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By Tyler Handlan
Cronkite News

TEMPE — ASU fledgling women’s beach volleyball program is in its third year, but recruiting players that fit the beach game at the Pac-12 level is proving difficult.

“It’s challenging to get tall girls to commit to just playing beach because they have a bigger chance of getting a scholarship for indoor, ” said ASU sand volleyball coach Brad Keenan. “There’s a lot of 5-foot-6 to 5-foot-8 girls that are like, ‘I’m beach only now.’

“And I’m like ‘Well, I already have 15 5-foot-7 girls, so I need to find someone who’s 6-foot-1, 6-foot-2 that can block.’ ”

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