LEXINGTON, Ky. -- The American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) released the All-Region awards Thursday and the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference had seven total players earn the recognition, including five who received First Team honors. Complete AVCA Release

Trinity University led all SCAC squads with four honorees, followed by Colorado College with two and Texas Lutheran University rounds out the SCAC honorees with one selection. This year marks the fourth-straight season the SCAC has had five First Team All-Region honorees.

Trinity’s  Maddie Fate, Mackenzie Logan and Courtney Pope, Colorado College’s Annie Steger and Texas Lutheran’s Faith Coldewey each received first-team nods.

Trinity’s Kendall DeRivel and Colorado College’s Carolyn Dormandy earned honorable mention recognition.

Fate, a fifth-year middle blocker from New York, NY and SCAC Player of the Year, is making her third straight appearance on the All-Region First Team. Fate enters the NCAA Tournament averaging an SCAC best 1.19 blocks per set and holds the league’s second-best hitting percentage at .391.

Logan, a fifth-year outside hitter from Calgary, Canada, is making her second-straight appearance on the All-Region First Team. The 2023 SCAC Player of the Year and two-time First Team All-SCAC performer, goes into the NCAA Tournament second in the SCAC with 3.46 kills per set and her 349 total kills is tied for second most.

Pope, a sophomore right side from New Braunfels, Texas is making her debut on the All-Region First Team. Pope, who averages 2.14 kills per set, earned Second Team All-SCAC honors this season and landed on the SCAC All-Tournament team in helping the Tigers capture the program’s 22nd SCAC Championship earlier this month.  

Steger, the SCAC Setter of the Year, leads the SCAC in assists (932) and assists per set (10.24), which ranks her 12th in the nation. The Half Moon Bay, Calif., product played in 91 total sets this season and collected a career-high 52 assists against Transylvania on Aug. 31. She was also named SCAC Setter of the Week three times this season.

Coldewey earns her first career AVCA All-Region honor following a 2024 season that saw her named SCAC Backrow Player of the Year for the first time in her career. She is the first All-Region honoree since Lexi Morris in 2022 and joins Morris as just the second libero in program history to earn All-Region honors. Coldewey, who averaged 6.31 digs and 1.30 assists per set with a .943 reception percentage led a Bulldogs defense that led NCAA Division-III with an average of 21.82 digs per set. The Bulldog libero also received All-SCAC First Team honors for the first time. The senior from Floresville, Texas was named SCAC Defensive Player of the Week three times this season.

DeRivel was a two-time SCAC Setter of the Week this season and was named to the All-SCAC 2nd Team. She heads into NCAA Tournament action with the league’s second most assists (638) and is third in assists per set at 5.60.

Rounding out the list of SCAC student-athletes on the AVCA All-Region 10 squad is junior outside hitter Carolyn Dormady of Colorado College. Dormady leads the SCAC with 3.58 kills per set and fourth in kills with 340, earning first-team all-SCAC honors. The Los Altos, Calif., native is also seventh in the SCAC with a hitting percentage of .256.

To view the entire AVCA All-Region Teams, click here.