Coleman and Hollas Garner Google Cloud Academic All-District® Recognition by CoSIDA
11/15/2018 4:52:00 PM | Women's Volleyball
Hollas named to All-District 7 First Team, Coleman earns spot on Second Team
NACOGDOCHES, Texas - In a release issued Thursday afternoon by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), SFA senior outside hitter Haley Coleman and junior setter Ann Hollas were selected as Google Cloud Academic All-District® Honorees.
The honor is the second in as many years for Hollas as the Longview, Texas, made her second-straight appearance on the All-District 7 First Team. For Coleman, it is the first Academic All-District Honor for the Rockwall, Texas, product who earned an All-District 7 Second Team nod.
Hollas, along with the other six members of the All-District 7 First Team, will move on to the Google Cloud Academic All-America® ballot. Those winners will be announced early in the month of December.
Already the recipient of the 2018 Southland Conference Setter of the Year award as well as a spot on the All-Southland Conference First Team, Hollas added to her growing list of accolades which also includes the 2015 Southland Conference Freshman of the Year. She became SFA's fourth Southland Conference Setter of the Year recipient, joining Paige Holland (2014) and JJ Jones (2004, 2005) as the only three players who have collected that particular honor.
Expanding her game during her first season as an upperclassman, Hollas totaled a team-leading 13 double-doubles and notched the Ladyjacks' first triple-double since 2012 with a 10-kill, 12-dig, 29-assist outing in a non-conference home win over Tennessee State. Though she did not rank among the top ten performers in the Southland in any statistical category, it was the all-around play of Hollas that turned the most heads.
The junior averaged 1.47 kills, 6.37 assists, 2.64 digs, 0.74 blocks and 0.22 service aces per set, making her one of the most consistent six-rotation players in the nation. In all, Hollas turned in five outings of 10 or more kills, four matches with five or more blocks and a pair of 20+ dig matches. With Hollas helping direct its attack, SFA ranks second in the Southland with a team attack percentage of .241.
In the classroom, Hollas carries a 4.0 grade point average in biology, making her one of 81 Google Cloud Academic All-District honorees who possess a perfect GPA.
A repeat selection on the All-Southland Conference First Team this year, Coleman has reached the 1,000-dig and 1,000-point milestone during a banner 2018 season thus far. SFA's top offensive threat, Coleman leads the team in kills per set with 2.86 and ranks ninth in the Southland in points per set (3.42).
A starter in 31 of SFA's matches, Coleman generated 10 or more terminations on 16 occasions and scooped up 10 or more digs 12 times through the regular season. Her 30 service aces lead SFA while her 2.67 digs per set are the second-highest among SFA's ranks. Academically, Coleman possesses a 3.94 GPA in kinesiology.
In all, six Southland Conference volleyball players collected Google Cloud Academic All-District honors in 2018.
Up next for Coleman, Hollas and the rest of the Ladyajcks is the 2018 Southland Conference Tournament in Natchitoches, La. Top-seeded SFA carries its nation-leading 26-match winning streak into Prather Coliseum Friday morning and will begin the league tournament with a quarterfinal matchup against eighth-seeded Texas A&M-Corpus Christi at 11:00 a.m.
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