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KANSAS CITY, Mo, – The 2020 NAIA Women’s Volleyball All-Americans, Coach of the Year, Player of the Year, Setter of the Year and Defender of the Year have been announced by the national office. Midland University is represented by a pair of student-athletes following their national runner-up finish in last week’s NAIA National Championship.
Taliyah Flores, a junior from Papillion, Nebraska, was named to the second-team as an outside hitter. This season she led the Warriors with 3.6 kills/set and ranked 18th in the nation in total kills with 360. In the national tournament, she bumped her average up to 4.0 kills/set and hit .212. Defensively she added 4.3 digs/set in the tournament, playing all six rotations.
Hope Leimbach, a sophomore from Lincoln, Nebraska, earned honorable mention honors as a setter. She coordinated the Midland attack all year and led the nation with 12.1 assists/set and was second in total assists with 1,199. She earned All-GPAC First Team honors this past fall and elevated her game at the national tournament with 12.7 assists/set as Midland hit .207 as a team (9th best at the tournament).
Nada Meawad of Park (Mo.) was named the 2020 NAIA Player of the Year while Olivia Galas of Bellevue (Neb.) was named the 2020 NAIA Setter of the Year and Brenna Krommendyk of Dordt (Iowa) earned the 2020 NAIA Defender of the Year award. Jon Hegerle of Jamestown (N.D.) was honored by the All-America Committee as the 2020 NAIA Coach of the Year.
Flores and Leimbach are the 17th and 18th All-Americans in program history. Sixteen of those selections have come under head coach Paul Giesselmann.
All of the selections are made by the All-America Committee and comprises a First, Second, Third, and Honorable Mention Team. There are 10 members on each of the first three All-America teams. For a complete list of the 2020 NAIA All-Americans, click here.

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