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Senior middle blocker Marc Honore (San Fernando, Trinidad / Naparima) has been named Saint Francis University's first-ever American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Division I-II First Team All-America, the AVCA announced on Tuesday night.

The 17^th annual AVCA Men's All-America awards will be presented at the NCAA National Collegiate Men's Volleyball Championship Banquet on May 2, on the campus of The Ohio State University.

Honore leads the nation with an average of 2.04 blocks per game, while he ranks fifth in hitting percentage (.524) and points per game (6.05), and eighth in kills per game (4.57). The 2007 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association All-East Player-of-the-Year, Honore shattered the Red Flash single-season records with 425 kills, a .524 hitting percentage and 190 blocks. He also owns the Saint Francis all-time records for kills (1,148), total attacks (1,921), hitting percentage (.466), service aces (91) and blocks (495).

UC Irvine led all schools with four players honored as AVCA All-America, placing one on the first team and three on the second team.

The selections were made by the AVCA Men's Volleyball All-America Committee: chairperson Sean Byron (Rutgers-Newark); Jeff Campbell (Cal State Northridge); Fred Chao (George Mason); Shane Davis (Loyola-Chicago); Pete Hanson (Ohio State); Mark Pavlik (Penn State); John Speraw (UC Irvine); Joel Walton (Ball State) and Joe Wortmann (Pacific).



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2006-07 News Archives 2005-06 \| 2006-07 \| 2007-08 \| 2008-09 Honore Named a 2007 AVCA Division I-II First Team All-America Senior middle blocker Marc Honore (San Fernando, Trinidad / Naparima) has been named Saint Francis University's first-ever American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Division I-II First Team All-America, the AVCA announced on Tuesday night. The 17^th annual AVCA Men's All-America awards will be presented at the NCAA National Collegiate Men's Volleyball Championship Banquet on May 2, on the campus of The Ohio State University. Honore leads the nation with an average of 2.04 blocks per game, while he ranks fifth in hitting percentage (.524) and points per game (6.05), and eighth in kills per game (4.57). The 2007 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association All-East Player-of-the-Year, Honore shattered the Red Flash single-season records with 425 kills, a .524 hitting percentage and 190 blocks. He also owns the Saint Francis all-time records for kills (1,148), total attacks (1,921), hitting percentage (.466), service aces (91) and blocks (495). UC Irvine led all schools with four players honored as AVCA All-America, placing one on the first team and three on the second team. The selections were made by the AVCA Men's Volleyball All-America Committee: chairperson Sean Byron (Rutgers-Newark); Jeff Campbell (Cal State Northridge); Fred Chao (George Mason); Shane Davis (Loyola-Chicago); Pete Hanson (Ohio State); Mark Pavlik (Penn State); John Speraw (UC Irvine); Joel Walton (Ball State) and Joe Wortmann (Pacific).