This post was updated Jan. 16 at 11:37 p.m.
The First Point Collegiate Challenge always features the nation’s best – and this year is no different.

This post was updated Jan. 14 at 8:54 p.m.
Maintaining dominance after a seven-month break can be difficult, even for back-to-back national champions.
But that’s why a top-ranked designation is reserved only for the elite.

The new year marks a fresh start for the Bruins.
Following an exhibition match against Trinity Western last week, No. 1 UCLA men’s volleyball is set to face Saint Francis on Friday at the Gold Mine in Long Beach, California.

This post was updated Jan. 8 at 12:26 a.m.
The Bruins have 124 NCAA titles – 12 less than Stanford, the national leader.
And UCLA men’s volleyball – Westwood’s winningest program with 21 – is on the verge of its first three-peat since the Bruins won four in a row from 1981 to 1984.

The United States men’s national volleyball team hired Karch Kiraly as its next head coach, the program announced Thursday afternoon.
Kiraly – who led the Bruins to three national championships as a player from 1979 to 1982 before playing and coaching professionally on the Olympic stage – succeeds John Speraw, former head coach and current president and CEO of USA Volleyball, as the ninth head coach in program history.

UCLA men’s volleyball hired John Hawks as its next head coach, the program announced Friday afternoon.
Hawks – who served as the Bruins’ assistant coach from 2015 to 2022 before taking on the head coaching post at Loyola Chicago – will succeed John Speraw, former head coach and current president and CEO of USA Volleyball, as the third head coach in program history.

This post was updated Sept. 26 at 12:28 a.m.
Former UCLA men’s volleyball head coach John Speraw departed from the program, leaving UCLA to take on the role as the next CEO and president of USA Volleyball.