Portia Sherman

As a Junior (2025)

Alongside her partner Emma Donley was one of the first Bears to be named an AVCA First Team All-American

Named First Team All-MPSF

Alongside Donley broke Cal's single-season pairs wins record (27) and court-one pairs wins record (21)

Played exclusively on court one with Donley and posted a 28-7 record

Earned her 50th career win on the road at No. 16 Hawai'i and now has a career record of 55-12

Earned three postseason wins vs No. 13 GCU, No. 5 USC, and No. 7 Texas

Had 17 ranked wins

Alongside Donley took gold at the Junior Pan Am Games and NORCECA Beach U23 Continental Tour for Team USA

Earned bronze at the Senior NORCECA Continental Tour

As a Sophomore (2024)

Had a huge breakout season leading the team in wins (27) and wins percentage (.813)

Posted a 27-6 overall record playing on courts 4 and 5

Her 27 wins are good for T-5th on the single-season wins record

Currently owns the highest career win percentage in program history (29-6, .829)

Went an undefeated 7-0 on court 4 and 22-6 on court 5

Clinched the NCAA Championship win over Long Beach State with a three-set win on court 4 alongside Jenna Colligan

Went 18-4 when paired with Ella Dreibholz

Went a perfect 6-0 with Colligan

As a Freshman (2023)

Went 2-0 on court 5 with Ava Mann

High School:

• Two-time team captain for indoor and three-time team captain for Beach at Dos Pueblos HS

• Member of the USAV High Performance A1 team for four years

• Finished third in the 2021 Santa Monica CBVA open division

• Named to VolleyballMag's Top 20 Underclassmen to Watch List

• Part of USA Beach Volleyball's U18 2021 Summer Training series

• Won the USA Volleyball NBT Winter Series Tournament while playing with current Cal teammate Jenna Colligan

• Channel League MVP for the indoor volleyball team while playing as an outside hitter

• Led the indoor team to their first league title in 10 years.

• Helped the indoor team to a 2019 CIF Southern Section Team Academic Championship

• Member of the National Honors Society and the Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy

• Also played basketball in high school

Personal:

• Daughter of Ann and Ph

• Dad played basketball at Pacific University

• Lists her hobbies as art and painting

• Intends to major in Environmental Engineering