California State University at Northridge
UC Riverside
CSUN Returns Home to Host UC Riverside and UC Davis
10/16/2025 2:16:00 PM | Women's Volleyball
CSUNÂ THIS WEEK:
MATCH #18Â (BIG WESTÂ #7)
UC Riverside Highlanders (6-10, 2-4) @Â CSUN Matadors (10-7, 3-3)
Friday, Oct. 17, 2025Â - 6:00 p.m. PT
Premier America Credit Union Arena - Northridge, Calif.
ESPN+Â //Â Live Stats
MATCH #19Â (BIG WESTÂ #8)
UC Davis Aggies @ CSUNÂ Matadors
Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025 - 6:00 p.m. PT
Premier America Credit Union Arena - Northridge, Calif.
Live Stats
In-game X updates:Â @CSUNWVB
CSUN WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL MEDIA NOTES
FORÂ STARTERS
The CSUN Women's Volleyball team (10-7, 3-3 Big West) returns to Premier America Credit Union Arena this week to open up a three-match homestand against UC Riverside on Friday. The Matadors will also welcome UC Davis to the Valley on Saturday before capping the homestand against Long Beach State next week (Oct. 23).
CSUN split a pair of road matches last week, sweeping Cal State Fullerton on Thursday before falling to UC Irvine in four sets at the Bren Center.
FOLLOW YOUR MATADORS
Friday's match against UC Riverside will be streamed live on ESPN+, while Saturday's match against UC Davis will only have live stats at GoMatadors.com. For CSUN home matches, Darren Preston returns to call women's volleyball in 2025 and will be joined by men's volleyball assistant coach Ryan Mason for select matches.
Fans can follow CSUN Matador women's volleyball online at the official home of CSUN athletics, www.GoMatadors.com. Fans are also encouraged to check the CSUN Athletics Department's official X feed (@GoMatadors) and the volleyball-specific feed (@CSUNWVB) for news and notes throughout the week, as well as updates of matches in progress.
SCOUTING THE OPPONENTS
UC Riverside (6-10, 2-4) travels for road matches at CSUN and Cal State Bakersfield this week. The Highlanders split a pair of home matches last week falling in straight sets to Long Beach State before defeating UC San Diego in five sets. Senior libero Jessica Dean was named Big West Defensive Player of the Week after averaging 5.50 digs per set in UCR's two matches. Dean recorded a career-high 30 digs against UC San Diego after posting 14 against Long Beach State. The Highlanders, 2-2 on the road this season, rank eighth in the Big West in hitting at .169.
Series: Friday's match is the 89th meeting all-time between the Matadors and Highlanders, with CSUN leading the all-time series 65-23. The Matadors claimed both meetings last season (3-0 in Riverside, 3-2 in Northridge) and have won three straight and eight of the last 10 in the series.
UC Davis (10-4, 6-0) remained unbeaten in Big West play after winning its sixth and seventh straight matches with back-to-back home victories over UC San Diego and Long Beach State last week. Mia Starr (Setter) and Breeze Czapinski (Offensive) each earned Big West Player of the Week honors this week. In Thursday's reverse sweep over UC San Diego, Starr posted a season-high-tying 48 assists before putting up a double-double (46 assists-15 digs) against Long Beach State. Czapinski had 14 kills against UCSD and 17 kills in the four-set win over the Beach. The Aggies rank fourth in the Big West in hitting (.218) but lead the conference in opponent hitting percentage at .151.
Series: Saturday's match is the 43rd meeting all-time between CSUN and UC Davis, with the Matadors holding a slim 22-20 lead in the all-time series. UC Davis won both meetings in 2025 and has won five straight in the series dating back to the last Matador win in 2022 (3-2 in Northridge). CSUN is 10-9 all-time against UCD in 19 matches in Northridge.
SENTES REACHES 1,000 CAREER DIGS
With her 10th dig in a 13-dig performance at UC Irvine on Saturday, CSUN junior libero Paige Sentes reached 1,000 digs in her CSUN career. With 30 digs in two matches last week (17 at Fullerton, 13 at UCI), Sentes now has 1,003 career digs while averaging 3.45 digs per set over 298 career sets. Sentes is just the 11th player in program history with 1,000 career digs. Cindy Ortiz (2009-12) holds the all-time CSUN and rally scoring era records with 1,456 digs, while Alexis Cormier (1998-01) holds the sideout scoring era record with 1,194 career digs. Sentes, a two-time Big West Defensive Player of the Week in 2025, leads the Matadors with 301 digs this season while averaging 4.36 digs per set which ranks fourth in the conference. Sentes is the only player in the Big West with over 300 digs this season.
CSUN'S BIG WEST RANKINGS
As a team, the Matadors remained second this week in the Big West in digs per set at 14.36. With a conference-best 991 digs in 69 sets this season, CSUN ranks second to UC Irvine which has 967 digs in 66 sets for a 14.65 digs per set average. The Matadors are also third this week in aces per set at 1.52 and are fifth in five other statistical categories: hitting percentage (.219), opponent hitting percentage (.194), kills per set (12.62), assists per set (11.54), and points per set (16.39). Individually, Tatiana Turgeon slipped from first to second in blocks per set this week at 1.21, while Sentes remains fourth in digs per set (4.36). Hayley Ogden ranks fifth in hitting percentage (.353) and 13th in blocks (0.92), while Jan Marie Duhaylungsod moved into seventh in aces per set at 0.31.
MATADOR QUICK SETS
Thursday's 3-0 win at Cal State Fullerton gave CSUN double figures in wins (10) for the second consecutive season under head coach Aquiles Montoya. The last time the Matadors strung together consecutive seasons with 10 or more wins was 2016 (11) and 2017 (13) under Jeff Stork ... Senior Leah Miller is fast approaching a career milestone of her own this season. With 731 kills as a Matador - along with 59 kills as a freshman at Arizona State - Miller opens the week with 790 collegiate kills. She had 260 kills as a CSUN sophomore in 2023, 311 kills in 2024, and has 160 kills for far this season ... Redshirt freshman Kyleigh Moore set a season-high with 15 digs at UC Irvine on Saturday. Moore, who has started eight of CSUN's last nine matches, came within one dig of her first collegiate double-double at Cal State Bakersfield when she had a season-high 14 kills and nine digs in a 3-1 Matador win.
CSUN HEAD COACH AQUILES MONTOYAÂ
Aquiles Montoya opens his second season as head coach of the CSUN Women's Volleyball team in 2025. In his first season, Montoya led the Matadors to a 10-19 overall record, as CSUN reached double figures in wins for the first time since 2019. With five Big West wins, Montoya led CSUN to its highest conference win total in three seasons. He was named the ninth head coach of the CSUN women's volleyball program on Apr. 10, 2024. Montoya arrived at CSUN after spending the past four seasons as associate head coach and director of recruiting at Portland State. Portland State made consecutive postseason appearances in 2021 and 2022, qualifying for the National Invitational Volleyball Championship (NIVC). The Vikings won their first-round match in 2021, giving Portland State its first win at a national postseason tournament in Division I program history. The Vikings' rise in the Big Sky Conference coincided with Montoya's tenure as an assistant and associate head coach under Portland State head coach Michael Seeman. The Vikings posted winning seasons, both overall and in conference play, in each of Montoya's last three seasons while reaching the Big Sky championship match in 2022, their first appearance since 2013. Prior to Portland State, Montoya spent the previous three seasons as the lead assistant of the Pacific Boxers' varsity team.
LOOKING AHEAD
Following Saturday's match against UC Davis, CSUN caps the current three-match homestand against Long Beach State next week (Oct. 23). The Matadors will then visit UC San Diego on Oct, 25, before returning home for another three-match homestand.
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