Season Review
2020 SEASON
REVIEW
• 10-11 overall, 8-8 Big 12
• West Virginia finished the 2020-21 season at 10-11 and 8-8 in the Big 12 Conference • The squad posted a program-best, 8-8 mark to finish fourth overall in the Big 12, its highest league finish in Reed Sunahara’s six-year tenure • The Mountaineers also earned their first-ever national ranking in 2020-21, checking in to the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Top 15 Poll three times and climbing as high as No. 13 – also a program best • WVU captured a pair of top-10 road wins for the first time in program history, upsetting No. 10 Kansas in five sets on Oct. 9-10, in Lawrence, Kansas. With the wins, the Mountaineers earned a season sweep over the Jayhawks for the first time in program history • Three individuals finished the season in the top 10 of four Big 12 categories: Briana Lynch ranked third with a .363 hitting efficiency and ninth with 1.06 blocks per set, Lacey Zerwas ranked fourth with 9.73 assists per set and Alexa Hasting ranked fifth with 3.81 digs per set
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• Lynch’s hitting percentage of .363 ranks first in a single season in program history • Lynch and Zerwas earned a pair of Big 12 postseason awards. Lynch made her first career appearance on the All-Conference First team after earning second-team recognition a year ago, while Zerwas landed on the second team to collect her first career All-Big 12 honor • Lynch also was awarded a spot on the All-Midwest Region First Team by the AVCA. The honor marked the first of her career, as she became the first Mountaineer since 2016 to collect first-team recognition
• For the fifth straight year, WVU was named a recipient of the AVCA Team Academic Award. • Nine Mountaineers earned a spot on the 2020-21 Academic All-Big 12 Volleyball Teams, including eight first-team members. Two Mountaineers earned their awards with a 4.0 grade point averages: Lindsay Proctor and Zerwas • Zerwas also was a recipient of the Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Achievement Award, the Big 12 Conference’s highest academic honor and the Fred Schaus Captain Award
