COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.— For the second straight year, Colorado Mesa University standout
Sabrina VanDeList has been named as the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference's Volleyball Summit Award Winner.
The redshirt junior setter from Severance, Colorado, will formally receive her award prior to the Mavericks' RMAC Tournament Semifinal match on Friday evening at MSU Denver's Auraria Events Center.
The Summit Award is given to the student-athlete with the highest GPA competing at each RMAC Championship site. Student-athletes must be at least a sophomore, be in their second year on their team and have participated in a minimum of 20 percent of available competitions, amongst other requirements.
VanDeList, an elementary education major, holds a perfect 4.00 GPA and has added yet another accomplishment to her impressive on-court and in the classroom accomplishments. She was also named as the RMAC Volleyball Academic Player of the Year in 2022 and has won three combined CoSIDA/CSC Academic All-America honors in both indoor and beach volleyball in her time at CMU.
On Wednesday, VanDeList was also named as the RMAC Setter of the Year and became the first Maverick volleyball player to have ever been named to the First Team All-RMAC squad four times. She leads the RMAC in assists with 1,123 this season and ranks third in the nation for assists per set (11.82), as the orchestrator of the Maverick attack that ranks third in the country for kills per set (14.83).
With more than a season of eligibility remaining, VanDeList, a 2020 Fort Collins High School graduate, already ranks third in CMU history for career assists (3,763) and fourth for aces (140). She is also the first Maverick setter since Tara King (2008-10) to have recorded 1,000 or more assists in three consecutive seasons.
Under her captaincy, the Mavericks are the No. 2 seed in the RMAC Tournament and hold a 24-3 overall record. They are also slotted third in the NCAA Division II's South Central Regional Rankings and are ranked tenth in the AVCA/TARAFLEX NCAA Division II poll. They will face Regis, one spot behind them in each of those rankings, in Friday's RMAC Tournament semifinal at 7:30 p.m., following the MSU Denver/South Dakota Mines semifinal.
