Chapman’s 2025 fall sports season had all of it — from thrilling matchups and spectacular accolades to gut-wrenching defeats.
Throughout the fall season, Panther athletes showcased their skills and demonstrated their self-discipline, trying to flip their exhausting work into outcomes. From a Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) Championship win in soccer to a cross nation nationals look from runner Brenda Daza, Chapman athletics delivered standout moments throughout each program.
Football
Chapman soccer may need had its best season ever — an undefeated SCIAC file, a 27-17 SCIAC Championship victory in opposition to California Lutheran University and a first-round 18-16 win in the NCAA Division III event in opposition to Whitworth University.
This took the Panthers on a visit to snowy Wisconsin to face the No. 6-ranked University of Wisconsin-River Falls in the second spherical of the DIII playoffs, the place their outstanding season got here to an in depth in a 58-7 loss.
The 2025 Chapman soccer season was the definition of power in numbers. The Panthers had 9 gamers named to the First Team All-SCIAC and six extra named to the Second Team All-SCIAC group. Senior quarterback Tyler Pacheco earned SCIAC Offensive Player of the Year, senior linebacker Tate Zimmerman received the SCIAC Defensive Player of the Year and Interim Head Coach Casey Shine was acknowledged for Coaching Staff of the Year.
In SCIAC play, the Panthers’ top-ranked offense averaged 31.4 factors per sport, nearly 10 greater than some other group in SCIAC, together with 387.5 yards per sport, 90 greater than the following SCIAC group. They additionally had the primary ranked protection, holding opposing groups to 14.6 factors per sport and 213 yards per sport.
Pacheco threw for 1,098 yards and 10 touchdowns with solely two interceptions on the season, and he rushed for 429 yards and 4 touchdowns. Seven of these touchdowns and 617 of these yards had been caught by senior Kade Zimmerman. Chapman’s speeding assault was additionally a significant spotlight of the season, led by juniors Fischer Huss and Andrew Latu, who mixed for 1,119 speeding yards and 14 speeding touchdowns.
On the protection, Tate Zimmerman led the group with 4 sacks, 14.5 tackles for loss, and two fumble recoveries. His fellow junior linebacker Andrew Buck led the group with 46 complete tackles, and sophomore defensive lineman Tyler Boynton racked up three sacks and eight tackles for loss. Junior defensive backs Caleb Padrid and Miles Grossman led the group in passes defended, with ten and 5 respectively, and junior Jacob Gaudi introduced in two interceptions and 41 complete tackles.
Chapman solidified itself because the group to beat in SCIAC, a story the Panthers hope will persist subsequent 12 months.
SCIAC file: 8-0
Overall file: 9-3
First Team All-SCIAC:
QB Tyler Pacheco
WR Kade Zimmerman
RB Fischer Huss
TE Jackson Muzzy
OL Gavin Scott
OL Teddy Buettner
S Jacob Guadi
LB Tate Zimmerman
LB Andrew Buck
Second Team All-SCIAC
OL Lane Forti
OL Zack Miller
LB Kyle Sieben
DL Tyler Boynton
Okay Carson Nichols
KR Brendon Manzano
Volleyball
Chapman began the season 5-1 in nonconference play. But the group then suffered three straight 3-0 losses to shut out nonconference play, and they went on to complete the season with a SCIAC file of 6-10, only one spot wanting the playoffs.
But even in a season the place they fell wanting their objectives, there have been loads of highlights and standout performances. Senior center blocker Olivia Harrison notched 20 kills in a comeback win in opposition to Occidental College, and she completed the season with the second-highest hitting proportion in SCIAC. Sophomore Ava Bradbury set a college file with 12 blocks in the group’s first sport in opposition to Pomona-Pitzer, ending the season first in SCIAC with a complete of 87.
Harrison led the group in kills with 163 in SCIAC play, adopted by senior Olivia Sampson with 159, senior Kiera Sarni with 106, senior Brooke Leslie with 97 and senior Emma Derksen with 80. Junior Sammy Chambers completed the season with 313 assists, the third-most in all of SCIAC, and 29 service aces, the second-most in the convention. Junior Lia Ono led the group with 302 digs, fifth general in SCIAC, adopted by Chambers with 153 and junior Clara Cronin with 135.
With 5 essential seniors graduating, the group can have some huge sneakers to fill. Still, with promising younger gamers and longtime head coach Mary Cahill main this system, the goal for next season remains the same.
SCIAC file: 6-10
Overall file: 11-14
First Team All-SCIAC
MB Olivia Harrison
Second Team All-SCIAC
MB Ava Bradbury
Men’s Soccer
Chapman males’s soccer was a breath away from an ideal sport in their SCIAC first-round matchup in opposition to the University of La Verne. The Panthers didn’t permit a single objective and had a season-high 24 shot makes an attempt. But they only couldn’t get the ball in the online, and narrowly misplaced 8-7 on penalty kicks.
Chapman began out SCIAC play with three huge wins, all with a rating of 2-1. The third of that stretch was a dominant efficiency, getting 19 photographs off and holding Cal Lutheran to 5 photographs.
But from that time till their final matchup, the Panthers went 1-4-3, that means their playoff possibilities relied on their sport in opposition to Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, the group that beat Chapman 5-1 in the SCIAC Championship final 12 months.
Claremont went up early, however sophomore Evan Crownfield answered with a objective of his personal late in the primary half. The sport stayed 1-1 till the seventy fifth minute, the place senior Dylan Paine managed to attract a penalty. He knocked in the shot, placing the Panthers up 2-1, the place the rating remained for the remainder of the sport. While they went on to lose in a thriller in opposition to La Verne, the Panthers put collectively an entertaining 12 months with loads of highlights.
Including nonconference video games, Paine and sophomore Evan White led the group with 4 objectives every, adopted by Adams and sophomore Reed Leidlein with three every and junior Leo Wells with two. Senior Alex Glynn had 57 saves, the fifth-most in SCIAC and three shutouts, second-most in SCIAC. Often, the ball didn’t even attain Glynn’s neighborhood because of standout defensive gamers like senior Cormac Galvin.
This soccer season was a full group effort — with everybody from freshmen to seniors contributing. Despite dropping some key starters, the 2026 group can have a fantastic basis to construct on with loads of younger expertise.
SCIAC file: 5-4-3
Overall file: 6-6-5
First Team All-SCIAC
Defender Cormac Galvin
Second Team All-SCIAC
Goalkeeper Alex Glynn
Women’s Soccer
The Chapman ladies’s soccer group fought exhausting this 12 months, ending 5-4-3 in convention and making it to the SCIAC playoffs first spherical, the place their season ended in a 2-0 loss to Occidental College. In their first season underneath new head coach TJ Perez, the group ended with a successful file.
The ladies’s soccer season was stuffed with standout moments and tight video games. Three of their 5 convention wins got here inside one rating, together with a game-winning objective by junior Jenna Urrabazo in the ultimate six minutes in opposition to Whittier College on senior day. The protection, anchored by sophomore goalies Bella Barreto and Sienna Gomez, had seven shutouts in conference play, permitting solely 13 objectives.
Including nonconference video games, Urrabazo and junior Sidney Karjian led the group with 4 objectives every, adopted by Alexis Sweeney and Nikki Zokaei with three every and freshman Delaney Kitchens and junior Athena Tsakiris with two every. Sophomore Karys McKinney had 3 assists on the season, tied for seventh in SCIAC, and Baretto completed the 12 months with 51 complete saves. Senior Casey Gilligan led the protection and was named to the United Soccer Coaches All-Region Team.
While their season ended in the primary spherical of the playoffs, the ladies’s soccer group has lots to construct on. Close wins, sturdy defensive performances and key contributions from each veterans and underclassmen sign a group able to take the following step in SCIAC competitors.
SCIAC file: 5-5-3
Overall file: 8-7-4
First Team All-SCIAC
Defender Casey Gilligan
Second Team All-SCIAC
Forward Sidney Karjian
Midfielder Athena Tsakiris
Forward Jenna Urrabazo
Men’s Water Polo
After holding a convention file of 8-4 for the previous two years — and making the championship sport final season — Chapman males’s water polo struggled this season with a remaining convention file of 4-8.
The group fell by one rating on senior day to Redlands, the third-ranked group in SCIAC, dropping on a game-sealing objective with 4 seconds left. They got here inside two factors of No. 1-ranked Pomona-Pitzer in their second convention sport, and misplaced by three once they performed once more in Chapman’s remaining residence sport. They had been up on No. 4-ranked Occidental going into the fourth quarter, however let in 4 objectives in the ultimate three minutes to lose the match.
But the Panthers nonetheless had lots to be pleased with. Junior Davin Castillo led SCIAC leaderboard in steals with 60, together with nonconference video games, and ranked seventh in factors with 96. He completed the season fifth in SCIAC with 49 assists, adopted by senior Daniel Franks with 46, sixth in SCIAC.
Senior goalie Jackson Sanders completed SCIAC play third in saves, totaling 100 on a .417 save proportion. Senior Nathan Jones led the group with 49 general objectives, adopted by Castillo with 47 and freshman Rylan Takahashi with 41.
If only a few issues had gone their means, the Panthers would have been atop the SCIAC standings. But on the brilliant facet, the competitiveness Chapman confirmed all through the season was commendable, and they are going to look to show their shortfalls into subsequent season’s successes.
SCIAC file: 4-8
Overall file: 9-18
Second Team All-SCIAC
Attacker Davin Castillo
Cross Country
Chapman’s cross nation season was record-breaking from begin to end.
The season opened on the Mark Covert Invite, the place Chapman was the one NCAA Division III faculty. Junior Gavin White broke his personal faculty file by 20 seconds, ending the lads’s 8k in 25:00, and junior Brenda Daza positioned seventh in the ladies’s 6k with a time of 21:19.7.
At the Highlander Classic, Daza ran a school-record 20:56.1 in the ladies’s 6k, turning into the primary Panther to complete a 6k underneath 21 minutes, giving the group some confidence heading into the SCIAC Championships.
The 2025 SCIAC Championships noticed a fourth place end from the ladies and a seventh place end from the lads. Daza positioned seventh in the ladies’s race, working a 21:55 in the 6k, adopted by junior Natalie Brazfield, who completed simply exterior the highest 30 working a 23:55. White led the lads, ending high 25 with a 26:30 8k, whereas sophomore Shay Rodriguez and senior Lucas Turano completed thirty seventh and thirty eighth, respectively.
Daza continued her dominance on the NCAA West Regionals, the place she positioned tenth in the 6k with a time of twenty-two:24, and certified for the NCAA Division III Nationals in Spartanburg, South Carolina, turning into simply the fifth lady in program historical past to take action. At nationals, Daza positioned 103rd in the 6k with a time of twenty-two:48.
With historic runs from White and Daza and stable performances throughout the roster, the Panthers ended a season stuffed with milestones with loads of promise for 2026.
First Team All-SCIAC
Brenda Daza