The Chattanooga beach volleyball team added one last program record to its belt before its 2025 season came to a close on Friday, as a total of four pairs received AVCA Top Flight status for their efforts during the year, the American Volleyball Coaches Association announced.
The following Chattanooga beach volleyball pairs received ‘Top Flight’ status for the 2025 season: Neva Clark/Corina Vale (Flight 1), McKenna Faychak/Maddie Lecik (Flight 2), Joy Courtright/Julia Lawrence (Flight 4) and Ansley Gulledge/Sydney Jackwin (Flight 5).
The Mocs are just one year removed from having the program’s first-ever pair receive AVCA Top Flight status.
Now a year later, nearly the entire UTC lineup has received the honor following a record-setting year by the Sandy Mocs.
The AVCA’s Top Flight program, now in its seventh year, recognizes beach volleyball pairs who compete in at least 15 matches together at a specific flight and win at least 75 percent of their matches. This year, 88 pairs representing 45 schools – from all three NCAA divisions, NAIA and Two-Year Colleges – have earned Top Flight status.
Clark and Vale wrap up their 2025 season having amassed a record of 23-7 on the year including a perfect 10-0 OVC record. The back-to-back OVC Pair of the Year award-winners end the season having won 76.7 percent of their matches. This marks the first AVCA Top Flight award for Clark and Vale.
Faychak and Lecik end their season with a 23-6 record playing out of the No. 2 spot for the Mocs. The record saw the junior duo post a 79.3 win percentage enroute to each of them earning the very-first AVCA Top Flight honor of either of their careers as well.
On Court 4 for the Mocs, Courtright and Lawrence proved dominant over the course of the 2025 season aftering going 24-6 with an 80 percent win percentage as a pair. Courtright now wraps up her Chattanooga career with one last honor, her first AVCA Top Flight award. Lawrence, only a sophomore, was one half of the program’s first-ever AVCA Top Flight duo a season ago alongside UTC alum Morgan Romano. Lawrence now becomes the program’s first-ever two-time AVCA Top Flight honoree.
And last but not least, the Court 5 duo of Gulledge and Jackwin rounded out the Top Flight honorees for the Mocs after recording a 25-3 record for UTC this season. The pair, both of whom transferred to UTC ahead of the 2025 season, end the year with an impressive 89.3 win percentage out of the No. 5 spot. It marks the first AVCA Top Flight honor for either player.
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