Parlanti named Region 24 Player of the Year, Graber and Netcott receive All-Region honors

VINCENNES, Ind. – The honors roll in for the 2022 Region 24 Champion Vincennes University Trailblazers volleyball team, with freshman Paige Parlanti (Las Vegas, Nev.) being named Region 24 Player of the Year and sophomore Hannah Graber (Montgomery, Ind.) and freshman libero Morgan Netcott (Montague, Mich.) receiving First Team All-Region honors.

Parlanti is the third Trailblazer to be named Region 24 Player of the Year since Vincennes joined the Region in 2018, joining Allison Smith (Oakland, Ill.) in 2018 and Grace Earp (Mattoon, Ill.) last season.

“This award means a lot because it shows off all of my hard work and dedication that I have put into the sport of volleyball,” Parlanti said. “I just want to thank my coaches and teammates because they helped push me every day to be the best volleyball player I can be.”

Parlanti burst onto the collegiate scene, recording 23 double-doubles as a freshman and leading the Blazers with 535 kills, 59 aces and being second on the team with 538 digs.

Parlanti is currently third in the nation with 633 points this season and sixth in the country with an average of 4.8 points per set as a freshman.

Parlanti also currently sits third in the country in kills and is fifth in kills per set with an average of 4.05. Parlanti is also currently 14th in the country in digs.

Parlanti set her season-high in kills with 29 in VU’s five-set win at Kaskaskia and set a season-high of 29 digs against Iowa Western in the NJCAA Division I Midwest B District Tournament.

“My favorite memory from this past season was winning the Region 24 Championship and celebrating with my teammates,” Parlanti added. “I absolutely loved all my teammates and the sophomores were so welcoming to all of the incoming freshmen. The relationships with all of my teammates are relationships that are going to last a lifetime and I’m so thankful for them.”

“I really hope I can take the leadership skills that all of the sophomores have taught us and be just as much, if not more, welcoming and help guide the incoming freshmen to become better than us,” Parlanti said.

Sophomore Hannah Graber was named First Team All-Region 24 for the second time, after earning the honor last season.

“This is very rewarding knowing that all the hard work I have put into volleyball has paid off throughout the years,” Graber said. “My favorite memory from this past season was eating breakfast as a team before the Region tournament and District tournament, then all of us getting ready together after. Any time spent with the team was definitely a blast this year.”

Graber helped run the Trailblazer offense along with fellow sophomore setter Josephine Mulligan (Saint John, Ind.) and still finished the season with an outstanding 654 set assists, good for 43rd in the country.