Tarleton State signs junior college national champion Salome Galvez for 2025-26

STEPHENVILLE, Texas - Tarleton State Beach Volleyball has announced its third signing for 2025-26, as the Texans have added Palm Beach State transfer Salome Galvez.

Galvez (5-8) has played the last two years for the Lady Panthers, winning the 2024 NJCAA Beach Volleyball National Championship. This season is still going for Palm Beach State, who will face Florida State College at Jacksonville in the 2025 FCSAA/Region 8 Beach Volleyball Championship Match 1 on Friday.

Galvez is the second Palm Beach State transfer to join Texan Beach Volleyball in its short history, joining , who has played at Court 1 in every match for Tarleton State across both its first two seasons.

Across Galvez's lengthy beach volleyball career, she has garnered several accolades at each stop. Playing for the Columbia National Team, she was Call for the 2021 sub-18 Colombian national team, Call for the sub-23 2020 Colombian national team, Call for the sub-16 2019 Colombian national team, plus won the 2019 AAUU international tournament in Orlando and the 2017 Suramerican games in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

In her high school career at Colegio San Jose de Las Vegas in Medellin, Colombia, Galvez took second place in the 2019 Columbus cup, helped win some of the most important school tournaments in Colombia in 2018, was Best Spiker in the Nacional Cup La Estrella (ANT) in 2018, plus took second in the 2018 Vegas Cup.

Galvez played her club career for All-State Antioquia. There she was ranked in the top-five among Colombian pairs this past season. In 2023, she was the young player in the top-five and in the tournament, helping take fifth in the national games. In 2022, she took fifth in the saem tournament, and in 2021, she was Call for both the sub-21 and sub-23 teams. In 2019, she took second in the national tournament in Sopó, Colombia. Iin 2018, she took second in the national tournament in Medellin, plus first in the national tournament in Pereira, Colombia. In 2017, she helped win the national tournament in Manizales, Colombia.

Galvez also played 10 years of indoor volleyball.

Galvez was raised by a beach volleyball legend himself, as her father Fredy was part of the indoor volleyball and beach volleyball All-state (Risaralda and Valle) team and part of the Colombia national team from 1982 to 2004.

Galvez is a Medellin, Colombia, native. She will study nutrition science at Tarleton State University.