In 2021, Victoria Barba enters her third season as a volunteer assistant coach for the San Diego State women’s soccer team.
A 2016 graduate of SDSU, Barba was a four-year letter winner with the Aztecs women’s soccer program. Following her senior campaign, when she led the team with 11 goals and 25 points, and assisted on three more, she was named an NSCAA All-Pacific Region and first-team All-Mountain West performer. Barba erupted for 10 goals in her final seven games that season, which included a pair of tallies in a 2-1 victory against Utah State. The Aztecs combined that Utah State win with a triumph over Boise State for a weekend sweep. For her efforts in those two contests, the Albuquerque, N.M., native, was named to TopDrawerSoccer’s National Team of the Week and was the Mountain West’s Defensive Player of the Week.
On the way to the conference title game in 2016, she scored a league-record six times in three Mountain West Tournament games. In the conference championship match against UNLV, she tallied the third hat trick in the tournament’s history, the ninth in school history and was named to the Championship’s All-Tournament Team.
Barba brought her championship pedigree back to Montezuma Mesa. In five seasons as a player (2012-16), San Diego State won three regular-season and three Mountain West Conference Tournament championships. In 11 Mountain West Tournament games, Barba led her team to a 9-2 record.
In addition to the accolades she received after her senior season, she earned third-team NSCAA All-Pacific Region and first-team All-Mountain West honors as a junior, and was a second-team all-conference performer and a Mountain West Championship All-Tournament honoree as a sophomore. As mentioned before Barba scored three times in a game against UNLV in the 2016 MW Championship, which ranks second on the program’s single game scoring list. In addition, her 11 goals in 2016 are tied for seventh all-time on the single-season list and she is 12th on the career goals list with 18. Her six points in the UNLV match are tied for third all-time in a single game for an Aztec. In addition to her play on the field, Barba also performed in the classroom earning Academic All-Mountain West designation in 2012.
After her graduation, Barba coached in her hometown of Albuquerque. In 2018, she was the head coach of the junior varsity and an assistant coach for the varsity team at her alma mater, Sandia High School where she helped lead them to a 5A state championship. In addition, she coached the Lil’ Kickers, a youth team based out of Albuquerque’s International Indoor Soccer Arena, and the New Mexico Rush’s 03 boys team, a U16 side, which also took a state championship.
A 2016 graduate of SDSU, Barba was a four-year letter winner with the Aztecs women’s soccer program. Following her senior campaign, when she led the team with 11 goals and 25 points, and assisted on three more, she was named an NSCAA All-Pacific Region and first-team All-Mountain West performer. Barba erupted for 10 goals in her final seven games that season, which included a pair of tallies in a 2-1 victory against Utah State. The Aztecs combined that Utah State win with a triumph over Boise State for a weekend sweep. For her efforts in those two contests, the Albuquerque, N.M., native, was named to TopDrawerSoccer’s National Team of the Week and was the Mountain West’s Defensive Player of the Week.
On the way to the conference title game in 2016, she scored a league-record six times in three Mountain West Tournament games. In the conference championship match against UNLV, she tallied the third hat trick in the tournament’s history, the ninth in school history and was named to the Championship’s All-Tournament Team.
Barba brought her championship pedigree back to Montezuma Mesa. In five seasons as a player (2012-16), San Diego State won three regular-season and three Mountain West Conference Tournament championships. In 11 Mountain West Tournament games, Barba led her team to a 9-2 record.
In addition to the accolades she received after her senior season, she earned third-team NSCAA All-Pacific Region and first-team All-Mountain West honors as a junior, and was a second-team all-conference performer and a Mountain West Championship All-Tournament honoree as a sophomore. As mentioned before Barba scored three times in a game against UNLV in the 2016 MW Championship, which ranks second on the program’s single game scoring list. In addition, her 11 goals in 2016 are tied for seventh all-time on the single-season list and she is 12th on the career goals list with 18. Her six points in the UNLV match are tied for third all-time in a single game for an Aztec. In addition to her play on the field, Barba also performed in the classroom earning Academic All-Mountain West designation in 2012.
After her graduation, Barba coached in her hometown of Albuquerque. In 2018, she was the head coach of the junior varsity and an assistant coach for the varsity team at her alma mater, Sandia High School where she helped lead them to a 5A state championship. In addition, she coached the Lil’ Kickers, a youth team based out of Albuquerque’s International Indoor Soccer Arena, and the New Mexico Rush’s 03 boys team, a U16 side, which also took a state championship.