LEXINGTON, Ky. — Deklan Wingo of Tusculum University men’s volleyball becomes the first American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) All-American in program history, receiving honorable mention on Monday (May 5) afternoon.
Wingo, a native of Chester, Virginia, earned back-to-back IVA Player of the Year honors, winning the league’s offensive player of the week honors twice this season. The senior outside hitter also racked up IVA All-Tournament Team and an AVCA National Player of the Week laurel, the first in program history. He landed a program-record 32 kills in his final match as a Pioneer. Wingo also collected Tusculum Male Athlete of the Year at last week’s banquet.
Wingo reset the marks for single-season kills (525), kills per set (5.05), attempts (1051), attempts per set (10.11), and digs (164). He finished second with a .348 hitting percentage, 39 service aces, and 1.58 digs per set. Wingo currently leads the nation in attempts per set, kills per set, and points per set (5.77).
In his career, Wingo owns the kills (1248), kills per set (3.35), attempts (2731), attempts per set (7.34), ace (93), points (1456.0), and points per set (3.91) record for the program. He finished second in service aces per set (0.25), digs (441), solo blocks (58), block assists (114), total blocks (172), sets played (372), and matches played (104).
The Pioneers (15-13) set a program record for single-season wins and earned the No. 3 seed in the IVA Tournament.
2025 AVCA All-Americans
First Team
Ryan Barnett, OH, Pepperdine
Hilir Henno, OH, UC Irvine
Dillon Klein, OH, USC
Moni Nikolov, S, Long Beach State (Newcomer of the Year)
Jalen Phillips, RS, CSUN
Cooper Robinson, OH, UCLA
Tread Rosenthal, S, Hawai’i
Adrien Roure, OH, Hawai’i
Andrew Rowan, S, UCLA
Cameron Thorne, MB, UCLA
Parker Van Buren, OH, Loyola Chicago
Skyler Varga, RS, Long Beach State
Second Team
Anthony Cherfan, RS, UC San Diego
Daniel Fabikovic, OH, Loyola Chicago
Nathan Flayter, S, McKendree
Nolan Flexen, RS, UC Irvine
Cole Hartke, OH, Pepperdine
DiAeris McRaven, MB, Long Beach State
Nicodemus Meyer, MB, Loyola Chicago
Oguzhan Oguz, RS, Lewis
Zach Rama, OH, UCLA
Jacob Reilly, L, Pepperdine
Kristian Titriyski, RS, Hawai’i
Parker Tomkinson, MB, USC
Honorable Mention
Shane Aiken, L, UC Irvine
Luke Benson, OH, BYU
Caleb Blanchette, S, USC
Stanislaw Chacinski, OH, Ohio State
Eleu Choy, L, Hawai’i
Donovan Constable, S, CSUN
William D’Arcy, RS, UC Irvine
Andrew Deardorff, OH, Saint Francis
Stilian Delibosov, MB, CSUN
Yadiel Diaz, L, McKendree
Bryce Dvorak, S, UC San Diego
Gabe Dyer, S, Pepperdine
Johnny Dykstra, L, USC
James Eadie, MB, Pepperdine
Isaiah Fedd, OH, Fort Valley State
Sterling Foley, OH, USC
Guy Genis, MB, USC
Matthew Gentry, MB, Lincoln Memorial
Micah Goss, MB, UC Irvine
Maxim Grigoriev, MB, UC Irvine
Daniil Hershtynovich, RS, Long Beach State
Jackson Lahey, S, Mount Olive
Kellen Larson, L, Long Beach State
John Luers, S, Lincoln Memorial
D’Aaron McCraney, MB, McKendree
Ryan McElligott, S, Loyola Chicago
Ryan Merk, L, Penn State
Tyler Morgan, S, Lewis
Trent Moser, OH, Grand Canyon
Nyherowo Omene, RS, Princeton
Nico Paula, L, Lewis
Zach Puentes, OH, Belmont Abbey
Patrick Rogers, OH, Ball State
Max Roquet, OH, Lewis
Josh Schellinger, OH, UC San Diego
Zachary Schneider, OH, Daemen
Theo Snoey, OH, Stanford
Henry Wedbush, S, Princeton
Shane Wetzel, RS, Ohio State
Deklan Wingo, OH, Tusculum
Kurt Nusterer, MB, Hawai’i
