Love, Oshman Highlight GNAC Men's Volleyball All-Conference Honors

BOSTON, Mass. – Senior Ryan Love (Gaithersburg, Md.) and freshman Hunter Oshman (Pennington, N.J.) highlighted five Wentworth Institute of Technology men's volleyball student-athletes who were honored by the Great Northeast Athletic Conference when the league announced its major award winners and all-conference selections on Tuesday. Love was named the GNAC Offensive Player of the Year, while Oshman took home conference rookie of the year honors.

In addition to collecting major awards, Love and Oshman were both named First Team All-GNAC and were joined by teammates sophomore Ian Carlson (Parker, Colo.), junior Peter Klembczyk (Penfield, N.Y), and senior Augusto Rodriguez-Guerrios (San Juan, P.R.), each of whom earned second team all-conference honors. Freshman Vinny Sottile (Lindenhurst, N.Y.) was Wentworth's representative to the GNAC All-Sportsmanship Team.

Love earns All-GNAC honors for the third consecutive season after having been named to the second team as a sophomore and earning first team honors during his junior season. This season he was twice honored by the GNAC as the Offensive Player of the Week (January 27, February 3) and averaged 3.31 kills, 3.64 points, and 1.93 digs per set in 45 sets. He hit a career-best .550 (12-1-20) in a win 3-0 win over Lasell on February 22 and had a career-best 15 digs in a 3-2 to St. John Fisher on January 25. He ranks sixth on Wentworth's all-time list with 2.80 kills per set and is seventh in attack percentage (.272). He is Wentworth's third GNAC Offensive Player of the Year in the last four seasons, joining All-American Collin Ritter '08, who won the award in back-to-back seasons (2017, 2018).

A two-time (January 27, February 24) GNAC Rookie of the Week, Oshman had an impressive first year with the Black & Gold as he averaged 2.98 kills, 3.44 points, and 1.42 digs per set. He recorded a career-high 22 kills in a 3-2 loss at Rivier on February 26 and, in that match, he hit an impressive .538 making just one error on 39 swings. Oshman also had a career-best 13 digs in a 3-0 win over Johnson & Wales on February 22 and recorded a career-high three blocks in four separate matches. Oshman becomes the second GNAC Rookie of the Year recipient of the last three seasons, joining Klembczyk who won in 2018.

Carlson earns Second Team All-GNAC honors after averaging 2.02 kills, 2.83 points, and 1.00 blocks per set while hitting .421in 46 sets. His hitting percentage ranked him 10th in Division III, while his blocks per set were 16th. The league's defensive player of the week on January 27, he hit a career-high .524 in a 3-1 win over then-seventh ranked Wells on January 24 and set career highs with three blocks in that match as well as in a 3-2 loss to Rivier on February 26.

Klembczyk is honored by the league for the third straight season after earning third team honors as a sophomore on the heels of being named rookie of the year in 2018. Named the conference's defensive player of the week on February 3, Klembczyk averaged 2.80 digs per set for the season, ranking him 17th in Division III. He had a season-high 23 digs in a 3-1 win over then-seventh ranked Wells on January 24, a figure matched in a 3-2 loss to Rivier on February 26. Klembczyk is the program's all-time leader in digs per set with 2.78 and he ranks second with 721 career digs.

Rodriguez-Guerrios earns his third straight All-GNAC nod after being named to the second team in 2018 and earning first team honors a season ago. Averaging 9.53 assists per set, he had a career-high 53 assists in a 3-2 loss to Rivier on February 26 and on two occasions this season had a career-best three block assists. His assists per set ranked him 26th in Division III and, in a 3-1 loss to MSOE on March 5, he became the fourth student-athlete in program history to eclipse the 2,000 career assist mark. Rodriguez-Guerrios ranks fourth in program history with 2,013 career assists and is fifth in assists per set with 6.82.

Wentworth had its season cut short due to the COVID-19 outbreak, however, not before posting a 12-5 overall record and a 5-1 mark in GNAC play.

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