SAN FRANCISCO — Fifth year seniors
Magda Jehlárová and
Pia Timmer were each recognized as first team All-Pac-12 for the fifth and fourth times in their careers, respectively, as No. 10 Washington State volleyball (24-7) had five total student-athletes named to the Pac-12 all conference teams as announced by the league office Tuesday.
Iman Isanovic,
Katy Ryan, and
Argentina Ung were each voted as honorable mention all-conference performers in a season that saw the Cougars go 14-6 in league play and a tie for third place in the final Pac-12 standings of the season.
Jehlárová, the conference's all-time leader with 11 career weekly Pac-12 awards, becomes the first athlete to reach five first team all-conference selections in their respective sport. The fifth-year senior from Prerov, Czech Republic, was named the conference's freshman of the year back in 2019, and has since been named First Team All-Pac-12 every year of her career.
A four-time all-region selection as well, Jehlárová recently became the NCAA all-time leader during the rally scoring era with 753 in her career heading into the NCAA Tournament. She is also the WSU all-time leader in career matches played (144), career hitting percentage (.382), career blocks (753), and career block assists (611), heading into the final postseason run of her career.
Joining Jehlárová on the first team,
Pia Timmer is now the second Cougar and the 26th player in Pac-12 history to reach four career first team all-conference awards. Timmer, one of three Cougs to earn Pac-12 All-Freshman honors in back 2019, has climbed to third all-time at WSU in career kills (1,670), fifth in kills/set (3.36), and heads into the postseason only two aces shy of setting the all-time program record.
The Cougars' grad-transfer from Arizona State, Isanovic, earned her third career Pac-12 Honorable Mention award after being recognized as such back in the 2021 and 2022 during her time as a Sun Devil. Isanovic, a first team all-conference honoree back 2021, averaged 3.19 kills/set with a career-best .249 hitting percentage. She posted a pair of 20-kill nights on the season, including a season-high 24 in a five-set win in Bohler over USC.
Washington State's opposite hitter,
Katy Ryan, earned her third-career postseason all-conference award having been named all-freshman in 2021 and honorable mention in 2022. Ryan averaged 2.34 kills/set on the season at a .285 clip. She has posted 13 total matches with double-digit kills, six of which came against top-25 opponents.
Senior setter
Argentina Ung, the catalyst to Washington State's .286 team hitting percentage which ranks 10th in the nation, third in the Pac-12, and first all-time in WSU program history, has averaged a career-best 10.43 assists per set this season and is now ninth all-time at WSU with 2,405 in her career heading into the postseason. Ung had nine total matches with five or more kills this season, with the Cougars going 8-1 in those matches including a road win at sixth-ranked Texas in which Ung tallied five kills, seven digs, and a season-high eight blocks.
Washington State's 24 wins, the most in a single season under head coach
Jen Greeny, was enough to earn the Cougars a No. 4 seed in this year's NCAA Tournament, and an opportunity to host the first and second rounds in Bohler Gym. The Cougars will welcome Grand Canyon (23-7) for a first round match in Bohler Gym on Friday, Dec. 1, with the lone second round match in Pullman scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 2, both matches starting at 7 p.m. The opening first round match in Bohler Gym between Pepperdine (19-8) and Dayton (31-2) will take place on Friday, Dec. 1, at 4 p.m.
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