Montreat College

The Montreat College athletic department selected Cristina Viera to steer the Montreat volleyball program as its head coach in March of 2024. She enters her second season with the program during the 2025-26 academic year.

YEAR-BY-YEAR HIGHLIGHTS

2024

• Went 9-12 (9-11 AAC) and ended ninth in the AAC regular-season standings.
• Claimed the No. 9 seed in the AAC Tournament.
• Picked up her first collegiate head coaching win on Sept. 12 versus Brenau (W 3-2).
• Coached Kamryn Wolf to a 29-kill performance at Truett McConnell on Sept. 17, the most by a Cavalier in a single match since Nov. 1, 2007.
• Beat Bryan for the first time since 2019.
• Started the season 5-0 overall and in AAC play for the first time since at least 2004.
• Athlete achievements: 1 First Team All-AAC, 1 NAIA Attacker of the Week, 2 AAC Attacker of the Week, 1 AAC Defender of the Week, 3 CSC Academic All-District® Team honorees, 9 Daktronics NAIA Scholar-Athletes, 11 AAC All-Academic Team members.

PRIOR TO MONTREAT
 
Viera came to North Carolina following two assistant coaching positions in Massachusetts. Most recently, she coached at Babson College for the 2022 and 2023 seasons. During that span, the Beavers ended each regular season as the NEWMAC runner-up and made the second round of the NCAA Division III Tournament. Three players were named AVCA Honorable Mention All-American, four were AVCA All-Region and as many claimed all-conference accolades.
 
Prior to helping at Babson, Viera assisted at Smith College from 2019 through 2022. While at Smith, athletes notched several New England Women’s Volleyball Coaches’ Association (NEWVA) Third Team selections, NEWVA Honorable Mention Team honors and NEWVA All-Rookie Team awards.
 
In 2018, Viera acted as an assistant coach and head JV coach for Johnson-Brock Public School in Nebraska, where the team was the state runner-up. She began her coaching career as the head coach of the developmental team of Club Social y Deportivo Juan Ferreira in her hometown of Montevideo, Uruguay from 2012 to 2014.
 
Before coaching, Viera played with the Uruguayan National Volleyball Team from 2010 through 2014. She then attended Cameron University for two years, breaking the program’s single-game dig record (45) in 2015. Following her time at Cameron, Viera moved on to Peru State for the 2016 and 2017 seasons. While at Peru State, Viera amassed a plethora of honors, including Omaha World-Herald All-Nebraska NAIA First Team (x2), Tachikara-NAIA Volleyball All-America Third Team (2016), Tachikara-NAIA Volleyball All-America Honorable Mention (2017), AVCA All-American Honorable Mention (2017), Heart of America Conference Co-Defender of the Year (2017), AVCA-NAIA Midwest Region Libero of the Year (x2), AVCA-NAIA Midwest Region First Team (x2), Heart of America Conference Defender of the Week (x5) and First Team All-Heart of America (x2).

Viera graduated with an exercise science degree from Peru State in 2018 before earning her masters in exercise and sport studies from Smith in May of 2021.

COACHING RECORD
 

Year	School	Overall Record			Conference Record
		W	L	Pct.	W	L	Pct.
2024	Montreat	9	12	0.429	9	11	0.450
1 season		9	12	0.429	9	11	0.450