North Carolina State University Athletics
Kearney Named to Volleyball All-ACC Freshman Team
12/3/2014 12:00:00 AM | Women's Volleyball
GREENSBORO, N.C. – After a stellar freshman season with the NC State women’s volleyball team, Kaitlyn Kearney was named to the All-ACC Freshman Team, announced Wednesday by the conference office.
The Frisco, Texas, native led the team in kills (277), blocks (118) and points scored with 360.5 during the 2014 season. Her 277 kills ties as the most by an ACC freshmen this season and are the most by a Wolfpack freshman since 2007. Kearney’s 118 blocks are the most by an NC State freshman since 1994 and second most by an ACC rookie in 2014.
She started all 29 matches she played and saw action in 105 sets.
Kearney wasted little time in making her presence felt in the Wolfpack lineup, as she tallied 13 kills in collegiate debut. At Wake Forest, she notched the first double-double of her career with 16 kills and 12 blocks, which ties the program record for most blocks in an ACC match.
For the season, she recorded double figure kills in 13 matches, highlighted by a career-best 17 kills at Virginia. The 6’2” middle blocker also charted double figure blocks on two occasions.
She claimed all-tournament honors in three of the four early season tournaments that the Pack played and also received MVP honors at the Georgia Benson Hospitality Invitational.
Kearney garnered the ACC Freshman of the Week honor three times this year, just two shy of Miami’s Haley Templeton, who received the honor five times and collected the ACC Freshman of the Year award.
She is the first Wolfpack freshman to be named to the All-ACC Freshman Team since 2011 when senior Dariyan Hopper collected the accolade.
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