Christina Torres
Head Coach
Office: Gym 311

Head Coach Christina Torres enters her fifth season as San Bernardino Valley College's Head Womens Basketball Coach and full-time faculty instructor.  After a year and a half of no sports due to the pandemic, Coach Torres brings in 9 new freshman student athletes to add to her returning 4 sophomores from the 2019-2020 season. Last season, 2019-2020, Coach Torres solely led her program to finish in second place for the Inland Empire Athletic Conference.   

Coach Christina Torres coached as an assistant for three years before receiving her first head coaching position at San Bernadino Valley College. Before coming to San Bernardino Valley College, Torres coached two seasons with Oxnard College 2014-15, and 2015-16. At Oxnard College, she helped reboot the women’s basketball program after a three-season budget cut. Coach Torres led the 2015-16 Oxnard College Condors to a successful season best as they completed a 15-9 record and 8-4 conference record to hold second place in league. Prior to Oxnard College, Torres coached at Ventura College alongside successful program and head coach Ned Mircetic of the Ventura College Pirates in the season of 2013-2014. Her work in the 2013-2014 played a huge part in the journey Ventura College's women's basketball program made to playoffs and to the final four where they won the CCCAA State Championship Title. 

Before her collegiate coaching experience Torres attended Sonoma State University where she used her redshirt year. She left to attend a community college in northern California, where she led and played a combo guard for Yuba Community College in Marysville, CA, during the 2007-08 season. Due to injury, she took the following season off to recover, where she was first introduced to her coaching aspirations. During her recovery year she coached at her alma mater Pioneer High School and coached her freshmen girls’ basketball team to a perfect 10-0 season. Torres transferred to American River College in Sacramento, CA, to play her sophomore season of basketball in 2009-2010 where her team made a playoff appearance. Coach Torres then matriculated to Cal State Northridge, where she completed her bachelor's degree in 2012. Upon completion of her undergraduate degree, Coach Torres coached at Channel Islands High School in 2012-2013. She served as the junior varsity head coach as well as an assistant varsity coach. She helped direct the Raiders to the first round of the CIF playoffs. After her second year of high school coaching, she aspired to pursue her Master's degree in order to coach at the collegiate level. She received her Master of Science degree in Physical Education in 2015 while coaching at Ventura College and Oxnard College.