LEXINGTON, Ky. -- The American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) announced the 2024 Division III All-America teams last Wednesday, and five Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference players were recognized.
Trinity University’s Maddie Fate earned Second Team honors, while her teammates Mackenzie Logan and Courtney Pope, Colorado College’s Annie Steger and Texas Lutheran University’s Faith Coldewey secured Honorable Mention recognition. All five earned First Team All-Region Honors last month as well.
This marks the fourth-straight year the SCAC has placed five athletes on the All-American squad.
Fate earned All-American honors for the third straight season, including each of the past two as a Second Team All-American, as well as being selected as an Honorable Mention All-American in 2022. Fate was named the 2024 SCAC Player of the Year, earning her third straight selection to the AVCA All-Region Team, and her third straight All-SCAC honors. She ranked in the top 10 in Division III in hitting percentage and total blocks and was also ranked in the top 20 in blocks per set.
This is the second All-American honor for Logan, who joined Fate as a Second Team All-American last year. Logan was the 2023 SCAC Player of the Year and has been named First Team All-SCAC and First Team All-Region each of the past two seasons.
Pope picks up her first AVCA All-America recognition after recently being named a First Team All-Region player and a Second Team All-SCAC selection.
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-American 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-American honoree since Jessica Stetler in 2010 and just the third in program history. 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.
To view the entire AVCA All-American team, click here.