{"id":235977,"date":"2026-01-13T17:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/235977\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T17:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:54:10","slug":"jacobs-earns-second-csc-academic-all-america-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/235977\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacobs Earns Second CSC Academic All-America Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANN ARBOR, Mich. &#8212; Graduate student <a href=\"https:\/\/mgoblue.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/allison-jacobs\/26888\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"26888\" target=\"_blank\">Allison Jacobs<\/a> of the University of Michigan volleyball team was named to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-America Volleyball second team, the organization announced Tuesday (Jan. 14).<\/p>\n<p>The honor is the second of Jacobs&#8217; career after being named to the CSC Academic All-American third team last season. She became the first U-M volleyball player ever to be named to the Academic All-America Team last season.<\/p>\n<p>She had the best season of her career in 2025, earning first team All-Region and All-Big Ten honors. Jacobs was also named an American Volleyball Coaches Association All-America honorable mention. She tallied a team-leading 473 kills, averaging 3.94 per set.\u00a0Jacobs added 34 aces, 63 blocks and 227 digs. The Stevenson Ranch, Calif. native recorded double-digit kills in 25 of 33 matches, totaling 543 points.<\/p>\n<p>Jacobs served on the team&#8217;s leadership committee for the third straight season and was the on-floor captain. Outside of volleyball, Jacobs is the president of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and completed her undergraduate degree in May 2024, earning a bachelor&#8217;s degree in communications and media from the College of Literature, Science and the Arts. She then earned a Master of Management degree from the Ross School of Business and recently completed a Real Estate Development Certificate. Jacobs is a four-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree and three-time Big Ten Distinguished Scholar.<\/p>\n<p>\u0095 <a href=\"https:\/\/academicallamerica.com\/news\/2026\/1\/12\/2025-academic-all-america-womens-volleyball-teams-announced-for-all-ncaa-and-naia-divisions.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">College Sports Communicators Release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANN ARBOR, Mich. &#8212; Graduate student Allison Jacobs of the University of Michigan volleyball team was named to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-235977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}