{"id":333906,"date":"2026-05-27T03:49:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/333906\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T03:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:49:13","slug":"5-golden-bears-earn-mpsf-all-academic-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/333906\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Golden Bears Earn MPSF All-Academic Recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__byline\">BVB5\/26\/2026 2:09 PM | By: Cal Athletics<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__subheadline\">Colligan, Fisher Named To Team For 2nd Year In Succession<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tFive California beach volleyball student-athletes were named to the 2026 MPSF All-Academic Team, the conference office announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Departing seniors <a href=\"https:\/\/calbears.com\/sports\/womens-beach-volleyball\/roster\/jenna-colligan\/27510\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"27510\" target=\"_blank\">Jenna Colligan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/calbears.com\/sports\/womens-beach-volleyball\/roster\/gia-fisher\/27512\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"27512\" target=\"_blank\">Gia Fisher<\/a> each earned her third career conference academic nod. Colligan and Fisher were named to the inaugural MPSF All-Academic Team last season and also secured spots on the 2024 Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow recent graduate Mila Vugrincic garnered her second career honor after also being named to the Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll as a sophomore. Rising senior <a href=\"https:\/\/calbears.com\/sports\/womens-beach-volleyball\/roster\/emma-donley\/27511\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"27511\" target=\"_blank\">Emma Donley<\/a> and departing senior <a href=\"https:\/\/calbears.com\/sports\/womens-beach-volleyball\/roster\/marilu-pally\/27516\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"27516\" target=\"_blank\">Marilu Pally<\/a> each earned her first career accolade.<\/p>\n<p>To be eligible for MPSF All-Academic honors, student-athletes must carry a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.0, be a sophomore academically, complete one full academic year at their current institution and compete in at least 50 percent of the team&#8217;s competitions.<\/p>\n<p>The Golden Bears went 24-14 in 2026 and advanced to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Championship.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nSTAY POSTED<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFor further coverage of Cal beach volleyball, follow the Bears on Instagram (@calbeachvb) and X (@calbeachvb).<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; BVB5\/26\/2026 2:09 PM | By: Cal Athletics &#13; &#13; Colligan, Fisher Named To Team For 2nd Year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-333906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333906","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=333906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}