Lilley, Skinner, Londot top VolleyballMag.com 2020/Spring 2021 All-American teams
Best of the Best
Lee Feinswog
April 27, 2021
The annual VolleyballMag.com All-American teams and top honors rarely mirror those of the AVCA, which come out during the NCAA national semifinals.
But this year, it’s a double-double for national-champion Kentucky.
That’s because our national player of the year is Kentucky senior setter Madison Lilley, a near unanimous selection among our panel of media members, volleyball experts, and coaches.
Kentucky, of course, won the NCAA championship and Lilley was the leader all season.
Our national coach of the year is Kentucky’s Craig Skinner, although Ohio State’s Jen Flynn Oldenburg and Washington’s Keegan Cook were right in the mix.
Craig Skinner
Our national freshman of the year is Ohio State’s Emily Londot, who was a big reason for the Buckeyes’ resurgence this spring.
Our panelists voted for no less than 21 first-teamers. But each of our teams has 14 players with the only mandate to the voters was that the first and second teams had to have both a setter and a libero.
We chose not to have an all-freshman team for this season that was split in two by the pandemic, but continue our tradition of breaking the traditional all-sports All-American mold and honoring a fourth team for the third consecutive year. And, as in those previous two years, we easily could have had a fifth.
Our sport is growing both in terms of numbers and talent at the highest levels. This was not an easy list to make and we congratulate every player on it.
