Long Beach Crowned South Coast Conference Women's Volleyball Champions

Photo by Intentful Media x Caleb Brown
Photo by Intentful Media x Caleb Brown
November 18, 2024

Release by Robert Lewis, SCC SID
See the original release here.

With the South Coast Conference going to 5-team divisions this year thanks to the addition of Compton College to the mix, the 2024 women's volleyball season saw co-champions emerge in the South Division in Long Beach City College and Cerritos and in the North Division with Mt. San Antonio and Pasadena City College sharing that title.

It is the first time in the sport that four champions were crowned. The only other time the conference was separated into divisions was between 2016-2018 when the North had just one champion for those three years while the South twice saw co-champs in 2017-18 between the same teams--Long Beach and El Camino.

Long Beach (21-1 overall), the state's #4-ranked team and currently #1 in the South RPI ratings for potentially the #1 regional playoff seed, used a sweep over Cerritos on Nov. 13 to capture a share of the South championship. In a resurgent year, the #10 ranked Falcons (18-3) had ended LBCC's 14-match winning streak to start the season with a 4-set win over the Vikings on Oct. 16. Both teams finished 7-1 in SCC South play to tie for first place.

It's the ninth overall SCC title for LBCC, but first since 2018. Cerritos won its 11th conference title, but ended a drought of 27 years between championships, last winning as a tri-champion with El Camino and Long Beach in 1997. 

Ranked #14, Mt. San Antonio (19-7) also went 7-1 in the SCC North race as #20 Pasadena (16-12) used a 5-set triumph over the Mounties on Nov. 6 to allow the Lancers to be co-champions. Mt. SAC had defeated PCC in four sets in their first meeting on Oct. 9. 

It was Mt. SAC's third conference title and first in two years while Pasadena won its fifth SCC championship and first since an amazing 18-0 run to win the then 9-team conference in 2021. 

The SoCal Regional Playoff seedings won't be announced until later this week.