By TODD MOORE
Barton Sports Info
Phoebe Reyes of the Barton Community College volleyball team has been announced as a 2nd team selection of the 2023 NJCAA Division I Volleyball All-America honors.
Reyes becomes the 30th selection in forty-four years of the program's history, the first since Mylena Testoni's consecutive years of first team selections from the 2020 and 2021 seasons.
Voted the Freshman of the Year and the Most Valuable Player in the KJCCC and Region VI by member coaches, Reyes helped the Cougars to its first league title since 2011 with a 13-3 record in concluding the season in the Region VI/Plains District semifinals at 25-6.
The third 2nd team selection in the Cougars' history, Reyes is also the program's first conference and region freshman of the year award winner and player of the year recipient since Maria Santos and Mylena Testoni each received the distinction respectively in the 2020 season.
Regionally, the Dominican Republic native ranked 4th in kills per set (3.46) and attack percentage (.275) in three rotations of the Cougars' 6-2 offensive set leading Barton to the top conference spot of kills per set and second in attack percentage.
Posting double-digit kills in 20 of Barton's 31 matches, fourteen of those came against conference opponents including a career high 21 against Seward County and 20 kills coming against both Lamar and Cloud County.