UCSB volleyball players Rowan Ennis and Deni Wilson have been named to the AVCA All-Region team.
Ennis was picked to the Pacific South Region and Wilson was selected as Honorable Mention. This comes just a few days after both Gauchos were named First Team All-Big West.
This is the first time that either Gaucho has earned AVCA honors and it is the fifth straight season that UCSB has landed a student-athlete on the list. It is also the second straight season that two Gauchos have been honored.
The final season for Ennis, a senior captain, was one to remember as she paced the conference and broke the all-time UCSB record with an outstanding .434 hitting percentage, which also ranked eighth in the nation. On two separate occasions, she posted a match hitting percentage of .700 or better, notching a .727 at Hawaii and a .714 at Cal Poly, both marks are top-15 performances in Gaucho history during the rally scoring era.
On the blocking end, Ennis ranked second in the conference and 21st in the nation with 138 total blocks in her final season.
Ennis finishes her career as one of the best middles in Gaucho history, ranking fourth all time with 420 total blocks and 357 block assists, and seventh with a .309 hitting percentage.
Wilson had an incredibly efficient hitting percentage of .391, which is the third-best performance by any Gaucho in program history and was good for third in the conference and 23rd in the nation.
At the net she sent down 125 blocks, which ranked fifth in conference, and her 1.04 blocks per set average landed in sixth. Wilson found a career-high eight total blocks in the team’s sweep over Hawai’i and added seven more when the two teams met again on the island in late November.