RUSSELLVILLE, AR – After helping lead Oklahoma Baptist volleyball to its fifth Great American Conference regular-season title, senior
Emily Boyer has been named as the GAC Setter of the Year as the Bison placed four athletes oin the 2026 All-GAC Volleyball teams.
Rylee Unruh was named as a First Team All-GAC selection, while
Mackenzie Frazee earned Second Team All-GAC honors, and
Elle Parisi was an Honorable Mention All-GAC selection.
Boyer led the conference in assists per set (11.24) in conference matches and was third in services aces per set (0.39) during conference play. For the season, she has tallied 982 assists (10.02 a/s), 35 aces (0.36 sa/s), 290 digs (2.96 d/s), 66 kills (0.67 k/s), and 31 blocks (0.32 b/s). Boyer was a four-time GAC Setter of the Week this season, and set the school record for career aces (157).
She also became just the second Bison in program history to tally more than 3,000 career assists and moved into the top 10 on OBU history in career digs (1,133). Boyer posted 13 performances with at least 40 assists, including four matches in a row to close out the regular season. She is now a three-time All-GAC selection after earning second-team honors in 2024 and 2025, and is OBU's second GAC Setter of the Year honoree after Kaylee Buell won the award in the Spring 2021 campaign.
Unruh has put together one of the greatest seasons in program history, leading the GAC with 4.94 points per set in league play while ranking first in aces (0.63 sa/s) and third in kills (4.15 k/s) in conference matches. She recorded both her 1,000th career kill and 1,000th career dig this season, is second nationally in total aces (67), third in aces per set (0.64), 11th in total kills (408), and 14th in points per set (4.70). She set a new single-season program record for aces, and ranks fifth among active Division II players with 176 career service aces, ninth with 3,985 attacks and 14th with 1,267 kills.
She was a three-time GAC Offensive Player of the week this season, and is a repeat First Team All-GAC selection after earning the same honor last year. Unruh recorded 19 kill-dig double-doubles this season and has 16 performances with 15 or more kills, while recording at least one ace in 21 of 27 matches this season.
Frazee is a first-time All-GAC selection after finishing second in the conference with 1.14 blocks per set in league play. She has recorded 105 total blocks on the year (1.03 b/s) while contributing 206 kills, 56 digs, and 18 aces. She has recorded five or more blocks 10 times this season, including each of the final three regular-season matches, and had a career-high nine blocks against Pittsburg State on Sept. 11. Frazee ranks 42nd nationally in total blocks, 63rd in blocks per set, and is among the top 200 in hitting percentage (.294).
Parisi is also a first-time All-GAC selection after recording 267 digs (4.60 d/s) in conference play. She has tallied 411 total digs this season (3.91 d/s) to go along with 76 assists (0.72a/s) and 25 aces (0.24 sa/s). Parisi has record 15 or more digs in 19 matches this season, including the final five contests of the regular season. She has gone over 20 digs in five matches this season, including a career-high 29 in a five-set win over Wisconsin-Parkside on Aug. 29.
All four of Oklahoma Baptist's all-conference performers were also named to the GAC Academic Honor Roll, along with teammates Addison Breyman,
Melody Donegan, Ellie Gerhke,
Morgan Hamel,
Shelby Jabour,
Emily Kate Jones,
Taya McReynolds, and
Reese Renfrow.
The top-seeded Bison will take on eighth-seeded East Central at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 11, in the first round of the 2026 GAC Volleyball Tournament. The winner will face either Arkansas Tech or Southwestern Oklahoma State on Thursday, Nov. 12, with the winner advancing to the title match on Friday, Nov. 13
