Hilliard Named AVCA All-American

Cal State Long Beach’s Brent Hilliard, a Dana Hills High graduate, was named Monday to the American Volleyball Coaches Assn. All-American second team.

Hilliard, the AVCA player of the year last season, broke the NCAA record for career kills with 3,034. He’s a three-time All-American.

The teams:

First team--Player of the year: Canyon Ceman (Stanford), Dave Goss (Stanford), Coley Kyman (Cal State Northridge), Jeff Nygaard (UCLA), Mike Sealy (UCLA), Tom Sorensen (Pepperdine). Second team--Lloy Ball (Indiana Purdue Ft. Wayne), Axel Hager (Cal State Northridge), Brent Hilliard (Cal State Long Beach), David Muir (Penn State), Jason Mulholland (USC), Ethan Watts (Brigham Young).