Franklin & Marshall freshman, Julie
Harvey, was named American Volleyball Coaches Association
(AVCA) Mid-Atlantic Region Freshman of the Year. Harvey also landed
on the All-Region First Team, which assures her All-America
consideration. The Freshman of the Year honor is the first in
program history.
This is the second postseason award for Harvey. Two days ago, she was named Centennial Conference (CC) Co-Player of the Year and also earned first team honors. Harvey became the first freshman and fifth Diplomats to receive the Player of the Year honor.
Harvey led the Diplomats in hitting percentage (.340), kills (358) and blocks (56) and finished tops in the CC in hitting percentage, second in both kills and points (4.11 per game) and 10th in blocks.
Senior Melissa
Cole and freshman Meagan
Donohoe earned their second post-season awards as they were
named to the American Volleyball Coaches Association
All-Mid-Atlantic Region First Team, as announced Thursday
afternoon. The duo is the Johns Hopkins volleyball team's fourth
and fifth honorees and the first two since 2007.
Cole is a two-time All-Centennial Conference honoree and served as one of the three team captains this season. She was second on the team in digs with 281 to give her 997 in her career and break into the top-10 all-time digs list for JHU. The outside hitter now has 244 kills, 28 blocks and 24 service aces this season and is ranked 13th all time in the Blue Jay record book for kills with 780 in her career.
Donohoe was named the first freshman in school history to the
All-Centennial Conference First Team and is the first freshman to
make the All-Conference team since 2005. She is also the first
freshman for 
the Blue Jays to receive All-Region honors from the AVCA. Donohoe
leads the team in kills (254) and currently has a team-best .332
hitting percentage. The right side hitter has 32 blocks, 14 service
aces and 47 digs to her credit as well this season. The freshman
was named CC Player of the Week twice this season, September 20 and
October 25, for two of the Blue Jays three weekly honors.