The California Community College Athletic Association (CCCAA), in association with the National Alliance of Two-Year College Athletic Administrators (NATYCAA), has released the final CCCAA standings of the 2014-15 NATYCAA Cup.

Irvine Valley had its highest ever finish, taking 12th out of all community college athletic programs in the state.

The Lasers placed 12th with a total of 107 points.

IVC was the highest non-football playing school on the list.

Mt. San Antonio won the competition with a record 187.5 points. It was the third straight year Mt. SAC took the cup.

Cerritos was second with 161 points, American River placed third with 152 points, Riverside was fourth with 145 points and Fresno City came in fifth with 140 points.

Seven IVC teams earned points. Included in those were three programs that won state championships.

Women’s volleyball, men’s tennis and women’s sand volleyball each earned the maximum 20 points for their sport with CCCAA State Championships.

Women’s golf, women’s basketball, men’s basketball and women’s tennis also picked up points for Irvine Valley.

Scoring is based on a maximum of 20 points, with the state champion in each sport being awarded 20 points, the state runner up receives 19 points. Points are awarded down to regional qualifiers.

Each college can use its best five women’s sports and best five men’s sports toward a total college score.

Now in its 28th year, NATYCAA is the professional organization of two year college athletics administrators and membership is open to all two year institutions from throughout the country. NATYCAA is administered by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA), which is in its 50th year.

NATYCAA is the professional organization of two-year college athletic administrators and membership is open to all two-year institutions throughout the country. The NATYCAA Awards were designed to recognize and reward overall program excellence at the two-year college level. The criterion for the State Association’s division was developed by the CCCAA in conjunction with the California Community College Sports Information Association (CCCSIA). This is the twelfth year that NATYCAA has sponsored a State Association’s division.

Men’s tennis players named All-Americans
Five Irvine Valley men’s tennis players were recently named to the Intercollegiate Tennis Association 2015 All-American Team for California Community Colleges.

Irvine Valley sophomores Guillermo Ucelay, Max Rumeau, Simon Guillin and Valentin Baize and freshman Flavien Raveau were each chosen.

To make All-American, a player must finish in the top 10 in singles of the final ITA college tennis rankings or in the top five in doubles of the final ITA rankings.

Ucelay was picked All-American for both singles and doubles. Raveau was selected in singles and Rumeau, Guillin and Baize were picked in doubles.

The five players helped Irvine Valley win the program’s first ever California Community College Athletic Association State Championship this past spring.

IVC was the runner-up at the state championships in 2014.

The Lasers also won their second straight Orange Empire Conference title.

All five players were also named to all-conference teams.

Ucelay was named the conference’s player of the year for the second season in a row.

He helped Irvine Valley end the 2015 season with a record of 18-1. IVC’s lone loss came to NAIA ranked four-year school Concordia.

Ucelay had a record of 10-3 in singles on the year with two unfinished contests. He had a record of 12-4 in doubles competition.

Ucelay, who recently signed with Division 2 BYU-Hawaii, reached the semifinals of the state tournament in singles.

As IVC’s top doubles squad through the regular season, Ucelay and Guillin finished with a record of 12-3.

One of their losses in doubles was a default in the Orange Empire Conference Championships after the duo had already qualified for the State Championships.

The duo ended up finishing as the runner-ups in the state doubles final.

Raveau went 11-5 in singles on the year and reached the semifinals in singles in the state championships where he fell to eventual champion Hironori Koyanagi of Ventura.

Baize and Rumeau had a record of 14-3 on the season when being paired together in doubles. One of those losses also came via default in the conference tournament after also qualifying for the state event.

The duo made a magical run to win the State Championships doubles title, defeating teammates Ucelay and Guillin in the final, 6-4, 6-1, in Ojai in late April.