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Off the Block selected the top players in college men’s volleyball and seeded them into a bracket. Now it is up to the fans to determine who should win the Off the Block//Frisco Mo Fan Choice National Player of the Year.
The Off the Block//Frisco Mo Fan Choice National Player of the Year recognizes the best individual performances from NCAA Division I-II men’s volleyball players during the season and lets volleyball fans from around the world decide the winner through online voting.
The five-round bracket style tournament continues with the opening round matches in the Micah Christenson Region and the TJ DeFalco Region. The winners will advance to those regions’ second-round matches on Friday.
Check out today’s ballots below. Online voting for these first-round matches will end at 10 p.m. (CST) Wednesday.
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No. 7 seed Raymond Barsemian, Concordia-Irvine
Barsemian led the MPSF and was fourth in the nation with a 4.33 kills per game average on a career-best .279 attack percentage. The All-MPSF senior had at least 20 kills in six matches and 19 kills on a .405 attack percentage in a near upset of UCLA in the conference tournament quarterfinals.
No. 10 seed Hayden Wagner, George Mason
Wanger was in the nation’s top 15 with a 3.88 kills per game average, including a season-high 21 kills in an upset victory against Penn State. The All-EIVA opposite also helped the Patriots advance to the EIVA Tournament finals.
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No. 1 seed Gabi Garcia Fernandez, BYU
Fernandez finished in the nation’s top 25 with both a 3.77 kills per game average and a .331 attack percentage, including having 15 kills and zero errors while hitting .833 in an early-season sweep against Pepperdine. The MPSF Player of the Year and Bryan Ivie Award finalist also was fifth in the country averaging 0.52 aces per game as he helped the Cougars reach the NCAA Tournament finals.
No. 16 seed Zach Schneider, Daemen
Schneider led the nation with a 0.76 aces per game as he helped Daemen finish its abbreviated season undefeated. The All-Independent Team outside attacker had double-digit kills in four matches, including 17 kills in a season finale sweep against St. Francis Brooklyn.
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No. 2 seed Tyler Mitchem, Lewis
Mitchem was second in the nation with a .490 attack percentage and had double-digit kills in 11 matches, including 14 kills and zero errors while hitting .700 in a victory against Penn State in the NCAA Tournament opening round. The All-American middle attacker and Dain Blanton Diversity Award winner also was third in the country averaging 1.30 blocks per game as helped the Flyers in the MIVA championship and reach the NCAA Tournament semifinals.
No. 15 seed Michael Fisher, Saint Francis
Fisher despite missing the start of the season ended the year leading the EIVA with a 3.96 kills per game average. The All-EIVA outside attacker also helped the Red Flash reach the EIVA Tournament semifinals.
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No. 3 seed Austin Wilmot, Pepperdine
Wilmont was 11th in the nation with both a 1.10 blocks per game and a .434 attack percentage. The All-American middle attacker also had 12 kills on a .476 attack percentage and six blocks against UC Santa Barbara in the NCAA Tournament opening round.
No. 14 seed TJ Murray, Lewis
Murrary was in the nation’s top 10 with a 1.10 blocks per game average, including a season-high 11 blocks in an early-season victory against NJIT. The All-MIVA middle attacker also had a .440 attack percentage as he helped the Flyers win the MIVA championship and reach the NCAA Tournament semifinals.
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No. 4 seed Kevin Kauling, Lewis
Kauling was second in the nation with a 10.84 assists per game average and guided the offense to the third-best attack percentage in the nation at .340. The All-American setter and finalist for the Lloy Ball Award also helped the Flyers win the MIVA championship and advance to the NCAA Tournament semifinals.
No. 13 seed Felipe de Brito Ferreira, BYU
Ferreira led the MPSF and was fourth in the nation with a 1.28 blocks per game average, including having six blocks in a NCAA Tournament semifinals victory against Lewis. The All-MPSF middle attacker also had a .458 attack percentage as he helped the Cougars win the MPSF championship.
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No. 5 seed Roy McFarland, UC Santa Barbara
McFarland was in the top 15 of the Big West with both a .304 attack percentage and 2.78 kills per game average. The All-American outside attacker also had a season-high 21 kills on a .340 attack percentage in a NCAA Tournament opening round victory against Pepperdine.
No. 12 seed Michal Podgorzak, Limestone
Podgorzak led the nation with a 3.31 digs per game average. The All-Independent Team libero and finalist for the Erik Shoji Award had double-digit digs in 14 matches.
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No. 6 seed Sotiris Siapanis, Ohio State
Siapanis ended last season in the nation’s top 15 with both a 4.12 kills per game average and a .356 attack percentage. The Freshman All-American also was named the MIVA Newcomer of the Year and a finalist for the Nicolas Szerszen Award as the top international player
No. 11 seed Merrick McHenry, UCLA
McHenry was in the nation’s top 15 with a .423 attack percentage and had double-digit kills in eight matches. The All-MPSF middle attacker also was in the nation’s top 20 with a 1.02 blocks per game average as he helped the Bruins finish in second place in the MPSF.
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No. 7 seed Camden Gianni, Grand Canyon
Gianni was third in the nation with a 0.70 aces per game average, including having a season-high seven aces against USC. The All-MPSF outside attacker and National Server of the Year finalists also was in the nation’s top 15 with a 4.00 kills per game average.
No. 10 seed Brennan Davis, Belmont Abbey
Davis was sixth in the nation with a 10.58 assists per game average and led the Crusaders to the third-best attack percentage in the conference at .261. The All-ConfCarolinas setter also helped Belmont Abbey win the ConfCarolinas championship and advance to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in program history.
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No. 8 seed Sam Kobrine, UCLA
Kobrine finished last season eighth in the nation with a 10.34 assists per game average and guided the Bruins to the fifth-best attack percentage in the nation at .330. The All-MPSF setter also had both a career-high 136 digs and 38 blocks as UCLA finished in second place in the MPSF.
No. 9 seed Daniel Wetter, CSUN
Wetter finished in the nation’s top 10 with a .442 attack percentage. The All-Big West middle attacker had double-digit kills in six matches, including a season-high 18 kills on a .567 attack percentage in the Big West Tournament quarterfinals against UC San Diego.
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No. 1 seed Casey McGarry, UC Santa Barbara
McGarry had a nation-best 11.03 assists per game average and guided the offense to the eighth-best attack percentage in the nation at .312. The Lloy Ball Award winner also was in the nation’s top 15 with a 2.16 digs per game average as UC Santa Barbara win the Big West championship and reached the NCAA Tournament semifinals.
No. 16 seed Noah Melendez, King
Melendez led the ConfCarolinas and was second in the nation with a 2.69 digs per game average. The All-ConfCarolinas libero also had double-digit digs in 12 matches.
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No. 2 seed Patrick Gasman, Hawai’i
Gasman led the nation with a .510 attack percentage, including having a combined 17 kills and hit .593 in the Rainbow Warriors’ two NCAA Tournament matches. The All-American and Ryan Millar Award winner also was sixth in the nation with a 1.23 blocks per game average as he helped Hawai’i win the national championship.
No. 15 seed Brad Creamer, George Mason
Creamer was third in the EIVA with a 0.84 blocks per game average. The All-EIVA middle attacker also had a .488 attack percentage as he helped George Mason reach the EIVA Tournament finals.
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No. 3 seed Davide Gardini, BYU
Gardini was among the national leaders with a 3.05 kills per game on a .327 attack percentage and had double-digit kills in 15 matches. The All-American and finalist for the Karch Kiraly Award also had a career-high 130 digs as BYU advanced to the NCAA Tournament finals.
No. 14 seed Ryan Serrano, McKendree
Serrano was among the MIVA leaders with a 9.29 assists per game average as the Bearcats finished the season with a .259 attack percentage. The All-MIVA setter also was in the top 15 averaging both 1.79 digs per game and 0.87 blocks per game.
No. 4 seed Cal Fisher, Penn State
Fisher was second in the nation with a 0.75 aces per game average and was named the National Server of the Year. The All-American opposite was also among the national leaders with a 3.52 kills per game average and in the nation’s top 20 with a .354 attack percentage as he helped Penn State win the EIVA championship.
No. 13 seed Adrian Iglesias, Barton
Barton was in the nation’s top 15 with a 4.02 kills per game average. The All-ConfCarolinas outside attacker had double-digit kills in 15 matches, including having 22 kills on a .621 attack percentage in a sweep against Belmont Abbey.
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No. 5 seed Colton Cowell, Hawai’i
Cowell was among the national leaders with a 3.07 kills per game average and had double-digit kills in 11 matches. The All-American outside attacker also averaged 0.35 aces per game as helped the Rainbow Warriors win the NCAA championship.
No. 12 seed Joel Schneidmiller, UC Irvine
Schneidmiller was in the nation’s top 25 with a 3.66 kills per game average on a .307 attack percentage. The All-Big West outside attacker had double-digit kills in 12 matches, including having a season-high 28 kills on a .489 attack percentage in a victory against UC San Diego.
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No. 6 seed Spencer Wickens, Pepperdine
Wickens was among the national leaders with a 3.24 kills per game average on a .317 attack percentage. The All-MPSF selection also concluded the season with double-digit kills in seven consecutive matches as the Waves reached the NCAA Tournament.
No. 11 seed Kyle McCauley, UC San Diego
McCauley was in the nation’s top 25 with a 3.63 kills per game average and had double-digit kills in all but two matches. The All-Big West outside attacker also had 18 kills as UC San Diego upset Hawai’i in the Big West Tournament semifinals.
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No. 7 seed Simon Andersen, Long Beach State
Andersen finished Long Beach State’s abbreviated 2021 season second in the nation averaging 1.40 blocks per game. The National Blocker of the Year finalist also was in the nation’s top 15 with a .392 attack percentage, including having a season-high 12 kills while hitting .667 in a victory against UC Irvine.
No. 10 seed Joshua Kim, King
Kim was seventh in the nation with a 4.13 kills per game average, including having a career-high 36 kills on a .433 attack percentage in an upset victory against Mount Olive. The All-ConfCarolinas outside attacker also was in the nation’s top 25 averaging 2.01 digs per game.
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No. 8 seed Lucas Galifos, McKendree
Galifos led the nation with a 1.51 blocks per game average and had a career-best .406 attack percentage. The National Blocker of the Year also had nine blocks to help McKendree beat Purdue Fort Wayne in the MIVA Tournament quarterfinals.
No. 9 seed Garrett Zolg, Loyola
Zolg returning to the court after missing the 2020 season with an injury finished in the nation’s top 10 with a 10.18 assists per game average. The All-MIVA setter also was in the nation’s top 15 with a 0.45 aces per game average as he helped the Ramblers reach the MIVA Tournament finals.
Great Year for the players & coaching staffs. Bravo for your performances in a challenging year!
Congrats to all teams!
Tyler Mitchem is a monster! Player of the year! Boo-yow!!!
No. 6 seed Sotiris Siapanis, Ohio State
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TY Mitchem is the best middle in the country.