Matt Torrez completed his seventh season as assistant beach coach in 2025 with Sacramento State’s beach volleyball team.
A veteran with 23 years of volleyball coaching experience, Torrez helps the Hornet program in a variety of ways, including on-court instruction at both practices and games, match preparation and game management.
This past season (2025), he helped tutor both Ellie Tisko and Ashlynn Archer to 16 wins, easily the most single-season victories in program history. In fact, the pair went 16-10 at the No. 2 spot in the lineup. In addition, both Bridgette Smith and Caitlin Volkmann were named second team all-Big West Conference after tallying 13 wins from the No. 1 spot.
Prior to Sacramento State, he was the indoor coach at Folsom Lake College for three seasons (2016-18), developing the school’s first-ever volleyball program. After starting the program from scratch in 2015, he coached the team to 20 wins and a state ranking of 18th during the school’s first active season in 2016. Torrez also led the team to a pair of top 20 finishes in 2017 and 2018, including a 24-5 record and state ranking of sixth in 2017.
He served as head men’s volleyball coach at Fresno State (1987-91) and American River College (1992-98). With Fresno State, he guided the team to top 10 national rankings in both 1987 and 1988, including a national runner-up finish in 1998. At American River, his teams won several conference championships, including a third place finish at the 1995 state championship.
Currently a retired professor, he taught kinesiology classes at Folsom Lake College (2001-24) and American River College (1992-00).
Torrez and his wife, Kathy, have two daughters, Isabel and Sophia. Kathy currently serves as the Dean of Kinesiology and Athletics Director at Cañada College in Redwood City, Calif.
Torrez graduated from Fresno State in 1988 (agricultural science), and later added a master's in kinesiology from his alma mater in 1991.
