Skinner and Elliott of Texas, Pitt’s Babcock lead 2023 VolleyballMag.com All-Individuals

For the third yr in a row, a Texas Longhorn is the VolleyballMag.com nationwide participant of the yr.

This yr it’s junior Madisen Skinner, the skin hitter who was the Massive 12 participant of the yr after which had an incredible NCAA Event. Skinner is joined on our first staff by Texas teammate Asjia O’Neal, the center who was excellent all season. Collectively they had been a wrecking crew because the seventh-seeded Longhorns received final Sunday’s NCAA Division I Volleyball Championship in Tampa to provide their college back-to-back titles.

Our All-American groups and high honors are introduced by the Professional Volleyball Federation, which begins its inaugural season subsequent month.

The three different semifinalists are represented on our first staff. Nebraska has junior proper facet Merritt Beason and junior Lexi Rodriguez, Wisconsin has senior exterior Sarah Franklin (who was the AVCA nationwide participant of the yr), and Pittsburgh has Olivia Babock, our nationwide freshman of the yr.

Additionally receiving votes for participant of the yr, an award received the previous two seasons by Logan Eggleston of Texas, had been Franklin, Beason, Arizona State’s Marta Levinska, Jillian Gillen of Arkansas, Stanford’s Kendall Kipp, Louisville’s Anna DeBeer and USC’s Skylar Fields.

Babcock, additionally the AVCA nationwide freshman of the yr, narrowly beat out Nebraska’s Bergen Reilly for the consideration. Others receiving votes had been Florida’s Kennedy Martin, Purdue’s Chloe Chicoine and Nebraska’s Harper Murray.

Our nationwide coach of the yr is Jerritt Elliott of Texas, whose Longhorns had been 5-3 early within the season however regularly improved, proper by means of the ultimate weekend once they beat third-seeded Wisconsin within the semifinals after which swept top-seeded Nebraska within the championship match.

Elliott, who received his third NCAA title at Texas, edged Nebraska’s John Cook dinner. Simply behind was Arizona State’s JJ Van Niel. Others receiving votes had been Missouri’s Daybreak Sullivan, Pittsburgh’s Dan Fisher, Jason Watson of Arkansas and Sara Thomas of Jap Illinois.

We have now a separate story on Skinner and a video interview along with her, and we even have an interview with Elliott that may put up Saturday.

A few notes about our choice course of. Our panel included lots of our VolleyballMag.com Tremendous 16 Media Ballot voters and a handful of different specialists who vote for us yearly. They had been instructed to select 4 groups and every staff needed to embrace a setter and a libero. For the highest honors, they listed their high three decisions in every class. What’s extra, VolleyballMag.com just isn’t beholden to the restrictions and nominating course of that the AVCA adheres to and we additionally wait till after the NCAA semifinals and remaining to conclude voting. We added a fourth staff in 2018 and, frankly, we may simply justify having a fifth as a result of the expertise is so good and so deep in NCAA Division I volleyball.

Participant of the yr: Madisen Skinner, Texas
Freshman of the yr: Olivia Babcock, Pittsburgh
Coach of the yr: Jerritt Elliott, Texas

First Workforce

Olivia Babcock, RS, Pittsburgh
Merritt Beason, RS, Nebraska
Anna DeBeer, OH, Louisville
Skylar Fields, OH, USC
Morgahn Fingall, RS, Tennssee
Sarah Franklin, OH, Wisconsin
Magda Jehralova, MB, Washington State
Kendall Kipp, RS, Stanford
Marta Levinska, RS, Arizona State
Kami Miner, S, Stanford
Asjia O’Neal, MB, Texas
Hannah Pukis, S, Oregon
Lexi Rodriguez, L, Nebraska
Madisen Skinner, OH, Texas

Second Workforce

Caitie Baird, OH, Stanford
Carter Sales space, MB, Wisconsin
Rachel Fairbanks, S/RS, Pittsburgh
Sophie Fisher, MB, Georgia
Jillian Gillen, OH, Arkansas
Eva Hudson, OH, Purdue
Kennedy Martin, RS, Florida
Harper Murray, OH, Nebraska
Jess Mruzik, OH, Penn State
Elena Oglivie, L, Stanford
Bergen Reilly, S, Nebraska
Elena Scott, L, Louisville
Norah Sis, OH, Creighton
Anna Smrek, RS, Wisconsin

Third Workforce

Paige Briggs, OH, Western Kentucky
Logan Case, S, Western Michigan
Cara Cresse, MB, Louisville
Brooklyn DeLeye, OH, Kentucky
Kate Georgiades, L, Houston
Emma Grome, S, Kentucky
Taylor Head, OH, Arkansas
Amber Igiede, MB, Hawai’i
Audrey Koenig, OH, Florida State
Morgan Lewis, RS, Oregon
Kara McGhee, MB, Oregon
Jenaisya Moore, OH, Tennessee
Elia Rubin, OH, Stanford
Kendra Wait, S, Creighton

Fourth Workforce

Lexie Almodovar, OH, Dayton
Chloe Chicoine, OH, Purdue
Mimi Colyer, OH, Oregon
Reagan Cooper, OH, Kansas
Camryn Haworth, S, Indiana
Caroline Kerr, S, Tennessee
Emily Londot, OH, Ohio State
Grace Lopez, RS, Miami
Georgia Murphy, L, Oregon
Melanie Parra, OH, TCU
Mac Podraza, S, Penn State
Jasmine Rivest, OH, Coastal Carolina
Reagan Rutherford, RS, Kentucky
Torrey Stafford, OH, Pittsburgh

Honorable Point out

Tayler Alden, S, Northern Iowa
Paige Bartsch, OH, Boise State
Bianca Bertolino, OH, Georgia Tech
Ielan Bradley, RS, Stephen F. Austin
Whitney Bower, S, BYU
Nina Cajic, OH, Towson
Raven Colvin, MB, Purdue
Giula Cardona, RS, Evansville
Aliyah Carter, OH, Kansas State
Kayley Cassaday, OH, Tulsa
Grace Chillingworth, OH, Pepperdine
Emma Clothier, MB, SMU
Ifenna Cos-Okpalla, MB, Texas A&M
Kaylee Cox, OH, Western Kentucky
Sophie Davis, MB, James Madison
Carly Diehl, S, Yale
Anna Dodson, MB, UCLA
Tatijana Fucka, MB, Fairleigh Dickinson
Gabby Gonzales, OH, Oregon
Nayeli Gonzalez, OH, Iowa State
Aubrey Hamilton, OH, Marquette
Madison Harms, MB, South Dakota
Hannah Hogue, S, Arkansas
Tsvetlina Ilieva, OH, Binghamton
Emily Klika, L, Pittsburgh
Giovana Larregui López, OH, Jap Illinois
Audrey Leak, OH, Yale
Maggie Li, OH, Cal
Erin Livingston, OH, BYU
Khori Louis, MB, Florida State
Charitie Luper, OH, Louisville
Dylan Maberry, OH, Excessive Level
Hannah Maddux, RS, South Alabama
Ava Martin, OH, Creighton
Callie Martin, RS, Wright State
Isabel Martin, OH, UNLV
Rya McKinnon, OH, Howard
Meg Mersman, MB, Lipscomb
Emma Monks, MB, Pittsburgh
Tamara Otene, OH, Georgia Tech
Michelle Ohwobete, OH, UC Santa Barbara
Julia Orzol, L, Wisconsin
Tatum Parrott, OH, Grand Canyon
Devyn Robinson, RS, Wisconsin
Ali Ruffin, OH, The Citadel
Maya Sands, L, Missouri
Kenna Sauer, OH, Houston
Mabrey Shaffmaster, OH, North Carolina
Andelyn Simkins, L, Western Michigan
Bridgette Smith, OH, Sacramento State
Azhani Tealer, MB, Kentucky
Raina Terry, OH, Illinois
Kira Thomsen, OH, Montana State
Bailey Tillman, L, McNeese
Pia Timmer, OH, Washington State
Savannah Vach, S, Miami
Sasha van der Merwe, OH, Marist