From June 17 to August 9, GoMatadors.com will present the top CSUN Moments from the 2023-24 sports season. Today’s moment features CSUN Athletics naming three new head coaches to lead the Matadors in 2024-25.
 

During the 2023-24 season, CSUN Athletics named three new head coaches. Gina Brewer was named to lead the CSUN women’s soccer team, Aquiles Montoya was named to lead the CSUN women’s volleyball team, and Angie Ned was named to lead the CSUN women’s basketball team.

A veteran coach at the Division I level, Brewer becomes the seventh head coach in the history of the CSUN program on Feb. 21. Brewer comes to CSUN after spending the 2023 season as an assistant coach at UCLA. In her one season with the Bruins, Brewer helped guide UCLA to the Pac-12 Championship and a 16-2-1 record.

 

Brewer was a volunteer assistant coach at Santa Clara in 2022, helping guide the Broncos to the NCAA second round. She was also on staff in 2021 as a video analyst for the NCAA semifinalist Broncos. During her time with Santa Clara, the Broncos won back-to-back West Coast Conference championships.

 

Prior to her time at Santa Clara, she spent a year and a half as an assistant coach at Loyola Marymount. From 2011-19, she was the head coach at Hawaii Pacific University, where she led her team to 70 wins as the longest-tenured head coach in program history. Brewer also had coaching stints at the University of Hawai’i (2008-10) and Utah State (2006-07) and was a graduate assistant at the University of Idaho from 2003-05.

 

Brewer played collegiately at the University of Washington from 1998-2001, helping lead the Huskies to a Pac-10 Championship and NCAA quarterfinal appearance in 2000. Her Husky teams played in the NCAA Tournament three times in her career.

 

Montoya was named the ninth head coach of the Matador women’s volleyball team on Apr. 10.

 

Montoya comes to CSUN after spending the past four seasons as associate head coach and director of recruiting at Portland State. Montoya was instrumental in three straight Vikings’ student-athletes earning the Big Sky Conference’s Top Newcomer award. On the court, Portland State made consecutive postseason appearances in 2021 and 2022, qualifying for the National Invitational Volleyball Championship (NIVC). The Vikings won their first-round match in 2021, giving Portland State its first win at a national postseason tournament in Division I program history.

 

The Vikings rise in the Big Sky Conference coincided with Montoya’s tenure as an assistant and associate head coach under Portland State head coach Michael Seeman. The Vikings posted winning seasons, both overall and in conference play, in each of Montoya’s last three seasons while reaching the Big Sky championship match in 2022, their first appearance since 2013. Additionally, the Vikings went 20-11 in 2021 for their first 20-win since 2017 and only second since 2013.

 

Prior to Portland State, Montoya spent the previous three seasons as the lead assistant of the Pacific Boxers’ varsity team. He helped the Boxers set program records for wins in back-to-back seasons in 2017 and 2018. The Boxers went 17-7 overall and 10-6 in the NCAA Division III Northwest Conference (NWC) in 2017, then topped that the following year while going 18-8 overall and 11-5 in NWC play.

 

Additionally, Montoya also served as the technical coordinator at the University of Portland in 2017. In his lone season with the Pilots, Montoya served under head coach Brent Crouch – the current head coach at Auburn – while overseeing the program’s pre-and post-practice video set up.

 

As a student-athlete, Montoya began his collegiate career in 2011 at Santa Barbara City College, where he was a two-year starter at middle blocker. He was voted MVP of the Western State Conference North Division as a sophomore, before moving on to Grand Canyon University where he was a two-year letterwinner for the Lopes in 2013-14.

Ned was named the 15th head coach of the Matadors’ women’s basketball team on Apr. 29.

 

Ned comes to CSUN after spending the past nine seasons as Associate Head Coach and Recruiting Coordinator at California Baptist University. As a member of the CBU coaching staff for 10 seasons, the Lancers amassed a 230-80 overall record while winning the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) regular season and tournament championships in 2023-24 and 2020-21. 

Her CSUN appointment marks a return to the Big West for Ned, who was a decorated student-athlete and then Director of Basketball Operations at UC Irvine. 

  

A former star for the Anteaters, Ned was a three-time All-Big West Conference selection. She was the first player to be honored as the Big West Defensive Player of the Year twice. She scored a career-high 37 points in a win over Loyola Marymount in 2007, the most points by a Big West player that year. She currently ranks tied for fifth in career scoring (1,333), and sixth in field goals made (485), free throw percentage (.755) and three pointers made (113). 

 

Ned began her coaching career as the assistant varsity girls’ basketball coach with Perris High School for the 2010-11 season. In her three seasons, the Panthers were second in the Sunbelt League and qualified for the CIF playoffs all three years. Three of her players went on to receive basketball scholarships. 

 

She then moved to the collegiate ranks for her first stint at California Baptist for the 2013-14 season, helping guide CBU to the PacWest Tournament Championship game. After serving one season (2014-15) as Director of Women’s Basketball Operations at her alma mater, Ned returned to the Lancers in the summer of 2015.

 

The Lancers enjoyed tremendous success in Ned’s 10 seasons in Riverside. In addition to the WAC regular season and tournament championships in 2023-24, CBU has a second-place finish in conference play, as well as claiming the 2020-21 regular season and WAC Tournament championships. The Lancers also earned the program’s first two Division I postseason victories, first against New Mexico in round one of the 2021 WNIT. 

Ned graduated from UC Irvine, earning her bachelors’ degree in sociology in 2007, before completing her master’s in coaching and athletic administration from Concordia Irvine in December 2015.

 

Ned then played professionally CBV Binnenland (Holland) of the Dutch Premier League. She averaged 14.4 points, 4.2 rebounds, 2.8 steals and 2.0 assists per game in an injury-shortened season before continuing her pro career in Portugal. With GD ESSA, Ned was the team’s leading scorer with 19.2 points a game (second in the league) and also averaged 7.8 rebounds, 2.1 steals and 1.8 assists.

 

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