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Spice Awarded SCAC Backrow Player of the Year

Spice Awarded SCAC Backrow Player of the Year

In exclusive all‐conference voting by the head coaches and sports information directors of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference, Mackenzie Logan of Trinity University was selected the SCAC Player‐of‐the‐Year honors while the Trinity coaching staff, led by head coach Julie Jenkins, were named the SCAC Coaching Staff‐of‐the‐Year. In the same balloting, University of St. Thomas' Kara Spice was voted Backrow Player-of-the-Year and Trinity's Marisa Amarino earned Setter-of-the-Year honors. Schreiner University's Giana Hilliard was selected as Freshman-of-the-Year.

Spice, a junior libero from Cypress, Texas, leads the SCAC heading into this weekend's conference tournament in total digs (668) and she is averaging 6.19 digs per set – a number that is good for sixth in the nation and on pace to be one of the top 10 single-season performances in conference history. She PAGE 2 – 2023 All-SCAC Women's Volleyball was selected SCAC Defensive Player-of-the-Week in week five when she averaged an incredible 11.20 digs per set for three matches, including a 37-dig performance against Texas Lutheran on September 30 which marked the most digs ever by a SCAC student-athlete in a three-set match. Spice is the second St. Thomas student-athlete to receive Backrow Player-of-the-Year recognition, joining former Celt Kaylyn Latin who earned the honor in back-to-back seasons in 2019 and 2020/21. Spice received eight votes in the Backrow Player-of-the-Year balloting followed by senior libero Nadia Kern of Trinity who had five votes. 

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