Tulane Beach Volleyball to Host UNO in Pairs Tournament
The Tulane beach volleyball team wraps up its fall slate this weekend with the Tulane Pairs Tournament at White Sands Volleyball Courts. The event is a Crescent City affair with the Green Wave competing against the University of New Orleans (UNO).
Play begins Saturday morning with six courts running concurrently. Pairs from Tulane and UNO will play head-to-head in three-and-a-half rounds of competition with all matches being played to just two sets. No third sets will be played.
Each of the first three rounds will feature six matches at a time. The last round, or the “half” round, will see just three courts of action.
This is the fourth overall event for the Wave this fall and the third featuring the full team. Last time out, two Green Wave pairs participated in the AVCA Pairs National Championship in Huntsville, Alabama. Skylar Ensign and Molly Trodd tied for 25th as Emma Morris and Katie Hansen tied for 43rd.
Green Wave to Host Youth Clinic at 10:00 a.m.
Prior to the beginning of head-to-head action, Tulane will host a free youth clinic beginning at 10:00 a.m. The clinic will last approximately 45 minutes with the opportunity for participants and their families to stay and enjoy the tournament thereafter.
With the fall slate coming to a close, the Wave will get a winter break before returning to the sand in the spring of 2026.
Courtesy Tulane Athletics
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.