TUCSON, Ariz. – Arizona beach volleyball head coach Steve Walker announced on Monday that Emilia Guerra-Acuna will serve as an assistant coach for the program after recently finishing her career four-year at Boise State.  

“Emilia is a proven winner and team leader,” Walker said. “She is a great role model for aspiring young athletes, bringing high character, discipline and a strong work ethic to positively impact those around her. We are delighted to welcome her to the Arizona Beach Volleyball program and she will be a great addition to our staff.” 

Guerra-Acuna registered 86 career wins for the Broncos, the most in program history, and picked up all-conference honors three times in her career. She earned first team accolades in 2023 and 2025 and second team honors in 2024 in addition to being named to the Southland Conference All-Academic team on two occasions.  

“This is an incredible opportunity to begin my coaching career with Arizona Beach Volleyball,” said Guerra-Acuna. “I want to thank head coach Steve Walker and Director of Athletics Desiree Reed-Francois for believing in me and welcoming me to Arizona Athletics. I also want to thank head coach Allison Voigt and assistant coach Alex Venardos from Boise State University, for creating the relationships and the respect for this program during my playing career. I can’t wait to get to Tucson and get started.” 

A native of San Antonio, Guerra-Acuna attended Brandeis High School and was a four-year member of the indoor volleyball team. She played club volleyball for 210 Beach Volleyball Club in San Antonio, where her team won the inaugural BVCA Club National Championship in 2021.  

Guerra-Acuna graduated from Boise State in May 2025 with an undergraduate degree in Health Studies while minoring in Psychology and earning a certificate in Spanish.  

The Northwest Athletic Conference recently honored two Bellevue College teams and two student athletes at its annual Hall of Fame event.  

This is the first time Bellevue College has been honored in eight years. It’s also the first time women’s teams and players have been inducted, a release from the school noted. 

Rhoda Bell, one of the appointees, was a women’s track and field student athlete from 1980 to 1981. She still holds the fastest two times in the 400-meter race in the NWAC.  

Lisa Kinderlan, a fellow appointee, also played for women’s track and field as well as women’s cross country from 1980 to 1982. She was the only woman from Bellevue College to compete in three Olympic trials. 

“This was a great way to honor the rich sports history at Bellevue College,” Jeremy Eggers, Bellevue College’s athletics director, said in the press release. “There’s a lot of history here that is undocumented on our side … And what they did back then is what we’re continuing to strive to do in the sports that we do currently have.” 

The 1981 Women’s Cross Country Team was the No. 1 ranked team in the nation for community colleges. The 1983 Women’s Track and Field Team set four conference records — three of which are still standing 41 years later, the release said.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A former school record holder and Ivy medalist has been presented with a prestigious award by the University. Brooke Ury ’24 is one of 36 recent Brown alumni or graduate students who have been presented with a Fullbright Scholarship.
 
Overseen by the U.S. Department of State, the Fullbright U.S. Student Program promotes peace through intellectual and cultural exchange. They are presented each year to individuals to help conduct research or teach English in locations around the world, and are selected for their professional and academic records, as well as their potential to engage culturally with their host communities. Over the last decade, Brown has consistently been one of the nation’s top Fullbright producers.
 
Ury was selected for a Fullbright Research Award to conduct environmental health research in Munich, Germany, specifically studying the health impacts of air pollution, temperature and climate change.
 
Ury graduated from Brown in 2024 as the school record holder in the 60 meter hurdles (8.49) and the 100 meter hurdles (13.83).
 

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From June 11 to August 11, GoMatadors.com will present the top CSUN Moments from the 2024-25 sports season. Today, we celebrate the Men’s Volleyball and Women’s Water Polo teams who were each nationally ranked during the 2024-25 academic year. 
 

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CSUN Athletics produced a pair of programs that reached national rankings in their respective sports during the 2024-25 season. CSUN men’s volleyball finished the season ranked ninth, while women’s water polo reached as high as 16th during the 2025 campaign.

In men’s volleyball, CSUN finished with an 18-11 overall record and was ranked ninth in the final AVCA National Collegiate Coaches Poll of the season. The Matadors, under third-year head coach Theo Edwards, were ranked in the top-10 in the final poll of the season for the second time in the last seven seasons and 17th time since the creation of the AVCA national poll in 1986.

After concluding the season with a heartbreaking five-set loss to No. 4 UC Irvine in the Quarterfinals of the Outrigger Big West Men’s Volleyball Championship, the Matadors would finish the season ranked ninth. During the 2025 season, CSUN reached a season-high No. 7 national ranking a total of three times. After opening 2025 ranked No. 15 in the Preseason Coaches Poll, the Matadors steadily climbed in the rankings, culminating with a 12-2 record and a No. 7 national ranking on Mar. 3. That marked the highest national ranking for the Matadors since also ranking seventh on Jan. 15, 2018.

One week later, CSUN received a season-high 302 points (Mar. 10) to also rank seventh where it would remain until Mar. 17. The Matadors, ranked in all 17 national polls during the 2024 season, were ranked in all 17 polls during the 2025 season (7th three times, 8th, 9th five times, 10th, 12th, 13th, 15th three times, and 16th twice).

 

Over the course of the 2025 season, the Matadors defeated a total of eight ranked teams including No. 5 Hawai’i (Apr. 4), No. 8 Grand Canyon (Feb. 19), No. 10 UC San Diego (Apr. 10, Apr. 12), No. 10 Pepperdine (Feb. 8), No. 15 Lewis (Mar. 20), No. 19 Princeton (Mar. 12), and No. 20 George Mason (Feb. 2).

The CSUN women’s water polo team finished the 2025 season at 16-13 overall. CSUN was ranked in the Collegiate Water Polo Association top-25 national poll in 12 weeks of the season. 

The Matador water polo team would be ranked as high No. 16 on the year, marking the highest the program had been ranked nationally in a decade. CSUN remained ranked in the top-20 through the first three weeks of the season after winning seven of its first eight matches. The team would also collect a victory over nationally-ranked Villanova in a 17-14 decision at Matador Pool on March 2.

CSUN’s 2025 season marked the third consecutive year the water polo program had recorded a winning season, the first for the program since notching three straight winning years from 2013-2015. Head coach Matt Warshaw also moved up to second place in school history in all-time coaching victories at 117, just 11 off the pace from breaking the program’s all-time win mark. 

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