Point Loma Nazarene volleyball star Abigail Nua is the two-time defending PacWest Conference Player of the Year. She won this year’s award despite missing the last eight matches with a knee injury. Nua is nowhere near 100% healthy, but she told head coach Jonathan Scott there was no chance she was not going to let a chance to make history get away.

“Jon kind of sat me down and I was like, are you okay?” says Nua. “I just had to be like, I gotta suck it up. I gotta play for my girls. And so, I just said, well, you're hurt. Deal with it and let's play ball.”

On Saturday night, Nua did more than that. In the 4 th and final set of the Division II West Regional final against Fresno Pacific at Golden Gymnasium, Nua had nine kills, including the one that put the Sea Lions into the Elite 8 for

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