IRVINE, Calif. -- Men's volleyball players Doug Dahm and Cole Gillis were selected to the 2023 Academic All-District® Men's At-Large Team by College Sports Communicators.

The award recognizes the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances in the athletic realm and in the classroom. Student-athletes needed a cumulative GPA over 3.50, have played at least one full season at the institution, and played the minimum number of games to be honored. The At-Large category includes the sports of volleyball, water polo, fencing, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, and wrestling.

Dahm will be graduating in June with a degree in mechanical engineering, maintaining over a 3.8 grade point average. The middle blocker ranked sixth among Big West players with a 0.95 block average. He had a season-high 10 kills versus then-No. 1 Hawaii and recorded a career-high 7 block assists three times in his career. The Scholar-Athlete and Big West All-Academic honoree was on the Dean's List 10 times and earned the Dean's Choice Award for his engineering design project that created a prosthetic thumb.   

Gillis capped his career being named AVCA All-American honorable mention. He held the NCAA's best mark for hitting percentage with a minimum of 20 attempts at .800 and was third in the Big West in hitting percentage (.326) overall. This season, the outside hitter ranked 11^th in aces (0.27), 13^th in points (3.07) and 14^th in kills (2.53) in the Big West. He was honored as Big West Offensive Player of the Week on Jan. 23, 2023 and named to the 2020 Big West All-Freshman Team. Gillis has been on the Dean's List eight times and garnered Scholar-Athlete and Big West All-Academic accolades. He graduated last quarter with a degree in political science with over a 3.7 grade point average.