USC Beach Volleyball’s Megan Kraft Collects Second Pac-12 Player of the Year Award

Women’s Beach Volleyball | May 01, 2024

SAN FRANCISCO – USC beach volleyball seniors Megan Kraft (San Diego, Calif./Torrey Pines HS) and Delaynie Maple (San Diego, Calif./Torrey Pines HS) were named the Pac-12 Pair of the Year, the Conference announced on Wednesday, May 1.
 
Kraft – now a four-time AVCA All-American was also chosen as the Pac-12’s Player of the Year for the second time. Maple was also named to the AVCA’s All-America first team and became the ninth USC player to earn multiple All-America certificates. Both Kraft and Maple are members of the Pac-12 All-Conference first team.
 
Graduate sisters Audrey Nourse (Newport, Calif./Orange Lutheran HS) and Nicole Nourse (Newport, Calif./Orange Lutheran HS) were named to the all-conference second team for the first time. Graduate Maddi Kriz (Austin, Texas/Round Rock Westwood HS) was chosen to the second team and earns her third-career All-Pac-12 award. Sophomore Madison White (Scottsdale, Ariz./ASU Preparatory Academy) was also named to the all-conference second team for her second consecutive year. Freshman Ashley Pater (Bradenton, Fla./Lakewood Ranch HS) was selected to the Pac-12 All-Freshman Team.
 
Kraft-Maple’s selection as the Pair of the Year gives USC each of the last five and seven of eight all-time awards. The same holds for Kraft’s choice as Player of the Year, previously won twice by Kelly Claes (2016, ’17), and three times by Tina Graudina (2019, ’21, ’22). Kraft has now won been part of the Pac-12’s Pair of the Year four consecutive years (2021-22 with Graudina; 2023-24 with Maple).
 
Kraft’s selection makes her a four-time Pac-12 All-Conference first-teamer (2021, ’22, ’23). Maple is a three-time all-conference choice and makes her second appearance on the first team after earning second-team laurels in 2022. 
 
Kriz was chosen to the All-Pac-12 first team in 2023 as a senior at Stanford and to the second team as a junior in 2022. Kriz and the Nourses push the number of Women of Troy named to the Pac-12 all-conference teams to 20 and gives USC 42 all-time awards (26 first team, 16 second team). 
 
Pater becomes the 10th USC freshmen to be named to the Pac-12 All-Freshman Team. White and Gabby Walker (Flower Mound, Texas/Flow Mound HS) were all-freshman team members in 2023, and Maple and…