UO release – EUGENE, Ore. – Headlined by 2022 Pac-12 Freshman of the Year Mimi Colyer, the University of Oregon volleyball team secured five all-conference performers when league honors were announced Tuesday. Colyer also joins Brooke Nuneviller and Hannah Pukis on the All-Pac-12 Team with Georgia Murphy and Gloria Mutiri garnering honorable mention accolades. Conference awards and honors are voted on by the Pac-12 volleyball head coaches. Oregon earned a No. 3 seed in the NCAA Tournament and will host first- and second-round matches at Matthew Knight Arena beginning Friday. The Ducks are set to play LMU at 7 p.m. (PT) in the first round. All-session tickets are currently on sale. The Ducks finished the regular season with a 23-5 overall record including a 17-3 mark in Pac-12 play, establishing a program record for conference wins. Oregon, 12-0 on its home floor this season, carries its 13-match winning streak into Friday’s match against LMU. With Tuesday’s announcement, Colyer becomes the program’s second-ever Freshman of the Year, and first since Michelle Kresbsbach was the league’s inaugural recipient of the award in 1986. Colyer set a new Pac-12 record with eight Freshman of the Week selections, surpassing the previous record of six by USC’s Ebony Nwanebu (2013). Colyer ended the regular season ranked fourth in the Pac-12 with 4.89 points per set, a mark that leads all freshman in the NCAA, and is currently fifth in the conference with 4.20 kills per set. She has double-digit kills in 26 of 28 matches including nine outing with 20 or more. Helping the Ducks rally from an 0-2 deficit against USC (Nov. 20), Colyer put down a career-high 29 kills while hitting .463 in the comeback. For her efforts that weekend, Colyer was named the Pac-12 Offensive Player and Freshman of the Week to become just the fourth player in conference history to win both in the same week. She joins the list that already featured Samantha Bricio (USC, 2012), Audriana Fitzmorris (Stanford, 2016) and Kathryn Plummer (Stanford, 2016). Colyer was also named to the seven-player All-Freshman Team. Colyer is third on the team with 10 double-doubles this season, and leads the Ducks with 37 aces. She finished the regular season with at least one ace in 11 of 12 matches including seven in a row. Nuneviller, now a back-to-back-to-back selection to the All-Pac-12 Team, is averaging a career-high 4.02 kills per set during her senior campaign, and doing so with a .291 hitting percentage. Nuneviller reached double figures in 27 of 28 matches during the regular season with 20 or more kills in seven matches. She earned the 10th weekly conference of her career when she was Offensive Player of the Week following a 28-kill performance against Long Beach State in the season opener. The Chandler, Ariz., native, averaging 2.95 digs per set, leads the Ducks with 19 double-doubles and has double-digit digs in 20 of 28 matches this season. Nuneviller racked up a season-high 25 digs in a five-set road match against Washington (Oct. 9); had 20 kills in the match for a 20-20 performance. She has also tied her career high with 32 service aces. Nuneviller is one of two players in the country, and only one in the Power 5, with at least 4.00 kills per set (4.02), a .290 hitting percentage (.291) and 2.95 digs per set (2.95) through the regular season. She and Colyer are one of four duos in the NCAA averaging at least 4.00 kills per set this season. Pukis, in her first season with the Ducks, earns the third All-Pac-12 honor of her career; was also an all-conference performer the past two seasons at Washington State. The Tacoma, Wash., native is second in the Pac-12 and ninth in the NCAA with 11.24 assists per set, nearly a full assist higher than a previous high of 10.30 from the 2021 season. In the Ducks’ five-set, comeback win over USC (Nov. 20), Pukis tied her career high with 62 assists and set the team to a .429 hitting percentage. She has 40 or more assists in 13 matches and has topped 50 assists in five matches, all Oregon victories. Pukis is second on the team with 11 double-doubles, seven during conference play. Under Pukis’ guidance, along with Elise Ferreria who started six matches, Oregon enters the postseason hitting a league-leading .298, a figure that also ranks fourth in the NCAA. Pukis has set the team to .300 or higher in 14 matches, and was the Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week (Sept. 19) after directing the UO offense to a .407 efficiency at the Hurricane Invitational in Miami. Murphy is seventh in the Pac-12 with 3.63 digs per set, and anchors the Ducks’ floor defense that holds opponents to a .207 hitting percentage. So far this season, she has at least 15 digs in 15 matches. In the Ducks’ conference opener, Murphy collected 19 digs to go along with five assists in a four-set victory at Oregon State (Sept. 21). The Woodlands, Texas, native has 399 digs this season, and currently sits in fifth place on the program top-10 list with 1,488 career digs. In the Ducks’ regular-season finale, Murphy tied her career high with five service aces. Mutiri heads into the NCAA Tournament ranked 10th in the Pac-12 with a .346 hitting percentage, and sits third on the team with 2.26 kills per set. She has 10 or more kills in 10 matches this season, hitting .280 or higher on all 10 occasions. Mutiri put up at least three blocks in 16 matches during the regular season including a season-high six total blocks against Utah (Oct. 21). In a display of her standout efficiency, the Sand Springs, Okla., native has eight outings this year with 10 or more kills paired with two or few attack errors. Mutiri has three errorless, double-digit performances so far this year: 12 kills vs Penn State, .444 (12-0-27), 14 kills vs Arizona State, .700 (14-0-20) and 15 kills vs UCLA, .455 (15-0-33).