SAN FRANCISCO – Sun Devil Volleyball received the most postseason conference honors in program history, highlighted by JJ Van Niel being named the Pac-12 Coach of the Year, Marta Levinska on the All-Pac-12 Team and four earning honorable mentions.
First-year head coach Van Niel is the fourth coach of the year in Arizona State volleyball history, the first since Patti Snyder-Park in 1992. He is the fourth coach in Sun Devil Athletics to be named coach of the year in their first season. Among Pac-12 volleyball winners, he is the third first-year head coach to win, along with John Dunning from Stanford in 2001 and Jerritt Elliot as the interim head coach at USC in 1999.