PAC announces all-conference women’s volleyball teams, annual award winners

PAC announces all-conference women’s volleyball teams, annual award winners

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All-PAC First Team | All-PAC Second Team | All-PAC Honorable Mention | PAC Sportsmanship Team

GREENVILLE, Pa. (pacathletics.org) – The Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) released its 2017 All-PAC women's volleyball teams and conference award winners Tuesday. The conference’s 10 head coaches selected this year’s All-PAC teams and the league’s annual award winners.

Westminster College senior middle hitter Lexie Yoho (Pittsburgh, Pa. | Our Lady of the Sacred Heart) was named the PAC Player of the Year, while Thomas More College first-year outside hitter Carlee Lambert (Cincinnati, Ohio | McAuley) collected the PAC’s Freshman of the Year award.

Yoho is Westminster’s fourth all-time player of the year selection, and first since Jess Cooper in 2007.

Lambert is the seventh Thomas More player to secure freshman of the year honors since the Saints became affiliated with the league in 2005.

PAC Coach of the Year honors went to Chatham University second-year head coach Dylan Lasher.

Yoho helped Westminster compile a 26-6 overall record and 15-3 mark in the league this season, earning the number two seed in last weekend’s PAC Championship Tournament. The Titans fell to top-seeded Thomas More College 3-1 in Saturday’s title match at the Connor Convocation Center in Crestview Hills, Kentucky.

A three-time All-PAC First Team selection, Yoho led the league while ranking 11th among all NCAA Division III counterparts with a .375 hitting percentage (407-92-841) this season. She also led the PAC with 105 blocks (36-69), which rank 36th nationally, and finished third in the league in both total kills (407) and kills per set (3.73). Yoho’s 1,339 kills and 425 blocks rank second and fourth, respectively, all-time at Westminster. Both totals currently rank sixth all-time in the PAC.

Lambert has appeared in 32 matches (99 sets) this season for league champion Thomas More (29-5, 18-0 PAC). She’s hitting .235 and has totaled 276 kills, which rank ninth in the PAC. Her .279 kills per set average currently sits eighth in the league. Lambert has also chipped in defensively with 59 digs and 30 blocks.

Lasher led Chatham (17-11, 8-10 PAC) to its’ first-ever berth in the league’s championship tournament this season. The sixth-seeded Cougars suffered a five-set loss at third-seeded and defending PAC champion Bethany College on September 31, marking Chatham’s sixth five-set match this season. His first career win, a 3-0 victory over Waynesburg University on Sept. 26, 2016, was Chatham’s first-ever win in the PAC since securing league membership in 2007.

By virtue of securing this year’s PAC Championship Tournament title, Thomas More earned the league’s automatic qualifying bid to the Division III Championship. The Saints, led by 10th-year head coach John Spinney, will travel to seventh-ranked Emory University (27-6), which was selected to host first and second round matches this week in Atlanta, to face 23rd-ranked Christopher Newport University (27-3) Thursday evening.

On Monday, Bethany and Westminster were extended invitations to participate in the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III Women’s Volleyball Championship. The 13-team championship tournament features four pods with first round play getting underway Wednesday evening. Westminster, the number two seed in the fourth pod, will host third-seeded Penn State Altoona (13-13) at 7 p.m. Bethany (22-12), the number four seed in the third pod, will travel to McDaniel College (19-8), the pod’s third seed, for a 7 p.m. match.

2017 PAC Award Winners
PAC Player of the Year: Westminster senior middle hitter Lexie Yoho
PAC Freshman of the Year: Thomas More first-year outside hitter Carlee Lambert
PAC Coach of the Year: Chatham University second-year head coach Dylan Lasher
 
2017 All-PAC First Team
Name School Position Year Hometown | High School
Sumayyah Muhammad Bethany MB Sr. Warren, Ohio | Warren G. Harding
Reilly Parker Bethany LIB Jr. North Huntingdon, Pa. | Norwin
Justyne Lasher Chatham OH So. Ford City, Pa. | Armstrong
Erica Hughes Geneva OH Sr. North Jackson, Ohio | Jackson-Milton
Alli Borders Thomas More RS So. Florence, Ky. | Boone County
Rachel Bronner Thomas More LIB Sr. Reading, Ohio | Mount Notre Dame
Jenna Fessler Thomas More S Jr. Fort Mitchell, Ky. | Beechwood
Jenna Mummert Thomas More MH So. Batavia, Ohio | Clermont Northeastern
Madison Lydic W&J MH Jr. Erie, Pa. | Fort LeBoeuf
Lexi Yoho Westminster MH Sr. Pittsburgh, Pa. | Our Lady of the Sacred Heart
 
2017 All-PAC Second Team
Name School Position Year Hometown | High School
Jenna Scott Bethany S Fr. New Castle, Ind. | Liberty Christian
Katie Sparks Bethany OH So. Macedonia, Ohio | Trinity
Laura Buchanan Grove City MH Jr. North Huntingdon, Pa. | Norwin
Beka Russell Grove City LIB Sr. North Canton, Ohio | Cuyahoga Valley
Carlee Lambert Thomas More OH FY Cincinnati, Ohio | McAuley
Madison Krumpelman Thomas More OH So. Crestview Hills, Ky. | Holy Cross
Makenzie Coughlin W&J LIB So. Brunswick, Ohio | Brunswick
Abbey Eich W&J MH Jr. Greencastle, Pa. | St. Maria Goretti (Md.)
Kendell Dickson Westminster OH Sr. Cochranton, Pa. | Cochranton
Delaney Saxton Westminster RS Jr. Cortland,Ohio | Brookfield
 
2017 All-PAC Honorable Mention
Name School Position Year Hometown | High School
Elivia Wagner Chatham MB Fr. Erie, Pa. | McDowell
Daphne Hunsinger Geneva RS Fr. Harleysville, Pa. | Christopher Dock
Emma Hartshorn Grove City S So. Canfield, Ohio | Canfield
Jamie Robatisin Grove City OH Sr. Wexford, Pa. | North Allegheny
Marisa O'Dell Saint Vincent S Jr. Vienna, Ohio | Mathews
Sarah Wozniak Saint Vincent MH So. Uniontown, Pa. | Uniontown
Megan Sweeny Thiel LIB Sr. Freeport, Pa. | Freeport
Mallory O'Brien W&J S So. Pittsburgh, Pa. | Baldwin
Cassidy Guiser Waynesburg DS Jr. Newell, Pa. | Frazier
Shanna Daniels Westminster S Jr. Hermitage, Pa. | Billy C. Ryan (Texas)
Reilly DeGeorge Westminster OH So. Ashtabula, Ohio | Saint John
Rachel Moore Westminster LIB Jr. Greensburg, Pa. | Greensburg Central Catholic
 
2017 PAC Sportsmanship Team
Name School Position Year Hometown | High School
Katie Sparks Bethany OH So. Macedonia, Ohio | Trinity
Brooke Petrillo Chatham S So. Derry, Pa. | Derry Area
McKenna Shick Geneva S Jr. Knox, Pa. | Keystone
Beka Russell Grove City DS Sr. North Canton, Ohio | Cuyahoga Valley
Sarah Wozniak Saint Vincent MH So. Uniontown, Pa. | Uniontown
Peyton Allen Thiel OH Jr. Mineral Ridge, Ohio | Mineral Ridge
Kasey Niesen Thomas More DS Jr. Cincinnati, Ohio | Roger Bacon
Julia Bernesser W&J MB So. Glenshaw, Pa. | Shaler
Olivia Zuchelli Waynesburg S So. Jennerstown, Pa. | North Star
Shanna Daniels Westminster S Jr. Hermitage, Pa. | Billy C. Ryan (Texas)