BIG EAST release

NEW YORK – Marquette University women’s volleyball players Yadhira Anchante, Hattie Bray And Aubrey Hamilton were each named to the All-BIG EAST Conference team, the league announced Tuesday afternoon.

All three were on the All-BIG EAST Preseason Team earlier this year and will be recognized on the Postseason Team for the third consecutive year. Hamilton and Bray are unanimous selections and before this season, only five players in program history had earned three first-team all-conference honors.

The Golden Eagles finished the regular season with 16 conference wins for the fifth straight season (not counting the shortened 2020 season in which MU played just six BIG EAST contests).

Marquette finished the conference season leading the league in digs (16.81 per set) and ranked second in hitting percentage (.283), opponent hitting percentage (.162), kills (14.26) and goals Assists (12.92) per set.

Hamilton leads MU in kills for the third time in as many years with 354, an average of 3.54 per set overall and 3.79 in league play. She reached her 1,000th. Kill in an MU uniform with a career-high 28 in a five-set home win over DePaul on Oct. 18 and enters the postseason tied for seventh in program history with 1,178 kills at MU. The Hartland, Wisconsin native has earned AVCA All-Region honors in each of the last two campaigns.

Hamilton joins Hope Werch later this week as the only MU players to earn three all-conference tournament selections in their career.

With a .431 hitting percentage in conference play, Bray leads the league by nearly 20 points and her 2.68 kills per set ranks her in the top 20. On the season, she is hitting .355 with 2.48 kills and 0.85 blocks per frame and has earned three weekly league awards this fall, including each of the last two weeks.

Bray, who earned AVCA All-Region honors last year along with Hamilton, will join Allie Barber (2016-19) and Meghan Niemann (2013-16) as the only MU players to earn four All-League firsts next fall She will return for her redshirt senior season in 2025.

Anchante is the first MU setter to earn three first-team all-conference honors and was the 2022 BIG EAST Setter of the Year. Her season average of 10.51 assists per set ranks her second in the league behind Kendra Wait of Creighton, and Anchante leads the Golden Eagles with a career average of 3.21 digs per set.

The Lima, Peru native is the fourth player in program history with over 3,000 assists and enters the postseason with 3,244 in her three-year NCAA Division I career. She leads MU with 19 double-doubles this season.

This year marks the seventh consecutive year MU has had three players honored on the All-BIG EAST First Team or equivalent.

The Golden Eagles have secured second place in the BIG EAST Championship presented by JEEP and will face the winner of the first-round game between third-seeded UConn and sixth-seeded Villanova, Nebraska, in the semifinals on Friday at 5:00 p.m. local time in Omaha. The game will be broadcast live on the BIG EAST Digital Network via FloCollege.

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2024 BIG EAST Women’s Volleyball Awards:
BIG EAST Player of the Year: Kendra Wait, Sr., S, Creighton

BIG EAST Libero of the Year: Rachel Krasowski, Gr., L, DePaul

BIG EAST Setter of the Year: Kendra Wait, Sr., S, Creighton*

BIG EAST Co-Freshmen of the Year: McKenna Brand, Fr., L, UConn & Margo Kemp, RS-Fr., MB, Xavier

BIG EAST Coaching Staff of the Year: Creighton (Kirsten Bernthal Booth)



All-BIG EAST Team
Doğa Kutlu, Sr., S, UConn*
Taylor Pannell, Gr., MB, UConn
Emma Werkmeister, Jr., OH, UConn
Maddy Bilinovic, Sr., L, Creighton
Elise Goetzinger, Sr., MH, Creighton
Ava Martin, Jr., OH, Creighton*
Kiara Reinhardt, Sr., MH, Creighton
Norah Sis, Sr., OH, Creighton*
Kendra Wait, Sr., S, Creighton*
Aly Kindelberger, Sr., MB, DePaul
Audrey Klemp, Gr., RS, DePaul
Rachel Krasowski, Gr., L, DePaul*
Jill Pressly, Gr., OH, DePaul*

Yadhira AnchanteSize, S, Marquette

Hattie BraySr., MB, Marquette*

Aubrey HamiltonRS-Sr., OH, Marquette*
Erin Jones, Jr., RS/S, St. John’s*
Abby Harrell, So., OH, Villanova



All-Freshman Team
Alaleh Tolliver, Fr., OH, Butler
McKenna Brand, Fr., L, UConn
Jaya Johnson, RS-Fr., RS, Creighton
Dionna Mitchell, Fr., OH, Georgetown*
Campbell McKinnon, Fr., MB, Villanova
Margo Kemp, RS-Fr., MB, Xavier