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Hitting the sand

Players go through tedious warm up sets on a chilly Thursday afternoon practice.

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While the weather has not been beach weather, the new Missouri State beach volleyball team has been getting ready to play its first game this season.

Beach volleyball was added to the athletic program on July 1, 2017, by Missouri State.

“I was really excited,” beach volleyball head coach and former MSU alum, said Terri Del Conte, when she heard of the addition of beach volleyball. “I knew that beach volleyball was going to be an up and coming collegiate sport that would begin to blow up.