Semifinal 1: #2 BMCC vs. #3 Hostos 

The 2016 CUNYAC Community College Women's Volleyball Championship began at 4PM on October 24th, with the night's first semifinal match between the #2 seeded Panthers from BMCC and the Caimans from Hostos CC.

The first set was a hotly contested battle as the score would go back and forth early leaving it all tied up at 10. The set would continue to go back and forth until Hostos managed to grab a 16-14 lead behind some excellent team play to set up their main hitter Seyma Soylu. Her contributions would continue down the stretch as Hostos extended their lead to 20-16. The Panthers would claw back to be down only one point as the score stood at 20-19 in favor of Hostos. The Caimans would take a timeout at that point and out of the timeout BMCC would tie it up at 20. BMCC would pull off three straight points to put themselves up 23-20, thus forcing another Hostos timeout. After the timeout BMCC would finish the job with three straight points to win the set 25-20.

In the second set, BMCC would serve first, the second set would begin just like the first with each team tied at 3 early. Hostos would come out firing and rally however, to bring the set's score to 9-3 in favor of the Caimans. The Caimans would continue to lead 13-8 behind a strong team effort once again and timely defense. After a few Hostos mistakes, BMCC would use them to rally and bring the score back to 13-11. Hostos would take a time out after they got the score to within one and then would take a 17-15 lead after the break. The Caimans would continue their dominant team play to take the lead 22-21, until BMCC would block a Caimans spike to tie it up at 22. A monstrous kill by BMCC's Stela Vaso would tie it up at 23. An attacking error by Hostos would make it match point for BMCC who lead 24-23. Vaso would then finish it off with a kill that could not be returned, BMCC would claim a 25-23 victory.

The third set would once again open up with both teams trading points early. The score would be tied at 6 when a few Hostos errors would give the already dominant Panthers some early momentum and an 8-6 lead. 12-12 would be the score as both teams fought against tough defense to try and gain a lead. The Panthers began to return everything that came over the net and their lead would rise to 18-16. After a great kill by Panthers Damali Prince, their lead would be 19-17. The Caimans then rallied with some impressive points of their own to tie it at 19 and then be the first team to score 20. The Panthers would then seize momentum after an ace by Stephanie Chacon to take a 22-21 lead. After things got tied at 22, the Panthers would get a point to take the slight 23-22 edge. The Panthers would then push that lead to 24-22 and an attacking error by Hostos would give the Panthers the victory in the night's first match.

Championship Game: #1 Queensborough vs. #2 BMCC 

The Queensborough Tigers advanced to the CUNYAC finals against the BMCC Panthers looking for their 5th CUNYAC title since 2010. The Tigers were looking to cap off an impressive year after going undefeated this in CUNYAC play with a perfect 8-0 record this season. Queensborough would claim this year's championship after defeating BMCC in three straight sets to make it a back to back title winning campaign for the Tigers.

"We had such a great year, but that could've all been erased in one day," said QCC head coach Jason Demas.

The first set began with Queensborough taking the first point after a Panthers defensive lapse. The Tigers road to back to championships would not be an easy one as the first set would be hotly contested early on. Queensborough's offensive onslaught would keep rolling from last game however, as the Tigers jumped out to an early 8-2 lead behind kills from Carmen Clavijo. The Tigers would build upon this lead until it was 13-5 and BMCC would  take a time out. After the Panthers would rally to get within 4 points after an ace by Damali Prince, the score stood at 15-11 in favor of QCC. After several Queensborough errors and some timely defense, the Panthers  of BMCC tied the first set at 18. Their bench erupted the moment the Tigers hit the ball out of bounds.After some more great defense by BMCC they took a 22-20 lead and tensions were high with every strike of the ball. QCC would then rebound to tie it at 22 after a brilliant kill by Joelle Desrosiers. And additional BMCC attacking error then gave the Tigers a late 23-22 lead. After a long volley, BMCC would gain the point to tie it at 23. QCC came right back and score the next point to have a 24-23 lead. The Tigers would take the first set after a kill by Zuri Williams.

"That was the best I've seen them play the entire season, I think we were a little relaxed and we needed a little motivation and that woke us up," said Coach Demas. The first set was exactly the wake up call that the Tigers were looking for.

The second set would begin where the first one left off, BMCC would jump out to an early lead, albeit a slim 6-5 one. The Tigers would rally to take a 10-8 lead following some mishaps for BMCC. They would seize this momentum to then go up 15-10 behind some more offensive attack by Williams. The Tigers would continue to play great team volleyball to increase their lead to 18-11. QCC's Carmen Clavijo would get a kill for the Tigers that would keep them up 19-15. Following yet another BMCC attacking error, the Tigers lead would grow to 23-16 and the Panthers would be forced to take a time out. Returning from the timeout, Queensborough would increase their lead to 24-16 and a BMCC returning error would give the Tigers a win in set number two.

The third set would begin with the Tigers striking first after scoring eight unanswered points to open things up. BMCC would then take a time out to gather themselves. The Tigers would allow a point out of the break but continue to improve their lead to 12-1. Queensborough would continue the attack to move their lead up to 20-3. Following an attacking error by the Tigers, the score would move to 24-7 in favor of QCC. The winning point was then scored after a service error by BMCC and the QCC Tigers would claim the 2016 CUNYAC CC Women's Volleyball title for the second year in a row. QCC's Zuri Williams would walk away with the Tournament's MVP award after recording 20 total kills throughout, the most of any player on the court.