Hawaii middle blocker Taylor Averill was named to the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation’s all-conference men’s volleyball team on Thursday, and four players who prepped in Hawaii also were honored.

Averill, a junior from San Jose, Calif., was second in the league in hitting percentage (.477) and fifth in blocking (1.22 per set) for a team that finished out of the playoffs at ninth in the 13-team conference. He was the only player from a team that didn’t make the playoffs to be named to the first or second teams.

He is joined by plenty of players with Hawaii ties. Taylor Crabb of Long Beach State, Micah Christenson of USC and Josh Taylor of Pepperdine all made the first team. Crabb and Taylor prepped at Punahou and Christenson came out of Kamehameha.

USC libero Henry Cassiday, who also graduated from Punahou, was selected to the second team, along with Hawaii junior opposite Brook Sedore.

Hawaii didn’t receive any honorable mentions or players on the all-freshman team.

BYU outside hitter Taylor Sander is the league’s player of the year for the second straight year and USC outside hitter Lucas Yoder was judged the freshman of the year.

Sander, who was the freshman of the year two years ago, joins Pepperdine’s George Roumain (’98-’99), Hawaii’s Costas Theocharidis (’01-’03) and UCLA’s Jeff Nygaard (’94-’95) as the only players to win the MPSF player of the year award multiple times.