TEXARKANA, Texas – Five members of the Louisiana Christian University volleyball team were honored for their play during the 2026 season, being named All-Red River Athletic Conference on Thursday.
Kourtlyn Smith was named to the All-Conference First Team while
Vivien Brouillette,
Emma Cother,
Mallory Wills, and
Holly Rowe were all named to the Second Team.
Smith, a sophomore outside hitter from Raceland, La., led Louisiana Christian with 2.42 kills per set while holding a .164 attack percentage. On the defensive side, she had 15 total blocks, one solo, and 33 digs on the year. All that combined to give her 2.6 points per set, the highest scoring per set average on the team. This is Smith's first career RRAC postseason award.
Brouillette, a freshman outside hitter from Montz, La., averaged 1.05 kills per set in her first season at Louisiana Christian with a .118 attack percentage. She also led LCU with 52 total blocks at the net, eight solo, and averaged 0.63 blocks per set. Brouillette was also named the team's representative on the RRAC's Champions of Character team as the player who best personifies the NAIA's five core values of the Champions of Character program – integrity, respect, responsibility, sportsmanship, and servant leadership.
Cother, a senior setter from Carencro, La., makes her return to the RRAC All-Conference team, marking the third time in her LCU career that she's been named to the All-RRAC Second Team. She led the team with 529 assists throughout the 2026 season, a 6.3 assist per set average. She was also one of the top servers for the Wildcats, getting 28 service aces during the season, second most on the squad. Defensively, she had 10 total blocks, one solo, and averaged 1.95 digs per set while being named RRAC Setter of the Week on Oct. 5.
Wills, a junior middle blocker from Lake Charles, La., moves up to the All-Conference Second Team after being named an All-RRAC honorable mention in 2025. She led LCU in total blocks with 69, 16 solo. It was her presence on the net which made her a two-time RRAC Defensive Player of the Week, both of which came in the last two weeks of the season. On offense, she averaged 0.94 kills per set on a .145 attack percentage. She also had 23 service aces on the year.
Rowe, a junior outside hitter and right side hitter from Lakeland, Fla., has been named All-Conference Second Team for a second time in just her second season at LCU. She had a 1.91 kills per set average on a .127 attack percentage. Her 178 kills, combined with her one service ace, and 50 total blocks, seven of which were solo, made her the highest scoring Wildcat of 2026 with 207.5 total points scored.
The Wildcats (10-19) enter the 2026 Red River Athletic Conference Volleyball Championship Tournament as the four-seed. They will take on the five-seed, the Southwest Mustangs (4-16), in the first round at 1 p.m. on Friday. Should LCU advance, the Wildcats would return to the court at 7 p.m. on Friday night in the semifinal round against the RRAC's regular season champion, and the host of the 2026 RRAC Tournament, the Texas A&M Texarkana Eagles (19-9).
All matches of the 2026 RRAC Championship Tournament will take place at the Patterson Student Center on the Texas A&M Texarkana campus and will be live streamed on the RRAC Sports Network by Urban Edge Network.
