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2025 Women's Beach Volleyball Roster

2 Saskia Hernandez

  • Height 5-9
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Hometown Miami, Florida
  • High School Westminster Christian School
  • Prev School Virginia/NC State

Biography

2023 (INDOOR-Virginia): Signed with Virginia in January

2022 (INDOOR-NC State): Did not appear in any matches

2021 (INDOOR-NC State): As a true freshman, played in six contests and logged 18 sets... Finished 23 digs on the season... Recorded a season-high six digs against then-No. 4 Pittsburgh (Sept. 26)

HIGH SCHOOL: Two-time USA Beach Volleyball national champion... USA Volleyball High Performance Championship winner... 2019 Miami-Dade All-County Player of the Year and Athlete of the Year... Three-time Miami-Dade First Team All-County

PERSONAL: Youngest of five children, including two older sisters, Sylvia and Priscilla Hernandez, both of whom played collegiate volleyball... Sylvia played at the University of Miami from 2014-17, while Priscilla was at Miami from 2018-21 before transferring to NC State in 2022... Her parents, Henry and Sylvia Hernandez, also competed at Miami with her mother running track and her father playing baseball... Member of the National Honor Society