4 Bears Named All-MPSF – California Golden Bears Athletics

BVB5/1/2025 3:52 PM | By: Cal Athletics

Cal’s Top 2 Pairs Make Inaugural List

BERKELEY – Four members of the No. 10 California beach volleyball team were named to the inaugural All-MPSF team, the conference announced Thursday. Junior Portia Sherman and sophomore Emma Donley were named First Team All-MPSF while graduate student Sierra Caffo and junior Gia Fisher were named to the second team.
 
This is just the second time in Cal history that four Bears have made the all-conference list and the second time that there have been multiple first-team selections.
 
Sherman and Donley have played every match together as the Bears’ No. 1 pair and have enjoyed a historic season with a 27-7 overall record. As a pair they broke the all-time court-one wins record of 21 and did so in a single season. Their 27 wins ties the program’s single-season pairs record set by Grace Campbell and Maddie Micheletti in 2018.
 
The pair has 16 ranked wins this season, which includes three top-five wins and five top-ten wins. Sherman and Donley enter the postseason having won 15 of their last 18 matches which includes an 11-match winstreak that spanned from March 21 – April 13.
 
This all-conference nod comes just one day after the two were named AVCA First Team All-Americans, the first in program history, and three days after they were named to the MPSF All-Tournament Team. This is the first all-conference selection for Sherman, while Donley was named Second Team All-Pac-12 and to the Pac-12 All-Freshman Team last season.
 
Caffo and Fisher have played primarily in the second spot of the lineup this season. Caffo heads into the final weekend of her career with a 20-8 overall record and an 18-8 mark on court two, while Fisher is 24-8 this year with a 21-8 court-two record. Both Bears hit major career milestones this year with Caffo reaching 75 wins and Fisher hitting 50.
 
As a pair Caffo and Fisher have won 14 of their last 18 matches, 11 of which came against ranked opponents.  
 
This is the third straight year that Caffo has made an all-conference list and the first selection of Fisher’s career.