PAC-12 2015 Final Standings and Honors

[mikegarrison]

Conference Finish

USC and Washington: First
Stanford: Third
UCLA: Fourth
Colorado: Fifth
Oregon: Sixth
Arizona: Seventh
ASU: Eighth
WSU: Ninth
OSU and Utah: Tenth
Cal: Twelfth

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Standings:

(3) USC 18-2
(1) Washington 18-2
(7) Stanford 16-4
(11) UCLA 14-6
(34) Colorado 11-9
(20) Oregon 10-10
(26) Arizona 9-11
(32) ASU 8-12
(55) WSU 5-15
(85) OSU 4-16
(82) Utah 4-16
(108) Cal 3-17

(Nov 30 Pablo rankings)

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POY: Samantha Bricio (USC)
FOY: Hayley Hodson (Stanford)
SOY: Madi Bugg (Stanford)
LOY: Taylor Formico (UCLA)
COY: Mick Haley (USC)

All-Conference Team
Brittany Abercrombie (USC)
Adora Anae (Utah)
Jordan Anderson (UCLA)
Alexis Austin (Colorado)
Samantha Bricio (USC)
Madi Bugg (Stanford)
Nicole Edelman (Colorado)
Hayley Hodson (Stanford)
Kyra Holt (WSU)
Brittany Howard (Stanford)
Merete Lutz (Stanford)
Kalei Mau (Arizona)
Alicia Ogoms (USC)
Lilian Schonewise (Cal)
Penina Snuka (Arizona)
Cassie Strickland (Washington)
Lianna Sybeldon (Washington)
Lindsay Vander Weide (Oregon)

Honorable Mention: BreElle Bailey, Amanda Benson, Reily Buechler, Claire Felix, Whitney Follette, Alyse Ford, Taylor Formico, Jennie Frager, Baylee Johnson, Crissy Jones, Mary-Kate Marshall, Zana Muno, Elise Ruddins, Tia Scambray, Gabby Simpson, Bailey Tanner, Melanie Wade, Taylor Whittingham

All-Freshman Team
Alyse Ford (USC)
Hayley Hodson (Stanford)
Baylee Johnson (USC)
Zana Muno (UCLA)
Tyler Spriggs (Arizona)
Lindsey Vander Weide (Oregon)
McKenna Woodford (WSU)

Honorable Mention: Naghede Abu, Kayla Ellis, Destiny Julye, Halland McKenna, Berkeley Oblad

Scholar-Athlete Award: Jordan Burgess (Stanford)

[gobruins]

If there is a Setter of the Year and Libero of the Year, why is there no Outside Hitter of the Year, Middle Blocker of the Year, Opposite of the Year, Defensive Specialist of the Year and Serving Specialist of the Year?

[dawgnerd]

Nov 29, 2015 7:51:03 GMT -5 gobruins said:

If there is a Setter of the Year and Libero of the Year, why is there no Outside Hitter of the Year, Middle Blocker of the Year, Opposite of the Year, Defensive Specialist of the Year and Serving Specialist of the Year?

Largely (about 3/4), OH OY is called POY (recent exceptions Ainradewo (Stan MB 07, 08), Tomasevic (UW opp 05), Burkholder (Az setter 00), Silvernail (WSU MB 96)). To make up for this, adding MB and Opp OYs might be a good idea. Perhaps drop the position OY of the POY each year.

[luckydawg]

Nov 29, 2015 7:51:03 GMT -5 gobruins said:

If there is a Setter of the Year and Libero of the Year, why is there no Outside Hitter of the Year, Middle Blocker of the Year, Opposite of the Year, Defensive Specialist of the Year and Serving Specialist of the Year?

Wouldn't that just be the all Pac12 team?

[wishinwestcoastvb]

So who do we think gets LOY? Strickland has really turned it on down the stretch, Whittingham is very good, Benson is good (her team underpeformed though), and Formico is also solid.

[johnbar]

Just as a reminder, here is the Pac-12 preseason poll:

1. Stanford (11), 121 points
2. Arizona State, 99
3. Washington (1), 97
4. Oregon, 94
5. USC, 84
6. Colorado, 61
7. Arizona, 60
8. UCLA, 57
9. Oregon State, 35
10. Utah, 34
11. California, 28
12. Washington State, 22

[volleyball303]

But that's before injury for asu. I watched them cream colorado state. They would have won the pac12

[ShaneM2005]

Nov 29, 2015 13:48:28 GMT -5 volleyball303 said:

But that's before injury for asu. I watched them cream colorado state. They would have won the pac12

And you don't think Stanford would have won the Pac12 had Inky not been injured?

[naujack85]

Nov 29, 2015 12:09:13 GMT -5 wishinwestcoastvb said:

So who do we think gets LOY? Strickland has really turned it on down the stretch, Whittingham is very good, Benson is good (her team underpeformed though), and Formico is also solid.

Whittingham or Formico, though I'm thinking that Strickland will win it for the 2nd straight year,  even though she wasn't truly one of the top 2 for either year

[gobears]

regardless of Cal's record, Maddie Kerr is LOY, imho.

[Sbilo]

Nov 29, 2015 14:16:25 GMT -5 ShaneM2005 said:

Nov 29, 2015 13:48:28 GMT -5 volleyball303 said:

But that's before injury for asu. I watched them cream colorado state. They would have won the pac12

And you don't think Stanford would have won the Pac12 had Inky not been injured?

This. With Inky, Stanford would be a completely different team. Imagine Inky, Lutz and Hodson?

Oh yeah, we will have all those 3 together next year. With Fitzmorris and Plummer. Yay!

[tomclen]

Sure, Stanford may have been better with Inky. But didn't Dunning know before the start of the season that Inky would not be playing all season? Wasn't he able to plan for that?

Isn't it just as challenging (or more so) for a team like ASU to lose Gardner or UW to lose DeHoog mid-season when lineups and rotations are already set?

Stanford doesn't have a copyright on injuries to key players.

[WahineFan44]

Nov 29, 2015 15:15:21 GMT -5 tomclen said:

Sure, Stanford may have been better with Inky. But didn't Dunning know before the start of the season that Inky would not be playing all season? Wasn't he able to plan for that?

Isn't it just as challenging (or more so) for a team like ASU to lose Gardner or UW to lose DeHoog mid-season when lineups and rotations are already set?

Stanford doesn't have a copyright on injuries to key players.

I'm sorry, but inky alone is 100 times greater a loss than dehoog. And burgess at not even half of her former self? Gardner at ASU is a huge loss. Dehoog is not. A loss, but no where near Stanford or ASU

[tomclen]

Nov 29, 2015 15:17:31 GMT -5 WahineFan44 said:

Nov 29, 2015 15:15:21 GMT -5 tomclen said:

Sure, Stanford may have been better with Inky. But didn't Dunning know before the start of the season that Inky would not be playing all season? Wasn't he able to plan for that?

Isn't it just as challenging (or more so) for a team like ASU to lose Gardner or UW to lose DeHoog mid-season when lineups and rotations are already set?

Stanford doesn't have a copyright on injuries to key players.

I'm sorry, but inky alone is 100 times greater a loss than dehoog. And burgess at not even half of her former self? Gardner at ASU is a huge loss. Dehoog is not. A loss, but no where near Stanford or ASU

100 times? You get the 2015 Volleytalk Hyperbole Award, and a leg up on next year's Turkey of the Year awards.

[hammer]

Nov 29, 2015 12:09:13 GMT -5 wishinwestcoastvb said:

So who do we think gets LOY? Strickland has really turned it on down the stretch, Whittingham is very good, Benson is good (her team underpeformed though), and Formico is also solid.