STANFORD, Calif. – Kevin Hambly, The Montag Family Director of Women’s Volleyball, has been tabbed the ACC Coach of the Year, highlighting Stanford’s All-ACC awards, the conference announced today.
Earning All-ACC First Team honors are senior Elia Rubin, sophomore Lizzy Andrew and freshman Spencer Etzler. Junior Jordyn Harvey, redshirt sophomore Julia Blyashov and freshmen Logan Parks and Erika Sayer landed on the All-ACC Second Team. Additionally, Etzler, Parks and Sayer were selected to the ACC All-Freshman Team.
Stanford now has 178 all-conference selections all-time, including honorable mention, and 51 all-freshman picks, including honorable mention.
It marks the third conference coach of the year honors for Hambly, who is 226-46 overall and 145-25 in conference play in nine seasons at the helm of the Cardinal program. In two seasons as a member of the ACC, Stanford is 55-9 overall and 35-5 in league play. Hambly now has six conference titles as the head coach of the Cardinal (2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2025) along with back-to-back national championships in 2018 and 2019.
Rubin, a four-time all-conference selection and semifinalist for AVCA Player of the Year, leads the team and is ninth in the ACC with 4.03 points per set. She is fourth in the conference with 0.41 aces per set and paces the team with 3.43 kills per set and 10 double-doubles this season. The Santa Monica is just the 11th player in school history to register 1,000 career kills and 1,000 career digs. In November, she set the school record for aces in the rally-scoring era to 25 and currently has 148.
Andrew, a middle blocker from Ridgefield, Washington, is second in the ACC with a .440 attack percentage, ranking sixth nationally. She leads the team with 1.23 blocks per set and averages 2.45 kills per set. Andrew has registered double-digit kills in 12 matches and hit .400 or better 20 times this season.
Etzler, who hails from Coldwater, Ohio, is sixth in the ACC with 3.69 digs per set. The libero has just seven reception errors on the season. A two-time ACC Defensive Player of the Week, Etzler has led the team in digs in 23 matches, reaching double digits 24 times.
Blyashov is second on the team with 3.05 kills per set and averages 1.49 digs, 0.26 aces and 3.51 points per set. An outside hitter from Carlsbad, she has three double-doubles on the season and has led the team in kills in eight matches. She has tallied double-digit kills 10 times and hit .300 or higher 11 times.
Harvey earns her second career all-conference accolades, ranking third on the team with 3.06 points per set. The Salt Lake City native has registered four double-doubles this season, averaging 2.32 kills and 1.92 digs per set. She has totaled double-digit kills in 11 matches and hit .300 or better 12 times.
Parks has set the Cardinal to a .301 team hitting percentage – good for third in the ACC and seventh nationally. The Overland Park, Kansas, native is third in the ACC with 9.99 assists per set, helping Stanford pace the conference in kills per set (14.12) and assists per set (13.34). The Cardinal has hit .300 or higher in a match 15 times this season. Parks, a two-time ACC Setter of the Week, turned in a career-high 64 assists in a five-set win at No. 7 Louisville (Nov. 29), marking the most assists in a match by a Stanford player since 2017.
Sayer, a middle blocker from Colorado Springs, ranks fifth in the ACC with a .383 attack percentage. A two-time ACC Freshman of the Week, she is averaging 2.18 kills and 1.16 blocks per set. She has recorded double-digit kills on seven occasions, had five more blocks 12 times, and hit .400 or higher in 17 matches.
Stanford earned a No. 2 seed for the NCAA Tournament, and the No. 6 overall national seed. The Cardinal hosts Utah Valley for its first round match on Friday at 7 p.m. South Dakota State and Arizona will play in the other first round match on Friday at 4:30 p.m. The winners will meet on Saturday at 6 p.m. All matches will be broadcast on ESPN+.