Lexington, KY (October 30, 2024) – The American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) is proud to announce the fourth annual AVCA Best and Brightest Awards for Girls High School Senior student-athletes. The AVCA Best & Brightest Award is an award meant to honor individual high school Senior student-athletes who excel on and off the court. To be eligible for the Best and Brightest Award, Senior student-athletes must have earned at least a 3.5 Unweighted/4.0 Weighted GPA (or the equivalent, if using a different GPA scale) during their junior year AND play in 50% of their varsity team’s sets during their senior season. Nominations for the award were completed last week.

Some additional tiers of recognition apply:

• AVCA Best and Brightest First Team: 3.8 Unweighted GPA/4.3 Weighted GPA or above
• AVCA Best and Brightest Second Team: 3.65 Unweighted GPA/4.15 Weighted GPA or above
• AVCA Best and Brightest Third Team: 3.5 Unweighted GPA/4.0 Weighted GPA or above

Total amount of student-athletes receiving the 2024 AVCA Best and Brightest Award:

1,390

The awarded student-athletes are broken down in the following amounts:

• AVCA Best and Brightest First Team: 862 Athletes
• AVCA Best and Brightest Second Team: 256 Athletes
• AVCA Best and Brightest Third Team: 272 Athletes

The Ohio High School Volleyball Coaches Association, District VII, has annouced their All-District teams for the 2024 season and three Northview Wildcats were elected to All-District VII teams:

First Team All-District VII

• Frankie Ramsdell-Washington, Sophomore, Middle Blocker

Second Team All-District VII

• Alayna Sauer, Sophomore, Setter
• Paige LaBudda, Senior, Libero

In addtion, all six (6) seniors have been named to the District VII All-Academic team for their cumulative GPAs of 3.25 or higher throughout their careers as Wildcats. Those seniors are Paige LaBudda, Sydney Rogers, Emily Kwiatkowski, Zoe Denny, Claire Swartz, and Zoey Johnson. 

All players will be presented their awards at the 2024 District VII All-Star Match on Wednesday, November 13, 2024 at Lourdes University. Northview senior, Paige LaBudda, will also be playing in the All-Star match. 

The Northern Lakes League has announced the All-NLL Teams for the 2024 season. This year, the Northview Wildcats finished in third place in the Buckeye Division (8-14 overall, 4-4 in the NLL Buckeye division before tournament play) had the following honors bestowed upon this team with two selected to All-NLL teams. 

First Team - Frankie Ramsdell-Washington, Sophomore, Middle Blocker

• This is the first year that Frankie was voted to First Team.

Second Team - Alayna Sauer, Sophomore, Setter

• This is the first year that Alayna was voted to Second Team.

Congratulations to these five Northview Wildcats on representing this team with honor and grace. 

Sophomore setter, Alayna Sauer, has been ranked by Prep Dig as the third best setter in the state of Ohio. From their most recent article, "Sauer comes in third in total votes received at nearly 5,500. The sophomore has assumed a much bigger role in Northview’s offense and is offering up seven assists per set. She puts up a good ball and shows good balance in her distribution based upon Northview’s personal that includes strength in the middle phase. As Sauer saw some healthy action as an attacker during the club season, she continues to establish herself as a good two-way prospect in her ability to distribute the ball as well as take big swings at the pins when needed. Northview is currently 2-2 in league play and will next face Steele this weekend."

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Congratulations to Team #48 on their new school record: Most Kills in a 3 Set Match with 49. This beat the previous record set on September 7, 2023 vs. Findlay.