TAMPA, November 20, 2025 – Senior outside hitter Maria Clara Andrade has been named the 2025 American Conference Player of the Year for the second straight season, while setter Raegan Richardson earned a spot on the All-Conference First Team and outside hitter Laila Ivey was named to the All-Conference Second Team. 

Andrade becomes just the second Bull to win back-to-back Player of the Year honors, joining Erica Berggren (1995–96). In addition to her top conference honor, Andrade was also selected to the All-Conference First Team after another standout season leading the USF attack. She paces the Bulls in kills (402), kills per set (4.37), points (455.5), and points per set (4.95), and leads the conference in both kills per set and points per set. Her 1,567 career kills rank seventh among active Division I players and fourth in USF program history. 

Richardson, in her debut season with the Bulls, has been the engine of the offense with 887 assists and ranks second in the conference with 9.34 assists per set. She surpassed 1,000 career assists during USF's match at Rice on Oct. 10. Richardson also leads the team with 37 service aces, ranking third in the American.

Ivey made an immediate impact in her first season with the Bulls, earning a place on the All-Conference Second Team. She ranks third on the squad with 171 kills and averages 2.41 kills per set. In conference play, she recorded 138 kills—second most on the team.
 
Up Next
The No. 2-seeded South Florida Bulls will open the first round of the American Conference Tournament with the No. 7-seeded Charlotte 49ers on Friday, November 21, at 5 p.m. The match will be streamed on ESPN+. Tickets for the conference tournament can be found here.
 
American Conference Tournament
South Florida will host the 2025 American Conference Volleyball Tournament, November 21-23, at the Corral, after winning the 2024 Regular Season. The top eight teams will make it to the tournament. Tickets for the conference tournament can be found here. More information can be found at TheAmerican.org.
 
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About USF Volleyball
Head coach Jolene Shepardson enters her sixth season at the helm of her alma mater in 2025. Named head coach on January 8, 2020, Shepardson led the Bulls to a conference championship and the program's last NCAA tournament appearance as a student-athlete in 2002. South Florida won the 2024 AAC regular-season title, earning Jolene Shepardson her first Coach of the Year Honor. In 2023, the Bulls won the AAC East Division title, made a postseason appearance in the NIVC, won three matches, and advanced to the Fab Four to mark the longest postseason run in program history. South Florida Volleyball has won eight Player of the Year honors, most recently in Maria Clara Andrade in 2024. The Bulls have also had four Setter of the Year honors, most recently in Caroline Dykes in 2024. South Florida has made seven NCAA Tournament appearances and won 13 conference titles since its inception in 1972. The Bulls play in The Corral (1,000), located adjacent to the Yuengling Center on the USF campus in Tampa.