November 12, 2025

HELENA, Mont. – The results are in, and Chelsa Krom and Piper Harris have been honored for their performances in BSC's first season as members of the Frontier Conference.

They were the Mystics that highlighted the 2025 Frontier Conference Volleyball All-Conference teams and postseason awards, announced during the awards ceremony Wednesday evening at the Lower Campus Center on the campus of host-school Carroll (Mont.). 

Krom was selected as a Second Team All-Conference player as she finished the year tied for fifth in the conference in hitting percentage at .319. She also tallied 58 blocks on the season, and finished the season alone at the top of BSC's career blocks leader board with 258.

Harris was named an All-Conference Honorable Mention as she finished sixth in the Frontier with 482 digs. She surpassed 1000 career digs this season and finished the year with 1075, placing fourth on BSC's career leader board, just four digs shy of third place. 

Bella Thompson (Providence) was selected as the Player-of-the-Year and the Setter-of-the-Year for the second consecutive year, guiding the Argos to their second straight Frontier Conference regular season title outright.  UP also secured the first automatic bid to the NAIA National Tournament Opening Round, which is scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 22, at campus sites.

Providence's Arunas Duda was selected as the Coach of the Year for the second straight year.  UP's Sacha Simmons was named Assistant Coach of the Year.

Other individual awards included Valley City State's (N.D.) JayCee Richter as the Defender Player of the Year, Bellevue's (Neb.) Eve Fountain as the Attacker of the Year, Montana Tech's Payton Treadwell as the Newcomer of the Year, and MSU-Northern's Lexi Jones as Freshman-of-the-Year.

The awards were selected by the league's head coaches.

The Frontier Conference Women's Volleyball Postseason Tournament starts Thursday at 12 p.m. (Mountain Time) at Carroll College PE Center.  Four quarterfinal matches start with the top-seed Argos taking on No. 8 seed Montana Western, followed by No. 4 Dakota State (S.D.) taking on No. 5 seed Montana Tech at 2:30 p.m. (MT).

Thursday's quarterfinals will feature No. 2 seed Bellevue (Neb.) versus No. 7 seed Valley City State (N.D.) at 5 p.m. (MT) and wraps up with No. 3 MSU-Northern playing No. 6 seed Carroll at 7:30 p.m. (MT).

Semifinals are set for Friday evening, with the championship match on Saturday at 7 p.m. (MT).  The second automatic bid will be awarded to the tournament's champion.  In the event that UP wins the tournament, the bid will go to the tournament's runner-up.

There are 14 individuals each on the First- and Second-Team All-Conference.  Each school also has an honorable mention athlete.

Below is the complete list of the 2025 Frontier All-Conference teams and postseason awards:

2025 FRONTIER CONFERENCE WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL AWARDS:
Player of the Year:  Bella Thompson, Providence (Mont.), Senior, Setter
Setter of the Year:  Bella Thompson, Providence (Mont.), Senior, Setter
Attacker of the Year:  Eve Fountain, Bellevue (Neb.), Senior, Outside Hitter
Defender Player of the Year:  JayCee Richter, Valley City State (N.D.), Senior, Libero
Newcomer of the Year:  Payton Treadwell, Montana Tech, Right Side
Freshman of the Year:  Lexi Jones, MSU-Northern, Freshman, Middle Hitter
Coach of the Year:  Arunas Duda, Providence
Assistant Coach of the Year:   Sacha Simmons, Providence
   

First Name, Last Name	School	Pos.	Ht.	Class	Hometown
Savanna Berger	Bellevue (Neb.)	MB/RS	6-0	Sr.	Plattsmouth, Neb.
Eve Fountain	Bellevue (Neb.)	OH	5-9	Sr.	Omaha, Neb.
Kealy Kiviniemi	Bellevue (Neb.)	RS	6-1	Sr.	Bellevue, Neb.
McKaila Balcom	Carroll (Mont.)	RS	5-10	Jr.	Pasco, Wash.
Maddi Langerock	Dakota State (S.D.)	S	5-6	Sr.	Tracy, Minn.
Rylee Kogolshak	Dickinson State (N.D.)	S	5-10	Jr.	Hardin, Mont.
Lexi Jones	Montana State University-Northern	MH	6-1	Fr.	Heritage Pointe, Alberta, Canada
Macee Selman	Montana State University-Northern	S/RS	5-8	Sr.	Ballantine, Mont.
Kinnidi Willmore	Montana Tech	OH	5-10	Sr.	Claremont, Calif.
Sadie Giles	Providence (Mont.)	MB	5-9	Sr.	Idaho Falls, Idaho
Bella Green	Providence (Mont.)	OH/RS	6-1	Sr.	Orem, Utah
Cabry Taylor	Providence (Mont.)	MB	6-2	R-Jr.	White Sulphur Springs, Mont.
Bella Thompson	Providence (Mont.)	S	5-7	Sr.	Kapahulu, Oahu
JayCee Richter	Valley City State (N.D.)	L	5-9	Sr.	Linton, N.D.

 

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