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Hawaii outside hitter Nikki Taylor (14) celebrated an ace by Hawaii middle hitter Annie Mitchem (8) during the first set of Friday’s match against the Long Beach St. 49ers.
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Hawaii senior opposite Nikki Taylor was named to VolleyballMag.com’s 12-member All-America first team on Thursday.
Taylor, the two-time Big West Player of the Year, earned her second consecutive AVCA All-America second-team honor last week. The Kaiser High graduate finished her Rainbow Wahine career at No. 12 all-time in kills (1,377).
Four other players with isle ties were selected, led by second-teamer Adora Anae (Kahuku), a junior hitter at Utah. Named honorable mention were: Carly Kan (Punahou), a senior hitter at Missouri; Kalei Mau (St. Francis), a senior hitter for Arizona; and Penina Snuka (Kahuku), a senior setter for Arizona.
Wahine pair eliminated at beach trials
Hawaii freshman beach volleyball players Morgan Martin and Amy Ozee were eliminated in Thursday’s quarterfinals of the USA Volleyball U21 Trials at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif.
Martin and Ozee advanced to the quarterfinals by defeating Stanford’s Chelsea Mohl-Shannon Richardson 21-15, 21-13 earlier Thursday to improve to 4-0. The Rainbow Wahine pair then lost to 2017-18 USC beach commits Haley Halgren and Sammy Slater 24-22, 21-12.
The top two teams from today’s final will represent the U.S. at June’s FIVB U21 World Championship in China.