Career Awards
- 2025 All-Horizon League First Team
- 2025 Academic All-District by College Sports Communicators
- 2025 Horizon League All-Academic Team
- Horizon League Player of the Week (Sept. 2, 2025)
2025 (Junior): Named to the All-Horizon League First Team… Also earned Academic All-District and Academic All-Horizon League honors… Played in all 119 sets and made 30 starts at right-side hitter… Totaled 443 points on 387 kills, 16 aces, six solo blocks and 68 block assists… Averaged 3.25 kills, 0.87 digs and 0.62 blocks per set… Her 387 kills were the 12th most in program history and an improvement of 235 kills over her previous career high… Her .339 attack percentage was the best by a Penguin since volleyball shifted from sideout scoring to rally scoring in 2001… Topped the previous mark by 21 percentage points and finished .004 behind Vickie Robinson's record of .343 set in 1999… Averaged 3.35 kills and hit .341 in conference play… Reached double digits in kills 27 times… Had a season-best 27 kills against Green Bay in a five-set victory in the quarterfinals of the Horizon League Volleyball Championship… Named to the All-Tournament Team at the College of Charleston and the YSU Invitational, presented by Mercy Health.
2024 (Sophomore): Appeared in 68 sets over 28 matches, eight of which she started… Recorded 152 kills, 28 digs and 33 blocks for averages of 2.24 kills, 0.41 digs and 0.49 blocks per set… Averaged 2.23 kills, 0.48 digs and 0.50 blocks per set against league opponents… Reached double digits in kills seven times… Had a season-high 16 kills twice - at NKU on Oct. 4 and at Purdue Fort Wayne in the regular-season finale on Nov. 16… Hit .406 in her 16-kill effort against the Norse in October… Came off the bench to record eight kills in 11 swings in a five-set win over Oakland (11/1)… Had a season-best five blocks at NKU (10/5)
2023 (Freshman): Appeared in 83 sets over 23 matches while making 16 starts… Totaled 137 kills on 398 attempts while also registering 56 blocks and 40 digs… Averaged 1.65 kills and 0.67 blocks per set overall and 1.48 kills and 0.75 blocks in conference matches… Ranked 18th in the Horizon League with her 0.67 blocks per set… Her best match came in a five-set win over Memphis at the Toledo Invitational when she had 14 kills on 24 attempts while committing just two errors… She had four kills on five swings in the fifth set alone… Posted a season-best five blocks to complement 10 kills against Cleveland State (10/20)… Reached double digits in points five times.
Before YSU: Played on Puerto Rico’s U19 and U21 national teams… Achieved a No. 20 national ranking in Puerto Rico… Named MVP at the 2022 Copa Alcalde… Helped lead the team to a COPSAA championship and a second-place finish… In AAU, helped the 17U Criollas Caguas team to a Premier Silver Championship in 2022… Also played basketball and was president of the Lions Sport Club.
Personal: Full name is Gabriela Machín Borges… Parents are Miguel and Janette… Has a brother (Kenneth)… Major is marketing with a focus on professional selling… Was the 2024-25 recipient of the Jack and Mary Kay McFadden Scholarship.
