ACC Names Rubin Scholar-Athlete of the Year – Stanford Cardinal

STANFORD, Calif. – Outside hitter Elia Rubin has been named the ACC Scholar-Athlete of the Year for a second straight season, the convention introduced in the present day.

Joining Rubin on the All-ACC Academic Team are senior Anna Pringle, redshirt sophomores Julia Blyashov, Koko Kirsch and Ipar Kurt, and sophomores Lizzy Andrew and Taylor Yu.

A senior from Santa Monica, Rubin is majoring in science, know-how and society at Stanford. She is now a three-time educational all-conference choice (2023, 2024, 2025), a three-time CSC Academic All-District choose (2023, 2024, 2025) and a two-time CSC Academic All-American (2024, 2025), together with a first-team nod in 2025.

The AVCA Pacific Region Player of the Year, Rubin was a semifinalist for AVCA Player of the Year, main the Cardinal with 3.99 factors per set. She is a two-time AVCA First Team All-American, she was fourth within the ACC with 0.39 aces per set and paced the group with 3.33 kills per set and 13 double-doubles. She is simply the eleventh participant in class historical past to register each 1,000 profession kills and 1,000 profession digs. In November, she set the varsity report for aces within the rally-scoring period to 25, ending with 151.
 
It marks the seventh time a Cardinal participant has earned convention scholar-athlete of the yr honors prior to now eight years – Tami Alade (2018), Morgan Hentz (2019), Meghan McClure (2020), Holly Campbell (2021), Caitie Baird (2023) and Rubin (2024) and the ninth time general.

The ACC Scholar-Athlete of the Year awards had been established in September of 2007 to be awarded yearly to the highest junior or senior student-athlete of their respective sports activities. Candidates for the awards will need to have maintained a 3.0-grade level common for his or her careers, in addition to a 3.0 for every of the final two semesters or three quarters.

Academic necessities for choice to the All-ACC Academic Team embrace a 3.0-grade level common for the earlier two semesters or three quarters, a 3.0 cumulative common throughout one’s educational profession, has to have been enrolled on the establishment for at the very least one yr, and the coed have to be categorized as an undergraduate. In addition, student-athletes should compete in at the very least 50 % of their group’s athletic contests.