SALISBURY, Md. – The Salisbury University volleyball team saw three of its athletes honored with Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference (C2C) postseason accolades on Thursday. Defensive specialist Grace Rail was named C2C Defensive Player of the Year and joined outside hitter Amanda Chew on the All-C2C First Team, while middle blocker Jenna Feinauer earned Second-Team All-C2C recognition.
 
Rail, a junior from Seaford, N.Y., becomes the third straight Sea Gull to be honored as the league's top defender, joining Hailey Doughtery in 2019 and Darian DiMatteo in 2021. She paces the C2C in total digs (494) and leads the league in digs per set (5.43) by over a full dig. Rail also boasts national top-50 rankings in both categories, slotting in 28th in digs per set and 44th in total digs.
 
Rail has been named C2C Defensive Player of the Week three times this season (Sept. 12, Sept. 26, Oct. 31), the most weekly laurels for any C2C volleyball player in 2022. She has registered 20-plus digs in 11 matches this season and 30-plus digs twice, including a career-high 39 against Mary Washington on Oct. 2 that ranks tied for fourth in single-match program history.
 
Chew, a senior from Owings, Md., becomes a two-time First-Team honoree after making the All-Capital Athletic Conference (CAC, now C2C) First Team in 2019. She leads the league in kills per set (3.83) and kills (356), slotting in nationally at 34th and 41st in the categories, respectively. Chew also ranks second in the C2C in points (389.0), as well as sixth in both digs (339) and digs per set (3.65) and 11th in hitting percentage (.233).
 
Chew was twice named C2C Offensive Player of the Week (Sept. 12 and 26) and has now garnered four weekly conference honors for her career. She has racked up 15 kill-dig double-doubles this season, including a pair of 20-20 efforts on Oct. 2 against Christopher Newport and Oct. 18 against Marymount (Va.), giving her 41 double-doubles over her SU tenure. With 1,131 career kills, Chew stands just five shy of overtaking sole possession of eighth in program history.
 
Feinauer, a senior from Bethesda, Md., makes it two straight years of All-C2C accolades after making the First Team in 2021. She once again leads the conference with 1.05 blocks per set, good for 25th nationally, and ranks third in the league with 79 total blocks (17 solo). Feinauer also boasts the conference's seventh-best hitting percentage (.286), totaling 116 kills along the way.
 
Feinauer ranks ninth in Salisbury history with 271 career blocks and matched her career high with eight total blocks on two separate occasions, giving her three total shares of the fourth-highest SU single-match total. One of those eight-block efforts came on Sept. 17 against Virginia Wesleyan, when Feinauer also smashed a career-high 15 kills on a .542 swing percentage.
 
Fueled by stellar performances from Rail, Chew and Feinauer, Salisbury opened the 2022 campaign on a 13-1 clip and won four of its final five contests to finish the regular season 18-7 and earn a No. 7 position in the most recent NCAA Regional Rankings.
 
The Sea Gulls begin their march toward a C2C Tournament championship and the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament on Friday in Fredericksburg, Va. Fourth-seeded SU will battle fifth-seeded Mount Mary in the first round at 11 a.m., with the winner advancing to face top-seeded UC Santa Cruz in the semifinals later that day.
 

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