Cardinal Collects Hardware – Stanford University Athletics

STANFORD, Calif. – Pac-12 Player of the Year Kendall Kipp, Setter of the Year Kami Miner, Libero of the Year Elena Oglivie and Coach of the Year Kevin Hambly, The Montag Family Director of Women’s Volleyball, highlight Stanford’s 2022 All-Pac-12 awards, the conference announced today.

Joining Kipp, Miner and Oglivie on the 18-player all-conference team are outside hitters Caitie Baird and Elia Rubin, while middle blocker McKenna Vicini landed on the honorable mention list. Rubin was also a member of the seven-player All-Freshman Team. Stanford now has 158 all-conference selections all-time, including honorable mention, and 48 all-freshman picks.

Kipp is the 13^th Cardinal player to earn the conference’s highest honor, capturing Stanford’s 17^th Player of the Year award overall and first since Kathryn Plummer won back-to-back in 2017 and 2018.

Miner is the third Stanford player to be named Setter of the Year, collecting the seventh award overall as Madi Bugg won it from 2013-15 and Jenna Gray from 2017-19. Oglivie becomes the second Cardinal to be tabbed Libero of the Year, joining Morgan Hentz who won it three times (2017-19). 

This marks the second Pac-12 Coach of the Year honor for Hambly, now in his sixth season at the helm of the program, and the ninth overall for the Cardinal. Hambly is 139-32 during his time on The Farm and 317-118 overall.

An opposite from Newport Beach, Kipp leads the team with 4.31 kills per set on .301 hitting. She’s registered double-digit kills in 27 of 28 matches this season. She ranks ninth nationally with 5.21 points per set and is third in the Pac-12 with 0.41 aces per set. A two-time Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week, the senior has hit .300 or better in 16 matches and has racked up 20-plus kills on six occasions. At USC on Nov. 9, she had a career-high 24 kills, including the 1,000^th of her career.

Miner, who hails from Redondo Beach, leads the Pac-12 and is eighth nationally with 11.25 assists per set. She’s guided the Cardinal offense to a .292 hitting percentage – second in the Pac-12 and seventh-best in the country. She paces the team with 10 double-doubles on the year. The sophomore was named the Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week and the AVCA National Player of the Week after averaging 13.50 assists per set and leading the Cardinal offense to a combined .458 hitting percentage against UCLA and USC in October. Stanford’s .605 team hitting percentage against USC was the second-highest in the NCAA this season, the…