Baylor’s Yossiana Pressley and Avery Skinner along with Kansas’ Caroline Bien and Texas’ Brionne Butler, Logan Eggleston and Skylar Fields were announced to the 2021 American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) All-American Teams. The six selections are the most for the league since 2018 when 13 Conference players were honored. The Big 12 has had 180 AVCA All-America selections since its inception in 1996.

Butler, Eggleston and Pressley were selected to the first team while Fields was listed on the third team. Bien and Skinner were both honorable mentions. All six players were also All-Big 12 First Team members this season.

Butler is a back-to-back selection, marking her fourth career All-America team. The senior ranks second nationally with a .466 hitting percentage and averaged 2.00 kills per set and 1.16 blocks per set throughout the season. She finished with 194 kills and 115 total blocks. In Big 12 play, Butler hit .516 with 2.06 kills per set and had 64 total blocks while leading the conference in hitting percentage.

Eggleston, the Big 12 Player of the Year, led Texas with 3.91 kills per set (387 total kills). She ranked in the top-10 in the Big 12 in hitting percentage (.308), kills (3.91), service aces (44) and digs (2.72). The junior was named Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week four times and AVCA National Player of the Week once. This is her second-straight first-team selection and her fourth All-America selection of her career (2^nd-2019, honorable mention-2018).

Pressley earned the fifth All-America accolade of her career after previously earning first-team honors in 2019 and 2020. The Cypress, Texas native finished her Baylor career as the all-time career kills (2,395) and attempts (5,828) leader and led the Big 12 in points (499.5), points per set (5.00), kills (453) and kills per set (4.53). She played in a total of 523 sets while at Baylor, making her second all-time in the school record book and was named Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week twice this season.

Fields receives her second All-America honors after being an honorable mention last season. The junior was second on the team with 353 kills (3.57 per set), while hitting .331 on the season. In Big 12 play, she hit .352 and averaged 3.42 kills per set. Fields was named Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week twice and AVCA National Player of the Week once.

Bien marks the first Jayhawk to receive All-American recognition since 2017. The Big 12 Freshman of the Year ended her first season at Kansas leading the team with 336 kills and finished with the second-highest number of points at 385.5. Bien led the team in kills in its victories over No. 19 Oregon and No. 20 Creighton in the NCAA Tournament, helping KU reach the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2015. The outside hitter won Big 12 Rookie of the Week twice during the season.

Skinner secured her second-career All-America accolade and her first as an honorable mention after receiving first-team honors last season. Skinner closed out her career with over 1,000 career kills and with 11 double-doubles in 2021 to lead the Baylor squad.

The selections were made by the AVCA Division I All-America Committee: Chair: Erin Lindsey, Santa Clara; Keith Barnett, Air Force; Marci Byers, Virginia Tech; Betsy Freeburg, UAB; Mike Gawlik, Central Michigan; Lindsey Gray-Walton, Oklahoma; Don Gromala, Kent State; Shaun Kupferberg, Howard; Jesse Mahoney, Colorado; Tom Mendoza, South Carolina; Mark Rosen, Michigan.

The Division I AVCA National Player of the Year and Freshman of the Year will be announced on Friday, Dec. 17.