Hazelwood Earns All-America Honor

The Hazelwood File
Position	Middle Blocker
Year	Sophomore
Height	6-3
Hometown	Beach City, Texas
High School	Barbers Hills
Major	Health Sciences

The Highlights
Marion Hazelwood // MB Hazelwood set career-highs in kills and blocks in a five-setter earlier this season at Kansas State (11/15) with 15 kills and 11 blocks. She hit .300 or better in 18 matches, including 13 of 16 Big 12 matches.

OMAHA, Neb. – The NCAA Volleyball Final Four gets underway this week from the CenturyLink Center in Omaha and with it the announcement of the AVCA All-America Teams. For the second year in a row, University of Oklahoma volleyball middle blocker Marion Hazelwood earned a spot on the All-America Honorable Mention as released by the AVCA on Wednesday.

A sophomore from Beach City, Texas, Hazelwood is a two-time AVCA All-Southwest selection; the first Sooner to earn All-Region in each of the first two seasons of her career. Hazelwood's All-America honor marks the 12^th in program history; all during head coach Santiago Restrepo's 12-year tenure.

At the conclusion of the regular season, Hazelwood was the lone player from OU to earn All-Big 12 honors with a First Team selection. In 2014, Hazelwood was named to the All-Big 12 Freshman Team as well as AVCA All-Southwest First Team, AVCA All-Southwest Rookie of the Year and AVCA All-America Honorable Mention.

This season, Hazelwood was dominant on both sides of the net; particularly during conference play. Overall, she averaged 2.21 kills and 1.09 blocks per sets, while hitting a team-best .348. Against Big 12 opponents, her numbers were up to 2.61 kills and 1.17 blocks per set as she hit an impressive .387. Hazelwood's 2015 hitting percentage ranks third all-time at OU in the 25-point, rally-scoring era (2008-present) and 10^th overall.

Against teams designated as “nationally ranked”, which includes Texas, Kansas, USC, Washington and six other OU opponents, by the AVCA, Hazelwood hit .337 with 2.23 kills and 0.95 blocks.

Hazelwood started all 28 matches for the Sooners and played in all 108 sets on the season. She matched her career-high with 15 kills and marked a new career-high in blocks with 11 at Kansas State (11/15). She reached double-digits in kills on seven occasions and hit .300 or better in 18 matches, including 13 of 16 conference matches.

Through two seasons, Hazelwood has totaled 490 career kills and 222 blocks.