Junior Mac May (left) and senior Savvy Simo were both named to the All-Pac-12 First Team.
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May Named Pac-12 Player of the Year, Simo First Team All-Pac-12
December 03, 2019 | Women's Volleyball
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SAN FRANCISCOย - Junior Mac May became the fifth Bruin, and the first since 1994, to earn Pac-12 Player of the Year honors, as announced by the conference on Tuesday.
May joins Annett Buckner (1994), Julie Bremner (1993), Natalie Williams (1992) and Daiva Tomkus (1989, 1988) as the only other Bruins to earn league POY plaudits.
May, who was named to the All-Pac-12 First Team for the second year in a row, was joined on the First Team by senior Savvy Simo. It is the third Pac-12 accolade for May (Honorable Mention in 2017) and the first for Simo.
May leads the Bruins with 4.77 kills per set, 5.42 points per set and 35 service aces, while ranking third with 2.55 digs per set. She is ninth in the nation in pps, 13th in kps and 41st in attacks per set (11.18). Among Pac-12 players, May is first in pps and aces per set (0.36) and second in kps.
It has been a milestone season for the junior, who became the 29th Bruin to reach 1,000-career kills on Nov. 9 against Utah. Last Friday versus USC, May recorded her 100th career ace, the 19th Bruin to do so. She also became the 13th UCLA player to tally both 1,000 kills and 100 aces.
May, a two-time Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week this season (Oct. 28 and Dec. 2) and AVCA National Player of the Week (Oct. 29), has eight matches with at least 20 kills in 2019 to go with eight double-doubles. May has 25 double-figure kills matches, setting a new career high with 29 against Washington on Oct. 6. At the service line, she has multiple aces nine times on the season, tying a career high with four versus Arizona State on Sept. 29.
Simo ranks second on the team with 3.00 kps, 3.27 dps and 19 service aces. She is the team leader in double-doubles with nine. Simo has 17 double-figure digs matches and 15 double-figure kills contests.
The senior reached a milestone of her own on Nov. 22 against Oregon, when on the second-to-last point of the win, she became the 25th member of the UCLA 1,000-dig club. Simo enters the postseason 21st all-time in digs with 1,040.
Simo had a season-best 20 digs at Washington State on Nov. 1 and set a new career high with 19 kills versus Washington on Oct. 6. She also had a personal-best three aces at California on Nov. 15.
The Bruins open up the NCAA Tournament on Friday with a first-round matchup against Notre Dame at 2:30 p.m. PT/4:30 p.m. CT in Madison, Wis.
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SAN FRANCISCOย - Junior Mac May became the fifth Bruin, and the first since 1994, to earn Pac-12 Player of the Year honors, as announced by the conference on Tuesday.
May joins Annett Buckner (1994), Julie Bremner (1993), Natalie Williams (1992) and Daiva Tomkus (1989, 1988) as the only other Bruins to earn league POY plaudits.
May, who was named to the All-Pac-12 First Team for the second year in a row, was joined on the First Team by senior Savvy Simo. It is the third Pac-12 accolade for May (Honorable Mention in 2017) and the first for Simo.
May leads the Bruins with 4.77 kills per set, 5.42 points per set and 35 service aces, while ranking third with 2.55 digs per set. She is ninth in the nation in pps, 13th in kps and 41st in attacks per set (11.18). Among Pac-12 players, May is first in pps and aces per set (0.36) and second in kps.
It has been a milestone season for the junior, who became the 29th Bruin to reach 1,000-career kills on Nov. 9 against Utah. Last Friday versus USC, May recorded her 100th career ace, the 19th Bruin to do so. She also became the 13th UCLA player to tally both 1,000 kills and 100 aces.
May, a two-time Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week this season (Oct. 28 and Dec. 2) and AVCA National Player of the Week (Oct. 29), has eight matches with at least 20 kills in 2019 to go with eight double-doubles. May has 25 double-figure kills matches, setting a new career high with 29 against Washington on Oct. 6. At the service line, she has multiple aces nine times on the season, tying a career high with four versus Arizona State on Sept. 29.
Simo ranks second on the team with 3.00 kps, 3.27 dps and 19 service aces. She is the team leader in double-doubles with nine. Simo has 17 double-figure digs matches and 15 double-figure kills contests.
The senior reached a milestone of her own on Nov. 22 against Oregon, when on the second-to-last point of the win, she became the 25th member of the UCLA 1,000-dig club. Simo enters the postseason 21st all-time in digs with 1,040.
Simo had a season-best 20 digs at Washington State on Nov. 1 and set a new career high with 19 kills versus Washington on Oct. 6. She also had a personal-best three aces at California on Nov. 15.
The Bruins open up the NCAA Tournament on Friday with a first-round matchup against Notre Dame at 2:30 p.m. PT/4:30 p.m. CT in Madison, Wis.
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