Region Leaders (Week 9)

My cover photo is of Maddie Fate (Trinity) who is currently 1^st in the Region in Hitting Percentage and 7^th nationally. Maddie was on the AVCA All-Region team in 2022 and continues to play great this season. This will be our weekly regional leaders’ article that highlight some of the best of the best in our region. I will also be including top 5 teams in our region.

Previous Cover Photos:

Week 1: Morgan Nix (LeTourneau) Week 2: Mya Ray (La Verne) Week 3: Graycee Mosley (East Texas Baptist) Week 4: Halle Hetzler (Pacific Lutheran) Week 5: Kara Spice (St Thomas) Week 6: Georgia McGovern (CMS) Week 7: Shavonne Respondek (TLU) Week 8: Kaity Barr (Whitworth)

Here are the players in the Top 5 nationally in a statistic (through Sunday):

• Mya Ray (La Verne) is 4^th in Kills/Set at 4.78

• Georgia McGovern (CMS) is 3^rd in Assists/Set at 11.16

• Morgan Nix (LeTourneau) is 1^st in Digs/Set at 7.18

• Halle Hetzler (Pacific Lutheran) is 2^nd in Digs/Set at 6.96

• Mya Ray (La Verne) is 5^th in Points/Set at 5.25

Here are the teams in the Top 5 nationally in a statistic:

• Claremont-Mudd-Scripps is 4^th in Hitting Percentage at 0.271

• Claremont-Mudd-Scripps is 1^st in Kills/Set at 14.57

• La Verne is 4^th in Kills/Set at 13.99

• Claremont-Mudd-Scripps is 1^st in Assists/Set at 13.56

• La Verne is 2^nd in Assists/Set at 13.19

• Texas Lutheran is 1^st in Digs/Set at 21.44

• Whitworth is 4^th in Blocks/Set at 2.49

• Texas Lutheran is 1^st in Attacks/Set at 41.70

• St Thomas is 5^th in Attacks/Set at 40.91

Here are the Region X Individual Leaders (through Sunday):

Aces per Set

1. Ariana Carranza (Occidental) 0.59

2. Nadine Oronoz (Whittier) & Makenzie Weddel (Howard Payne) tied 0.57

Assists per Set

1. Georgia McGovern (CMS) 11.16

2. Malia Capistrano (La Verne) 10.56

3. Olivia Evaro (Pacific Lutheran) 9.92

Attacks per Set

1. Graycee Mosley (ETBU) 12.44

2. Mara Murphy (Pacific) 12.20

3. Mya Ray (La Verne) 11.77

Blocks per Set

1. Kaity Barr (Whitworth) 1.22

2. Maddie Fate (Trinity) 1.14

3. Jadyn Hernandez (Hardin-Simmons) 1.13

Digs per Set

1. Morgan Nix (LeTourneau) 7.18

2. Halle Hetzler (Pacific Lutheran) 6.96

3. Kara Spice (St Thomas) 6.03

Hitting Percentage

1. Maddie Fate (Trinity) 0.401

2. Kaity Barr (Whitworth) 0.388

3. Audrey Sawyer (CMS) 0.387

Kills per Set

1. Mya Ray (La Verne) 4.78

2. Graycee Mosley (ETBU) 4.75

3. Jenna Holmes (CMS) 4.08

Points per Set

1. Mya Ray (La Verne) 5.25

2. Graycee Mosley (ETBU) 5.19

3. Jenna Holmes (CMS) 4.62

Triple-Doubles

1. Shavonne Respondek (TLU) 4

2. Halle Blend (Caltech), Lizzy Kerman (Occidental) & Kendall Harrington (UMHB) tied 1