Li Named AVCA Pacific West Region Freshman Of The Year

Maggie Li is the only freshman to earn Pacific North Region honors this season.

VB12/5/2023 8:10 AM | By: Cal Athletics

Standout Rookie Also Earns All-Region Honorable Mention

California volleyball’s Maggie Li was named the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Pacific West Region Freshman of the Year and an All-Region Honorable Mention on Tuesday, adding onto an impressive resume for the first-year Golden Bear.
 
Li – who has already been named the Pac-12 Freshman of the Year and garnered All-Pac-12 Team honors along with six Freshman of the Week nods by the conference – is the first Cal freshman to earn All-Region recognition since the inception of the All-Region Teams in 1986 (as well as the only freshman to earn Pacific North Region recognition this year), and is the first Cal recipient of the Region Freshman of the Year award since its beginning in 1999. She previously made history as Cal’s first Pac-12 Freshman of the Year since 1990 and was the only freshman to make the All-Pac-12 Team this season. Li finished the year among the Pac-12’s top-five players in kills, kills per set, points and points per set, and also ranked among Division I’s top-five freshman in the first three categories; she was also Cal’s second- and third-best player, respectively, in the service aces and digs categories.
 
She is now a finalist for the National Freshman of the Year award, which will be chosen from a select pool that includes all 10 Region Freshman of the Year honorees as well as any All-Region freshman representatives (not including honorable mentions). The AVCA will announce the winner on Wednesday, Dec. 13. Li would be the program’s second national freshman of the year, joining Holly McPeak (1987).
 
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