2021 (Senior): Became just the third UH player to earn AVCA National Player of the Year honors…also named VolleyballMag.com National Player of the Year…one of just four players in program history to receive AVCA first-team All-America honors for the third time…recipient of Off the Block’s Nicolas Szerszen Award for the third consecutive year as the nation’s best non-U.S. born player…also won the Bryan Ivie Award as the nation’s best opposite for the second time…selected as the Big West Conference Player of the Year for the second consecutive year, becoming just the second UH player to win two conference player of the year awards…earned first-team all-Big West honors for the third time…received three AVCA National Player of the Week awards (Feb. 23, April 13, April 20), becoming the first player in AVCA history to do so…named the Big West’s Player of the Week award five times (Feb. 23, March 15, April 5, April 12, April 19) for a record 15 times in his career…also earned Big West Defensive Player of the Week once (March 1)…recipient of the school’s Jack Bonham Award, given to the top male and female senior student-athlete…helped the Rainbow Warriors win the NCAA title, a first in program history, with a straight-set win over BYU in the finals…named the NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player…started all 18 matches and tallied double-figure kills in every match…ranked No. 2 nationally in kills per set (4.38) and No. 3 in points per set (5.27)…led the team with 23 aces, including three in the national championship match against BYU (May 8)…became the 18
th player in program history to reach 1,000 career kills in victory over UC Irvine (Feb. 22)…finished 10
th all-time in program history with 1,271 career kills…also ranks fourth in career aces (114) and sixth in career aces per set (0.33)…season-high 27 kills in five-set win over Long Beach State (April 3)…hit .426 with 25 kills against UC Irvine (April 16)…had three 20+ kill matches and 13 in his career…recorded double-figure kills in 71 of 115 career matches…member of 96 career wins…named to Off the Block’s Preseason All-America first team...Named academic all-Big West.
2020: AVCA All-America first team for the second consecutive year...Big West Conference Player of the Year and first-team all-Big West...winner of Off the Block's Nicolas Szerszen Award as the nation's best non-U.S. born player for the second year in a row and was runner-up for the Bryan Ivie Award as the nation's best opposite...started 15 matches at opposite…ranked No. 2 nationally in kills per set (4.47), No. 3 in points per set (5.28), and No. 15 in hitting percentage (.377)…posted career-high averages in kills and digs per set (1.44)…also averaged 0.84 blocks per set and tallied 16 aces…career-high 30 kills in five-set, come-from-behind victory over No. 2 BYU (March 6), becoming the first UH player to reach 30 kills since 2013…reached double-digit kill totals 11 times and 20+ kills three times…three-time Big West Player of the Week (Jan. 21, Feb. 10, Mar. 9)… Most Outstanding Player of the Rainbow Warrior Classic (4.00 kps, 2.00 dps, .346 hit%)…named to the Outrigger Invitational all-tournament team (5.17 kps, 1.50 dps, .468 hit%)…tallied 24 kills, hitting .429 at Loyola (Jan. 18)…first double-double of the season with 22 kills and 10 digs along with four aces at Lewis (Jan. 17) to earn Big West Player of the Week honors….recorded multiple ace totals five times.
2019 (Junior): Named to the AVCA All-America first team…NCAA Championship all-tournament team…all-Big West first team…Off the Block’s Bryan Ivie Award winner as the nation’s best opposite and International Player of the Year…became just the second UH player to earn AVCA National Player of the Week honors twice in the same season (March 5 & 19)…OTB National Opposite of the Week (Feb. 4 & March 4)…five-time Big West Player of the Week (March 4, 11, 18; April 1, 8)…appeared and started in all 31 matches…ranked in the nation’s Top 10 in kills (5
th, 5.05/s), hitting percentage (5
th, .420), kills per set (7
th, 4.07/s), and aces (9
th, 0.457/s)…led the Big West in kills per set and ranked No. 2 in hitting percentage and No. 5 in service aces…reached double-figures in kills 21 times, including three 20+-kill matches…led the team in aces (43) and was second in blocking (0.95/s)…season-high 21 kills against Long Beach State (April 12)…hit .500 or better 16 times, including .875 (7-0-8) versus Queens (Feb. 7) and .857 (12-0-14) against UC Irvine (April 19) in the Big West Tournament semifinals…career-high five aces against Lincoln Memorial (Feb. 15)…had 13 matches with multiple aces…Most Outstanding Player of the Outrigger Resorts Invitational and named to the all-tournament team of the Hawaiian Airlines Rainbow Warrior Classic.....named academic all-Big West.
2018 (Sophomore): Named an AVCA All-America honorable mention and all-Big West honorable mention teams…appeared and started 26 matches at opposite…finished second on the team with a 3.55 kills per set average, hitting .272…also averaged 1.00 digs and 0.79 blocks per set…tied for second on the team with 23 service aces…earned Big West Player of the Week honors during the final two weeks of the regular season…selected to the all-tournament team of the season-opening Texaco Rainbow Warrior Classic…recorded 16 matches of double figure kills, including final eight matches of the season…had three matches of 20-plus kills…season-high 21 kills, hitting .351 in win over UC Irvine (Feb. 23)…back-to-back 20-kill matches against UC Santa Barbara (April 7) and Long Beach State (April 13)…also had career-high 10 blocks against the Gauchos…career-high four aces against UC Irvine (April 20) in the semifinals of the Big West Tournament…had 15 kills, three aces, and seven digs in win over UCLA (Jan. 26).
2017 (Freshman): Named to MPSF all-freshman team…appeared in 25 matches with five starts at opposite…averaged 2.07 kills, 0.54 digs, and 0.39 blocks per set…hit .300 for the season and totaled nine service aces…in first career start at Long Beach State (Jan. 18), tallied 23 kills (.298), four digs, one ace, and five blocks…reached double figures in kills in four of five starts…recorded 16 kills, hitting .355 in three-set win over Lindenwood (Feb. 15)…came off the bench and sparked a win over UCLA (April 7) with nine kills and four digs…appeared in the starting lineup in the rematch versus the Bruins (April 8) and finished with 11 kills, two aces, and four digs...had five matches with double figures kills.
National Team: Member of the Bulgarian Junior National Team…helped team capture the Republic championship from 2011-13…team captured the Balkan Championship in 2012 (U17) and 2014 (U18)…team placed 12
th at the World Championship in 2015…at the European Championships team placed sixth in 2015 and eighth in 2016…team took first place at the Lokovolley and second place at the Young Olympic Games…selected as the Republic Championship Most Valuable Player in 2012…named Best Spiker in 2015 and Best Server in 2016 at the European Championships.
Prep: A 2016 graduate of National High School of Math in Sofia, Bulgaria...played club ball for CSKA for 10 years.
Personal: Born Radoslav Parapunov in Razlog, Bulgaria…intends to major in business…has one sister…parents are Nikola and Irina Parapunov of Sofia, Bulgaria.
CAREER HIGHS
K 30 vs. BYU (3/6/20)
E 13 vs. UC San Diego (4/23/21)
TA 53 vs. Long Beach State (4/3/21)
Hit% 1.000 (9-0-9) vs. Grand View (1/27/17)
SA 5, 2x, last vs. UC Irvine (4/17/21)
D 11, 2x, last vs. UC Santa Barbara (5/6/21)
TB 10 at UC Santa Barbara (4/7/18)
