{"id":268057,"date":"2026-04-14T22:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T22:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/268057\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T22:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T22:53:09","slug":"heflin-miles-named-big-west-beach-volleyball-pairs-team-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/268057\/","title":{"rendered":"Heflin &#038; Miles Named Big West Beach Volleyball Pairs Team of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IRVINE, Calif. &#8211; CSUN&#8217;s\u00a0No. 1 beach pair of <a href=\"https:\/\/gomatadors.com\/sports\/womens-beach-volleyball\/roster\/hannah-heflin\/7140\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7140\" target=\"_blank\">Hannah Heflin<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gomatadors.com\/sports\/womens-beach-volleyball\/roster\/maleya-miles\/6252\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6252\" target=\"_blank\">Maleya Miles<\/a>\u00a0earned Big West Pairs Team of the Week Honors after a perfect 2-0 weekend on the sand.<\/p>\n<p>Heflin and Miles defeated the No. 1 pairs from both Concordia Irvine and No. 10 Long Beach State last weekend on the LBSU Sand Courts. The CSUN duo improved to 12-15 on the season after winning in three sets (21-18, 12-21, 19-17) over CUI&#8217;s Kelia Giusta and Ashley Rossi followed by another three-set win over the Beach&#8217;s Malia Gementera and Taylor Hagenah (21-18, 11-21, 18-16).<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Heflin_Miles_26\" class=\"sidearm-story-image-align-right\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/04.14.26_BEACH_Player_of_the_Week.jpg\" style=\"display:inline-block; margin:10px 0px 10px 10px; float:right\" width=\"300\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Heflin and Miles have won six of their last nine dual matches, including wins over No. 10 Long Beach State, Oregon, UTEP, Concordia, and UC Davis.<\/p>\n<p>The award is the first for CSUN Beach Volleyball since\u00a0Katie Sato and Aeryn Owens won the weekly award on Apr. 23, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Super proud of Maleya and Hannah,&#8221; said head coach Jeff Hall. &#8220;They have been playing at an elite level, and every match they play is a heavyweight fight. Everyone&#8217;s No. 1 pair is legit, and they have gone toe-to-toe with those pairs all year long. They are a true number one pair, and we are very fortunate they play for CSUN Beach.&#8221; \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>CSUN wraps up the 2026 regular season this week, traveling to No. 9 LMU on Friday at 1 p.m. The Matadors then travel to Bakersfield for a tri-dual against the host Roadrunners and Pacific on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>#GoMatadors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IRVINE, Calif. &#8211; CSUN&#8217;s\u00a0No. 1 beach pair of Hannah Heflin and Maleya Miles\u00a0earned Big West Pairs Team of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-268057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}