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Coach of the Year, Pair of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, Freshman of the Year, and Seven All-Conference First Team Honors Among LMU’s WCC Accolades
Story Links LOS ANGELES – LMU Beach Volleyball continues to accumulate a significant number of West Coast Conference season awards, and 2025 continued that trend. The Lions have received Coach of the Year, Pair of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, Freshman of the Year, seven All-Conference First Team Honors, […]
LOS ANGELES – LMU Beach Volleyball continues to accumulate a significant number of West Coast Conference season awards, and 2025 continued that trend. The Lions have received Coach of the Year, Pair of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, Freshman of the Year, seven All-Conference First Team Honors, three All-Conference Second Team Honors, and an All-Freshman Team Selection.
For the fifth season in a row, LMU has claimed the WCC Pair of the Year. Isabelle Reffel and Magdalena Rabitsch have broken the program record with 36 wins so far this season.
In addition to her All-American selection, Chloe Hooker has become the fifth Lion in a row to earn WCC Defensive Player of the Year honors.
Following his sixth-consecutive WCC Championship, Head Coach John Mayer has now been named WCC Coach of the Year six consecutive times dating back to 2019.
In her first season on the courts at LMU, Tanon Rosenthal has earned WCC Co-Freshman of the Year honors. Rosenthal has won 34 duals this year and lost only five. In additional to her individual accolade, Rosenthal has also been named to the All-WCC First Team and All-Freshman WCC Team.
The 10-member All-WCC First Team featured seven Lions. Reffel, Hooker, and Rosenthal were joined by Lisa Luini, Anna Pelloia, Michelle Shaffer, and Abbey Thorup as All-Conference First Team Performers.
The All-WCC Second Team included Giuliana Poletti Corrales, Vilhelmiina Prihti, and Magdalena Rabitsch. In total, all 10 of LMU’s starters were named to either the All-WCC First or Second Team.
The #4 Lions will open the NCAA Championships Friday morning at 8:00 AM CT / 6:00 AM PT against #13 Florida Atlantic. The match will air live on ESPN2 from Gulf Shores, Ala.
2025 NC beach volleyball championship format
The 2025 NC beach volleyball championship bracket will consist of 16 teams, with eight making it as automatic qualifiers via conference championships. The selected teams will be seeded Nos. 1-16 in the bracket.
The championship will then be played in single-elimination duals with 10 student-athletes split into five pairs from each team. The dual meet match is formatted in five best-of-three sets, pairs matches, with each pairs match being worth one point.
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