2021 Florida SouthWestern Volleyball News
The Florida SouthWestern State Buccaneers matched their success on the court with their success in the classroom this year, following up their Suncoast Conference Championship and 5th place finish at the NJCAA National Tournament with their third straight USMC/AVCA Team Academic Award as one of the top academic achieving programs in the country.
44 Florida SouthWestern student-athletes from all five teams were honored by the NJCAA, FCSAA, Suncoast and Southern Conferences for their work in the classroom this year on Monday as the group saw awards given for NJCAA All-Academic, Academic All-State, and Academic All-Conference accolades.
After becoming the first player in program history to earn NJCAA All-American honors on the court in 2020, Florida SouthWestern State sophomore Fiona Baker has made program history again, as Wednesday it was announced that the Bucs setter was FSW Volleyball’s first CoSIDA Academic All-American®, one of just nine female student-athletes across all sports nationwide to earn the honor.
After leading the Florida SouthWestern State Buccaneers to a pair of Suncoast Conference Championships and a pair of Top 10 finishes at the NJCAA National Tournament, sophomore Fiona Baker has signed a National Letter of Intent to play at Radford University the next two seasons.
Florida SouthWestern Head Volleyball Coach Thais Baziquetto-Allen has competed her staff for the 2022 season as Monday she announced that one of her former players, Megan Besecker will be joining her on the bench this season as her new Assistant Coach.
After spending two seasons winning Championships with the Florida SouthWestern State Buccaneers, FSW sophomore Victoria Carioba will take her talents to the Show Me State next season where she will suit up for one of the teams that played for an NAIA National Championship last season, the Park University Pirates.
Florida SouthWestern’s Johnasia Carr is going to have a little bit different wardrobe for the final two years of her academic and athletic career than she did this year for the Buccaneers as the sophomore middle hitter has signed her National Letter of Intent to play for the Nanooks of the University of Alaska Fairbanks next season.
Florida SouthWestern sophomore Katie Dickey is headed to the next level after signing with Montreat College in a signing ceremony Friday in Suncoast Credit Union Arena.
After spending the 2021-2022 season in the Sunshine State with the Florida SouthWestern State Buccaneers, sophomore setter Yunju Lee will head to the Windy City next season after signing a National Letter of Intent to play at Chicago State University in 2022-2023.
After leading the Florida SouthWestern State Buccaneers to a pair of Suncoast Conference Championships the past two seasons, FSW captain Riley Oglevie has signed to continue her career at the Division I level, inking with Winthrop University where she will join the Eagles for the 2022 campaign.
Florida SouthWestern stars Maria Petkova and Deborah Ribeiro were honored once again on Thursday as the dynamic duo backed up their NJCAA All-American selections from last week, with AVCA All-American accolades announced today by the AVCA.
Following a successful sophomore season playing for the Florida SouthWestern State Buccaneers, Elissa Alcantara will be headed to the Midwest next year after signing with the University of Cincinnati to play for the Bearcats in 2022.
After leading the Florida SouthWestern State Buccaneers to a Suncoast Conference Championship and 5th place finish at the NJCAA National Tournament last month, outside hitter Maria Petkova and middle blocker Deborah Ribeiro have been named First Team NJCAA All-Americans as announced by the National Office on Wednesday.
The #4 Florida SouthWestern State Buccaneers would have preferred it to come a little later in the day, but closed a record breaking 2021 season in style Saturday afternoon at the NJCAA National Tournament in Hutchinson, Kansas, defeating archrival #3 Miami Dade 3-0 to finish 5th in their second trip to the Big Dance.
The #4 Florida SouthWestern State Buccaneers were upended in the NJCAA National Tournament Quarterfinals on Thursday, falling 3-0 to the #5 Missouri State- West Plains Grizzlies to end the Bucs dreams of a National Championship.
It was a battle on the high seas Friday at the NJCAA National Tournament in Hutchinson, Kansas as the #4 Florida SouthWestern State Buccaneers took on the Buccaneers of #1 Blinn. FSW dominated the first two sets, but Blinn fought back to take the third and fourth. There was only room for one Buccaneer in the fifth though and the Purple and Aqua came out of the battle on top as FSW took it 15-10 to take the match 3-2 and advance to the tournament's fifth place match where they will take on Suncoast Conference rival Miami Dade Saturday at 3:30 EST.
