Highlight Hoos 2021-2022: Brooklyn Borum | UVA Volleyball

With the 2021-2022 Virginia athletics season formally accomplished, we enter the school sports activities offseason optimistic for issues to return for the Cavaliers subsequent season. However with the autumn seasons nonetheless a few months away, we have now time to have a look again at among the unimaginable athletic accomplishments achieved by UVA pupil athletes in the course of the 2021-2022 sports activities 12 months in a collection referred to as Spotlight Hoos.

To date, we have coated Diana Ordóñez (Virginia ladies’s soccer), Mia Barnett (Virginia cross nation and monitor & area), and Leo Afonso (Virginia males’s soccer). 

As we speak, we check out the excellent first 12 months season of Brooklyn Borum for the UVA volleyball crew. 

First-year head coach Shannon Wells knew that her first season main the Cavaliers could be a problem as she started her efforts to show round a struggling Virginia volleyball program. Considerably expectedly, UVA went 8-20 total and 1-17 in ACC play. Nevertheless, because of the efforts of breakout newcomers like Brooklyn Borum, there have been various highlights and optimistic moments in the course of the season to indicate that there’s loads of cause for optimism for the Cavaliers heading into subsequent season. 

Borum wasted little time in incomes a key function on the ground at first of the season. Showing in 98 of the 100 complete units Virginia performed within the season and beginning in all however a single match, Borum led the Cavaliers in a number of statistical classes: kills (234), kills per set (2.39), reception share (.972), and double-doubles (7). She was additionally second on the crew in factors (287.5), factors per set (2.84), and digs (218). 

Borum registered 15 kills in a sport on two events. A type of performances got here in UVA’s most important victory of the season, a four-set win at North Carolina to offer the Cavaliers their first ACC victory for the reason that 2019 season. 

Borum was named to the ACC All-Freshman Group, changing into the twenty second Cavalier in program historical past to earn that honor. She was additionally the primary UVA participant to be named to any All-ACC Group since Sarah Billiard in 2017. The Virginia Sports activities Info Administrators (VaSID) voted Borum the VaSID Rookie of the Yr in addition to a variety to the VaSID All-State First Group. 

Brooklyn Borum and the Virginia volleyball program will look to take one other huge step in the precise path this fall. 

Follow CavaliersNow on Twitter
Comply with CavaliersNow on Fb

Learn extra from Cavaliers Now

WATCH: Blake Buchanan Reveals Off in UVA Dedication Mixtape

2024 Ahead Breona Hurd Commits to UVA Ladies’s Basketball

Virginia Basketball Lands First 2023 Dedication from Blake Buchanan

Sam Hauser Indicators Three-Yr, $6 Million Deal With Boston Celtics

WATCH: Jay Huff Throws Down Two Reverse Dunks in NBA Summer season League

Three Former Cavaliers to Play in NBA Summer season League

NBA World Reacts to Malcolm Brogdon-Celtics Commerce