An opposite, he averaged 2.05 kills per set as a senior, and recorded a career-high 32 kills in a match at Pepperdine, the fifth-best total in the nation. He was named Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Player of the Week three times in his career as well as American Volleyball Coaches Assn. National Player of the Week once. The 2008 All-American is sixth all-time at UCI with 90 career aces.
Steller, who also played on UCI’s 2007 national championship team, is a three-time conference scholar-athlete as well as a two-time ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District honoree. He graduated with degrees in neurobiology and the classics and will attend UCI Medical School in the Fall.
Orloff became the first UCI baseball player to be named Big West Conference Player of the Year this season as he helped lead the ’Eaters to the program’s first conference title.
He won the Brooks Wallace Award as the nation’s top collegiate shortstop and was drafted in the ninth round by the Houston Astros.
He made several All-American teams and finished his career as UCI’s all-time leader in hits, runs and games.
Orloff graduated with a degree in criminology, law and society.
Collins’ junior season included a Big West title in the high jump, won by posting a school-record mark of 6 feet, 1 1/4 inches. She finished third at the NCAA West Regional and was ninth at the NCAA championship.
She also qualified for the NCAA outdoor championships in the heptathlon, but did not compete in the event.
She broke her own school record in the heptathlon with a total of 5,549 points in winning the Northridge Spring Break Open in March. That performance generated Big West Conference Athlete of the Week honors for the fourth time in her career.
A three-time Big West Scholar-Athlete, Collins’s marks rank second all-time at UCI in the 100-meter hurdles and third in the long jump.
