Nazareth's Allocco Named to Academic All-District Team
Nazareth senior middle blocker Maria Allocco
has been named to the
2014 Capital One/College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-District III Volleyball First Team.
This marks Allocco's first Academic All-District honor and she now advances to the Capital One/CoSIDA Academic All-America ballot, where First-, Second- and Third-Team All-America honorees will be selected later this month.
Academically she boasts a 3.69 cumulative grade-point average as a dual major in Social Work and English.
Athletically, Allocco is two-time All-American, four-time All-E8 honoree, three-time E8 tournament MVP and two-time first-team All-Region selection. Most recently she was named the 2014 Empire 8 Player of the Year.
She leads the Empire 8 with a .420 hitting percentage and leads the Golden Flyers in kills (416) and service aces (67). For her career, Allocco boasts 1,339 kills.