STANFORD, Calif. – Libero Morgan Hentz has been named the Pac-12 Women's Volleyball Scholar-Athlete of the Year, the conference announced today.
Hentz is the fourth Cardinal player to receive the honor since the award's inception in 2007-08, joining Cynthia Barboza (2008-09), Jordan Burgess (2015-16) and Tami Alade (2018-19).
A three-time Pac-12 Libero of the Year, Hentz carries a 3.59 GPA in psychology with an emphasis in health and development. She leads the conference with 4.96 digs per set and broke the school record for career digs in November. She is currently fourth in Pac-12 history with 2,233 career digs and her 4.70 career digs per set average is the best in program history. She has registered double-digit digs in all but two matches this season, and reached the 20-dig plateau on 16 occasions.
Hentz-Ville, according to @ESPN, which bestowed the title on Morgan Hentz last year, is the area that she commands on the court.
— Stanford Women's Volleyball (@StanfordWVB) November 7, 2019
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After graduation, Hentz plans to continue her volleyball career and eventually work with children with disabilities. She is a member of Kids with Dreams on Stanford's campus, which partners up a Stanford student with a child with a disability. Kids with Dreams is an organization dedicated to improving the lives of individuals with specials needs.
Hentz traveled abroad last summer to Vietnam with the ACE program, which provides one-time funding for accepted Stanford and Duke student-athletes to participate in a three-week, immersive summer service experience with an international community partner.
The award, which is presented in each of the 24 sports the Pac-12 sponsors, was established to honor collegiate student-athletes that are standouts both academically and in their sports discipline.
Also Nominated: Julia Patterson, ARIZ; Callie Jones, ASU; Rachel Whipple, COLO; Ronika Stone, ORE; Kory Cheshire, OSU; Savvy Simo, UCLA; Berkeley Oblad, UTAH; Kara Bajema, WASH; Alexis Dirige, WSU.