2024 Beach Volleyball Roster
Roster
Abbey Sweeting
- Height:
- 5-2
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- Hometown:
- Southlake, TX
- High School:
- Carroll Senior HS
HONORS:
2023 - All-Big West Second Team
CSUNÂ - 2023 (Senior)
Abbey Sweeting played in all 33 of CSUN's beach matches in 2023 ... played with two partners; 32 times with Gabriela Griego and once with Abigail Alvarez ... playing with Griego mainly as CSUN's No. 5 pair, finished the season with a program record 20 wins which also ranks second for a career pair behind Darbi Honeycutt/Mikaela Maughan's 43 wins ... finished 15-8 in the No. 5 slot, 3-3 record at No. 4 and 2-1 in the No. 6 pair ... with 20 wins as a pair, Sweeting and Griego broke the single season record of 18 wins held by three CSUN pairs (Klein-Rogers, Brydon-McMurray and Owens-Sato) and earned second team All-Big West honors for the first time ... tied with Griego for most individual wins (21) which matches Rogers' single-season record from 2022 when she also won 21 times ... heads into her final season with a career record of 45-37 (.549) and ranks seventh in program history for wins ... was one of four beach volleyball student-athletes named to the 2023 Big West All-Academic Team.
CSUNÂ - 2022Â (Junior)
Sweeting played in 32 of CSUN's 34 beach matches as a junior in 2022 ... played with five different partners; finishing 6-6 with Madison Klungel, 4-4 with Jadin Williams, 3-3 with Victoria Rogers, 2-3 with Layla Cederlind and 0-0 with Darynne Bickers ... tied for fifth on the Matadors with 15 wins, posting an overall record of 15-16 ... finished 5-6 with Klungel at No. 5 and 1-0 in the exhibition No. 6 match after defeating Colorado Mesa 2-1 (Mar. 23) ... finished 2-3 with Cederlind in the No. 5 pair, posting wins over Cal State LA (Mar. 19) and Sacramento State at the Big West Championships in San Luis Obispo (Apr. 29) ... won three times at No. 3 with Rogers, defeating Oregon (Feb. 26), The Master's University (Feb. 26) and CSU Bakersfield (Mar. 3) ... heads into her fourth season with 25 wins and is tied for 10th in program history with a career winning percentage of .500 (25-25) ... was one of eight Matador student-athletes named to the 2022 Big West All-Academic Team.
CSUNÂ - 2021Â (Sophomore)
Sweeting played in 17 of CSUN's 26 beach matches during her sophomore season ... finished 8-8 playing with Victoria Rogers and 0-1 playing with Lauren Eknoian ... with Rogers, had the fifth-most wins on the team, finishing 5-5 at the No. 5 spot and 3-3 playing in the No. 6 exhibition match ... the duo posted an 8-6 record in dual match play and was 0-2 in tournament play ... played one No. 6 exhibition match with Eknoian, falling to No. 18 Long Beach State (Apr. 24) ... with Rogers, had four and three-match winning streaks during the season with seven of their eight wins coming in straight sets.
CSUNÂ - 2020 (Freshman)
Sweeting played in three of CSUN's five matches during the abbreviated 2020 season ... teamed with Tristin Sahlie for the season's first two matches; posting a straight-set win in the exhibition match over Cal State LA (Feb. 29) ... also played the exhibition match against The Master's (Feb. 29) and split the first two sets before the match was called ... picked up a 2-0 win playing with Seyvion Waggoner in the exhibition match against San Francisco to open the Big West/West Coast Conference Challenege (Mar. 7) in Santa Cruz.
SOUTHLAKE CARROLL SENIORÂ HIGH SCHOOL
Sweeting lettered in volleyball at Southlake Carroll Senior High School in Southlake, Texas ... earned honorable mention All-District honors as a libero/defensive specialist in 2018 and was a four-time Academic All-District honoree ... the Dragons finished fifth in the state tournament during her senior year (2019) ... graduated in 2019.
PERSONAL
Born in Hartford, Conn. ... parents are Karyn and Jim Sweeting ... has one brother, Alec ... favorites include the Dallas Cowboys, actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Sandra Bullock, the TV shows "Friends" and "Below Deck" and the movie "Beauty and the Beast" ... says she chose CSUN because "the coaches are amazing" ... says the best thing about being an athlete is "traveling and meeting new people" ... says her greatest sports moment is "playing on Waikiki Beach during the Big West Beach Volleyball Championship" ... earning her master's degree in public health.
