Texas' White & Eggleston, Oklahoma's Kinley & McLaughlin, Texas Tech's Owens Named Best of Big 12

Courtesy: Big 12 Conference

All-Big 12 Volleyball awards for the 2018 season were announced by the Conference office as Oklahoma, Texas and Texas Tech picked up individual accolades.

The honorees were led by the Player of the Year Micaya White (Texas), Freshman of the Year Logan Eggleston (Texas), Libero of the Year Keyton Kinley (Oklahoma) and Co-Setter of the Year recipients Kylee McLaughlin (Oklahoma) and Missy Owens (Texas Tech). Longhorns head coach Jerritt Elliott took home his sixth Coach of the Year award.

Junior outside hitter White was named Big 12 Player of the Year for the first time after a season that included a team-leading number of kills (326), kills per set average (3.84) and a hitting clip above .300 (.305). White also earned two conference weekly awards throughout her junior campaign. During her first year at UT, White was named Freshman of the Year (2016), a season that consisted of eight Rookie of the Week honors. A Longhorn has now won back-to-back Player of the Year awards for the first time in four years.

MICAYA WHITE is the 2018 Big 12 Player of the Year!

She is the 11th Longhorn to earn the award.

Congrats @CayaW 🤘🏆 pic.twitter.com/UumNHJHJ6s

— Texas Volleyball (@TexasVolleyball) November 26, 2018

Eggleston capped off her rookie season with the third-best kills per set average (2.89) and third-most kills (246) in the Big 12, amongst all freshman. She helped the Longhorns to a league-leading hitting percentage (.303), which ranks No. 3 in the nation.

Logan Eggleston is the Big 12 Freshman of the Year!

She is the 8th Big 12 Freshman of the Year:
🤘'01 – Topic
🤘'06 – Engle
🤘'07 – Faucette
🤘'08 – Kocher
🤘'11 – Eckerman
🤘'13 – Ogbogu
🤘'16 – @CayaW

Congratulations, @loganegg_ 🤘 pic.twitter.com/aJFTf0TII3

— Texas Volleyball (@TexasVolleyball) November 26, 2018

Three-time Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week honoree, Kinley, paced the Conference with a digs per set average that ranked No. 41 in the nation (5.12) and recorded a league-best 527 digs, No. 72 nationally.

➡️ No. 1 in the conference in digs and digs per set
➡️ 26 double-digit dig performances
➡️ First Sooner to reach 500 digs since 2012

The Big 12 Libero of the Year… @keyton_kinley4! pic.twitter.com/htJ2USuZXy

— Oklahoma Volleyball (@OU_Volleyball) November 26, 2018

McLaughlin ranked No. 2 in the league in assists (1,111). She also tallied the most assists in a week’s span in Conference play (108) and pulled in a No. 42 national ranking in assists per set (10.79).

➡️ Led the league in total assists
➡️ 14 double-doubles
➡️ Four matches with 50+ assists

The Big 12 Co-Setter of the Year… @Kyleemac8! pic.twitter.com/NZlCrl34OX

— Oklahoma Volleyball (@OU_Volleyball) November 26, 2018

Owens ranked fifth-most in the Big 12 in assists (1,056) and sixth-most in assists per set (10.06).

Elite status 🥇

Congrats to @missy_owens on being named Big 12 Co-Setter of the Year and First Team All-Big 12.

🔴#WreckEm⚫️ pic.twitter.com/869Ucc2OaD

— Texas Tech Volleyball (@TexasTechVB) November 26, 2018