Hawai’i setter Jakob Thelle AVCA Player of the Year; chat with him on FB Live 8 p.m. HST

If it wasn’t him, it would have been a crime

Join Thelle and Mouchlias on a FBLive chat 8 p.m. HST Wednesday. Link below

https://www.facebook.com/HawaiiMensVB

 

AVCA link below

https://www.avca.org/awards/avca-national-player-of-the-year-awards/di-ii-men.html

Award announced at tonight’s AVCA All-America Awards Banquet

THELLE’S 2023 STATS:
826 ASSISTS, 10.73 A/S, .373 TEAM HITTING %, 1.43 D/S, 28 ACES

  • Has helped the Rainbow Warriors go 28-2 and earn the No. 2 seed in the 2023 NCAA Championship
  • Enters the NCAA semifinals ranked first in the country in assists per set (10.73), and Hawai‘i is second on the national list for team hitting percentage (.373)
  • Needs one more ace to become the school’s all-time leader in the category
  • Picks up AVCA first-team All-America honors for the second-consecutive season
  • Team has been ranked No. 1 in the AVCA National Collegiate MVB Poll every week but one this season
  • Is the fourth Hawai‘i player to earn National Player of the Year honors, joining Rado Parpunov (2021), Costas Theocharidis (2001 and 2003), and Yuval Katz (1996)
  • Starting setter on UH’s national championship teams in 2021 and 2022