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Star Tribune All-Metro volleyball first, second and third teams

By Jim Paulsen, Star Tribune, 11/07/16, 1:45PM CST

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Four players return from last year's all-metro first team, with Sydney Hilley repeating as the metro player of the year.


Brie Orr, Jenny Mosser, Jaz Martin, Tina Boe, Sydney Hilley and C.C. McGraw make up the 2016 Star Tribune All-Metro volleyball first team. Photos by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/rtsong-taatarii@startribune.com

All-metro first team







star tribune all-metro second and third teams


Second team

Bre Maloney, Roseville, senior S: Third in state history in assists with 4,727.

Kate Berg, Wayzata, senior OH: The go-to hitter for a top-10 program.

Erin Fallert, Concordia Academy, senior OH: 381 kills for the Class 2A state tournament-bound Beacons.

Anna Blaschko, Shakopee, senior MB: Force in the front row is Neb.-Omaha bound.

Brynn Carlson, Cretin-Derham Hall, senior OH: At 6-foot-4, imposing and powerful. Going to Kansas St.

Tori Hanson, Delano, senior OH/L: Do-everything kind of player with 340 kills, 426 digs.

Mariena Hayden, Belle Plaine, senior OH: Came back with a strong year after a knee injury; going to UNLV.

Third team

Halle Johnston, Lakeville South, senior libero

Ellie Veldman, Prior Lake, senior S

Taylor Wolf, Waconia, senior S/OH

Izzy Ashburn, Champlin Park, junior S

Claire Sheehan, Cambridge-Isanti, senior OH

Laura Snyder, Blaine, senior S/RSH

McKenna Melville, Eagan, junior OH

Isabel Aragon-Menzel, Minnetonka, senior S

How the teams were chosen

The Star Tribune’s All-Metro teams and Metro Player of the Year were chosen based on nominations from metro-area coaches, conversations with a panel of coaches and staff observations.

Jim Paulsen 

Previous Star Tribune Metro Players of the Year

Year Player School
2015 Sydney Hilley Champlin Park
2014 Samantha Seliger Swenson Hopkins
2013 Alyssa Goehner Lakeville North
2012 Alyssa Goehner Lakeville North
2011 Julia Doyle Wayzata
2010 Kellie McNeil Lakeville North
2009 Ashley Wittman Shakopee
2008 Ashley Wittman Shakopee
2007 Kelsey Brandl Lakeville North
2006 Hailey Cowles Eden Prairie
2005 Nikki Klingsporn Tartan
2004 Courtney Cowles Eden Prairie
2003 Megan Frey Chaska
2002 Kelly Bowman Osseo
2001 Kelly Bowman Osseo
2000 Tera Lobdell Robbinsdale Armstrong
1999 Sarah Rome Eagan
1998 Lisa Axel Buffalo
1997 Amanda Rome Chaska
1996 Amanda Rome Chaska
1995 Elizabeth Bachman Lakeville
1994 Marissa Kimbrough Bloomington Jefferson
1993 Becky Bauer Bloomington Jefferson
1992 Sarah Pearman Apple valley
1991 Heidi Olhausen Lakeville
1990 Kari Anderson Columbia Heights
1989 Kim Hanson and Allison Murphy Chaska
1988 Jessica Fiebelkorn Osseo
1987 Alice Commers and Michelle Kaminski Columbia Heights

Previous All-Metro first teams

2015      2014      2013

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