DETROIT -- Kayla Giroux (Flat Rock, Mich.), junior middle blocker of the Wayne State University volleyball team, has been named All-Region for the second time in her already decorated career.  Wednesday, Giroux was recognized as American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) First Team All-Region and Division II Conference Commissioners Association (D2CCA) Second Team All-Region.  The third-year Warrior received AVCA Honorable Mention All-Region accolades as a rookie in 2022 when she was also designated as the AVCA Midwest Freshman of the Year.

"Kayla has performed at an elite level all season and is a major reason for the much improved season for the Warriors," said head coach Tim Koth.  "This award is much deserved."

Giroux became the fourth player in program history to twice be named AVCA All-Region joining Wayne State Hall of Fame honoree Rachel Parham (1986-87), Sarha Gosselin (2008-09) and Kristen Bulkiewicz (2011-12).  No Warrior has reaped the reward three times as Giroux will look to become the first next fall.

This season, Giroux paced the GLIAC and ranked 11th nationally in hitting percentage (.404) while churning out 370 kills, good for fourth in the league and 59th in Division II.  Giroux is the only middle blocker among the GLIAC's top five kill leaders, the other four being outside hitters.  That .404 hitting percentage is the best in program history crushing her old school record of .3538 that she set last season.

Defensively, the Flat Rock, Mich. native was also one of the league's best blockers statistically.  Giroux racked up more total blocks than all but one player in the conference (112), including 20 solo blocks, 92 block assists and 1.09 blocks per set (third).  All in all, she set a new career high for kills, kills per set (3.59), total attacks (727), hitting percentage, assists (13), service aces (13), aces per set (0.13), digs (60), digs per set (0.58), solo blocks, block assists, total blocks, points (449) and points per set (4.36).  Giroux accomplished all of that while playing the fewest sets (103) in a single campaign for her career behind 111 as a sophomore and 110 as a rookie.

Career wise, Giroux's hitting percentage stands at .363, good for first in program history.  She needs 22 kills to reach 1,000, 176 to break into the school's top 10 and 334 more for the all-time top three.

As a member of the Second Team, Giroux isn't eligible for D2CCA All-American status, but the AVCA will announce its 2024 All-American Teams in exactly one week on Wednesday, Dec. 11.  Giroux will look to be Wayne State's first since 2010 and fifth in school history (Parham '87, Elisa Joris '05, Gosselin '08 and Katarzyna Sak '10).