USA Volleyball Release

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Missouri State's Lily Johnson was selected to the U.S. Collegiate National Team Thailand Tour (CNT-Thailand) roster on Monday, USA Volleyball announced. The senior-to-be is one of 12 players picked for the squad after her performance at the U.S. Women's National Team Open Tryouts held last month. She is one of three players on the team that does not play for a Power Five football school.

The three-time All-American will compete internationally for Team USA for the second consecutive year after participating on the CNT-Europe team that won the Global Challenge in Croatia last summer.

Johnson's trip will take place May 19-30 in Bangkok. The match schedule will include contests against the Thailand National Team, the Thailand U23 Team and Bangkok Glass, the top team in the Thai professional league. The CNT-Thailand team will also play against two other teams yet to be confirmed. The team training and competition matches will be at the FIVB Development Center in Bangkok, one of only four such centers in Asia.

The Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year for a second consecutive season in 2016, Johnson became the fourth player in league history to lead the conference in kills three times, averaging 4.54 kills, 5.12 points, 3.07 digs, 0.35 aces and 0.36 blocks per set with a .228 hitting percentage last year.

The outside hitter from Wildwood, Mo., was a four-time MVC Player of the Week while exceeding 600 kills for the second consecutive season as a junior, finishing with 604 for the third-best MSU total and fifth-highest mark in league history.

Johnson ended the season ranked second at MSU and eighth in MVC history with 1,719 career kills, and 16th in school history with 1,118 digs as the sixth member of Missouri State's 1,000-kill, 1,000-dig club. She tallied 23 double-doubles on the year, and reached at least 10 kills for a school-record 45 consecutive matches before the streak ended in the NCAA Tournament.

Three other MSU players - Emily Butters, Brianne Dixon and Lynsey Wright - attended the early-March tryout in Colorado Springs, and could potentially land spots on the CNT-Europe (12 players) and CNT-Minneapolis (36) teams to be finalized in the coming weeks.