For Immediate Release
Friday, November 12, 2021
NSIC Media Relations

BURNSVILLE, Minn. – St. Cloud State’s Maddy Torve was voted by the league coaches as the inaugural winner of the NSIC Outstanding Senior of the Year Award for volleyball. A native of Loretto, Minnesota, Torve is a senior majoring in marketing and minoring in graphic design and holds a 3.94 cumulative grade point average.
 
The “NSIC Outstanding Senior of the Year Award” is presented to a NSIC volleyball student-athlete who participates at their institution for four years and is academically superior while making a positive contribution to their team and the University. The NSIC Outstanding Senior of the Year award was initiated in 2021 to honor an outstanding senior that exemplifies the attributes of the model NSIC student-athlete.
 
On the court, Torve is a four year starter, earning All-NSIC First Team honors her senior season and second team honors as a junior. She ranks third all-time in career assists, fourth in single-season assists and sixth in single-match assists at SCSU. She became the first setter in over a decade to eclipse 3000 career assists at SCSU and is only the third setter in program history to record 1000+ assists in back-to-back seasons. She is also the third setter in program history with two or more 60+ assist performances in her career. This season she was named NSIC Setter of the Week on four different occasions, ranks third in the nation in assists/set and second in total assists.
 
In the classroom, Torve is a three-time NSIC All-Academic Team of Excellence member, has been a member of the Dean’s List  for eight semesters, is a recipient of the May Bowle Art Scholarship; the Presidential Academic Scholarship; the Huskies Scholars Fund and a NSIC Myles Brand Award winner.
 
In the community, Torve has volunteered at Westwood Community Church; coached Sauk Rapids Juniors Volleyball team; coached SCSU and local volleyball camps and been a marketing intern at T.O. Plastics and Blattner Energy. She has also been involved in Campus Crusade for Christ the past two years.
 
“Maddy is unbelievably generous with her time and volunteers to help area youth develop in volleyball. She is extremely active with multiple Christian organizations and is a model teammate with her excellence on the court and work ethic in the classroom, on the court and in the weight room. She helped a program that won combined 47 conference matches in the previous 12 years to 48 wins (and counting) in her four seasons as a Husky. In 2017, she helped the Huskies beat a team ranked in the top 25 of the AVCA poll for the first time in over 100 matches. Since the fall of 2019, the Huskies have won 19 matches against teams either ranked in the AVCA Top-25 or receiving votes. Maddy is a responsible young woman that has been an impactful leader to a program that finished 1-19 in NSIC play in 2014 and is currently #1 in the NSIC with two matches remaining. She's been instrumental in this program’s turn around,” said St. Cloud State Head Coach Chad Braegelmann.
 
About the NSIC
The NSIC is a 16-team, 18-sport, NCAA Division II conference with institutions located in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. The NSIC is a model Division II conference that uses high-level athletics competition to develop champions in the classroom and community while empowering student-athletes to be impactful and positive leaders. Formed in 1992 by the merger of the Northern Intercollegiate Conference (men’s league) and the Northern Sun Conference (women’s league), the NSIC has flourished over the past quarter century, maturing into a 16-team union of Upper Midwest colleges and universities. The NSIC has won 23 team national championships and crowned 77 individual national champions. For additional information, visit NorthernSun.org.
 
About NCAA Division II
The NCAA, the national governing body for college athletics, is a volunteer association of more than 1,000 colleges and universities that classify their athletics programs in one of three membership divisions. The 300+ institutions in NCAA Division II support a balanced approach in which student-athletes have the opportunity to earn scholarships based on their athletic ability, pursue their desired academic degree, and participate in all the campus and surrounding community have to offer. Division II student-athletes annually graduate at rates higher than their student body peers, and they have access to the best championships-participant ratio among the NCAA’s three divisions. Division II gives student-athletes the unique opportunity to compete in the classroom, on the field, in their career, for their causes, and on their terms. For additional information, visit NCAA.org.