MANHATTAN, Kan. The Kansas State volleyball team saw eight of its student-athletes earn Academic All-Big 12 honors early Wednesday. The eight selections were the most for K-State since the inception of the Big 12 in 1996, when the Wildcats had nine honorees.

K-State’s first team selections were juniors Joy Hamlin (anthropology), Jamie Perkins (nutrition sciences/pre-medicine) and Sandy Werner (kinesiology), sophomores Angie Lastra (biology) and Stacey Spiegelberg (life sciences/pre-nursing) and redshirt freshman Jenny Jantsch (business). The Wildcats’ second team selections were senior Katie Stanzel (marketing) and sophomore Rita Liliom (social science).

Stanzel, a native of Omaha, Neb., earned her fourth career Academic All-Big 12 selection. Hamlin, Perkins and Werner garnered their second straight citation. K-State trailed only Texas A&M in overall selections. The Aggies had nine selections.

Nominated by each institution's director of student-athlete support services and the media relations offices, the volleyball academic all-league team consisted of 52 first team members combined with nine on the second team.  First team members consist of those who have maintained a 3.20 or better GPA, and the second team are those who have a 3.00 to 3.19 GPA.

To qualify student-athletes must maintain a 3.00 GPA or higher either cumulative or the two previous semesters and must have participated in 60 percent of her team's scheduled contests. Freshmen and transfers are not eligible in their first year of academic residence. Senior student-athletes who have participated for a minimum of two years and meet all the criteria except percent of participation are also eligible.

The Wildcats will be in action tonight against No. 24 Colorado in Ahearn Field House.