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UC-Santa Barbara is a volleyball club based in Santa Barbara, CA, ranked as high as #14 nationally by VolleyLens. It fields 3 teams in the 2025-26 season. VolleyLens has tracked the club from the 2025-26 season through 2025-26 across 5 team-seasons.
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Written from this club's match results and rankings, and updated whenever they are. Nothing here is estimated.
UC-Santa Barbara is a club volleyball program based in Santa Barbara, CA. In 2025-26 it fielded 5 teams across both programs — two women's teams and three men's teams.
Its men's program ranks #14 nationally and #2 of 42 in CA for 2025-26, on a Club Score of 1,103. That places it in the Emerging tier, the band VolleyLens assigns from Club Score. Of its 3 teams, 1 rates Elite, meaning an Elo of 1700 or better.
Across the season its teams played 126 matches and won 73 of them, a 58% win rate. Its strongest team, UC-Santa Barbara B, is #11 nationally and #4 in CA, at 1,740 Elo on a 44-12 record.
Teams averaged 42 matches each over the season. The club entered seven events between 25 October and 2 April, a season of about 5 months. Of those, 1 was an Elite or Premier event — the strongest fields on the calendar.
Those events were held in two states, with one of seven outside CA. The out-of-state travel was to MO. Travel is described here in trips and destinations rather than cost, because event locations carry no distances.
Everything below — teams, statistics and rankings — is for this season and program. Pick another from Season History.
#14 nationally · Club Score 1103
Every season and division VolleyLens has ranked for UC-Santa Barbara. Pick one to focus this page on it.
| Season | Division | Rank | Club Score | Teams |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | Women's | #63 | 1021 | 2 |
| 2025-26 | Men's | #14 | 1103 | 3 |
Every team UC-Santa Barbara fielded in the 2025-26 season, with its age group, national rank and win-loss record. Elo rating measures strength from results: it rises faster for beating strong opponents than for beating weak ones, so a team that plays up is not punished for losing.
| Team | Program | Age | Elo | Record | Win% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC-Santa Barbara B | Men's | all | 1740 (Elite) | 44-12 | 79% |
| UC-Santa Barbara A | Men's | all | 1460 (Developing) | 25-25 | 50% |
| UC-Santa Barbara C | Men's | all | 1371 (Emerging) | 4-16 | 20% |
Where UC-Santa Barbara competed in the 2025-26 season: every tournament its teams played, the host city, how strong the event was, and what each team's record was there. It shows how far the club travels and the level of competition it takes on.
Elite, Premier, Competitive and Regional rate the strength of each event's field, from where it ranks nationally against every other tournament that season. An Elite event draws hundreds of teams from across the country; a Regional one is a local weekend.
| Tournament | Location | National Rank | Record | Teams |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NCVF Championships (Elite) | Kansas City, MO | #1 of 152 | 8-5 | UC-Santa Barbara B — Men's Division III: 5-1; UC-Santa Barbara A — Men's Division I: 3-4 |
| Men's Division SCCVL League Championships 2026 / SCCVL (Competitive) | Anaheim, CA | #17 of 152 | 3-0 | UC-Santa Barbara B — Men's Division SCCVL League Championships 2026 / SCCVL: 3-0 |
| Far Westerns / UC-Davis (Regional) | Sacramento, CA | #79 of 152 | 7-4 | UC-Santa Barbara A — Far Westerns / UC-Davis: 2-1; UC-Santa Barbara B — Far Westerns / UC-Davis: 5-3 |
| SCCVL League 2026 - Men's / SCCVL (Regional) | Anaheim, CA | #48 of 152 | 15-14 | UC-Santa Barbara C — SCCVL League 2026 - Men's / SCCVL: 0-4; UC-Santa Barbara A — SCCVL League 2026 - Men's / SCCVL: 4-9; UC-Santa Barbara B — SCCVL League 2026 - Men's / SCCVL: 11-1 |
| SCCVL 2026 League (Competitive) | Anaheim, CA | #6 of 152 | 15-13 | UC-Santa Barbara A — Men's Division 1: 4-8; UC-Santa Barbara B — Men's Division 3: 11-1; UC-Santa Barbara C — Men's Division 3: 0-4 |
| Men's Divison TCS MLK Invite 2026 / SCCVL (Regional) | Anaheim, CA | #70 of 152 | 10-9 | UC-Santa Barbara A — Men's Divison TCS MLK Invite 2026 / SCCVL: 5-2; UC-Santa Barbara B — Men's Divison TCS MLK Invite 2026 / SCCVL: 3-3; UC-Santa Barbara C — Men's Divison TCS MLK Invite 2026 / SCCVL: 2-4 |
| Men's Division TCS Fall Classic 2025 / SCCVL (Competitive) | Irvine, CA | #9 of 152 | 15-8 | UC-Santa Barbara A — Men's Division TCS Fall Classic 2025 / SCCVL: 7-1; UC-Santa Barbara C — Men's Division TCS Fall Classic 2025 / SCCVL: 2-4; UC-Santa Barbara B — Men's Division TCS Fall Classic 2025 / SCCVL: 6-3 |