Valkyries place two on all-Northwest A volleyball teams
Ava Davey (left) and Taylor Howlett (right) were both honored last week as the Montana Northwest A volleyball conference announced its All-Conference and All-State teams. Davey was named All-Conference First Team while Howlett made the Second Team. (Jeremy Weber/Bigfork Eagle)
The Valkyries had two players honored as Montana Northwest A volleyball announced its all-conference teams last week.
Junior Ava Davey was a first-team all-Northwest A selection while sophomore Taylor Howlett was named to the second team.
The Vals went 16-13 this season, advancing to the Western A divisional tournament, where they went 1-2.
Whitefish’s Isabella Hartwig and Brooke Zetooney and Polson’s Avery Starr and Mckenna Hanson were named All-State for volleyball out of the Northwest A.
The league coaches chose their all-Northwest A teams, and a third Polson Pirate made first team: Julia Barnard.
Hartwig and Zetooney were the top hitters for a Whitefish squad that finished third at the Western A Divisional and qualified for the State A tournament for the first time since 2018. The Bulldogs went 17-12 this season.
Starr, Barnard and Hanson helped Polson make it to Bozeman for the first straight season. The Pirates won a match at State and finished 12-8.
The complete honors team list is below.
Northwest A
All-State/All-Conference
First team
Avery Starr, sr. Polson*
Brooke Zetooney, sr. Whitefish*
Mckenna Hanson, sr. Polson*
Isabella Hartwig, jr. Whitefish*
Ava Davey, jr. Bigfork
Julia Barnard, sr. Polson
*-denotes All-State selection.
Second team
Maddie Moultray, sr. C-Falls
Jerel Whitegrass, sr. Browning
Myli Ridgeway, jr. Whitefish
Taylor Howlett, so. Bigfork
Emalee Alton, jr. Columbia Falls
McKenna Corley, fr. Ronan
Honorable mention — Natalie St. Goddard, sr., Browning; Samantha Rensvold, jr., Polson; Seattle Adams, jr., Ronan; Bailey Smith, sr., Whitefish; Hannah Simpson, sr., Polson; Lauryn Buhr, jr., Ronan; Ainsley Scott, sr., Whitefish.
Coach of the Year — Addy Connelly, Whitefish