PHILADELPHIA – College Sports Communicators has announced its Academic All-District recipients for the 2025 volleyball season and Penn was honored with the maximum four recipients in junior Zada Sanger and sophomores Jenna Garner, Emery Moore, and Ellie Siskin.
 
One of the most stringent academic programs in college sports, a student-athlete must hold a cumulative GPA of 3.50 or greater in order to be nominated for Academic All-District. In volleyball, they must have competed in 90 percent of their institution's matches that season or started in at least 66 percent of the matches. Institutions are limited to four nominations in volleyball.

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Some notes on Penn's 2025 CSC Academic All-District recipients:
 
#2 Jenna Garner (So., Pasadena, Calif.)
*Played in all 24 matches and 89 of 90 sets on the season
*Second on the team in overall kills (238), third in Ivy play (132)
*Second on the team in digs, both overall (274) and in Ivy play (164)
*Second on the team in overall service aces (24), tied for the team lead in Ivy play (17)
*Finished the season with 18 blocks (1s/17a), 14 of them in Ivy play (1s/13a)
*Led Penn with nine kill/dig double-doubles, including five in a row to end the season
*Finished one kill or one dig shy of a double-double on four other occasions
*AMONG IVY PLAYERS (all): eighth in digs/set (3.08)
*AMONG IVY PLAYERS (Ivy): seventh in digs/set (2.98)
*All-tournament at Anteater Classic after posting double-doubles in wins over Fresno State (9/6) and host UC Irvine (9/7)
*In season finale, 11 kills (.313), 12 digs and a block assist vs. Harvard (11/15)
*The previous night, 12 kills and a career-high 22 digs in four-set win over Dartmouth (11/14)
*Finished with 11 kills (.524), 10 digs and three aces in a four-set win at Columbia (11/8)
*Went for 14 kills, 13 digs and two aces in a four-setter with Cornell (11/7)
*Had 11 kills, 11 digs, and four aces in a five-set win at Yale (11/1)
*Nine kills, 14 digs, and block solo in four sets at Brown (10/31)
*11 kills (.455), seven digs, two service aces in a sweep of Columbia (10/17)
*Had 11 kills at Harvard (10/10), followed by 21 digs the next night at Dartmouth (10/11)
*12 kills and nine digs in a five-setter at The Palestra with Brown (10/4)
*Double-double with 13 kills and 14 digs and added two aces vs. Temple (9/23)
*Put down 15 kills in home-opening sweep of NJIT (9/17)
*Season-high 19 kills and eight digs in just three sets in a win over Lafayette (9/13)
*16 kills, 17 digs, two aces and a block assist in five sets at Coppin State (9/12)
 
#12 Emery Moore (So., Indianapolis, Ind.)
*Setter played in 87 of 90 sets, playing 23 of 24 matches with 22 starts
*Led Penn with 717 assists (8.24 a/s)
*Third on the team with 236 digs and added nine blocks (1s/8a), 14 aces and 40 kills
*Had a double-figure dig total in 12 different matches
*AMONG IVY PLAYERS (all): fourth in assists/set (8.24), tenth in digs/set (2.71)
*AMONG IVY PLAYERS (Ivy): fourth in assists/set (8.18), ninth in digs/set (2.91)
*Dished out 51 assists, added 17 digs and five kills (.455) in four-set Ivy win over Dartmouth (11/14)
*Had 50 assists and 15 digs in Penn's five-set Ivy League win at Yale (11/1)
*Hit 40 assists in consecutive appearances, with 42 at Coppin State (9/12) and 43 at Towson (9/13)
*Totaled 72 assists and 28 digs in sweeps of Fresno State (9/6) and UC Irvine (9/7) at the Anteater Classic
*37 assists and 11 digs in just three sets in sweep of Columbia (10/17)
*Finished with 34 assists, nine digs in three-set Ivy opener with Princeton (9/26)
*Five kills (.455), 38 assists, five digs in four-set Ivy win at Columbia (11/8)
 
#8 Zada Sanger (Jr., Berkeley, Calif.)
*Second-team All-Ivy
*Played in 85 of 90 sets and 23 of 24 matches
*Led Penn with 282 kills overall and 172 in Ivy League play
*Also recorded 32.0 blocks (4s/28a), fourth on the team, as well as 66 digs and five service aces
*AMONG IVY PLAYERS (all): fourth in kills/set (3.32), eighth in points/set (3.59)
*AMONG IVY PLAYERS (Ivy): seventh in kills/set (3.25)
*Finished with a double-digit kill total in 18 matches including 12 in a row from September 12 to October 17
*Named Tournament MVP at Delaware Invitational after a combined 26 kills and .523 hitting percentage against the Blue Hens (9/19) and Saint Peter's (9/20)
*Had a double-double in Ivy five-setter with Brown (10/4), with 15 kills and 13 digs
*Put down 21 kills, hitting .367, and added three digs and two block assists in Ivy win over Dartmouth (11/14)
*Followed up with 17 kills (.400) and two digs in season finale against Harvard (11/15)
*In first meeting with the Big Green (10/11), finished with 17 kills, two digs and three block assists
*Recorded 18 kills and five block assists at home vs. Temple (9/23)
*Had 16 kills on two occasions, at Coppin State (9/12) and at Harvard (10/10)
*Finished with 15 kills and a block solo in a win over Fresno State (9/6)
*Academic All-Ivy
 
#19 Ellie Siskin (Atlanta, Ga.)
*The only player to see time in all 90 sets this season
*Third on the team in overall kills (235), second in Ivy play (149)
*Led Penn with 26 service aces overall, tied for the team lead in Ivy play (17)
*Third on the team in blocks, both overall (33.0, 1s/32a) and in Ivy play (23.0, 1s/22a)
*Fifth on the team with 120 digs overall including 68 in league play
*Hit double digits 11 times in kills, twice in digs, and posted two double-doubles
*Ivy double-double with 10 kills and 11 digs at Cornell (11/7)
*Went for 10 kills and season-high 13 in three-set sweep of Lafayette (9/13)
*The previous night, put down 16 kills and added four block assists and two digs at Coppin State (9/12)
*Consecutive seven-kill, nine-dig performance at Anteater Classic as Penn swept Fresno State (9/6) and host UC Irvine (9/7)
*Back-to-back 11-kill matches against Temple (9/23) and Princeton (9/26), adding seven digs vs. the Owls and hitting .318 against the Tigers
*13 kills (.333), five aces, three digs, three block assists in Ivy five-setter at The Palestra with Brown (10/4)
*Recorded 14 kills, four digs, three BAs, and two aces at Dartmouth (10/11)
*Nine kills, five digs and two block assists in three-set sweep of Columbia (10/17)
*14 kills, six digs and three block assists in four sets at Brown (10/31)
*Totaled 17 kills, three aces, five digs and a BA in five-set Ivy win at Yale (11/1)
*Posted 11 kills, eight digs, a block solo and two block assists in four-set win at Columbia (11/8)
*Put down 13 kills, added six digs and a block solo in four-set win over Dartmouth (11/14)
*Ended season with nine kills, three digs and two block assists in five sets vs. Harvard (11/15)