#20 Tulane Beach Volleyball Visits Baton Rouge this Weekend
The Tulane beach volleyball team remains in Louisiana for week two of the campaign after opening the season at home last weekend. The Green Wave, slotted No. 20 in the TruVolley rankings, will trek up I-10 to Baton Rouge for the Tiger Beach Challenge, hosted by No. 12 LSU at LSU Beach Volleyball Stadium. Four duals await Tulane, with two each on Friday and Saturday.
Joining Tulane and LSU in the event are No. 18 Washington, Southern Miss, Houston Christian, North Alabama, UAB, and Louisiana Monroe.
The Wave will open play on Friday, February 27, against North Alabama at 11:45 a.m. before taking on Houston Christian at 4:45 p.m. On Saturday, Tulane will face off against UAB at 10:30 a.m. before closing out its stint in the event against Southern Miss at 3:30 p.m.
The tournament will be streamed on the LSU Sports YouTube page.
Last Time Out for the Green Wave
The Wave opened the 2026 campaign at home last weekend, going 2-3 in the Green Wave Invitational at White Sands Volleyball Courts. Skylar Ensign and Molly Trodd highlighted day one of action with a win at the second flight over the 12th-ranked Tigers. Tulane secured wins on day two over Oregon and New Orleans with Katie Hansen and Emma Morris highlighting the second day with three sweeps at the top flight.
Next up on the slate for Tulane will be the Chanticleer Challenge, hosted by Coastal Carolina. The two-day tournament begins on Friday, March 6, and will see the Wave partake in four duals.
Doug has covered a gamut of sporting events in his fifty-plus years in the field. He started doing sideline reporting for Louisiana Tech football games for the student radio station. Doug was Sports Director for KNOE-AM/FM in Monroe in the mid-80s, winning numerous awards from the Louisiana Sports Writers Association for Best Sportscast and Best Play-by-Play. High school play-by-play for teams in Monroe, Natchitoches, New Orleans, and Thibodaux, LA dot his resume. He did college play-by-play for Northwestern State University in Natchitoches for nine years. Then, moving to the Crescent City, Doug did television PBP of Tulane games and even filled in for legendary Tulane broadcaster, Ken Berthelot in the only game Kenny ever missed while doing the Green Wave games. His father was an alumnus of Tulane in the 1940s, so Doug has attended Tulane football games in old Tulane Stadium, the Superdome, and Yulman. He was one of the 86,000 plus on December 1, 1973, sitting in the North End Zone to seeTulane shutout the LSU Tigers, 14-0. He was there when the Posse ruled Fogelman and in Turchin when the Wave made it to the World Series. He currently is the public address voice of the Tulane baseball team.