The East Coast Conference announced its 2025 Men’s Volleyball All-Conference honorees and major award winners on Thursday morning ahead of this weekend’s ECC Men’s Volleyball Championship. St. Thomas Aquinas College sophomore outside/opposite hitter Gabriel Vieira earned the Player of the Year honors, along with All-Conference accolades. All voting was completed by the league’s four head coaches.

Six-time ECC Player of the Week Vieira (Belo Horizonte, Brazil) led the conference in total points (355.5), posting 5.01 points per set to rank seventh nationally on his way to ECC Player of the Year honors. He also led the conference and ranked second nationally in kills per set (4.34, 308 total) while topping the conference and ranking fourth nationally in attacks per set (9.42). The STAC outside hitter/opposite hitter ranked third in the ECC in total blocks (60) and blocks per set (.85) and sat eighth in digs per set (104, 1.46). Across 18 sets of conference play, Vieira dropped an ECC-leading 83 kills with a .324 hitting percentage with 29 kills across six sets against Roberts Wesleyan and 22 kills across six sets against both Dominican and American International. 

Paced by Vieira’s breakthrough sophomore campaign, the Spartans led the ECC in assists per set (10.47), blocks per set (2.28), digs per set (9.20), hitting percentage (.238), kills per set (11.16), and opponent hitting percentage (.205, 11th nationally). With an unblemished 6-0 conference mark (14-9 overall), Vieira and the Spartans took home the ECC Regular Season Championship for the second year in a row and earned the right to host this weekend’s ECC Championship at the Spartan Athletic Complex in Sparkill, N.Y. 

2025 ECC Men’s Volleyball All-Conference Team

Ryan DeJohn, Roberts Wesleyan

Tommaso Falchi, Dominican

Blake Krapf, Dominican

Moises Jimenez, Roberts Wesleyan

Ayden Shaw, Dominican

Gabriel Vieira, St. Thomas Aquinas

Emil Zhmaidziak, American International

Player of the Year: Gabriel Vieira, St. Thomas Aquinas

Libero of the Year: Moises Jimenez, Roberts Wesleyan

Setter of the Year: Landon Brouwer, Roberts Wesleyan

Co-Rookies of the Year: Ryan DeJohn, Roberts Wesleyan and Blake Krapf, Dominican

Co-Coaches of the Year: Mike Dedee, Roberts Wesleyan and Patrick Ernst, Dominican