{"id":162693,"date":"2026-02-20T15:50:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/162693\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T15:50:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:50:19","slug":"claire-mrukowski-earns-preseason-all-asun-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/162693\/","title":{"rendered":"Claire Mrukowski Earns Preseason All-ASUN Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Jacksonville University junior <a href=\"https:\/\/judolphins.com\/sports\/womens-beach-volleyball\/roster\/claire-mrukowski\/7274\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7274\" target=\"_blank\">Claire Mrukowski<\/a> has been named to the 2026 Preseason All-ASUN\u00a0Team, as announced by the league office.<\/p>\n<p>Mrukowski has been a cornerstone of Jacksonville&#8217;s beach lineup over the past two seasons, so this honor comes as no surprise.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, she appeared in 35 matches, all alongside program wins leader <a href=\"https:\/\/judolphins.com\/sports\/womens-beach-volleyball\/roster\/coaches\/emily-kubicsko\/1438\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"1438\" target=\"_blank\">Emily Kubicsko<\/a>, and collected 16 victories. Her performance earned her Second-Team All-ASUN honors while placing her among the top eight in career wins in Jacksonville history.<\/p>\n<p>As a freshman in 2024, Mrukowski made an immediate impact, earning All-ASUN Freshman Team recognition after tying the program&#8217;s freshman win record with 16 victories. She competed in 36 matches, including 25 alongside indoor teammate Kristina Nika and 11 with her twin sister Meredith.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Claire has been a cornerstone of our lineup over the past two seasons,&#8221; said head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/judolphins.com\/sports\/womens-beach-volleyball\/roster\/coaches\/dylan-hough\/1260\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"1260\" target=\"_blank\">Dylan Hough<\/a>. &#8220;During that time, she&#8217;s demonstrated tremendous growth as a player and embraced an even greater responsibility as a leader and captain this year. She has consistently proven that she can compete with the very best in the ASUN Conference, and we&#8217;re incredibly proud that the conference has recognized her with this preseason honor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to her beach success, Mrukowski has built an impressive indoor volleyball r\u00e9sum\u00e9 at Jacksonville.<\/p>\n<p>As a sophomore in 2024, she appeared in 38 sets across 12 matches, totaling 105 kills, 70 digs, and 126.5 points, including a 22-kill, 25.5-point performance at Queens (N.C.).<\/p>\n<p>As a freshman, she played 62 sets, recording 78 kills, 15 blocks, and 91.5 total points, highlighted by a 12-kill outing against Samford.<\/p>\n<p>Mrukowski was joined on the Preseason All-ASUN Team by North Florida&#8217;s Cameron Humphries, Mackenzie Murphy and Presley Murray, FGCU&#8217;s Nicole DeOliveira and Alexis Keeter, Stetson&#8217;s Marta Carro, Maria Ozaeta and Julia Radelczuk, and North Alabama&#8217;s Selma Robinson. The full list of awards can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/asunsports.org\/news\/2026\/2\/18\/north-floridas-humphries-tabbed-2026-asun-beach-volleyball-preseason-player.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville opens its season at home at the Payne Sand Volleyball Courts at Dolphin Beach, where the Dolphins will host three ASUN Conference opponents along with a familar SEC foe. Jacksonville will take on #14 Stetson\u00a0at 10\u00a0a.m.\u00a0and FGCU at 4\u00a0p.m.\u00a0on Friday before facing South Carolina at 10 a.m\u00a0and closing out withNorth Florida at 4 p.m\u00a0on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Jacksonville University junior Claire Mrukowski has been named to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-162693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}