CSM: Five College Of San Mateo Volleyball Players Named To All-Conference Team

Press release from the College of San Mateo:

Terry Bernal

November 18, 2021

The article below originally appeared in the San Mateo Daily Journal and is being reprinted with permission.

College of San Mateo volleyball didn’t finish the regular season where it wanted but is still on the verge of a little postseason history.

Despite settling for second place in the Coast Conference North, the Lady Bulldogs have a good chance of hosting next Tuesday’s California Community College Athletic Association volleyball postseason opener. CSM has not hosted a playoff match since the team was re-established in 2016. Playoff seedings will be announced Thursday.

“Which we didn’t know,” Goldhahn said. “We weren’t aware of that.”

In seasons past, interconference results did not count toward conference records. Due to the round-robin interconference scheduling this season, with all North and South teams playing each other once, the format was changed, Goldhahn said.

“We were so close to — one, winning conference, and — two, being co-conference champions with Cabrillo,” Goldhahn said. “But they beat West Valley on Wednesday.”

So, instead of a CSM loss to Cabrillo resulting in a Coast North championship, the match turned out to be a winner-take-all showdown for the outright conference title.

CSM and Cabrillo split the first two sets of the eventual 25-20, 21-25, 25-18, 25-23. The Bulldogs committed 32 attacking errors in the match, compared to 21 by Cabrillo.

“We lost in the fourth set 23-25, so we were tasting it,” Goldhahn said. “Set 3, we were just a little bit off and in fourth set we were just battling.”

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