2011 All-Americans Announced
December 05, 2011
Concordia (Calif.) junior outside hitter Brooke Marino has been named the 2011 NAIA Player of the Year. She joins Raquel Ferreira, the 2004 Player of the Year recipient, as the second Eagle in program history to win the award.
Marino powered the Concordia to a runner-up finish at the 2011 National Championship and a 37-2 overall record. The 5-11 native of Mission Viejo, Calif., served as the key cog for a squad that won 36-straight matches before falling to Texas at Brownsville, 25-20, 20-25, 25-19, 25-20, in the title match. Marino finished eighth in the NAIA with 69 service aces, 11th with 523 total kills and 15th with 3.99 kills per set.
Concordia’s Dan Fisher was named 2011 NAIA Coach of the Year after leading the Eagles to their third national title appearance in school history in just his first year at the helm of the program. He also guided Concordia to its first Golden State Athletic Conference regular-season championship with a perfect 18-0 league mark. The Eagles’ three No. 1 rankings this season were the first three in program history.
Fisher is the first coach from Concordia to receive Coach of the Year honors since Paula Weishoff was selected in 2008. Fisher and Marino are the first player-coach duo from the same school to sweep national honors since 2007 when Fresno Pacific’s (Calif.) Dennis Janzen was named Coach of the Year and Shu Liu represented the Sunbirds as Player of the Year.
National champion Texas at Brownsville landed sophomore middle hitter Ana Guerra on the Tachikara-NAIA First Team All-America list, while sophomore outside hitter Danika Markovic, the Tachikara Tournament Most Valuable Player, garnered second-team honors. The Scorpions’ Paula Barros and Amber Brooks were honorable mention selections.
| FIRST TEAM | ||||
| NAME | SCHOOL | POS. | YR. | HOMETOWN |
| Amy Alkazin# | Azusa Pacific (Calif.) | MH | Sr. | Carlsbad, Calif. |
| Kathleen Anderson | Fresno Pacific (Calif.) | MH | So. | Lemoore, Calif. |
| Whitney Brigham | College of Idaho | L | Sr. | Caldwell, Idaho |
| Yiting Cao# | Spring Hill (Ala.) | OPP | Sr. | Shanghai, China |
| Paula Ferreira* | Columbia (Mo.) | S | Jr. | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Martina Gregusova* | Fresno Pacific (Calif.) | OH | Sr. | Nitra, Slovakia |
| Ana Guerra^ | Texas at Brownsville | MH | So. | Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| Abby Hall^ | Embry-Riddle (Fla.) | OH | Sr. | Louisville, Ky. |
| Ashley Hamilton# | Indiana Tech | OH | Sr. | Middlebury, Ind. |
| Tabitha Henken* | Point Loma Nazarene (Calif.) | OH | Sr. | Carlsbad, Calif. |
| Devon Jensen# | Grand View (Iowa) | OH | Jr. | Underwood, Iowa |
| Brooke Marino# | Concordia (Calif.) | OPP | Jr. | Mission Viejo, Calif. |
| Kelsey Pritchard^ | Taylor (Ind.) | OH | Sr. | Indianapolis, Ind. |
| Vesna Trivunovic* | Columbia (Mo.) | OH | Sr. | Zrenjanin, Serbia |
| SECOND TEAM | ||||
| NAME | SCHOOL | POS. | YR. | HOMETOWN |
| Sara Brunner | Rocky Mountain (Mont.) | OH | Sr. | Redcliff, A.B., Canada |
| Christine Douglas# | Biola (Calif.) | OH | Jr. | Cypress, Calif. |
| Alyssa Dwyer | Point Loma Nazarene (Calif.) | MH | So. | Gilbert, Ariz. |
| Fei Gao | Concordia (Calif.) | OH | Jr. | Qindao, China |
| Jamie Heenan | Vanguard (Calif.) | OH | Sr. | Costa Mesa, Calif. |
| Lauryn Herrick | Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) | OH | Sr. | Cypress, Calif. |
| Sarah Holgen# | Southern Oregon | OH | Sr. | Honolulu, Hawaii |
| Yui Iwase | Indiana Wesleyan | S | Jr. | Plano, Texas |
| Kaley Lyons | Evangel (Mo.) | MH | Jr. | Springfield, Mo. |
| Danica Markovic* | Texas at Brownsville | OH | So. | Subotica, Serbia |
| Kristin Pressley | Oklahoma Baptist | OH | So. | Mansfield, Texas |
| Magda Santos | Wiley (Texas) | OPP | Jr. | Cuiaba, Brazil |
| Maureen Wardian | Bellevue (Neb.) | MH | Sr. | Omaha, Neb. |
| Amy Weststeyn | Biola (Calif.) | MH | Fr. | Visalia, Calif. |
| THIRD TEAM | ||||
| NAME | SCHOOL | POS. | YR. | HOMETOWN |
| Karie Altman | Madonna (Mich.) | MH | Sr. | Taylor, Mich. |
| Kristin Barott | Rocky Mountain (Mont.) | S | Sr. | West Richland, Wash. |
| Casey Chernin | Missouri Baptist | OPP | Sr. | St. Louis, Mo. |
| Jessica Cooper | Shorter (Ga.) | MH | Sr. | Grant, Ala. |
| Fernanda Ferreira | Freed-Hardeman (Tenn.) | OH | Jr. | Minas Gerais, Brazil |
| Melanie Forman | Indiana Tech | S | Sr. | Hastings, Mich. |
| Tina Frick | Tabor (Kan.) | MH | Sr. | Durham, Kan. |
| Jessica Lea | Eastern Oregon | S/OH | Sr. | Prineville, Ore. |
| Kelsey Masuda | Indiana Wesleyan | L | Sr. | Tokoyo, Japan |
| Kaylee Miller | Graceland (Iowa) | OH | Jr. | Blue Springs, Mo. |
| Whittany Radcliffe | Azusa Pacific (Calif.) | OPP | Sr. | Whittier, Calif. |
| Susan Rollman^ | Doane (Neb.) | MH | Jr. | Humphrey, Neb. |
| Adriana Vazquez | Embry-Riddle (Fla.) | S | Jr. | Orlando, Fla. |
| Thaise Vieira | Bethel (Tenn.) | MH | Sr. | Matozinhos, Brazil |
* 2010 First-Team All-American
^ 2010 Second-Team All-American
# 2010 Third-Team All-American
| HONORABLE MENTION | |
| NAME | SCHOOL |
| Samantha Arriaran | La Sierra (Calif.) |
| Paula Barros | Texas at Brownsville |
| Megan Bartling | Southern Oregon |
| Sarah Becker | Jamestown (N.D.) |
| Hayley Blair | College of the Ozarks (Mo.) |
| Jordan Blaken | Viterbo (Wis.) |
| Amy Braaksma | Viterbo (Wis.) |
| Jordan Broady | Bellevue (Neb.) |
| Amber Brooks | Texas at Brownsville |
| Betsy Brown# | Taylor (Ind.) |
| Shannon Cahill | Campbellsville (Ky.) |
| Tori Callihan | The Master's (Calif.) |
| Darcy Christensen | Morningside (Iowa) |
| Lauren Crump^ | Indiana East |
| Taylor DeGraaf | Cal State San Marcos |
| Meagan EnYart | Northwestern Ohio |
| Arlene Ferreira* | Lee (Tenn.) |
| DeeAnn Garvin | Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) |
| Jordan Goings | Lubbock Christian (Texas) |
| Aleah Hayes | Columbia (Mo.) |
| Megan Hayes | MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.) |
| Kory Hiebert | McPherson (Kan.) |
| Torrey Hulsey | College of Idaho |
| Christa Hutchinson | Lee (Tenn.) |
| Megan Hutson | Northwestern (Iowa) |
| Monica Iverson | Morningside (Iowa) |
| Linjun Ji | MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.) |
| Melissa Joyce | Robert Morris (Ill.) |
| Leah Keller | Kansas Wesleyan |
| KaUwila Lavea | Vanguard (Calif.) |
| Mariah Mock | College of the Ozarks (Mo.) |
| Ingrid Mosquera | Wiley (Texas) |
| Kayla Mullaney | St. Xavier (Ill.) |
| Taryn Nash | Spring Hill (Ala.) |
| Kylee Nawahine | College of Idaho |
| Lindsey Oberacker | Point Park (Pa.) |
| Irene Ojukwu | Lee (Tenn.) |
| Chelsea Phillips | Aquinas (Mich.) |
| Kaylee Piatt | Southern Nazarene (Okla.) |
| Robin Portela | Azusa Pacific (Calif.) |
| Sydney Rice | Freed-Hardeman (Tenn.) |
| Kali Schnacker | Bellevue (Neb.) |
| Katelyn Schuller | Dordt (Iowa) |
| Brianna Strete | Indiana East |
| Luren Stuckel | Missouri Baptist |
| Brittney Thomas | Mount Mercy (Iowa) |
| Peyton Thompson | Indiana Wesleyan |
| Kelli Tikker | Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) |
| Kelsey Vanuden | Great Falls (Mont.) |
| Briana Walsh | Evangel (Mo.) |
| Cami Weimer | Oklahoma Baptist |
| Marija Zelenovic | Lee (Tenn.) |
