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CBU's Attendance Record Ranks Top-Seven in California in 2019
10/22/2019 11:10:00 AM | Women's Volleyball
RIVERSIDE – California Baptist University not only set a new attendance record in its second-ever match in the CBU Events Center, but produced one of the best attended matches in all of California this season.
The 3,418 fans who witnessed CBU's five-set Western Athletic Conference win over CSU Bakersfield Monday marked just the seventh time this season 3,000-plus fans attended a collegiate volleyball match in California.
"It shows the support our community and our students have for volleyball," Coach Branden Higa said of the fan support. "We have always been one of the best attended programs in Southern California.
"The energy was off the charts last night. We have great fans here in Van Dyne and when we go into the Events Center it just takes it to another level. The great thing about our fans and our students is they just know the game of volleyball. They were with us at every single point. The celebration at the end was amazing, and to have all 3,400 of them still there was awesome. We told the team after the match that's something you build programs off of, performances like that in front of a crowd like that."
2019 Top Attended Volleyball Matches in California (as of 10/21/2019)
Almost a year ago exactly, CBU defeated UC Riverside in its first Events Center match on October 23, 2018. The Lancers set an attendance record with 2,768 fans in the building that year only to have it updated by a large margin on Monday.
The first half of the WAC season has officially come to a close. The Lancers hit the road this weekend for rematches at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and New Mexico State on Saturday and Monday at 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. Pacific, respectively.
The 3,418 fans who witnessed CBU's five-set Western Athletic Conference win over CSU Bakersfield Monday marked just the seventh time this season 3,000-plus fans attended a collegiate volleyball match in California.
"It shows the support our community and our students have for volleyball," Coach Branden Higa said of the fan support. "We have always been one of the best attended programs in Southern California.
"The energy was off the charts last night. We have great fans here in Van Dyne and when we go into the Events Center it just takes it to another level. The great thing about our fans and our students is they just know the game of volleyball. They were with us at every single point. The celebration at the end was amazing, and to have all 3,400 of them still there was awesome. We told the team after the match that's something you build programs off of, performances like that in front of a crowd like that."
2019 Top Attended Volleyball Matches in California (as of 10/21/2019)
- Stanford at Cal (9/26): 4,178
- Southern Cal at UCLA (9/25): 3,820
- Washington at Stanford (9/29): 3,632
- Texas at Stanford (9/8): 3,502
- Washington State at Southern Cal (10/6): 3,469
- CSU Bakersfield at California Baptist (10/21): 3,418
- Hawai'i at Cal Poly (10/11): 3,032
Almost a year ago exactly, CBU defeated UC Riverside in its first Events Center match on October 23, 2018. The Lancers set an attendance record with 2,768 fans in the building that year only to have it updated by a large margin on Monday.
The first half of the WAC season has officially come to a close. The Lancers hit the road this weekend for rematches at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and New Mexico State on Saturday and Monday at 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. Pacific, respectively.
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