The Missouri State volleyball team landed four players on all-Missouri Valley Conference teams, the MVC announced Thursday. Junior Sara Staubach and freshman Calli Norman earned first-team accolades, sophomore Cara Hackmann was voted to the second team and Kelley Michnowicz and Norman were honored with spots on the all-freshman team.

    Staubach makes a repeat appearance on the all-conference squad after landing in the second team a year ago. An outside hitter from Cincinnati, Ohio, Staubach leads the team with 2.89 kills per set and 353 total kills. She has led Missouri State in kills 20 times this season, has committed three or fewer attack errors in over half (17-32) of MSU’s matches and has topped the .300 mark 12 times on the way to a .235 hitting figure for the year.

    Norman is one of two freshmen to make the first team after averaging 2.22 kills and 0.88 blocks per set on .269 hitting during the season. In league matches, those numbers jumped to 2.40 kills and 1.00 blocks on .283 hitting, as the St. Charles, Mo., native stepped up for the Bears against conference foes. Norman reached double figures in kills 12 times, including 20 against Southern Illinois on Nov. 8 and 18 at Drake on Sept. 27. Norman was the MVC Player of the Week Oct. 20 and the Freshman of the Week on Nov. 10.

    A sophomore middle hitter from Washington, Mo., Hackmann averages 2.59 kills, 2.80 digs and 0.86 blocks per set this season. She broke a 23-year-old school record by hitting .882 in a match against IPFW on Sept. 12 and was named the MVC Player of the Week on Sept. 15. She is the only player in the MVC who ranks among the league’s top 20 in kills, digs, blocks and hitting percentage.

    Michnowicz makes the six-member all-freshmen team after seeing time in 29 MSU matches with 22 starts. The right side hitter averaged 1.83 kills and hit .270 in league matches while adding 0.87 blocks per set and was honored as the MVC Freshman of the Week each of the last two weeks in October. The Belleville, Ill., product played her best volleyball at the end of the year, making only 15 attack errors in her last 11 matches and totaling 96 kills over that time to hit .340, a number that is higher than the league’s efficiency leader for the whole season.