SEATTLE – Whether she's on the volleyball court or in the classroom, the numbers add up for Hannah Hair.
 
The Seattle Pacific sophomore middle blocker, who finished the regular season with the best attack percentage and the No. 2 blocking average in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference, has been named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District team for the first time.
 
Hair, an exercise science major, has a 3.87 grade-point average. She is the only sophomore on the eight-player District 8 team (which encompasses the Great Northwest Athletic Conference, the California Collegiate Athletic Association, and the Pacific West Conference). Of the 70 players honored across all of NCAA Division II, she is one of just six sophomores to earn the award.

Along with her CoSIDA honor, she earned a spot on the GNAC All-Academic team, also for the first time.
 
Hair helped the Falcons post a 15-10 regular-season record, including 11-7 in GNAC play, good for a share of fourth place in the final standings.

 

That help came both offensively and defensively. In her 23 matches, Hair finished with a .333 hitting percentage, It is the second straight year she has been in the .300s, having hit .340 during last spring's abbreviated schedule after the 2020 season was canceled by the coronavirus pandemic.
 
Throughout the fall, Hair and Western Washington's Olivia Fairchild went back and forth. Fairchild wound up at .330. Hair hit .300-plus in seven matches, .400-plus in two, .500-plus in two, .600-plus in one, and .700-plus in one (a career-high .727 with eight kills and zero errors on 11 attacks at home against Western Oregon on Oct. 2).
 
But it is on defense where the 6-foot-1 Hair is not only one of the best players in the conference, she's one of the best in NCAA Division II. She totaled 115 blocks, an average of 1.35 per set. That average ranked No. 2 in the GNAC and No. 8 nationally. The only one ahead of her in the conference was WWU's Fairchild at 1.38. Hair had two matches of double-digit blocks: a career-high 11 at home against Central Washington on Sept. 18, and 10 at home against Alaska Fairbanks on Oct. 23.
 
Those two matches also were kill-block double-doubles for Hair, with 12 kills against the Wildcats and 11 against the Nanooks.
 
Her 115 total blocks (with 13 solo) were the most by a Falcon since Shaun Crespi recorded 123 in 2018. It also pushed her past 200 for her career, now with 205.
 
Hair was a unanimous selection to the Preseason All-GNAC team in August. She was named the conference's Offensive Player of the Week on Sept. 20 and the Defensive Player of the Week on Oct. 25. Since those awards began in 2012, Hair is one of just 11 players to win both in the same season.
 
To earn CoSIDA Academic All-District honors, players must be a sophomore or older, have a 3.30 or higher GPA, and must be either a starter or a significant reserve. The teams are voted on by school and conference sports information directors within that district.
 
Of the eight players voted to the District 8 team, five are from the GNAC.
 
 
2021 CoSIDA ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT VOLLEYBALL TEAM
         
Name                                 School               Year          GPA       Major
Bria Beale          Hawaii Hilo  Gr     4.00   Psychology / Mental Health Counseling
Alexis Cardoza      CS San Bern. Sr     3.57   Psychology
Ellen Floyd         Anchorage    Jr     3.86   Accounting
Hannah Hair         SPU          So     3.87   Exercise Science
Calley Heilborn     W. Wash.     Jr     3.79   Behavioral Neuroscience
Chloe Roetcisoender W. Wash.     Sr     3.92   Elementary Education
Eve Stephens        Anchorage    Jr     3.67   Accounting
Jeshmarie Suarez    Cal St. L.A. Sr     3.71   Biology