PITTSBURGH, Pa.—University of Hawai'i women's volleyball player
Brooke Van Sickle earned American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) All-America honorable mention honors for the first time of her collegiate career on Wednesday.
The senior outside hitter helped to lead Hawai'i to its second-straight Big West title and its 39
th appearance in the NCAA tournament (UH did not play in 2020 because of COVID-19). In her final season as a Rainbow Wahine, the versatile Van Sickle was voted Big West Player of the Year and finished the year averaging a conference-best 4.47 points per set (points=kills + aces + blocks). She led UH in kills (384), kill/set (3.73), service aces (38), aces/set (0.37), and points (460.5). She was second on the team with 324 digs and third (behind only UH's middle blockers) with 63 total blocks. Van Sickle is the second-straight Big West Player of the Year from Hawai'i to earn All-America Honorable Mention honors, following former Rainbow Wahine Norene Iosia who also earned BWC Player of the Year and honorable mention honors in 2019.
Van Sickle is just the 13th Rainbow Wahine to be named AVCA All-America honorable mention. She is the lone player from the Big West Conference to earn All-America recognition.
Van Sickle has also performed well in the classroom, as she was named to the 2021 CoSIDA Academic All-District 8 team for maintaining a 3.57 grade-point average in her graduate studies after earning her bachelor's in economics in the spring of 2021.
The group of honorable mention selections includes a combination of players named Conference Player of the Year and 30 additional players identified by the 11 members of the AVCA All-America Committee.
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