Both players set records for Aces in 2019
 University of Evansville volleyball stars Melanie Feliciano and Gabriela Macedo garnered Missouri Valley Conference recognition on the opening day of the 2019 MVC Volleyball Championship.
Feliciano earned a spot on the All-Freshman Team along with the All-Conference Second Team. Macedo joined Feliciano on the All-Conference Second Team.
The top libero in the Missouri Valley Conference also has an argument to be the top libero in the country as Gabriela Macedo is coming off of one of the best seasons in MVC history. Macedo finished the regular season with a total of 681 digs, translating to 5.97 per set. That tally led the conference by 0.62 per set while her total was 65 more than anyone else. It finished sixth in the entire nation. She upped her game even more in conference play, posting 6.65 per set.
That was 0.95 more than anyone else while her total of 472 was 90 more than her nearest competition. Macedo was the only player in the MVC to be recognized with three Defender of the Week awards. Her total of 681 digs surpassed the previous Evansville mark of 656 and is one of the top ten totals in Valley history.
Her current total is 10th all-time in a single season and she is just 19 away from being just the 7th player in the history of the league to record 700 digs in a season. Macedo tallied 46 digs in the home match against Drake; it was the second-highest total in conference history and the most in any 5-set match in the NCAA in 2019.
Evansville freshman Melanie Feliciano was the leading freshman in the Missouri Valley Conference and one of the top five in the country, posting 4.18 kills per set. She finished the season second in the conference with her kill average and was 32nd in the nation.
Her total was third-best among all freshmen in the NCAA. Feliciano’s total of 456 kills set the Evansville program mark for a freshman; the previous record of 434 came in 1997 by Jessica Kiefer. Feliciano tied for the conference lead with four Freshman of the Week awards. Her top performance came against Eastern Illinois where she posted what at the time was a program record of 36 kills. It is tied for the third-highest amount in a single match in the history of the league. She had 95 attempts in the match, setting the UE and MVC records.
