West Coast Conference Announces 2025 Beach Volleyball Awards

SAN BRUNO, Calif. – LMU won its sixth straight West Coast Conference Championship last Friday in Santa Monica, Calif., and the Lions nearly pulled off a clean sweep of the 2025 West Coast Conference all-conference and major awards, as announced by the Conference on Wednesday.

LMU’s major awards include John Mayer winning Coach of the Year, Chloe Hooker winning Defensive Player of the Year, and the Pair of the Year went to Isabelle Reffel and Magdalena Rabitsch. LMU’s Tanon Rosenthal was named Co-Freshman of the Year with Pepperdine’s Emma Eden. 

All-conference honors and major individual awards were selected solely by the seven conference head coaches. 

 

Reffel and Rabitsch finished the 2025 campaign with an overall record of 35-4. Playing primarily on the No. 4 court, the tandem went 32-4 there and 3-0 on the third court. Going back to April 11, the pair is enjoying a 10-match winning streak, including three wins in last week’s West Coast Conference Tournament. Reffel and Rabitsch own three wins over UCLA this season and wins over Stanford and USC, as well. Reffel and Rabitsch won West Coast Conference Pair of the Week two times this season. 

 

Mayer collected his sixth straight West Coast Conference Coach of the Year honor after leading the Lions back into the NCAA Championship as a No. 4 seed. LMU concluded the regular season with a record of 35-6, and Mayer’s Lions enter the NCAA Tournament riding a seven-match winning streak. LMU boasts multiple wins over the top-ranked teams in the country according to the AVCA national polls including No. 1 TCU and No. 3 UCLA.  

The 2023 West Coast Conference Freshman of the Year, Hooker adds another Conference major award to her resume. Compiling a record of 28-10 on the courts this season, Hooker primarily teamed with Vilhelmiina Prihti on either the No. 1 or No. 2 court. She and Prihti garnered a win on April 11 over No. 1 TCU. Hooker also played on LMU’s second court with Jaeya Brach and Anna Pelloia. Hooker and Pelloia boasted Conference Pair of the Week accolades once in 2025. Hooker becomes the fifth straight Lion to claim this award. 

Rosenthal is the third Lion to capture West Coast Conference Freshman of the Year accolades, and the first since Hooker in 2023. Rosenthal boasted Conference Pair of the Week recognition three times this season, the most among the Lions who won all but one of the conference weekly awards this season. She totaled a record of 33-5 this season, playing primarily on the No. 5 court with Giuliana Poletti-Corrales. They will head to the NCAA Tournament having won their last eight matches in a row. 

 

Eden compiled an overall record of 25-8 this season. She competed primarily on the No. 3 court with Ella Foti, notching a record of 23-7 with her between the No. 2 and No. 3 courts. She also went 2-1 with Madison Oriskovich on the No. 2 court. Eden becomes the fourth Wave to win Freshman of the Year. Kaydon Myers won the award last season, while McKenna Thomas earned a share of the award in 2022 and Brook Bauer won it in 2018. 

The Lions and Pepperdine comprised the entire all-conference first team with seven Lions and three Waves being named to the all-conference first team. Three more Lions made the all-conference second team with Santa Clara matching that total on the second team, while Saint Mary’s picked up a pair of second-team selections. 

 

Pepperdine’s Kate Clermont and McKenna Thomas earned first-team accolades for the third straight season. Hooker garnered all-conference recognition for the third straight season, and she made her second appearance on the all-conference first team after also being named to that team as a freshman in 2023. Michelle Shaffer garnered first-team recognition for the third time, second time at LMU, after also being an honoree in 2022 with Santa Clara. Pelloia garnered first-team recognition for the second straight season. 

2025 WCC Coach of the Year             

John Mayer, LMU      

           

2025 WCC Pair of the Year                

Isabelle Reffel and Magdalena Rabitsch, LMU           

           

2025 WCC Defensive Player of the Year                    

Chloe Hooker, LMU              

 

2025 WCC Co-Freshmen of the Year             

Emma Eden, Pepperdine     

Tanon Rosenthal, LMU             

 

2025 All-WCC Beach Volleyball First Team               

Kate Clermont, Pepperdine

Emma Eden, Pepperdine

Chloe Hooker, LMU

Lisa Luini, LMU

Anna Pelloia, LMU

Isabelle Reffel, LMU

Tanon Rosenthal, LMU

Michelle Shaffer, LMU

McKenna Thomas, Pepperdine

Abbey Thorup, LMU

 

2025 All-WCC Beach Volleyball Second Team                       

Allie Cataldo, Saint Mary’s

Hannah Couch, Saint Mary’s

Giuliana Poletti-Corrales, LMU

Vilhelmiina Prihti, LMU

Magdalena Rabitsch, LMU

Sadie Snipes, Santa Clara

Ava Stoddard, Santa Clara

Alexandra Urbina, Santa Clara

 

2025 All-WCC Beach Volleyball All-Freshman Team                  

Ciara Cantlen, Santa Clara

Kawena Chillingworth, Santa Clara

Emma Eden, Pepperdine

Caroline Loughran, Santa Clara

Tanon Rosenthal, LMU

Burkleigh Smith, San Francisco

Sadie Snipes, Santa Clara