Final Stats // Final Standings // 2022 Weekly Award Winners // 2022 Pac-12 All-Conference Honors 

SAN FRANCISCO - The 2022 Pac-12 women’s volleyball season is officially in the books with Texas winning the NCAA Volleyball Championship this past weekend in Omaha. Pac-12 Champion Stanford and league runner-up Oregon were two of six teams from the league to compete in the 2022 postseason tournament with the Cardinal and Ducks each advancing the furthest to the Regional Final round. Both Stanford and Oregon were one set away from reaching the Final Four, but suffered tough five-set defeats to No. 2 seeded San Diego and No. 1 seeded Louisville, respectively, to end their tournament runs in the Elite Eight. It was Stanford’s first appearance in a regional final since winning the national championship in 2019, while Oregon advanced to a regional final for just the third time in program history. The losses ended long winning streaks for both teams as the Cardinal had won 21 straight and the Ducks had won a school-record 16 straight entering the Elite Eight matches. The two squads in the final eight were the most for the Pac-12 since 2019.

Overall it was another strong year for the league as the Pac-12 sent six teams to the NCAA postseason for the 28th time in the 42-year history of the championship tournament and the 22nd time out of the last 23 seasons. Eight teams finished above .500 overall, while seven teams won double-digit conference matches. Forty three Pac-12 student-athletes earned all-conference honors, 23 garnered American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) All-Region honors and eight were selected as AVCA All-Americans. The five AVCA First Team All-American selections were the most since 2017 and most of any conference in 2022, while Oregon’s Mimi Colyer became the first Duck and seventh Pac-12 freshman to garner AVCA Freshman of the Year honors.

PAC-12 HONORS … Stanford earned four of the five major 2022 Pac-12 postseason individual honors … Cardinal senior Kendall Kipp was voted Pac-12 Player of the Year ... Kami Miner became the third Cardinal to be voted Pac-12 Setter of the Year a season after being named the 2021 Pac-12 Freshman of the Year ... Stanford junior Elena Oglivie was the pick as the Pac-12 Libero of the Year joining three-time honoree Morgan Hentz as the only other Cardinal to earn the award since its inception in 2011. ... Oregon’s Mimi Colyer was recognized as Pac-12 Freshman of the Year, just the second such honor for Oregon, after setting a new record with eight Freshman of the Week honors in 2022 ... Stanford head coach Kevin Hambly claimed his second (2018) Pac-12 Coaches of the Year honor after leading the Cardinal to its fourth title under his direction ... In addition to the major awards, the Conference announced the 18-member All-Pac-12 team ... In addition to Kipp, Miner, Oglivie and Colyer also earning spots on the All-Conference team were Washington State’s Magda Jehlárová and Washington’s Ella May Powell, who became the 23rd and 24th players in Pac-12 history to earn the honor four times ... Stanford’s Caitie Baird, Washington’s Claire Hoffman, Oregon’s Brooke Nuneviller and Hannah Pukis, Oregon and Washington State’s Pia Timmer are three-time honorees while Kipp, UCLA’s Anna Dodson, Utah’s Madelyn Robinson and Washington’s Marin Grote have each picked up the honor twice ... Miner, Colyer and Oglivie join Stanford’s Elia Rubin and USC’s Skylar Fields and Mia Tuaniga as first-time selections … Colyer and Rubin were also named to the seven-member 2022 All-Freshman team along with Utah’s KJ Burgess, UCLA’s Grayce Olson, Oregon State’s Kinley Swan and USC’s Gala Trubint and Jordan Wilson.

AVCA ALL-REGION HONORS … A total of 23 Pac-12 women's volleyball student-athletes were recognized on American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Division I All-Region teams … Stanford's Kendall Kipp earned the Pacific North Region's Player of the Year honor; Oregon's Mimi Colyer was tabbed the Pacific North Region Freshman of the Year, joining teammate and fellow all-region honoree Brooke Nuneviller (2018) as the only two Ducks to earn the award; Stanford's Kevin Hambly was selected as the Pacific North Region Coach of the Year for the second time overall and first since 2018 … In all, 12 were named to the Pacific North All-Region Team and four collected honorable mention honors … In the Pacific South Region, Utah's KJ Burgess was selected as the Pacific South Region Freshman of the Year, becoming the third Ute to earn the honor and first since 2006 … Four garnered Pacific South All-Region honors and three, including Burgess, earned honorable mention honors … Stanford and Oregon led the Pac-12 with five players apiece selected to AVCA All-Region Teams.

AVCA ALL-AMERICA HONORS …  Oregon’s Mimi Colyer is the first ever Duck and seventh freshman in Pac-12 history to take AVCA Freshman of the Year honors ... The Pac-12 had five first team selections, the most since 2017 and most any conference in 2022, with Washington State's Magda Jehlarova, USC's Skylar Fields, Oregon's Brooke Nuneviller and Stanford's Kendall Kipp and Kami Miner earning the award … Washington's Claire Hoffman garnered a second team nod along with Oregon's Hannah Pukis, who earned her first selection … Colyer was the Pac-12's only third team honoree …. Elena Oglivie (Stanford), Ella May Powell (Washington), Madelyn Robinson (Utah) and Mia Tuaniga (USC) received honorable mention All-America acclaim.

PAC-12 IN THE NCAA TOURNAMENT… Pac-12 institutions have won 17 of the 42 all-time NCAA championships in women’s volleyball, four more than the next closest conference (Big Ten), and four of the past 12 ... Pac-12 teams have compiled a 504-272 (.650) record in NCAA play. Toss out the 48 postseason matches between Conference teams and the league’s NCAA Tournament record against non-conference opponents stands at 449-218 (.673) ... Seven different Pac-12 programs have made NCAA semifinal appearances since 2001 and 14 of the past 22 championship matches have included at least one Pac-12 program ... A Pac-12 team has been one of the final four teams in all but six years of the NCAA Tournament (1993, 1998, 2009, 2015, 2021, 2022) and at least one Pac-12 team has played in 27 of the 42 NCAA title matches all-time, the most of any league ... Four different Pac-12 teams have claimed the NCAA titles (Stanford, UCLA, USC, Washington) … Stanford was the last team to claim a national championship, grabbing the title in back-to-back years in 2018 and 2019.

FINAL AVCA POLL … With the final rankings released on Dec. 19, three Pac-12 teams ended the season in the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Coaches Top 25 with Stanford at No. 6, Oregon at No. 7 and Washington State at No. 24. USC was the top vote-getter outside of the top 25 with 50 votes and Washington receive 28 votes.

STANFORD WINS FIRST PAC-12 TITLE SINCE 2019 …  After being picked to finish second in the preseason coaches poll, the Cardinal surged to the top of the standings for the first time since 2019 behind an 18-match winning streak to end the regular season … It’s the fourth title in six seasons under head coach Kevin Hambly.

NUMBERS OF NOTE … Washington's Ella May Powell finished her career with 6,218 assists which ranks third all time in program history and was the most career assists for a Pac-12 player in 14 years since UCLA's Nellie Spicer collected 6,000 from 2005-08 … Powell’s 162 career service aces rank tied for seventh all-time California’s Brook Coulter (1996-99) and Arizona’s Kim Glass (2002-05) … Washington State's Magda Jehlarova’s 600 career blocks rank 14th all-time in Pac-12 history … Oregon State's Izzi Szulczewski was one of 17 players in the country this season with multiple triple doubles … She was the first in Pac-12 history with multiple triple-doubles in a season since Oregon's August Raskie in 2018 (2) … Against Colorado on Sept. 30, USC's Mia Tuaniga put up 37 assists, had 10 digs, and served a USC-record 10 aces for her first career triple-double and first for the Trojans since Raquel Lázaro on Sept. 7, 2019 against Northern Iowa (36 assists, 16 digs, 11 blocks) … Tuaniga's 10 aces were the most in the NCAA this season and tied with Stanford's Teresa Smith (vs. Illinois State, Oct. 19, 1986) for the second-most in Pac-12 history … Oregon's Mimi Colyer earned her record-eighth Freshman of the Week award on Nov. 21 and became just the fourth player since the freshman award was introduced in 2011 to earn Offensive Player of the Week and freshman honors in the same week and the first since 2016 … Colyer broke the old freshman mark of six set by USC's Ebony Nwanebu in 2013.

NOTABLES … Pac-12 players won two of the 12 Gamechanger/AVCA National Player of the Week awards this season (Skylar Fields - Oct. 11; Kami Miner - Oct. 25) ... The Pac-12 has had 10 or more first, second and third-team All-America selections in 13 of the last 18 seasons ... Twelve former Pac-12 players have earned first, second or third-team All-America honors four times, while 30 players have earned All-America honors three times ... Since 1990, Pac-12 players garnered AVCA Player of the Year honors 15 times, including the seven of the last 12 - California's Carli Lloyd (2010), USC’s Alex Jupiter (2011), Oregon's Alaina Bergsma (2012), Washington's Krista Vansant (2013), USC’s Samantha Bricio (2015) and Stanford's Kathryn Plummer (2017 and 2018) ... The Honda Sports Award for volleyball has been bestowed upon a Pac-12 athlete 21 times in its 47 years of existence, including most recently Stanford's Jenna Gray in 2019.