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BYU Women’s Volleyball sweeps WCC awards

By Shaun Gordon

ATHENS - AUGUST 21: Shadow image of celebration by the USA team during their men's indoor Volleyball preliminary match against Australia on August 21, 2004 during the Athens 2004 Summer Olympic Games at the Peace and Friendship Stadium part of the Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex in Athens, Greece. (Photo by Nick Laham/Getty Images)
ATHENS - AUGUST 21: Shadow image of celebration by the USA team during their men's indoor Volleyball preliminary match against Australia on August 21, 2004 during the Athens 2004 Summer Olympic Games at the Peace and Friendship Stadium part of the Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex in Athens, Greece. (Photo by Nick Laham/Getty Images) /
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BYU Women’s Volleyball swept all of the major WCC awards for 2018 and placed a program-record five players on the All-WCC First Team.

It’s a clean sweep for BYU Women’s Volleyball.

The Cougars spent more than half the season as the No. 1 team in the nation, so it should come as little surprise that the team swept all of the major West Coast Conference awards and had five players earn First Team All-WCC Honors.

Those who earned awards included:

  • Veronica Jones-Perry – WCC Player of the Year, First Team All-WCC
  • Mary Lake – WCC Defender of the Year, First Team All-WCC
  • Heather Gneiting – WCC Freshman of the Year, First Team All-WCC, WCC All-Freshman Team
  • Heather Olmstead – WCC Coach of the Year
  • Lyndie Haddock-Eppich – First Team All-WCC
  • McKenna Miller – First Team All-WCC

This is the first time in BYU’s history that they’ve had five First Team All-WCC performers, earning exactly half of the 10 spots.

Jones-Perry dominated offensively during the regular season, averaging 4.71 kills and 0.42 aces per set, hitting .346. All of those numbers sit in the Top 40 nationally.

Lake earned her second straight WCC Defender of the Year award with averages of 3.95 digs and 1.05 assists per set. Her back-line defense helped the Cougars rank No. 2 in the nation in opponent hitting percentage.

Gneiting led the conference in both blocks per set (1.29) and hitting percentage (.393), and ranked No. 6 and No. 16 nationally in those two categories respectively.

Haddock-Eppich finished the regular season at No. 17 in the nation in assists per set (11.09) and also ended up in the WCC’s Top 10 in blocks per set (1.00).

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Miller averaged 3.25 kills per set and hit .307 before going down with a season-ending injury. This is her third All-WCC honor.

Olmstead has a winning percentage of .905 (114-12) in her first five seasons as head coach of the Cougars. That’s the best percentage in NCAA history for a coach’s first five years. She’s also led BYU to at least a share of the conference title in all five of her season at the helm.

BYU joins four other WCC teams in the NCAA Tournament that begins this weekend. The Cougars earned the No. 4 overall seed in the tournament, and they’ll host Stony Brook in the first round on Friday night at 7:00pm MT.

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