Collegiate Beach Coach of the Year
JOHN MAYER, LOYOLA MARYMOUNT
- Mayer has made his 10th season as the Loyola Marymount head beach coach a very memorable one.
- He has earned his first national Coach of the Year award by leading the Lions to a 35-6 record (so far), which set a school record for wins in a single-season.
- His team opened 2025 with a bang by going 4-1 at the Outrigger Duke Kahanamoku Classic, where they beat three top-5 teams.
- That statement performance vaulted Mayer’s squad to No. 2 in the AVCA Beach Poll, marking the highest rank in school history.
- The Lions bring a seven-match winning streak to this week’s National Collegiate Beach Volleyball Championship in Gulf Shores.
- His team qualified for the event by earning its sixth-consecutive WCC Championship.
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Collegiate Beach Assistant Coach of the Year
JOSE LOIOLA, UCLA
- Loiola and the Bruins arrive in Gulf Shores as the top seed in the NCAA Championship after going 30-6 during the 2025 season.
- This is the beach volleyball Hall of Famer’s second year as an assistant under Bruin Head Coach Jenny Johnson Jordan.
- He has helped the Bruins to the No. 1 ranking in the AVCA Beach Poll in seven of the 11 weeks this season.
- The 2025 UCLA team had four players earn AVCA All-American honors: Maggie Boyd, Peri Brennan, Natalie Myszkowski, and Sally Perez.
- This is Loiola’s first AVCA Assistant Coach of the Year award.
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AVCA COLLEGIATE BEACH NATIONAL COACHES OF THE YEAR
2013: Nina Matthies, Pepperdine University
2014: Anna Collier, University of Southern California
2015: Rita Buck-Crockett, Florida International University
2016: Brooke Niles, Florida State University
2017: Stein Metzger, UCLA
2018: Stein Metzger, UCLA
2019: Anna Collier, University of Southern California
2021: Andrew Fuller, Stanford University
2022: Kristen Rohr, Grand Canyon University
2023: Hector Gutierrez, Texas Christian University
2024: Dain Blanton, University of Southern California
2025: John Mayer, Loyola Marymount University
AVCA COLLEGIATE BEACH NATIONAL ASSISTANT COACHES OF THE YEAR
2018: Marcio Sicoli, Pepperdine University
2019: Jenny Johnson Jordan, UCLA
2021: Majo Orellana, Texas Christian University
2022: Steve Grotowski, Florida Atlantic University
2023: Gustavo Rocha, University of Southern California
2024: Angela Rock, Cal Poly
2025: Jose Loiola, UCLA