EUGENE, Ore. – Headlined by 2022 Pac-12 Freshman of the Year Mimi Colyer, the University of Oregon volleyball team secured five all-conference performers when league honors were announced Tuesday. Colyer also joins Brooke Nuneviller and Hannah Pukis on the All-Pac-12 Team with Georgia Murphy and Gloria Mutiri garnering honorable mention accolades.
Conference awards and honors are voted on by the Pac-12 volleyball head coaches.
Oregon earned a No. 3 seed in the NCAA Tournament and will host first- and second-round matches at Matthew Knight Arena beginning Friday. The Ducks are set to play LMU at 7 p.m. (PT) in the first round. All-session tickets are currently on sale.
The Ducks finished the regular season with a 23-5 overall record including a 17-3 mark in Pac-12 play, establishing a program record for conference wins. Oregon, 12-0 on its home floor this season, carries its 13-match winning streak into Friday’s match against LMU.
With Tuesday’s announcement, Colyer becomes the program’s second-ever Freshman of the Year, and first since Michelle Kresbsbach was the league’s inaugural recipient of the award in 1986. Colyer set a new Pac-12 record with eight Freshman of the Week selections, surpassing the previous record of six by USC’s Ebony Nwanebu (2013).
Colyer ended the regular season ranked fourth in the Pac-12 with 4.89 points per set, a mark that leads all freshman in the NCAA, and is currently fifth in the conference with 4.20 kills per set. She has double-digit kills in 26 of 28 matches including nine outing with 20 or more. Helping the Ducks rally from an 0-2 deficit against USC (Nov. 20), Colyer put down a career-high 29 kills while hitting .463 in the comeback.
For her efforts that weekend, Colyer was named the Pac-12 Offensive Player and Freshman of the Week to become just the fourth player in conference history to win both in the same week. She joins the list that already featured Samantha Bricio (USC, 2012), Audriana Fitzmorris (Stanford, 2016) and Kathryn Plummer (Stanford, 2016). Colyer was also named to the seven-player All-Freshman Team.
Colyer is third on the team with 10 double-doubles this season, and leads the Ducks with 37 aces. She finished the regular season with at least one ace in 11 of 12 matches including seven in a row.
Nuneviller, now a back-to-back-to-back selection to the All-Pac-12 Team, is averaging a career-high 4.02 kills per set during her senior campaign, and doing so with a…
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