Pete Moye’
Sports Button
Model, part-time worker, student, and volleyball player; Madison Guastella does it all.
At the age of 19 years old, Guastella does all these things while having to maintain at least a 2.0 GPA so that she can play as the libero for Cerritos College women’s volleyball.
When it comes to managing her busy schedule, Guastella says, “It’s hard. I am constantly busy, I’m not home a lot, usually just at night which is hard because I have two little sisters; but it’s kind of what I have to do so I can go to school.”
Guastella says that if she wasn’t working and modeling, she probably wouldn’t be able to go to school since she is not on financial aid.
When it comes to modeling, Guastella says that she was discovered at the mall one day and was chosen to model for a hair salon fashion week at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
“They really liked my hair and how I dressed and so they wanted me to come in. So I came in that night to audition and they decided to use me for the main model and I was there from Friday to Sunday night. It was actually fun.”
Her next gig will be to model head shots for a friend’s photography resume. However, she says that since modeling agencies prefer women 5’8″ and taller, the 5’6″ aspiring model is limited to what she can do as far as being a model.
Other than being a model, Guastella wants to study criminal justice to become a crime scene investigator.
If she had to choose between modeling and criminal justice, Guastella says, “Model, all the way. It’s a lot of fun. People do your hair and makeup at the same time, you get to wear really fun clothes and you get cute heels and you get to walk around and the people are real nice.”
When it comes to volleyball, Guastella started playing when she was a freshman at Lakewood High School.
Her reason for joining volleyball?
“I like the sport. I watched a lot of beach volleyball and I liked messing around because in middle school it was more of jungle ball. So I kind of wanted to learn more of it, so I decided to try out and I made the team and I’ve played every position except for middle because I’m not tall enough.”
She decided to come to Cerritos College because her coach at Lakewood is good friends with the Cerritos College coach and encouraged her to tryout.
She started playing with the Cerritos team as a senior in high school says she liked the team and coaching so she tried out and made the team.
As a player, Cerritos head volleyball coach, Teresa Velasquez, says about Guastella, “She’s getting better every time so hopefully it works out because this is the first time she’s played this position so she’s learning this position little by little and now she’s getting better.
We count on her all the time in her serves because she has a tough serve so it’s the key for passing.”
Her first season at Cerritos, she served as a red shirt. This season, she has played all 46 games with 129 digs, 5 aces, 14 attempts, 4 errors, and 1 kill overall.
Freshman middle blocker for Cerritos College, Jessica Dorado says of her teammate, “The position she plays includes hard work and she hardly gets to rest during the game. She plays non-stop, she loves the sport, and she’s determined.”
Guastella and her teammates will play Mt. San Antonio on Wednesday at 6:30 at Gahr High School.
