CORTLAND, N.Y. - The State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) announces its Women's Volleyball All-Conference Teams and individual awards as voted on by the conference coaches. New Paltz's Becca Borquist and Maddie Zwickl took home the Player of the Year and the Rookie of the Year honors respectively. It was a New Paltz clean sweep, as the Coach of the Year award went to the Hawks Head Coach, Matt Giufre.

New Paltz's Becca Borquist took home the SUNYAC Player of the Year honors. The junior from Rhinebeck, NY, helped lead the Hawks to their second SUNYAC Championship in program history, while being named SUNYAC Tournament MVP. Borquist notched 17 kills and 16 digs in the championship match vs. Fredonia. She has tallied 518 points, leading all of SUNYAC with 449 kills and 3.74 kills per set.  The secondary education major was also selected for the second consecutive year to the SUNYAC Women's Volleyball All-Conference First Team.

Maddie Zwickl took the Rookie of the Year award. The Warwick Valley alum dished out up 1163 assists (ranks 2^nd in SUNYAC) in 127 sets and is averaging 9.16 assists per set (ranks 2^nd in SUNYAC) as the Hawks head into the NCAA Division III Tournament. In the SUNYAC tournament championship match vs. Fredonia, Zwickl had 37 assists. She also ranks sixth in the SUNYAC with 48 service aces. The freshman setter is majoring in communications and was also named to the 2014 SUNYAC All-Conference Third Team.

For the second consecutive year, the SUNYAC Volleyball Coach of the Year went to New Paltz's Matt Giufre. 2014 was his 13^th season at the helm of the New Paltz Volleyball program. Giufre has guided New Paltz to a 31-5 record in 2014, a perfect 9-0 regular season conference campaign, and took home its second SUNYAC title (first was in 2009) in program history, beating Fredonia (25-19, 25-16, 25-19). The conference tournament championship has earned the New Paltz program an automatic bid and its third consecutive berth to the NCAA Division III Women's Volleyball Tournament. Giufre is a 1998 graduate of SUNY Cortland, earning his bachelor's degree in physical education and his master's degree in health education in 2002.
 
2014 Volleyball All-Conference Teams (PDF)

First Team
Name	Yr.	Pos.	School	Hometown/High School
Jaime Snyder	Sr.	L	Brockport	Elmira, N. Y. / Thomas Edison
Sam Parente	Sr.	OH	Buffalo State	E. Patchogue, N.Y. / Bellport
Mary Kelly	Sr.	OH	Cortland	Guilderland, N.Y. / Guilderland
Jessica DiChristopher	Jr.	MB	Fredonia	Cheektowaga, N.Y. / West Seneca East
Becca Borquist	Jr.	OH	New Paltz	Rhinebeck, N.Y. / Rhinebeck
Katy Herbst	Sr.	L	New Paltz	Webster, N.Y. / Webster Schroeder
Second Team
Kayla Barber	Jr.	OH	Brockport	South Glens Falls, N.Y. / South Glens Falls
Sara Madison	So.	OH	Fredonia	Rochester, N.Y. / Penfield
Lauren Hokaj	Jr.	L	Fredonia	Lancaster, N.Y. / St. Mary's of Lancaster
Morgan Roessler	So.	MB	New Paltz	Massapequa, N.Y. / Massapequa
Jill Darpino	Jr.	OH	Oneonta	Endicott, N.Y. / Union Endicott
Stephanie Bailey	Sr.	MB	Oswego	Scotia, N.Y / Scotia-Glenville
Third Team
Janine Patora	Fr.	OH	Cortland	Salt Point, N.Y. / Arlington
Liz Roberts	So.	S	Cortland	Island Park, N.Y. / West Hempstead
Kelly Edinger	Jr.	S	Fredonia	Rochester, N.Y. / Greece Athena
Paulina Rein	Jr.	RS	Fredonia	Baldwinsville, N.Y. / C.W. Baker
Paige Pendleton	Jr.	M	Geneseo	Oneida, N.Y. / Oneida
Maddie Zwickl	Fr.	S	New Paltz	Chester, N.Y. / Warwick Valley

 
Player of the Year: Becca Borquist, New Paltz
Rookie of the Year: Maddie Zwickl, New Paltz
Coach of the Year: Matt Giufre, New Paltz