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All-Decade Team: Volleyball

Throughout the Fall 2020 semester, the top student-athletes from each of UMSL’s current varsity athletic teams from 2010-19 will be selected. 

Each sport’s all-decade team is comprised of the top-performing student-athletes, with emphasis on individual athletic achievement and accolades and team achievement. The decade is defined as the spring of 2010 through the winter of 2019. For fall and spring sports, it spans the seasons of 2010-19 and for winter, it includes the 2010-11 to 2019-20 seasons. A student-athlete must have played for at least two seasons during the decade to be eligible. 

Each all-decade team will be selected internally with the consultation of coaches as well as those close to the programs. 

This week's All-Decade Team is for volleyball and consists of a traditional 6-2 line-up with two outside hitters, two middle blockers, two setters, two opposite side hitters and a libero. 

OUTSIDE HITTER
SELENA NOLTE (2016-19)

  • Career kills leader (1,469)
  • Honorable Mention All-American (2019)
  • Honorable Mention All-Region (2019)
  • Three-time All-GLVC (1st Team in 2017, 2019; 2nd Team in 2018)
  • Helped team to 2019 NCAA Tournament and GLVC Tournament runner-up finish

OUTSIDE HITTER
CHARLOTTE RICHARDS (2018-present)

  • Second Team All-American (2019)
  • First Team All-Region (2019)
  • First Team All-GLVC (2019)
  • Helped team to 2019 NCAA Tournament and GLVC Tournament runner-up finish

MIDDLE BLOCKER
WESLIE GAFF (2008-11)

  • Four-time All-GLVC (1st Team in 2008, 2009, 2010; 2nd in 2011)
  • All-Region (1st Team in 2008 and 2010; HM in 2009)
  • AVCA Midwest Region Freshman of the Year and GLVC Frreshman of the Year
  • Graduated ranking fourth in career kills (1,140), second in career hitting percentage (.331) and block solos (101), third in block assists (275) and fourth in total blocks (376)
  • Helped team to 2010 NCAA Tournament

MIDDLE BLOCKER
LEXI ROGERS (2013-16)

  • Second Team All-GLVC (2016)
  • Ranks ninth in career hitting percentage (0.269)
  • Played in 97 matches, averaging 1.89 kills and 0.83 blocks per set, while hitting .269

RIGHT SIDE HITTER
ERIN HIGGINS (2008-11)

  • Three-time All-GLVC (1st Team in 2009, 2nd Team in 2010 and 2011)
  • Graduated seventh in career kills (1,027) and fifth in career block assists (244)
  • Helped team to 2010 NCAA Tournament

RIGHT SIDE HITTER
KYLIE RUDSINSKI (2016-19)

  • Two-time Second Team All-GLVC (2018, 2019)
  • Graduates ranking third in career kills (1,243) and ninth in total blocks (295), including sixth in block assists (271)
  • Helped team to 2019 NCAA Tournament and GLVC Tournament runner-up finish

SETTER
LINDSAY MEYER (2012-15)

  • Graduated third in career assists (3,566) and fifth in career digs (1,287)
  • Played in 123 matches, averaging 7.84 assists and 2.83 digs per set; also recorded 89 service aces

SETTER
MADYSON ABEYTA (2014-17)

  • Graduated ninth in career assists (1847)
  • Played in 97 matches, averaging 5.67 assists and 1.74 digs per set; also recorded 78 service aces

LIBERO
MEGAN WOLL (2018-present)

  • GLVC Libero of the Year (2019)
  • Honorable Mention All-America (2019)
  • All-Region (2019)
  • First Team All-GLVC (2019)
  • Set single season digs records in back-to-back seasons (620 in 2018 and 667 in 2019)
  • Ranks fifth in career digs (1,287)
  • Helped team to 2019 NCAA Tournament and GLVC Tournament runner-up finish

HONORABLE MENTION (OUTSIDE HITTER)
CHELSEA BURKLE (2010-13)

  • Program’s first-ever All-American selection, earning honorable mention honors in 2013.
  • Two-time All-GLVC (3rd Team in 2011; 1st Team in 2013)
  • First Team All-Region (2013)
  • Ranks 10th all-time with 975 career kills
  • Helped team to 2010 NCAA Tournament

HONORABLE MENTION (MIDDLE BLOCKER)
JESSICA PLOSS (2012-15)

  • Career leader in block assists (372)
  • Ranks third in total career blocks (427) and is eighth in career hitting percentage (0.272)
  • Played in 121 matches, averaging 1.70 kills and 1.09 blocks per set, while hitting .272

HONORABLE MENTION 
(LIBERO/DEFENSIVE SPECIALIST)
DANIELLE WAEDEKIN (2016-17)

  • Graduated seventh in career digs (1,170)
  • Dig total as a senior was second most in a single season (589), while dig total as a junior was third in a single season (581)
  • First Team Academic All-American

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