5 BeachBows get All-Big West honors
The Big West Conference honored five BeachBows when it announced its all-conference awards for beach volleyball on Tuesday. Kiera Cornman is the Big West Freshman of the Year and on the All-Big West second team and the all-freshman team. Julia Lawrenz and Izadora Stedile were named to the All-Big West first team after going 23-8 overall and 21-7 in the No.
1 flight, while Emily Heintzelman and Sydney Miller earned honorable mention. Cornman and Heintzelman were partnered most of the season, with Heintzelman, a graduate transfer from Tulane, going 20-8 overall and Cornman 19-11. Miller played with four different partners and won 20 of her 33 matches.
The team finished 19-14 under first-year head coach Danny Alvarez. Jung, Robertson advance in Open qualifying Honolulu’s Peter Jung and Brian Robertson of New Jersey were the low scorers Tuesday at Pearl at Kalauao to advance to final qualifying for the 126th U. S.
Open. Jung shot an even-par 71 and Robertson a 72. Forty players vied for the two spots.
Final qualifying events will be held at 10 sites across the U. S. mainland plus Japan, Canada and England on May 18 ad 25 and June 8.