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CSUEB student athletes collect All-CCAA Honors

Kitona Offord and Leslie Ray

Kitona Offord and Leslie Ray

  • December 1, 2011 5:00am

Cal State East Bay volleyball players Kitona Offord and Leslie Ray were named to the 2011 All-CCAA Second Team earlier this month. The honors are a first for both players, who joined 24 other CCAA student-athletes on the all-conference teams. 

Offord led the Pioneers and finished third in the CCAA in hitting percentage, swinging at a .350 clip, which also ranked 33rd in Division II. Offord also paced the well-round East Bay offense, laying down 2.73 kills per set, while her 0.78 blocks per set ranked second on the team. During conference play, Offord was even better, averaging 2.76 kills per set and hitting .355 against CCAA opponents. Offord is a junior majoring in mass communications.

Ray came back from spending last season on the bench with an injury to earn the starting libero spot for the Pioneers. After spending three years as a reserve or on the bench due to injury, Ray led the East Bay defense and served as a team captain. Ray finished her senior campaign as the CCAA leader in digs, averaging 5.43 per set to rank 18th in all of Division II in the category.  She is a senior planning to graduate with a degree in child development.

The pair became the fourth and fifth East Bay volleyball players to collect All-CCAA honors after former Pioneers Roxanne Neely, Lauren Massa and Jit Athwal earned all-conference recognition in 2010. Since Cal State East Bay returned to Division II and joined the CCAA in 2009-10, it has had 15 student-athletes earn postseason recognition from the conference, including a pair of Freshman of the Year honorees.

Go Pioneers!

Read more about Offord and Ray on the Pioneers athletics Web site.

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