NCAA-tied Colorado Volleyball’s Meegan Hart named the first team All-Pac-12 – BuffZone
Two Colorado volleyball players were honored for the Buffaloes’ NCAA tournament season.
On Tuesday, the Pac-12 conference announced its year-end awards, with graduate middle blocker Meegan Hart leading the way for the Buffs with a first team pick. Outside hitter Lexi Hadrych, a freshman year at CU after transferring from UCLA, was an honorable mention selection.
A former Iowa transferee now in her fourth season at CU, Hart enjoyed a career year this fall in which she set career highs in kills per set (2.06), blocks per set (1.23), and hit rate (0.432) scored. Hart was twice named Pac-12’s Defensive Player of the Week and helped lead the Buffaloes to their first NCAA tournament appearance since 2018.
Hadrych, a fifth-year player who intends to capitalize on her extra season with the buffs next year, proved a perfect complement to Maya Tabron in CU’s attack. Hadrych, averaging a 3.19 and a batting average of .235, was just second behind Tabron in the team’s lead in kills per set.
Conference champion Stanford, who received one of the four No. 1 seeds for the NCAA tournament, almost made it to a clean win in the Pac-12 individual honors, with the Cardinal taking the player of the year (Kendall Kipp), the setter of the Year, received Year (Kami Miner), Libero of the Year (Elena Oglivie) and Coach of the Year (Kevin Hambly) awards. The other individual award went to Oregon’s Mimi Colyer, who was named Freshman of the Year.
CU (20-10, 12-8) returns to the NCAA tournament with a first-round date against fifth-seeded Rice Thursday afternoon at Baylor University (3:30 p.m. MT, ESPN+). The winner plays against the winner on Friday between Baylor and Stephen F. Austin.
Pac-12 Conference Women’s Volleyball All-Conference First Team
Caitie Baird, OH, Stanford ***
Mimi Colyer, Ohio, Oregon
Anna Dodson, MB, UCLA**
Skylar Fields, OH, USC
Marin Grote, MB, Washington**
Meegan Hart, MB, Colorado
Claire Hoffman, Ohio, Washington***
Magda Jehlárová, MB, Washington State****
Kendall Kipp, OPP, Stanford**
Brooke Nuneviller, OH/L, Oregon***
Kami Miner, S., Stanford
Elena Oglivie, L, Stanford
Ella May Powell, S, Washington****
Hannah Pukis, S, Oregon***
Madelyn Robinson, Ohio, Utah**
Elijah Rubin, OH, Stanford
Pia Timmer, OH, Washington State***
Mia Tuaniga, S, USC
** double selection; *** triple selection; **** quadruple choice
Award: Emoni Bush, Washington; Lexi Hadrych, Colorado; Kamaile Hiapo, Arizona; Jaelyn Hodge, Arizona; Iman Isanovic, Arizona State; Laura Jansen, Washington State; Marta Levinska, Arizona State; Charity Luper, UCLA; Sofia Maldonado Diaz, Ariz.; Elan McCall, UCLA; Gloria Mutiri, Oregon; Georgia Murphy, Oregon; Iman Ndiaye, UCLA; Katy Ryan, Washington State; Izzi Szulczewski, State of Oregon; Gala Trubint, USC; Emilia Weske, USC; McKenna Vicini, Stanford.
2022 PAC-12 ALL FRESHMAN TEAM
KJ Burgess, OH, Utah
Mimi Colyer, Ohio, Oregon
Grayce Olson, OH/OPP, UCLA
Elijah Rubin, OH, Stanford
Kinley Swan, MB, Oregon State
Gala Trubint, L, USC
Jordan Wilson, OH, USC
