WATERBURY, Conn. -- Junior libero Alyssa Groves continues to add to her list of accolades this season for Post University Women's Volleyball as she was named to both the D2CCA and AVCA All-East Region First Teams as announced by the organizations over the last two days.

The awards should come as no surprise as the Arizona native finished the 2024 campaign having won Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference Defensive Player of the Year and being named to the All-Conference First Team earlier this month. Throughout the season, Groves was named the CACC Defensive Player of the Week six times while appearing on the CACC Honor Roll three more times for a total of nine recognitions throughout the season.

It was a historic year for Groves who holds the single-season record in digs which is now set at 823 following this season and she became the program's all-time leader in total digs with 1,860 now after surpassing Kerry Smith's mark of 1,689 digs through the 2005-2008 seasons. The 823 digs this season currently puts her at an average of 6.92 digs per set and both of those marks put her at the top of the entire NCAA Division II for the most this season among all active players. 

This is the first time since 2016 in which any Post player has made an All-Region Team when Skylar German was named to the D2CCA All-East Region First Team as well as Brianna Root was named to the Second Team. Groves is the first player since German that year to earn D2CCA All-East Region First Team Honors and the first since German in 2015 to earn AVCA All-East Region First Team honors. The 2015 awards for German also mark the last time in which a Post player has been named First Team in both the D2CCA and AVCA in the same season until Groves.

Earning First Team honors from both organizations makes Groves eligible to be the first All-American for Women's Volleyball since 2016 when Skylar German was named D2CCA All-American Third Team, but the junior would be only the second player in program history to be named All-American as German was named to it three times from 2014-2016. No Eagle has been named to the All-American team for the AVCA which would make Groves the first-ever to receive the accolade should she be selected. Both the D2CCA and AVCA All-American Team will be released on Wednesday, December 11th. 

The complete list of D2CCA and AVCA All-East Region honorees is available below: 
 

Team	First	Last	School	Pos.	Year
1st	Elizabeth	Blinn	Bentley University	MB	Jr.
1st	Kambel	Fiser	Adelphi University	S	Sr.
1st	Giselle	Giraud	Daemen University	RS	Gr.
1st	Alyssa	Groves	Post University	L	Jr.
1st	Sofia	Kamke	University of New Haven	OH	Jr.
1st	Aleksandra	Lucic	American International College	MB	Fr.
1st	Nylene	Mateo	Georgian Court University	OH	Gr.
1st	Macarty	McQueen	Adelphi University	OH	Jr.
1st	Victoria	Mendez	American International College	S/H	So.
1st	Julia	Pomerleau	Mercy University	MB	Gr.
1st	Adriana	Rivera Rodriguez	Mercy University	S	So.
1st	Kiarra	Roth	Molloy University	OH	Gr.
1st	Amber	Williams	University of New Haven	MB	Sr.
1st	Caitlin	Wunder	Bentley University	RS	Sr.
HM	Gabriela	Bienek	Mercy University	OH	Jr.
HM	Jasmine	Brundage	Daemen University	OH	Gr.
HM	Paola	Hernandez	University of Bridgeport	OH	Sr.
HM	Grace	Juergens	University of New Haven	OH	So.
HM	Nahirka	Malpica	Daemen University	OH	Jr.
HM	Sophia	Poehlein	Bentley University	OH	Fr.

Player of the Year: Victoria Mendez, American International College, S/H, So.
Freshman of the Year: Aleksandra Lucic, American International College, MB
Coach of the Year: Matt Cribbin, American International College