CLAREMONT, Calif. - Senior outside hitter Brooke McKee earned first-team American Volleyball Coaches Association All-Region honors, while first-year right-side hitter Phoebe Shorney earned honorable mention distinction, the AVCA announced today. 

McKee ranks second no the CMS single-season kill list with 426 this season. She trails only Nicole Kerkhof, who had 482 in 2013, a total she could reach if the Athenas have an extended postseason run, after going over 400 in the SCIAC Semifinals with 18 against Whittier and then recording 19 more in the championship match win over La Verne in five sets, earning Tournament Most Outstanding Player honors.

McKee also ranks fourth in career kills with 1161, and could move into second place ahead of Regina Saulsbury (1175 from 1997-00) and Emily Bennett (1180 from 2002-05), although Kerkhof's career mark of 1447 is out of reach. Her season totals included 24 kills against WashU, and 23 in SCIAC wins over Pomona-Pitzer and Chapman. 

Shorney tallied 194 kills in her rookie season, while hitting .248 and adding 45 blocks. She enters NCAA play with double-digit kills in five of her last seven matches, including 11 in the SCIAC Semifinals and 12 in the SCIAC Championship match against No. 5 ranked La Verne. She had a season-high 16 kills in a win over Chapman, and had 13 in a five-set defeat to Wisconsin-Oshkosh, which is currently ranked No. 3. 

CMS opens NCAA Tournament play tomorrow morning with an 8:30 a.m. match (Pacific time) against Babson, in a regional hosted by Wesleyan (Conn.).