Wayne State University Athletics

Volleyball 11/21/2025 11:00:00 AM Cooper Weidenthaler, Assistant Director for Media Relations

Five Warriors Garner Volleyball All-GLIAC Recognition; Wayne State Receives Five of Six Major Awards

Head coach Tim Koth and senior middle blocker Kayla Giroux headlined WSU's haul.

*Stats used are from regular season only.

DETROIT -- The Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) released its 2025 volleyball postseason accolades on Friday morning and the Wayne State University volleyball team was well represented. Four Warriors garnered major awards including Tim Koth for Coach of the Year, Kayla Giroux for Overall Player and Offensive Player of the Year, Kayla Dulgar for Setter of the Year and Katerina Stout for Freshman of the Year. Leigha Baldwin was featured on the Second Team and Stout was named Honorable Mention as well.

Twelfth-year head coach Tim Koth was named GLIAC Coach of the Year for the third time in his career (2012, 2021) and second instance as a Warrior. This season, Koth guided the program to a 21-5 regular-season record, a 13-3 league mark and a share of the GLIAC Regular-Season Championship for the first time in 44 years. Wayne State won 13 conference matches for the first time since 2010 and earned the No. 2 seed in the GLIAC Tournament, its highest seed in school history.

Senior middle blocker Kayla Giroux (Flat Rock, Mich.) is the 2025 GLIAC Player of Year becoming just the second in program history, the first since WSU Hall of Famer Rachel Parham in 1987, and the school's first ever GLIAC Offensive Player of the Year. In 16 league matches, Giroux paced the conference in hitting percentage (.388), kills (242), points (286) and points per set (4.77), while ranking second in both total blocks (61) and block assists (46), and fourth in blocks per set (1.02). The veteran racked up five GLIAC weekly honors in 2025, four of which were offensive, twice as many instances as the next-closest honoree. The school's first ever four-time First Team All-GLIAC recipient, Giroux attained career highs in total attacks and kills for league play as well with 495 and the 242 mentioned earlier, respectively.

Junior setter Kayla Dulgar (Warsaw, Ohio / River View) is the first GLIAC Setter of the Year in program history and continues to ascend following an Honorable Mention recognition as a freshman and Second-Team nod last fall. In 16 league matches, Dulgar led the conference in assists per set (10.83) and service aces (26), was second in total assists (650) and tied-for-second in aces per set (0.43). The three-time 2025 GLIAC Setter of the Week (more than any other player) cataloged career highs in league play for total blocks (23) and kills (39) to go with 140 digs and a .347 hitting percentage on 98 attempts (personal best). Overall, Dulgar tallied nine double-doubles (assists and digs), six of which came while facing conference opponents.

Rookie middle blocker Katerina Stout (Macomb, Mich. / Dakota) is the fifth GLIAC Freshman of the Year in program history and first since Giroux in 2022. In 16 league matches, Stout hit .242 with 102 kills and 38 errors on 264 total attacks. Defensively in conference play, the first-year Warrior registered 51 total blocks (eighth in the GLIAC), including 14 solo stops (tied-for-seventh) and 37 assisted (eighth). Stout finished with 10 or more kills in four outings including a personal-best 13 kills at No. 12 Ferris State on Sept. 27 with only one error on 22 swings for a .545 hitting percentage. She also notched five or more total blocks in four league efforts, highlighted by nine (one solo, eight assisted) on Oct. 10 vs. Parkside inside the Matthaei.

Redshirt senior opposite Leigha Baldwin (Perrysburg, Ohio [Purdue Fort Wayne]) saved the best for last and turned in the most productive season of her career. In overall play, Baldwin recorded career highs or tied them in sets played (89), matches played (26), matches started (25), kills (205), kills per set (2.30), total attacks (438), hitting percentage (.306), digs (35), digs per set (0.39), solo blocks (6), block assists (57), total blocks (63), blocks per set (0.71), points (239.5) and points per set (2.69). In 16 matches and 58 sets of GLIAC play, the attacker ranked in a tie-for-seventh in the league for hitting percentage at .309, which included 132 kills and 43 miscues on 288 attempts. The best performance in her top season came on Nov. 13 against Grand Valley State and helped WSU clinch home court for the GLIAC Tournament quarterfinals. That night, Baldwin sent home a personal-best 20 kills to just two errors on 32 swings for a .563 efficiency.

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