When the NCAA took over hosting the national championship for beach volleyball from the American Volleyball Coaches Association, it marked the end of a much-loved pairs tournament.

Luckily for fans and for top college beach duos, USA Volleyball is bringing back a season-ending pairs championship. A week after the second annual NCAA beach volleyball national championship, USAV will host the double-gender Collegiate Beach Championships in Hermosa Beach, California, on May 11-13 to crown the top college duos in the country.

Twenty-four women's pairs and 12 men's duos will travel to Hermosa Beach to compete for the national pairs' crown and for a spot on the USA Volleyball collegiate beach national team.

Seven of the eight NCAA beach volleyball championship squads will send at least one pair, with finalists Pepperdine and Southern California sending four duos each. Florida State, LSU, South Carolina, and UCLA will each send two pairs, while Long Beach State will send one. Hawaii, the eighth member of the 2017 NCAA beach volleyball championship field, is not sending any teams to the pairs championship. The remaining seven teams in the field are coming from Arizona, Florida Atlantic, Georgia State, Loyola Marymount, Saint Mary's, TCU, and Washington.

Only U.S. citizens are eligible to play in the event, so many of the top players and teams from the 2017 NCAA beach volleyball season will be absent, including USC's Sophie Bukovec (Canada), UCLA's Megan and Nicole McNamara (Canada), and Long Beach State's Nele Barber (Germany).

Favorites to contend for the title will be USC's Sara Hughes and Kelly Claes, who led the Trojans to their second consecutive NCAA title; Arizona twins Madison and McKenna Witt; Florida State's top pair of Leigh Andrew and Brooke Kuhlman; and Loyola Marymount's Sarah Sponcil and Savannah Slattery.

On the men's side, MPSF programs dominate the field, with Hawaii, Long Beach State, USC, UC Irvine, and UCLA all represented. Athletes from Lewis, Mount St. Joseph, Palomar College, Davenport, and Cincinnati Christian were also selected to compete.

USAV Collegiate Pairs Championship: Women's Draw

Player 1	Player 2	School
McKenna Witt	Madison Witt	Arizona
Jessalyn Kinlaw	Megan Rice	Florida Atlantic
Leigh Andrew	Brooke Kuhlman	Florida State
Victoria Paranagua	Vanessa Freire	Florida State
Delaney Rohan	Chelsea Ross	Georgia State
Sarah Sponcil	Savannah Slattery	Loyola Marymount
Rachel Nieto	Kobi Pekich	Long Beach State
Claire Coppola	Kristen Nuss	LSU
Olivia Powers	Katie Lindelow	LSU
Delaney Knudsen	Madalyn Roh	Pepperdine
Corinne Quiggle	Brittany Howard	Pepperdine
Skylar Caputo	Heidi Dyer	Pepperdine
Anika Wilson	Deahna Kraft	Pepperdine
Lindsey Knudsen	Payton Rund	Saint Mary's College (CA)
Katie Smith	Adrianna Culbert	South Carolina
Macie Tendrich	Katie Zimmerman	South Carolina
Kelly Claes	Sara Hughes	Southern California
Terese Cannon	Nicolette Martin	Southern California
Abril Bustamante	Joy Dennis	Southern California
Jenna Belton	Jo Kremer	Southern California
Amy Neal	Jaelyn Greene	TCU
Kamila Tan	Jordan Anderson	UCLA
Elise Zappia	Madi Yeomans	UCLA
Crissy Jones	Tia Scambray	Washington

USAV Collegiate Pairs Championship: Men's Draw

Player 1	Player 2	School
Nathan Vander Meer	Logan Webber	Davenport/Cincinnati Christian
Brett Rosenmeier	Colton Cowell	Hawaii
Matthew Yoshimoto	Jake Walenga	Lewis
Louis Richard	Matt Butler	Long Beach State
Alex Vohland	Brett Cooper	Mount St. Joseph
Tyler Hedley	Vincent Pizzuti	Palomar College/Long Beach State
Brian Ross	Bobby Costigan	Sacred Heart
Andy Benesh	Chris Orenic	Southern California
Lucas Yoder	Michael Saeta	Southern California/UC Irvine
Grant Friedman	Scott Stadick	UC Irvine
Reid Dominguez	Dillon Hoffman	UC Irvine
Jackson Bantle	Hagen Smith	UCLA