulf Shores, Alabama. The Panthers enter the championships as the eight seed and will face the top-seeded UCLA Bruins in the first match of the tournament on Friday, May 4, at 10 a.m. ET. FIU joins UCLA (one-seed), Pepperdine (two-seed), Hawaii (three-seed), Florida State (four-seed), two-time defending national champion, USC (five-seed), South Carolina (six-seed), and LSU (seven-seed).