ROCK HILL, SC – A very successful season for the UVA Wise volleyball team keeps reaping benefits as the team has a school-record four players named to South Atlantic Conference honors. Abigail Curtis earns First Team All-SAC Libero honors, while Mable James is on the All-SAC Third Team. Olivia Amos and Skye Williams both earn spots on the SAC All-Freshman Team.

Curtis becomes the first Highland Cavalier to earn First Team All-SAC honors in program history and the first first-team all-conference player since Karley Allen earned All-Mountain East Conference honors in 2015. The senior from Schoolcraft, Michigan, currently leads the conference in digs with 608 and ranks fifth in the NCAA Division II in both digs and digs per set. Her 608 digs are the third-most in a season at UVA Wise. Her 40 digs at Coker are the most in the SAC this season and are the program's NCAA-era record for digs in a match. She passed the 1,800 digs mark a couple weeks ago and currently has 1,876, which is the second-most in school history and trails only Britney Lawson's 2,080 in the record books. Curtis also passed the 100 aces mark this year, becoming only the eighth player to do so, and currently ranks seventh in program history in that category with 108.

James earns a spot on the third team this season after earning All-Freshman honors last season, in the process becoming the first Cav to earn back-to-back conference honors in since 2014. The sophomore from Canton, North Carolina, is second in the SAC in blocks with 1.09 a set and third in total blocks with 101 for the season. The 101 blocks are the 12th-best in a season in program history and the 1.09 a set ranks her 14th. She also has 199 kills this season.

Amos, a freshman from Walnut Cove, North Carolina, is third in the SAC in assists with 10.20 a set. She enters the post-season with 969 assists on the season, which are the third most in a season in program history and the most by a player without reaching 1,000 assists. Between the two matches vs. Tusculum in the regular season she averaged 50 so odds are she surpasses the 1,000 assists mark Tuesday. Amos also has 25 aces and 226 digs on the season and has surpassed 55 digs in a match three times.

Williams is averaging 3.00 kills a set (tied for seventh in the SAC) and 3.32 points a set (eighth in the SAC.) The freshman from Miami, Florida, also has 19 aces and 200 digs this season.

The last time the team had four players earn all-conference honors was in 2004, with Kendall Rainey and Kari Sparks earning First Team Appalachian Athletic Conference honors, and Natasha Viers and Evelyn Woods making the AAC All-Freshman Team.

The team, under first-year head coach Alexis Ivey, earned the seven seed in the SAC Volleyball Tournament, which begins today. They enter the tournament with a 14-13 overall record and a 12-10 SAC record and will face two-seed Tusculum at 4:30 p.m. today at the Rock Hill (SC) Sports & Event Center. This is the third season in a row that the team has made the SAC Tournament, which is also a first for the program.

Links to the tournament live stream and live stats can be found at www.uvawisecavs.com.

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2026 SAC Volleyball All-Conference

First Team
Emily Campbell, Anderson
Ellie Nieporte, Anderson
Ava Reeves, Anderson
Emerson Ahsmuhs, Carson-Newman
Maura Kindel, Anderson
Kaytlin Johnson, Lincoln Memorial
Mikaylah Hedlund, Anderson
Abigail Curtis, UVA Wise (L)

Second Team
Averie Dale, Lenoir-Rhyne
Emmaleigh Allen, Lenoir-Rhyne
Gracie Hibdon, Tusculum
Blair Cherry, Carson-Newman
Lillian Edwards, Wingate
Karris Oller, Tusculum
Georgia Dobson, Lincoln Memorial
Jamie Juhnevicz, Anderson (L)

Third Team
Morgan Yoder, Mars Hill Maddie Hurst, Carson-Newman
Addison McLarty, Tusculum
Grace Woodring, Wingate
Mable James, UVA Wise
Annie Dziczkowski, Carson-Newman
Jazmine Starks, Lincoln Memorial
Riley Hill, Catawba

All-Freshman
Gracie Hibdon, Tusculum
Morgan Yoder, Mars Hill
Lillian Edwards, Wingate
Olivia Amos, UVA Wise
Maggie Ayers, Catawba
Skye Williams, UVA Wise

Player of the Year
Emily Campbell, Anderson

Freshman of the Year
Gracie Hibdon, Tusculum

Coach of the Year
Todd Hay, Anderson