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2024 Season Awards

• D2CCA Third Team All-America Team
• AVCA Third Team All-America Team
• D2CCA First Team All-South Central Region Team
• AVCA First Team All-South Central Region Team
• RMAC Setter of the Year
• RMAC First Team All-RMAC
• RMAC All-Tournament Team
• Oredigger Volleyball Classic All-Tournament Team
• Maverick Classic All-Tournament Team
• First Team College Sports Communicators Academic All-America
• College Sports Communicators Academic All-District
• RMAC Academic Player of the Year
• First Team RMAC All-Academic Team
• RMAC Summit Award Winner
• 4x RMAC Setter of the Week* (Sept. 16, Sept. 23, Oct. 14, Nov. 4)

*-Most in the RMAC

Overall Career Honors

Indoor

• CMU All-Time Record Holder for Career Assists (5,012)
• CMU All-Time Record Holder for Career Service Aces (183)
• D2CCA All-America (3rd Team - 2024)
• 3x AVCA All-America Honoree
  • Third Team (2024)
  • Honorable Mention (2022 & 2023)
• 2x RMAC Setter of the Year (2023, 2024)
• 2x First Team D2CCA All-South Central Region (2023, 2024)
• 2x First Team AVCA All-South Central Region (2023, 2024)
• AVCA Honorable Mention All-South Central Region (2022)
• RMAC Freshman of the Year (Spring 2021)
• 5x First Team All-RMAC (Only player in RMAC history with five first team honors)
  • Spring 2021
  • Fall 2021
  • 2022
  • 2023
  • 2024
• 2022 NCAA South Central Regional All-Tournament Team
• 18x RMAC Setter of the Week
  • 3x in Spring 2021
  • 3x in Fall 2021
  • 3x in 2022
  • 5x in 2023
  • 4x in 2024
• 4x College Sports Communicators/CoSIDA Academic All-American®
  • 3x First Team - 2022, 2023 & 2024
  • Third Team - Fall 2021
• 4x CSC/CoSIDA Academic All-District® (Fall 2021; 2022; 2023, 2024)
• 2x RMAC Academic Player of the Year (2022, 2024)
• 3x RMAC Summit Award Winner (2022, 2023, 2024)
• 4x First Team RMAC All-Academic (Fall 2021; 2022; 2023, 2024)
• 3x Oredigger Volleyball Classic All-Tournament Team (Fall 2021, 2023, 2024)
• 2x Maverick Fall Classic All-Tournament Team (2023, 2024)

Beach

• CMU Career Wins Record Holder (68)
• AVCA/College Beach Volleyball Pair of the Week (Apr. 18, 2022)
• 2022 AVCA Top Flight Award - No. 5
• 2x College Sports Communicators Academic All-American® (Women's At-Large Sports-1st Team) - 2023 & 2024
• 2x College Sports Communicators Academic All-District® (Women's At-Large Sports) - 2023 & 2024

Career Synopsis: Career Synopsis: Finishes her career as the greatest Maverick setter in program history… Finished her career with school-records for both career assists (5,012) and service aces (183)… Is the only volleyball player in RMAC history to ever earn five first team all-conference honors… Also earned four total all-America honors in three years, including Consensus Third Team accolades as a fifth-year senior… Was named as the RMAC Setter of the Year twice… Also shined academically, making CMU all-sports history as as 6-time College Sports Communicators/CoSIDA Academic All-American, including four indoor honors… Was tabbed as the RMAC Academic Player of the Year twice and as the RMAC’s Summit Award Winner three times… Went over the 5,000 assist mark in her final career match in the NCAA Tournament… Led the Mavs to four straight 20-plus win seasons and four straight NCAA Tournament appearances after helping the Mavs win the 2021 Spring season title… The Mavs compiled 105 wins and a .802 (105-25) winning percentage during her career, the program’s best span in the Division II era (1992-Present)… Helped the Mavs reach the semifinals of the RMAC Tournament in all five of her seasons… Started all 131 of the Mavs’ matches throughout her career… Is the first Maverick to ever record four separate 1,000 assist seasons… Broke the Mavs’ all-time assists record on Sept. 21, 2024 against Fort Lewis, surpassing the former record of 4,202, set by Jordyn Moody, who was inducted into the CMU Athletics Hall of Honor in October… Ended up 810 assists ahead of Moody… Also set the Mavs’ all-time 4-year record of 4,654, when excluding the Mavs’ abbreviated 2021 Spring Season… Broke Drew Choules’ career aces record a day before the assist record on Sept. 20 against Western Colorado… Finished 30 assists above Choules’ mark of 153 and 13 higher than that mark even when excluding her initial spring season… Finished her career ranked fourth in program history for matches played and third for sets played (468)… Featured in more matches than any other Maverick in the last 27 years... Also finished her beach volleyball career in 2024 as the Mavs' winningest player in program history.
 
2024 (Redshirt Senior): Capped her career with a multitude of honors… Named as the RMAC Setter of the Year for the second straight year before going on to earn consensus third team all-America honors from both the AVCA and the D2CCA… Was also named to the First Team All-South Central Region squad by both organizations… Earned her fifth straight First Team All-RMAC honor… Was tabbed as the RMAC Academic Player of the Year for the second time in three years… Was tabbed as the RMAC Summit Award Winner for the third straight season for having the highest GPA (4.0) of any student-athlete at the RMAC Tournament championship site… Went on to earn RMAC All-Tournament team honors… Also selected to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-America, All-District and First Team RMAC All-Academic Teams for the fourth straight year…Earned First Team Academic All-American honors for the third straight year... Earned a league-high four RMAC Setter of the Week honors, raising her career total to 18… Earned those honors on Sept. 16, Sept. 23, Oct. 14 and Nov. 4… Led the RMAC in assists with 1,196, the highest single-season total of her illustrious career… Was ranked fifth in the country and first in both the RMAC and the South Central Region with her 11.73 per set average, the highest for a Maverick setter in ten years (Jordan Moody, 2014)… Also finished tied for second in the RMAC with 42 service aces (0.41/set)… Her single-season assist total was the 11the best in the program’s all-time history, including the sixth best in the rally-scoring era… It was also the third best under the 25-point scoring format… Finished second on the team with 283 digs (2.77/set)… Recorded 11 double-doubles to lead the team… Finished with 33 blocks (0.32/set), including six solos and 53 kills (0.52/set), recording a .304 personal attack percentage… Led the Mavericks to a .252 team mark, the 22^nd best in the country… Also helped the Mavs rank fourth in the nation for kills per set (14.60) and seventh for assists per set (13.56)… Tallied 50 or more assists in four straight matches from Oct. 5-Oct. 18, including a season-high 60 in a 5-set win over CSU Pueblo (Oct. 11)… Had double-doubles in five straight matches, including all four matches of the aforementioned stretch… Tallied a season-high 17 digs to record her 50^th career double-double in the regular season finale at South Dakota Mines… Finished with a career-high seven kills while hitting .583 in a Nov. 2 win at national poll No. 1 MSU Denver… Also had 36 assists and 14 digs in that 4-set victory… Recorded a season-high four service aces in an opening-weekend win over No. 5 Concordia St-Paul… Also had 40 assists and 11 digs to record her first double-double of the campaign in that win over the Golden Bears… Had a trio of 3-block efforts, including one an RMAC Tournament win over Westminster… Finished just one dig shy of double-doubles in two of the Mavs’ three postseason matches… Was named to the all-tournament team at both the Oredigger Volleyball Classic and Maverick Fall Classic at the start of the season.

2023 (Redshirt Junior): Named as the RMAC Setter of the Year during an award-winning season… Went on to be selected as an AVCA (American Volleyball Coaches Association) Honorable Mention All-American for the second straight year… Was a First Team All-South Central Region selection by both the AVCA and the D2CCA (Division II Conference Commissioners’ Association), the latter of which was selected by a vote of the region’s sports information directors… Was selected to the First Team All-RMAC squad while becoming the first Maverick in program history to earn four first team honors… Selected as the RMAC Setter of the Week on five separate occasions… Earned those honors on Sept. 4, Sept. 18, Oct. 2, Oct. 16 and Nov. 13… Named to the all-tournament team at both the Oredigger Volleyball Classic and DoubleTree by Hilton Maverick Fall Classic… Was selected as the RMAC Summit Award Winner for the second consecutive year… Was picked to the RMAC All-Academic First Team for the third successive season… Also selected to the CSC (College Sports Communicators) Academic All-District Team for the third successive indoor season, raising her overall total to four such selections… Went on to be named as a CSC Academic All-American for the third straight indoor season and fourth overall team... Earned first team honors for the second straight year, becoming the first Maverick to ever accomplish that feat... Finished third in the country for assists per set (11.64)… Led the RMAC and the South Central Region with 1,176, the highest single-season total for a CMU setter in seven years… That total is also the sixth highest in CMU’s rally-scoring era history… Her per set average also ranks sixth in all-time program history… Started all 29 matches and 101 sets for the Mavs… Orchestrated the Mavs’ overall attack finished fourth in the country for kills per set (14.57)… They also ranked 16^th nationally for hitting percentage (.254)… Led the RMAC with 15 double-doubles, the most for any CMU player since 2016, when MacKenzie Edwards had the same number… Had seven consecutive double-doubles at the end of the regular season and into the RMAC Tournament, the longest streak for a Mav since 2005… Was second on the team with 300 digs (2.97/set)… Led the team with 27 service aces (0.27/set)… Also recorded 50 kills and 30 blocks… Had a .301 personal attack percentage… Recorded 50 or more assists in four different matches, tallying a season-high 58 on Oct. 21 at Colorado Christian… Was in double-figures for digs on 15 occasions… Had a career-high equaling 20 at CSU Pueblo on Oct. 6… Tallied a season-high four blocks on Sept. 8 against Fresno Pacific… Recorded a season-high three service aces against Westminster (Sept. 19)… Had a season-high five kills on just nine attempts against nationally-ranked MSU Denver in the Mavs’ next match, contested just three days later (Sept. 22).

2022 (Redshirt Sophomore): Received a multitude of awards, for both her work on the court and in the classroom while leading the Mavs to semifinals of both the RMAC and NCAA Tournaments… Became the first Maverick to ever receive College Sports Communicators (formerly known as CoSIDA) Academic All-America honors in back-to-back seasons… Joined program legend Amy Miller (1994) as the only Mavs to receive First Team accolades… Had earlier been named as the RMAC’s Academic Player of the Year and to the CSC Academic All-District Team… Was also selected as the RMAC Summit Award for having the highest GPA at the RMAC Tournament, becoming the first Maverick volleyball player to receive the honor… Was a First Team RMAC All-Academic selection for the second straight year… Was named as an AVCA Honorable Mention All-American and as an Honorable Mention All-South Central Region selection… Was also named to the NCAA South Central Regional All-Tournament Team… Was selected to the First Team All-RMAC squad for the third straight season… Led the RMAC with 53 service aces, the most of any Maverick since Drew Choules (69; 2005) and the second most in the program’s rally-scoring era (2001-Present)…  Also led the conference while ranking 35th nationally for aces per set (0.51)… Was ranked sixth in the country and second in the RMAC for assists per set (11.22), after doling out 1,156, the most for any Maverick in eight years… Was second on the team in digs with 241 (2.34/set)… Also registered 45 kills and 29 blocks while hitting .271… Started all 29 of the Mavs’ matches and played in all 103 sets… Received three RMAC Setter of the Week honors, the seventh, eighth and ninth of her career… Earned all three in the month of October on Oct. 3, 10 and 24… Led the team with eight double-doubles… Finished with 50 or more assists in five matches…. Had a season-high 58 assists and her sixth double-double in a key win over CSU Pueblo (Oct. 15)… Recorded 54 assists and 14 digs in the NCAA Tournament win over Dallas Baptist (Nov. 17)… Had 51 assists and a career-high 20 digs on Sept. 1 against defending national champion Tampa… Recorded five aces against both CSU Pueblo and the Colorado School of Mines (Oct. 29)… Had three blocks against Colorado Christian (Aug. 27), Western Colorado (Oct. 21) and DBU.

Fall 2021 (Redshirt Freshman): Named to the First Team All-RMAC unit for the second straight time… Became just the fourth Maverick in program history to earn CoSIDA Academic All-America honors... Was a third team pick... Had been selected to the CoSIDA Academic All-District team to earn her spot on the national ballot... Also led 11 Mavericks as a first team selection to the RMAC All-Academic team… Earned three more RMAC Setter of the Week honors, her fourth, fifth and sixth of the calendar year and her career… Played and started all 28 of the Mavericks' matches... Was one of just two Mavs (Kerstin Layman) to play in all 105 sets... Finished second in the RMAC with her 10.72 assist per set average… Was third in total assists with 1,126, the most for any Maverick setter since 2014 and the eighth highest total in the rally scoring era that dates back to 2001… Also finished fourth in the RMAC for service aces (44) and aces per set (0.42)… The ace total was CMU’s fourth best in the rally-scoring era… Was second on the team in digs with 244 (2.32/set)… Had five 50+ assist efforts and a team-high ten double-doubles… Set a career-high with 63 assists on Nov. 9 against Westminster… Also had a career-high four aces in that match… Followed that up with a 57-assist, 21-dig double-double against nationally-ranked Regis on Nov. 12 to earn her third RMAC Setter of the Week honor in the final week of the regular season on Nov. 15… Had also received back-to-back honors on Oct. 11 and 18… Her 21 digs against Regis were a career-high… Finished the year with 42 kills and 26 blocks… Had a career-high four kills in the NCAA Tournament against Texas-Tyler (Dec. 2) after recording three kills along with a double-double (43 assists, 11 digs) in the RMAC Tournament semifinal against the Colorado School of Mines (Nov. 19)… Had a career-high four blocks along with a double-double (42 assists, 10 digs) against nationally-ranked MSU Denver in the conference-opener on Sept. 16... Was named to the Oredigger Volleyball Classic All-Tournament team at the start of the season.

Spring 2021 (Freshman): Was named as the RMAC Freshman of the Year and to the First Team All-RMAC squad… Played in and started all 16 of the Mavs’ matches as the primary setter in CMU’s 6-2 attack… Recorded a team-high 358 assists, the ninth highest total in the RMAC… Averaged 6.28 per set, alto the ninth highest figure in the conference… Was also third on the team with 135 digs (2.37/set)… Recorded six double-doubles, tallying her first on Jan. 30 against Northwest Nazarene, when she had a season-high 17 digs… Recorded 20 or more assists each of her first five and 11 total matches… Had a season-high 36 at Western Colorado… Was named as the RMAC Setter of the Week for three consecutive weeks at the end of the regular season… Finished the season with 17 service aces (0.30/set), the second highest total on the team… Had three at Adams State (Mar. 19) before matching that season-high in a Mar. 29 win at the Colorado School of Mines, giving the Mavericks the RMAC Regular season title.

Prep: Earned first team all-conference honors as both a junior (2018) and senior (2019) for the Jared Rudiger coached Fort Collins HS Lambkins... Was an honorable mention all-conference pick as a freshman and sophomore… Helped lead the team to a third place finish at state in 2019 after taking fifth in 2018… Was a CCGS All-State pick in 2019… Finished with more than 2,000 assists in her high school career… Was a 4-year letterwinner… Earned two academic all-state honors… Was the MVP of the Dakota Ridge Tournament as a freshman.

Club: Plays for Coach Erin Hausserman and Norco Volleyball Black… Has played for the club for seven years and has qualified for nationals each year since 12s.

Personal: Daughter of Mark and Malou VanDeList… Has two siblings (Eva, Jack)… Loves to mountain bike, ski, hangout with friends and travel.

Why I Chose CMU: "When I visited CMU I saw how beautiful the campus was and everyone I met there was so welcoming. The team reminded me of my teams in the past and I loved how genuine and real they were."