2000 Men's All America Teams
5/1/2000
2000 AVCA Men's All-America Teams
AVCA ANNOUNCES NCAA MEN'S VOLLEYBALL2000 ALL-AMERICA TEAMS
Colorado Springs, Colo. - The American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) announces its tenth annual AVCA All-America awards for men's volleyball. The presentation of the awards will occur at the NCAA Men's Volleyball National Championship Banquet at the Walb Union Ballroom on the campus of IPFW in Ft. Wayne, Ind. on Wednesday, May 3, 2000.
Eleven players that earned AVCA All-America honors in 1999 were again named to the 2000 AVCA All-America teams; seven of eight 1999 second-team honorees were re-named and four 1999 first-team honorees were re-selected. The first-team is led by two-time AVCA first-team All-American Donald Suxho of USC. The senior setter has been named the AVCA National Player of the Year for 2000. The others repeating as first-team honorees include Hector Soto (IPFW), Brandon Taliaferro (UCLA) and Scott Wong (Pepperdine). Taliaferro earned AVCA All-America honors for the fourth consecutive year.
Seventy-three student-athletes representing 25 schools were nominated for AVCA All-America status. The selections were made by the AVCA Men's Volleyball All-America Committee: chairperson Mark Pavlik (Penn State); Arnie Ball (IPFW); Sean Byron (East Stroudsburg); Dave Deuser (Lewis); Ron Larsen (UC-San Diego); Ivan Marquez (Concordia); Rick McLaughlin (Loyola Marymount); Joel Walton (Ball State); and Joe Wortman (Pacific).
| AVCA First-Team All-America | ||||||
| Player | Institution | Pos. | Yr. | Ht. | Hometown | |
| Rene' Esteves *$ | Ohio State | MB | Sr. | 6-7 | Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico | |
| David McKienzie * | Long Beach State | OH | Jr. | 6-4 | Littleton, Colo. | |
| Reid Priddy *$ | Loyola Marymount | OH | Sr. | 6-5 | Phoenix, Ariz. | |
| Matt Prosser * | Long Beach State | MB | Jr. | 6-7 | Ventura, Calif. | |
| Hector Soto &$ | IPFW | OH | Sr. | 6-6 | Arroyo, Puerto Rico | |
| Donald Suxho & | USC | S | Sr. | 6-5 | Korce, Albania | |
| Brandon Taliaferro &@% | UCLA | S | Sr. | 6-5 | San Clemente, Calif. | |
| Costas Theocharidis | Hawai'i | OH | Fr. | 6-2 | Orestiada, Greece | |
| Scott Wong & | Pepperdine | OH | Jr. | 6-5 | Pearl City, Hawai'i | |
| AVCA Second-Team All-America | ||||||
| Player | Institution | Pos. | Yr. | Ht. | Hometown | |
| Angel Aja @ | Ohio State | S | Sr. | 6-2 | Guaynabo, Puerto Rico | |
| Brook Billings | USC | OPP | So. | 6-5 | Santa Barbara, Calif. | |
| Andre Breuer *@ | Pepperdine | OH | Sr. | 6-9 | Berlin, Germany | |
| Scott Bunker | Brigham Young | MB | Jr. | 6-6 | Escondido, Calif. | |
| Chris Gisslen * | IPFW | S | Sr. | 6-7 | Red Wing, Minn. | |
| Brad Keenan | Pepperdine | MB | Fr. | 6-8 | Westminster, Calif. | |
| Eduardo Quinones | Lewis | OH | Sr. | 6-3 | Bayamon, Puerto Rico | |
| Chris Seiffert *$ | Long Beach State | S | Sr. | 6-4 | Laguna Niguel, Calif. | |
| Curt Toppel | Stanford | OPP | Fr. | 6-9 | Pacific Palisades, Calif. | |
2000 AVCA NEWCOMER AWARD: Costas Theocharidis, Hawai'i
2000 AVCA NATIONAL PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Donald Suxho, USC
& indicates AVCA First-Team selection in 1999
* indicates AVCA Second-Team selection in 1999
@ indicates AVCA First-Team selection in 1998
$ indicates AVCA Second-Team selection in 1998
# indicates AVCA First-Team selection in 1997
% indicates AVCA Second-Team selection in 199
