After leading La Costa Canyon to their first CIF Division 1 title in 2004 and earning CIF Player-of-the-Year honors, Jade Machado headed to UCLA. A 4-year letter winner, Jade received the 2007 UCLA Best Passer award and played in the 2006 Final Four at Nebraska. Jade excelled in the classroom as well as on the court. Her accomplishments included three years on the First Team All-Pac 10 Academic Team, three years on the UCLA All-Academic Team, the First Team 2007 ESPN Academic All-District team and the UCLA Athletic Director's Academic Excellence Award.  Graduating Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude in 2009 with a 3.96 GPA, Machado was named the UCLA Female Scholar Athlete of the Year. Jade was the setter for Team Moonlight, the 2008 Women's champion of the Manhattan 6-Man Beach Tournament. With 200 teams, 2500 players and 50,000 spectators, the "6-man" is the world's largest beach tournament.Machado has been teaching volleyball fundamentals in Wave summer camps for 7 years and last year coached the Wave 11-1's. She earned her first paycheck on the AVP beach tour last summer and is currently pursuing a Masters degree and teaching credential at USC. Jade played on the first Wave graduating senior class.