- Financial Aid
- Eligibility Criteria, How to Apply, IVC Financial Aid Programs, Satisfactory Academic Progress, Return of Title IV Funds
- Counseling Services
- Academic Counseling, Career Counseling, Personal Counseling, Drop-in Counseling, Counseling for: International Students, Student-Athletes, Honors Students, AB 540/DREAMers/Undocumented Students, LGBTQIA+ Students, Students Experiencing Housing and Food Insecurities
- Veterans Services
- Supportive Services
- Disability Support Programs for Students (DSPS), Learning Disabilities Program, Extended Opportunity Program and Services (EOPS), Cooperative Agencies Resources for Education (CARE), California Work Opportunities and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs), Guardian Scholars Program
- Technology Support Services and Online Resources
- Canvas, WiFi Access, Student Print, MySite, Student Email, Online Educational Counseling, Online Orientation, Online Advisement, Online Education
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- Bookstore and Centers for Students
- Bookstore, AESL Center, Career and Job Placement Center, Counseling Center, English Language Center, Health and Wellness Center, International Student Center, Library, Life Fitness Center and Strength Training Center, Math Center, Student Success Center, Transfer Center, Writing Center
- ASIVC, Offices of Student Life and Student Equity, Honors
- Associated Students of Irvine Valley College (ASIVC), Office of Student Life, Office of Student Equity, Honors Program, Honor Societies
- Intercollegiate Athletics
- IVC Athletics, Conference Play, Eligibility, Transfers, Late Registration, Counseling for Student-Athletes
- Additional Programs and Resources
- Outreach and Community Relations, Emeritus Institute, Community Education, Economic and Workforce Development/Contract Education, Guided Pathways, Chris LC Lee Testing Center, Puente Program, Student Ambassador Program
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Intercollegiate Athletics
IVC Athletics: A Tradition of Excellence
Since 1990, Irvine Valley College Athletics has been committed to maintaining a strong athletic and academic tradition. Competing as a member of the nation’s toughest college conference, the Orange Empire Conference (OEC), Irvine Valley teams have collected 25 team and 29 individual state championships, and 68 team and 34 individual conference titles from 1990 through the winter of the 2023-24 school year. IVC currently competes in 9 intercollegiate sports: baseball, women’s beach volleyball, men’s tennis, and men’s and women’s basketball, soccer, and volleyball. In 2024-25, IVC will field a 10th varsity team– the first intercollegiate women’s flag football in state history. The success of the IVC teams can be attributed largely to an outstanding coaching staff that demands excellence from students, not only on the courts and fields but also in the classroom. 
IVC also leads California with the state’s first varsity esports program.
The last few years have included some of the best athletics campaigns in Irvine Valley school history.
Irvine Valley’s women’s beach volleyball team came back to defeat Cabrillo to win its pool and then out-lasted Feather River in a final match that went down to the wire to claim the CCCAA State Championship on the Laser beach courts at IVC in May of 2022. IVC was the first state champion in the sport in 2015.
Beach volleyball also reached the CCCAA State Championship in both 2018 and 2019. Individually, the 2018 pairs team of Megan Ramseyer and Taira Ka’awaloa won seven of eight matches over two days, including five in a row on the final day, to capture the state title at West Valley College in May. And in 2019, the team of Lea Kruse and Renata Bath finished third at the state event.
The beach volleyball sophomore duo of Emily Reinking and Hailee Earnest captured the individual pairs state title at Grossmont College in 2016. And the overall team placed second in the state.
Irvine Valley has won the Orange Empire Conference championship in women’s volleyball five of the last six seasons (there was no season in 2020) under the leadership of Tom Pestolesi, Ryan Windisch and Anna Unke.
In the fall of 2019, Irvine Valley’s women’s volleyball team finished as the runner-up at the CCCAA State Championships. IVC finished with a record of 27-1 and didn’t lose its first match of the 2019 campaign until the California Community College Athletic Association State Championship final. Irvine Valley battled to a fifth set with Feather River in the championship match, but it wasn’t enough, falling, 23-25, 25-20, 25-20, 26-28, 15-11, last fall in Chula Vista. The squad represented Irvine Valley at the highest level.
Irvine Valley’s women’s volleyball team went 27-0, captured an Orange Empire Conference title and won the school’s second CCCAA State Championship in school history in 2017. Olivia Aguilar was named the state tournament MVP and Megan Ramseyer and Aguilar were each named All-American, All-State and All-Region. Tom Pestolesi was also picked as the Southern California Regional Coach of the Year. Five players signed with four-year schools.
Pestolesi won his 300th women’s volleyball match during the regular season in the fall of 2015 and then Pestolesi was inducted into the California Community College Men’s Volleyball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in the spring of 2016 during the state championship event at Pierce College.
In 2014, the IVC women’s volleyball team also went 27-0 and captured a state title. Sophomore Annie Mitchem was named the American Volleyball Coaches Association two-year college player of the year for the second year in a row. Mitchem had already been named the MVP of the Orange Empire Conference, all-state and All-American.
Pestolesi was honored as the AVCA two-year California region coach of the year for the second year in a row. He was also named the conference’s coach of the year. And Mitchem, Marisa Doran, Hailey Jones, Kobi Pekich, Shaelyn Perez, Carleigh Petersen and Samantha Holdredge each moved on to play at four-year schools.
Irvine Valley’s men’s tennis team has had as much success as any program at Irvine Valley under head coach Ross Duncan. The Lasers have won team state titles in 2015, 2016, 2017. Javier Callejo earned a state singles championships in 2016 and 2017, Bruno Figlia and Scott Paz took a state doubles title in 2016, Valentin Baize and Maxime Rumeau won a state doubles championship in 2015 and Arthur Bellegy was a state singles champ and won the state doubles title in 2022 with Kiichi Ishida.
The Irvine women’s basketball team won its fourth Orange Empire Conference title in a row in the 2021-22 campaign, going 26-3 overall and 12-0 in the OEC. IVC made the state semifinal before losing late to San Juaquin Delta behind Morgan Higgins,  Paola Roa and Jessica Suruor. IVC went 25-3 overall and 12-0 in the OEC in the 2019-20 campaign with Anai Washington and Zoe Stachowski. The Lasers reached the Southern California Playoff Regional Final before losing a tough game, 70-67, at Ventura. Washington ended up being named the conference’s MVP and was the only player from California to earn a two-year community college Women’s Basketball Coaches Association All-American honor. Stachowski, who was named first team all-conference, ended up signing with NCAA Division I Cal Poly. In 2017-18, the Lasers made the state tournament and finished with a record of 26-5 overall. Kasey Smit, who set several school records, was named the conference’s MVP and also an all-state pick. And five players ended up signing with four-year colleges.
IVC’s women’s badminton team won a Pacific Coast Athletic Conference title in 2021 and ended up as the runner-up at the CCCAA State Championship. In 2018, Michelle Chen ended up reaching the individual singles final of the CCCAA State Championship.
The Irvine Valley men’s soccer team, paced by Orange Empire Conference MVP and all-state player Toby Waterman, won the program’s fourth ever conference title in 2015-16. The Lasers also made a run to the Southern California Regional Playoff title and ended up being ranked ninth in the nation and fifth in the state. Coach Martin McGrogan was also named the CCCSCA Southern California men’s coach of the year.
Sophomore women’s golfer Leleaga Meredith won a California Community College Athletic Association State Championship at Morro Bay Golf Course in the fall of 2014. She did so after finishing third as an individual a year before as a freshman. She shot 75 the first day and then followed that up with a round of 72 with three birdies and 12 pars on the second day for a total of 147.
Irvine Valley won two state titles during the 2012-13 school year, capturing championships in women’s golf and women’s sand volleyball.
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Conference Play
Irvine Valley College is a member of the Orange Empire Conference (OEC) and the California Community College Athletic Association (3C2A) Members of the OEC are Cypress, Fullerton, Golden West, Orange Coast, Riverside, Saddleback, Santa Ana, and Santiago Canyon colleges.
Eligibility
As mandated by 3C2A rules, IVC advises student-athletes to check with coaching staffs and the 3C2A Constitution for data on initial and continuing eligibility. Please note that these rules are also helpful in establishing eligibility for transfer and competition at the four-year level, but students are advised to speak with coaches well in advance of enrollment to ensure proper course schedules and degree programs.
Generally:
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A student-athlete must be enrolled and actively attending a minimum of 12 semester units at their community college during the season of sport. Of the 12 units, at least 9 must be attempted in courses in any of the following areas: remediation, career technical education/certificate courses, associate degree requirements, transfer/general education and/or lower-division theoretical major preparation courses as defined by the college catalog and/or articulation agreements and consistent with a student’s Individual Education Plan (IEP).
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To be eligible for a second season of sport, the student-athlete shall maintain a cumulative 2.0 grade point average in accredited post-secondary coursework computed since the start of the semester/ quarter of the first participation in any sport, regardless of the college attended.
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To be eligible for a second season of a sport, the student-athlete must pass a minimum of 24 semester units before the semester of the second season of competition. Of the 24 units, at least 18 shall be in any of the following areas: remediation, career technical education/certificate courses, associate degree requirements, transfer/general education  and/or lower-division theoretical major preparation courses as defined by the college catalog and/or articulation agreements and consistent with a student’s Individual Education Plan (IEP).
Transfers
Per CCCAA bylaws, a student who is transferring to IVC for athletic participation, and who has previously participated in intercollegiate athletics (and whose most recent participation was at another California community college) must complete 12 units at IVC prior to the beginning of the semester of competition for that sport. A maximum of 8 units can be applied from summer enrollment.
Late Registration
Per 3C2A bylaws, a student-athlete who registers in a community college later than four weeks after the first day of class instruction (as listed in that community college calendar) for that season of sport shall not represent that community college in athletic competition in that semester.
Important: These requirements are very exacting. Athletes are advised to become thoroughly familiar with 3C2A bylaws in order to avoid loss of eligibility. All interested students are urged to review the bylaws at cccasports.org and to contact the head coach for their sport immediately to learn the requirements for eligibility at 949-451-5398.
Counseling for Student-Athletes
A specific counselor has been designated to counsel student-athletes. The athletic counselor works closely with team coaches and is familiar with athletic eligibility requirements for California Community College Athletic Association (3C2A), National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), and National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). Student-athletes must have an academic plan in order to compete, and meeting with the athletic counselor is necessary to the completion of this plan. Student-athletes are encouraged to see the athletic counselor on a regular basis for career, personal, academic, and athletic counseling.
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