Razorbacks Picked to Finish Fourth in SEC, Gillen Receives Preseason Honors

Heading into the 2022 volleyball marketing campaign, the Hogs have earned their highest SEC preseason rating in eight years, the convention introduced at the moment.

Arkansas got here in fourth within the coaches’ ballot with 105 factors, its greatest placement for the reason that ballot shifted from East and West Divisions to a rating of all SEC groups in 2014. It’s the fourth time in head coach Jason Watson’s seven seasons that the Razorbacks have been picked to complete within the prime 5 of the convention.

Final season’s SEC champion and 2020-21 nationwide champion Kentucky has been voted to assert its sixth-straight convention crown and topped the ballot with 142 votes. Florida got here in second and Tennessee in third for the groups above the Hogs, and Mississippi State is carefully behind Arkansas with 103 factors for fifth place.

The Razorbacks will play two-match sequence with every of their prime 5 ballot groups, beginning with Mississippi State in Starkville Oct. 1-2, back-to-back weekends at Barnhill Enviornment with Kentucky and Tennessee Oct. 7-8 and 14-15 and towards Florida in Gainesville Oct. 29-30.

Jillian Gillen additionally represents the Razorbacks on the All-SEC Preseason Workforce. The senior exterior hitter has earned All-SEC honors in every of her three seasons at Arkansas, nevertheless it’s the primary time receiving recognition within the preseason ballot. Final season she got here in second within the SEC in kills per set with 4.12, was first in complete kills with 470 on the season and have become the seventeenth member of the Arkansas 1,000-kill membership. She is presently fifth in Arkansas historical past in kills per set with 3.92.

The Hogs formally kick off the 2022 season with the Arkansas Traditional on Aug. 26-27 towards Washington at Barnhill Enviornment.

2022 SEC Preseason Coaches’ Ballot
1. Kentucky
2. Florida
3. Tennessee
4. Arkansas
5. Mississippi State
6. South Carolina
7. Ole Miss
8. LSU
9. Georgia
10. Texas A&M
11. Missouri
12. Auburn
13. Alabama

Preseason All-SEC Workforce
Jillian Gillen, Arkansas
Merritt Beason, Florida
Bre Kelley, Florida
Eleanor Beavin, Kentucky
Emma Grome, Kentucky
Reagan Rutherford, Kentucky
Azhani Tealer, Kentucky
Anita Anwusi, LSU
Sasha Ratliff, Ole Miss
Gabby Waden, Mississippi State
Anna Dixon, Missouri
Jenna Hampton, South Carolina
Morgahn Fingall, Tennessee
Natalie Hayward, Tennessee
Danielle Mahaffey, Tennessee