After months of discussions, Oregon officially announced on Friday that it will be adding sand volleyball as a sport. The program is the 12th women’s sport and the 20th overall at the University, and will begin play in March 2014.

The head of the program is women’s court volleyball coach, Jim Moore, and his wife, Stacy Metro, will be the head sand volleyball coach. Metro has served as Moore’s assistant for eight years, as well.

When play begins in March, the Ducks don’t plan on playing any home games. This is one of several factors that makes the addition of the sport fairly cheap.

“This is very cost-effective compared to the other sports we could have added,” said Andy McNamara, Oregon’s assistant athletic director for communications.

McNamara added that the school still has several decisions to make about the new sport, including how many players from the court volleyball team will participate and how many scholarships will be available.

Each team must compete in at least eight events but no more than 16. Two players from each team compete in a match with five sets, much like beach volleyball that is played in the Olympics.

Since 2012, the sport has increased its number of teams from 15  to 35. Oregon is joining Arizona, Arizona State, Cal, Stanford, UCLA and USC as Pac-12 schools who have added the sport.