ALL-ORANGE COUNTY GIRLS BEACH VOLLEYBALL 2026<\/p>\n
PLAYERS OF THE YEAR<\/p>\n
Emma Champagne, Sr. and Sara Moynihan Sr., JSerra<\/p>\n
Emma Champagne and Sara Moynihan were first paired up for beach volleyball when they were freshmen at JSerra.<\/p>\n
The duo had another great season this year, advancing to the CIF Southern Section finals. They lost to Addison Junk and Avery Junk, twin sisters who play for Redondo Union, in the championship round. The Champagne-Moynihan team also lost to the Junk sisters in the 2025 semifinals.<\/p>\n
Champagne and Moynihan have the kind of extrasensory communication that longtime teams often have.<\/p>\n
\u201cSara and I have known each other since we played for T Street as 12s,\u201d said Champagne, referring to the Laguna Beach club\u2019s age-group teams. \u201cWe\u2019ve gotten to know each other better and better over all this time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Champagne and Moynihan are both headed to college and will continue playing beach volleyball \u2014 but not with each other.<\/p>\n
Champagne will go to USC; Moynihan is off to UCLA.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe always joke about that,\u201d Champagne said. \u201cUCLA\u2019s always been her dream school. Mine\u2019s always been USC.\u201d<\/p>\n
Champagne and Moynihan were the All-Orange County beach volleyball duo of the year last season, too.<\/p>\n
This season they again were Trinity League co-MVPs.<\/p>\n
COACH OF THE YEAR<\/p>\n
Heidi Colapinto, JSerra<\/p>\n
JSerra advanced to the CIF-SS Division 1 team finals, where it lost to Mira Costa. The Lions won the Trinity League championship (6-0 league record) and finished 17-3 overall.<\/p>\n
The JSerra duo of Emma Champagne and Sara Moynihan advanced to the CIF-SS individual pairs finals. The Lions duo of Presley Johnson and Skylar Noble was a fifth-place finisher in the pairs playoffs.<\/p>\n
ALL-COUNTY TEAM<\/p>\n
PAIRS<\/p>\n
Emma Champagne, Sr. and Sara Moynihan, Sr., JSerra<\/p>\n
Kara Boas, So. and Kate Jackson, Jr., Santa Margarita<\/p>\n
Molly Serafin, Sr. and Zoe Znider, Jr., Huntington Beach<\/p>\n
Skyler Noble, Sr. and Presley Johnson, Sr., JSerra<\/p>\n
Addison Willams, Sr. and Adrianna McGrath, So., Huntington Beach<\/p>\n
Kaitlyn Herweg, Jr. and Brynn Minter, Sr., Los Alamitos<\/p>\n
Paulina Zahn, So. and Juliette Bredenberg, So., Los Alamitos<\/p>\n
Hayden Shanafelt, Sr. and Ashton Nelson, Sr., San Clemente<\/p>\n
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