Xolani Hodel Season 2024

Career Accolades

• AVCA First Team All-American (2021)
• Two-time AVCA Second Team All-American (2022, 2023)
• Three-time All-Pac-12 First Team honoree (2021, 2022, 2023)
• All-Pac-12 Freshman Team (2021)
• Pac-12 Pair of the Week (with partner Sunny Villapando) - April 28, 2021
• Pac-12 Pair of the Week (with partner Kate Reilly)- April 26, 2022
• Pac-12 Pair of the Week (with partner Maddi Kriz)- April 25, 2023
• Three-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (2021, 2022, 2023)
• 2023 AVCA Top Flight Award (with partner Maddi Kriz)

As a Junior (2023)

• AVCA Second Team All-American
• All-Pac-12 First Team honoree
• AVCA Top Flight Award 
• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
• Pac-12 Pair of the Week (with partner Maddi Kriz)- April 25, 2023
• Finished with a 20-11 record
• Played primarily with partner Maddi Kriz, earning a 15-7 record on Court 1 as a pair
• Earned 11 wins over ranked opponents (as of playing) including top-5 opponents USC, UCLA, and LSU

As a Sophomore (2022)

• AVCA Collegiate Beach Second Team All-American
• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
• All-Pac-12 first team
• Pac-12 Pair of the Week (with partner Kate Reilly)- April 26, 2022
• Ended sophomore season with 44 individual career wins, the eighth-most in program history (as of completion of 2022 season)
• Finished with a 22-11 record
• Alongside partner Kate Reilly, became the winningest pair in program history with their 29th win as a pair (April 24)
• Earned wins over ranked opponents (as of playing) No. 2 TCU, No. 7 GCU, No. 10 Hawaii, No. 11 California, T-No. 11 Cal Poly and No. 17 Arizona

As a Freshman (2021)

• AVCA First Team All-American
• All-Pac-12 First Team
• All-Pac-12 Freshman Team
• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
• Pac-12 Pair of the Week (with partner Sunny Villapando) - April 28, 2021
• Finished with a record of 22-11, tied for the third most individual wins in school history

Prior To Stanford

• Graduate of Huntington Beach High School
• Two-time USA Beach Volleyball National team athlete (2018-19)
• Earned 11 letters across five sports (Beach Volleyball, Indoor, Basketball, Track, Soccer)
• Three-time All-Sunset League dream team and two-time MVP in indoor
• Three-time All-Sunset League first team, three-time CIF high jump finalist and MVP of field events in track and field
• 2020 Under Armour All American
• 2020 AVCA Junior Beach All American
• 2020 OC Athlete of the Year
• Two-time Track Sunset League Champion
• 2018 Track MVP Field Events
• Sunset Conference All-Academic Team in every sport

Personal

• Daughter of Greg Hodel and C. Peggy Odita-Hodel
• Mother competed in Track & Field at Stanford, winning the Pac-10 in the heptathlon
• Father competed in Track & Field at UCLA in throwing events
• Sister of Xander
• Born in Orange, Calif.