Copper Mountain Conference announces all-conference selections for volleyball
LAKE LINDEN — The Lake Linden-Hubbell Lakes were named the Team of the Year as the Copper Mountain Conference announced its postseason awards Monday.
Lakes leader Jocelyn Perala was named Coach of the Year, and junior Ashlyn Steves was named Defensive Player of the Year. Wakefield-Marenisco’s Noelle Grace was named Most Valuable Player.
Five of six members of the Elite Team played for Copper Country schools.
Steves and teammate Cleo Milkey, a senior, were both honored. Dollar Bay-Tamarack City senior Kiera Isaacson, Baraga junior Elisa Delene, and Ewen-Trout Creek senior Emma Besonen were also named to the conference’s top team.
Emma Besonen and her younger sister Bree Besonen, a sophomore, were both named to the Porcupine Division First Team.
Ewen-Trout Creek sophomore Peyton Hardes, and Ontonagon senior Julia Manos were both named to the Second Team.
Ewen sophomore McKayla Basel, a sophomore, earned honorable mention.
In the Copper Country Division, Isaacson, Delene, Milkey, and Steves all were named to the First Team. Joining them were junior Sophie DesRochers and sophomore Mya Hendrickson from Baraga, and sophomore Payton Goldsworthy from Lake Linden.
Chassell sophomore Elli Kuntze made the Second Team, along with teammate Oriana Olson, a junior. Joining them were junior Laila Bell and senior Sophie Berryman from Dollar Bay, L’Anse sophomore Kwynn Voskuhl, and Baraga freshman Cora Connor.
Lake Linden junior Emily Burnham, Dollar Bay freshman Sylvie Kentala, and L’Anse sophomore Breyelle Bowers all earned honorable mention.


