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Millsaps volleyball quartet earns SAA honors

Four Millsaps College volleyball players received Southern Athletic Association awards following the regular season, the conference office announced Tuesday. Freshman outside hitter Khloe Duncan was named to the All-SAA Second Team. Senior libero Sandy Bourgeois and junior middle hitter Zoë LaCaze received All-SAA honorable mention, while senior right-side hitter Amelia Bohl was named to the SAA Fall All-Sportsmanship Team.

Duncan, from Lacombe, Louisiana, finished third in the SAA with 340 kills and second with 3.51 kills per set. She started 23 matches and appeared in 27 of 28, ranking third in points per set at 3.71 and fourth in total points with 359.5. She also recorded 77 digs, 36 blocks and five assists, with a .215 hitting percentage.

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Bourgeois, from Luling, Louisiana, led the conference with 5.19 digs per set and ranked second with 503 total digs. She started 27 matches and recorded 91 assists and 26 aces. Through 106 career matches, she had 1,709 digs, 260 assists and 92 aces.

LaCaze, from Prairieville, Louisiana, started 27 matches and ranked fourth in the SAA in blocks with 83 and blocks per set at 0.89. Her .272 hitting percentage led Millsaps, while her 38 aces ranked ninth and 0.41 aces per set ranked eighth. She also recorded 154 kills, 53 digs and six assists. Bohl, from Chuluota, Florida, started 21 of her 27 appearances and had 138 kills, a .159 hitting percentage, 35 blocks, 69 digs, eight assists and one ace.

Millsaps entered the 2026 SAA Championship as the No. 6 seed and was scheduled to face No. 3 seed Trinity at 5 p.m. Thursday. Trinity was hosting the tournament in San Antonio, Texas; matches were to be streamed on FloCollege, with live stats at gomajors.com. Millsaps College was founded in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1890.

Source: Millsaps Athletics.

Jon Myers

Jon Ross Myers founded Mississippi News Group in 2013. Before founding the organization, he worked at The Daily Mississippian, The Marion Salute and The Southern Sentinel. A Mississippi journalist and writer based in Ripley, he received second place in poetry in the 2025 William Faulkner Literary Competition for "The Garden."