CSUN Women's Athletics Produces Top 100 Finish in Capital One Cup Standings for 2014-15
7/1/2015 11:09:00 AM | General, Softball, Track and Field, Women's Basketball, Women's Cross Country, Women's Golf, Women's Soccer, Women's Tennis, Women's Track & Field, Women's Volleyball, Women's Water Polo, Beach Volleyball
Matadors Win Three Big West Championships in 2014-15
Schools earn points based on their teams' top-10 finishes in NCAA Division I championships and in final official coaches' polls across 20 women's and 19 men's sports as they compete to win the Capital One Cup trophy and a combined $400,000 in scholarships for student-athletes.
"We are incredibly proud of our women's athletic programs that have worked hard to excel both on and off the field this year," said CSUN Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Dr. Brandon E. Martin. "With Big West Championships in women's basketball, softball and women's track & field and women's water polo named as a Capital One Cup top 10 program, we achieved many - but not all - of our goals and we are working hard to be even better. We're honored to be among the top 100 Division I women's athletics programs in the country, but our goals are much higher than that. At CSUN, Matadors are always rising."
For CSUN, the women's water polo team earned one point based on its final finish of 10th in the national water polo standings. The Matadors finished 15-11 overall for the 2014-15 season, placing in a tie for second in the Big West regular season and a third-place finish in the conference tournament.
CSUN women's basketball finished the year with a school-record 23 victories and won the Big West Tournament for the second-straight year. CSUN softball posted its first 40-win season since 1996 and captured its first outright Big West Conference title since 1998. The CSUN women's track and field program scored 212 points, the most by a women's team in over a decade, to win its seventh Big West Conference title in the past 10 years.
The Matadors' women's soccer program returned to the conference postseason tournament for the fifth time in the past six years. In women's volleyball, CSUN went 19-9 and 10-6 in a tough Big West. Women's tennis went 15-6 overall, tied for fourth in the Big West and outlasted Hawai'i in a grueling five-hour Big West Tournament Quarterfinal.
In cross country, Elizabeth Nelson finished third at the 2014 Big West Championships to tie her for the best finish in school history. The team placed sixth, its best finish at the Big West Championships since 2002.
CSUN sand volleyball opened the Matador Sand Volleyball Facility in March of 2015 and completed its second season of competition. The Big West Conference recently added sand volleyball to its championships with the inaugural league title being handed out in 2016.
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