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EUGENE, Ore. — On the heels of their standout regular season, a program-record five Ducks have been named to the All-Pac-12 Team. Mimi Colyer, Gabby Gonzales, Morgan Lewis, Kara McGhee and Hannah Pukis were all selected to the 18-player team announced Tuesday morning by the league office. Oregon also placed two on the honorable mention team with Karson Bacon and Georgia Murphy.
Conference year-end accolades are voted on by the league’s head coaches.
Oregon was 26-5 during the regular season with a 16-4 mark in Pac-12 play, and finished second in the league standings. The Ducks earned a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament and will host Southeastern Louisiana in Thursday’s first round at Matthew Knight Arena. The Eugene sub-region also features Iowa State and Hawai’i.
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With five all-conference performers this year, the Ducks surpass the previous program record of three first established in 2008 and then repeated in 2012 and 2022.
Colyer earns her second All-Pac-12 honor and enters the postseason fourth in the conference with 4.42 points per set and fifth in total kills (419) and kills per set (3.71). She put down a season-high 21 kills in the Ducks’ sweep of Oregon State in the regular-season finale. Colyer has also registered nine double-doubles this season and leads the team with 42 aces.
In her first season at Oregon, Gonzales takes a career-high .254 hitting percentage into the postseason. She reached double-digit kills in 18 matches including a season-high 19 kills coupled with a .410 hitting percentage against Ohio State (Sept. 9). Gonzales is third on the team with eight double-doubles while averaging 2.86 kills per set and 2.46 digs per set.
Gonzales earns the second all-conference selection of her career having been voted to the 2022 All-Big Ten Second Team last season at Ohio State.
Lewis is currently 12th in the Pac-12 with a career-high .333 hitting percentage and has registered 10 or more kills in 10 matches this season. Three times this season, she has posted a career-high 19 kills with her efforts at Pitt (Sept. 14), at Stanford (Nov. 9) and against USC (Nov.21), all top-25 opponents. Lewis has established career-high totals in kills (318), blocks (90) and points (365) this season on the way to a first-time all-conference pick.
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