Canyon, Texas – The Angelo State volleyball team left the LSC Volleyball banquet tonight with a dozen honors as they head into postseason play at the LSC Tournament tomorrow in Canyon.

Graduate student setter Adeline Ortman was named the conference's Academic Player of the Year and Setter of the Year. Caleigh Enax was named the LSC Libero of the Year, and both were joined on the All-LSC First Team by Evelyn Torres and Madi Parrish.

Freshmen Demi Carter and Sydney Thornton were named All-LSC Honorable Mentions, and both were selected to the All-Freshman Team.

Ortman, an MBA student from Rhome, was named the Academic Player of the Year for carrying a 4.0 GPA in both undergrad and graduate school. Ortman was named to the LSC All-Academic Team for the third straight year and has been on the LSC Commissioner's Honor Roll every semester in college.

This is the second straight year the Belles have won this award, with former Belle Hannah Kinnison taking the award last season. Since 2014, a Belle has won this award in seven of the past 11 seasons, and this is the third time it's been done in back-to-back seasons. As the Academic Player of the Year, Ortman wil be a candidate for the LSC Fred Jacoby Academic Athlete of the Year award, which is announced in June.

Additionally, Ortman earned LSC Setter of the Year plaudits for her play on the court. She leads the conference with 11.56 assists per set, which ranks seventh in the nation, and has helped the Belles to a .252 attack percentage this season. She has recorded nine double-doubles and has surpassed 50 assists in a match five times this season. She led all players with four weekly awards this season and has recorded 2,556 career assists.

She has 1,029 assists, a new season-best for the senior. She is the first setter to pass the century mark in assists in a season since Meghan Parker did so in 2018. This is the fourth setter of the year award that the Belles have earned under head coach Chuck Waddington and the first since Parker did so in 2018.

This is Ortman's third all-conference honor, having earned All-LSC Honorable Mention in 2022 and All-LSC Second Team last season.

Enax joins her high school teammate Ortman as a superlative award winner, the Libero of the Year, and she also earns All-LSC First Team honors. Enax averages 5.27 digs per set, leading the Belles to hold opponents to a .167 attack percentage. On opening day, she surpassed the 1,000-career dig mark. She enters the postseason on 1,465 career digs, which places her sixth in program history. She has six matches this season with 20 or more digs.

Enax breaks a nine-year drought for the Libero of the Year award, becoming the fourth Belle to win the award under Waddington and the first to do so since Katie MacLeay in 2015. Waddington has had 24 superlative conference award winners in his 17 years at the helm of the Belles Volleyball program.

Torres and Parrish earn their first All-LSC First Team nods in their careers. This is the first all-conference honor for Parrish, who was named to the All-Freshman team last season. At the same time, this is Torres' third all-conference award, having earned All-LSC Second Team plaudits in 2022 and an All-LSC Honorable Mention placement last season.

Parrish finished the season with 3.92 kills per set, which is second in the league. She is hitting .231 this season and averages 0.32 aces per set. Her 4.39 points per set are second in the LSC. She has three matches above 20 kills this season and earned AVCA Division II National Player of the Week honors on September 24^th.

Torres is third in the LSC in kills and points, with 3.91 and 4.32 per set, respectively, and is hitting .258 on the season. She has 20+ kills in four matches this season and three with 20 or more digs.

She has recorded a dozen double-doubles this season and earned offensive Player of the Week honors twice. She enters the postseason with 1,117 career kills and 726 career digs.

This is the fourth time in program history that the Belles have had four first-team selections (2012, 2018, 2020).

Thornton and Carter combined to earn three Freshman of the Week honors this season. The rookies have established themselves in the Belles' starting lineup, combining to start 35 out of a possible 49 matches.

Carter is third on the team with 2.19 kills per set on a .288 hitting percentage, while Thornton is fourth with 2.01 kills. Thornton's .291 attack percentage is second on the team and 19^th in the league.

Thornton has established herself as one of the best blockers in the league. She averages 1.03 blocks per set, which ranks third in the league behind perennial All-LSC First Teamers Taytum Stow (WT) and Ayanna Jackson (TAMUK).

Carter has seven matches with ten or more points and eight where she hit above .400. She averages 0.77 blocks per set, 19^th in the league.

The Belles ended the regular season as the tenth-ranked team in the country with a 25-2 record and a 15-1 record in LSC play. They are the two seed in the LSC Tournament and open play tomorrow against seven-seed Oklahoma Christian at 2:30 p.m.