Brown, Speaks Tabbed AVCA All-East Region

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Julia Brown and Maggie Speaks of the NC State volleyball team have been named to the All-East Region Team, as announced Tuesday by the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA).

Brown secured all-region honors, while Speaks was recognized with an honorable mention. The duo collects the accolade just one week after being named to the 2016 All-Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Teams.

Prior to Brown and Speaks' selections, Megan Cyr was the most recent NC State player to earn All-Region honors in 2012. The program has not had more than one athlete on the team since 1988 when Melinda Dudley, Patty Lake and Volire Tisdale garnered the award.

Brown turned in a fantastic junior season, as she finished the year with 489 kills – third most in the ACC and a rally-scoring era program record. In addition, that total ranks among the top 30 division I players in the NCAA and is the eighth best for a single season in program history.

A native of Davidson, N.C., she helped NC State set a rally-scoring era record with 13.46 kills per set and tally the second most kills in a single season with 1,642. As a six-rotation outside hitter, Brown logged career highs with 532.5 points scored, 327 digs and 19 service aces during the 2016 season.

Against Syracuse, Brown broke the rally-scoring era program record with 31 kills in the Wolfpack's five-set win versus the Orange, which is the most by any player in the ACC this season.

Speaks capped her NC State career with a great senior campaign, resulting in All-ACC and Honorable Mention All-Region Honors. She finished the season with the third-most assists in the ACC with 1,148, which ranks third in the Wolfpack's rally-scoring era for a single season.

The Camden, S.C., native helped the Pack end the year with a .226 attacking percentage – second best in the program's rally-scoring era and fifth best in the conference. With Speaks running the offense, NC State set the program mark for highest attacking percentage in an ACC match with a .407 clip at Clemson and later broke the mark and set the rally-scoring era record for highest attacking percentage in a match with a .468 at Virginia Tech.

Additionally, Speaks established a rally-scoring era program record when she dished out 64 assists in NC State's five-set win against SMU, a 2016 NCAA Tournament team. She finishes her career with the second-most career assists in the program's rally-scoring era with 3,240.

As a team, NC State ended the season with a 20-12 overall record and a 13-7 mark in ACC play, which breaks the program record. Predicted to finish 12^th in the conference by the league's head coaches, the Wolfpack ended the year in a tie for sixth place.

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