Lane Carico has earned her third consecutive All-East Region award.

University of Miami volleyball student-athletes Lane Carico and Katie Gallagher have been named to the 2010 American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) All-East Region Team, as announced by the AVCA Office in Lexington, Kentucky.

This marks the second consecutive year that two Miami volleyball players have been selected All-East Region performers and the third time under head coach Nicole Lantagne Welch that multiple players have made the All-East Region team.

Carico and Gallagher, who are both juniors, helped the Hurricanes to back-to-back NCAA tournament appearances.

This is Carico’s third consecutive All-East Region award. The 5-11 outside hitter, who is already a three-time All-Atlantic Coast Conference selection, finished the ACC regular season as the only player to register 400-plus kills and 400-plus digs. From her hitter position on the court, she was second on the UM squad in digs with 454 (3.69 per set), while leading the ACC in double-doubles (25). She notched 16 kills and 14 digs while battling through illness in Miami’s NCAA tournament match against the Indiana Hoosiers in Bloomington on December 3.

This is Gallagher’s first All-East Region selection, coming in the wake of her first NCAA tournament appearance. On the year, she amassed 1,211 assists (10.72 per set), placing her fourth in the ACC in that department.

A 5-11 setter from Winter Park, Florida, Gallagher ranks second all-time at UM for career assists with 3,955. She ended the year hitting at a .325 clip with 110 kills, adding 15 service aces and 298 digs (2.64 per set). At the net, she finished tied for third on the squad in blocks (53). Averaging over 1,000 assists per season thus far in her career, she needs just 982 assists next year to pass Jill Robinson (2003-06) for first place in the UM program history.

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