MPSF Volleyball Players Named All-America
April 24, 2014
2014 AVCA All-Americans
The American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) announce its 24th annual AVCA Division I-II Men's All-America Teams.
Stanford leads the way placing three athletes in the All-American teams, plus another on the honorable mention list. Pepperdine placed two on the second-team and one on the honorable mention list. USC had one earn first-team recognition, and another on the second and honorable mention teams. UCLA was featured once on the first-team list and twice under honorable mention.
Highlighting this year's class with four consecutive AVCA All-American recognitions is BYU's Taylor Sander, who was an AVCA Second-Team All-American in 2011 then went on to make the first team for three consecutive seasons. He is the only three-time major award winner in MPSF Volleyball history (2-time player of the year, plus freshman of the year). UC Irvine's Michael Brinkley, Stanford's Brian Cook, Long Beach State's Taylor Crabb and UCLA's Gonzalo Quiroga are the others to repeat as AVCA First-Team All-Americans. USC's Micah Christenson and Henry Cassiday, Lewis' Geoff Powell and BJ Boldog, Stanford's Steven Irvin and Pepperdine's Matt West are the others who have garnered All-American honors a previous year.
The 2014 selections were made by the AVCA Division I-II Men's Volleyball All-America Committee: chairperson Mark Pavlik (Penn State); Brian Baise (Harvard); Sam Shweisky (Princeton); Wes Schneider (Cal Baptist); Kevin Ring (UC San Diego); John Kosty (Stanford); Pete Hanson (Ohio State), Dan Friend (Lewis); Jeremy Price (Grand Canyon); David Heller (Mount Olive).