Following a regular season in which she averaged an area-best 5.33 kills per set and 2.88 digs per set (seventh), Millbrook outside hitter Aaliyah Green was named the Northwestern District Class 4 Player of the Year on Wednesday.
Additionally, Sherando head coach Chuck Ashby was named the Northwestern District Class 4 Coach of the Year. Ashby guided the Warriors to a 15-7 record in his first season at the helm since 2013. Sherando was the only team in the district to beat Class 3 Kettle Run, splitting two matches with the 24-1 Cougars.
A junior, Green was also named to the All-Northwestern District First Team, and was joined by teammates McKenna Homans (freshman), Kate Madden (junior) and Paisley Cook (junior). James Wood’s Kennedy Spaid (senior), Brenna Corbin (senior), Claire Keefer (senior) and Kyla Wilhelm (junior), Sherando’s Avery Curtis (junior) and Cami Golliday (junior) and Handley’s Breeze Johnson (sophomore) were also selected.
On the Second Team, the Colonels’ Macie Hewitt (freshman), the Warriors’ Riley Alger (junior) and the Judges’ Teagan Braun-Duin (sophomore) and Tenley Mattison (senior) each earned recognition.
Kettle Run sophomore Ava Ewald (Player of the Year) and the Cougars’ Rod Crooks (Coach of the Year) took the major awards in Class 3. Kettle Run was the only team in the district to beat three-time defending Class 4 state champion James Wood.
Twenty players were selected to the First Team and 17 were picked for the Second Team.