Women's Volleyball | 11/13/2025 1:00:00 PM
PITTSFORD, N.Y. – The St. John Fisher women's volleyball team swept all four Empire 8 major awards and had a conference-high six players garner All-E8 honors for the 2025 season, the league office announced on Wednesday.
The E8 named senior setter Reilly Morrow Player of the Year, senior libero Kiera Hartpence Defensive Player of the Year and freshman outside hitter Kalyna Dannenberg Rookie of the Year. The Cardinals' coaching staff, led by Kelly Greapentrog, earned Coaching Staff of the Year honors.
Morrow, Hartpence, Dannenberg and junior outside hitter Kaylene Noble earned first-team All-Empire 8 recognition. Sophomore outside hitter Lydia Fraser and junior middle blocker Ana Gutman landed second-team spots.
Senior outside hitter Erika Edholm was selected as St. John Fisher's representative on the conference's "Tomorrow's Leaders Team." The Tomorrow's Leaders Team recognizes a student-athlete from each E8 team who has demonstrated leadership in competition, in the classroom and in their community.
The first setter and the fourth different player in Fisher history to be named Empire 8 Player of the Year, Morrow leads an offense that ranks seventh nationally in hitting percentage (.260). Morrow paces the Empire 8 with a career-high 886 assists, averaging 10.42 per set, 10th in NCAA Division III. She ranks fifth in Fisher history with 2,705 career assists.
Morrow, a three-time All-Empire 8 honoree, also has 194 digs, 42 service aces, 39 kills and 36 total blocks over 28 matches. She's produced eight double-doubles this season.
Hartpence, now a two-time winner of the E8 Defensive Player of the Year award, leads the Cardinals with 324 digs (3.48 per set) and has committed just 15 service reception errors on a team-high 407 attempts. A three-time All-E8 selection, including twice as a first-teamer, Hartpence also has 99 assists and 22 service aces this season.
Dannenberg is the 10th player in program history to earn E8 Rookie of the Year honors. The Cardinals have had the conference's Rookie of the Year in each of the last three seasons.
Dannenberg ranks fourth in the conference in points (368.5) and kills (316) and fifth in hitting percentage (.257). She's also amassed 232 digs, the third most on the team, and nine double-doubles.
A three-time All-Empire 8 selection, twice as a first-team pick, Noble has been nothing short of dominant all season, as she leads the conference in kills (362) and ranks second in hitting percentage (.326) and points accounted for (390.5). She averages 4.39 points (41st nationally) and 4.07 kills (29th nationally) per set.
The E8 Player and Rookie of the Year in 2023, Noble also has 236 digs on the season. She's produced nine double-doubles and has hit .300 or better in 19 of the Cardinals' 29 contests.
Fraser, who's earned All-E8 honors in each of her first two collegiate seasons, has slammed 227 kills and amassed 70 service aces, tied for the most in the conference. The 2024 E8 Rookie of the Year winner is the first Fisher player to reach 70 or more service aces in a season since Amy Street tallied 76 in 2009.
Gutman leads the Empire 8 and ranks 45th nationally with a .334 hitting percentage, as she's slammed 147 kills on 317 attacking attempts while committing just 41 errors. The three-time all-conference selection stands second in the league with 77 total blocks.
Greapentrog and her assistants – Nicksen Sivongsa, Eddie Daoreuang and Laura Thiele – have led the Cardinals to historic success this season. Fisher has set program records for single-season wins (28) and three-set sweeps (23) during the rally-scoring era (2001-present) and owns the second-longest active winning streak in the entire NCAA (28 matches). Division III East Texas Baptist has the longest streak (29).
Greapentrog surpassed 300 career coaching victories earlier this season. She has amassed 299 of her 320 total wins over 17 seasons as St. John Fisher's head coach.
The Cardinals (28-1) face Hartwick in the Empire 8 championship game at 1 p.m. on Saturday inside Manning & Napier Varsity Gym. Fisher has won five E8 titles since 2019, including three of the last four.
