SALT LAKE CITY-Earlier this week, a pair of Utah beach volleyball standouts made the All-Pac 12 second team as released by the Pac-12 conference.
Senior Adora Anae and sophomore Dani Barton were each named to the squad while this marks Barton’s second-consecutive second-team honor after being named all Pac-12 last season. This is Anae’s first time making an all Pac-12 beach volleyball squad.
Anae and Barton served as the Utes’ top pairing all season, posting a 10-7 overall record, including a 1-2 record in last week’s Pac-12 championship tournament.
Anae and Barton first won against Loyola Marymount’s #1 pairing, as ranked by the Web site collegebeachvb.com.
Anae and Barton then concluded the regular season with seven straight dual victories and won an eighth straight by besting Oregon’s Lindsey Vander Weide and August Raskie in the Pac-12 championships.
Their best win of the season came in a two-set win over Long Beach State’s Nele Barber and Sasha Karelov, the #13 ranked team in the nation at the time.
The Utes went 5-12 overall on the season, their best mark in school history, after winning two matches the previous season, which was their inaugural campaign.