COLUMBIA, Mo. – Five members of the University of Missouri volleyball team received 2024 AVCA Central All-Region honors, the organization announced Tuesday.
Mychael Vernon was named the 2024 AVCA Central Region Player of the Year while head coach Dawn Sullivan was tabbed 2024 AVCA Central Region Coach of the Year. Vernon along with Jordan Iliff, Maya Sands and Marina Crownover were also listed on the 2024 AVCA Central All-Region and are Mizzou’s 38th, 39th, 40th and 41st AVCA All-Region players in program history (16th, 17th, 18th and 19th AVCA Central All-Region players).
Mizzou’s four AVCA All-Region honors are the most since 2016 when Melanie Crow, Carly Kan, Kira Larson and Alyssa Munlyn were named to the AVCA Southeast All-Region.
Outside hitter Mychael Vernon is the first-ever AVCA Central Region Player of the Year in Mizzou history. She was also named to her first career AVCA All-Region Team.
The graduate student from Ossining, New York, leads the SEC with 493 kills (4.32 kills/set, seventh in the SEC) and is third in the league for points (549.0, 4.82 points/set, eight in the SEC).
In the NCAA, Vernon ranks 23rd for total kills and 33rd for total points. She has finished in double-digits kills in all but two matches this season (28 of 30) along with 13 double-doubles.
Most recently, the 2024 SEC Newcomer of the Year, logged back-to-back 20-kill matches in her NCAA Tournament debut posting 20 and 23 kills, respectively, in Dallas against Texas State and SMU this past week.
Vernon ranked fourth in SEC play with 4.46 kills per set (290 kills) and 4.92 points per set (320.0 points). She was the top newcomer in the SEC for both categories.
She registered a career-best 37 kills against Arkansas (Oct. 25) to set a new Mizzou single-match record.
Vernon was named the SEC Offensive Player of the Week on Sept. 30.
Head coach Dawn Sullivan is the third AVCA Region Coach of the Year in Mizzou program history after Wayne Kreklow picked up the honors in the Southeast Region in 2013 and 2016.
Sullivan has led the Tigers to the NCAA Sweet 16 with a 22-8 overall record this season. MU earned the seventh seed in the NCAA Tournament and is currently ranked in the top-25.
Mizzou has registered 20 overall wins and 10-plus SEC wins in a season for the first time since 2019. MU…
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