BALTIMORE – A pair of high school volleyball players from Pennsylvania, Sophie Brenner and Kacy Sekunda, have signed National Letters of Intent and will form the Loyola University Maryland Volleyball Class of 2025.
 
The duo were two of 14 players from the states of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia and the District of Columbia to be named to the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) All-Region II Team earlier this week.
 
Brenner is currently a senior at Unionville High School in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, where she is on the Under Armour All-America Watch List after becoming the first player in school history to reach 1,000 kills in her career. She helped Unionville win its 2020 league title, and as of this week she has 1,066 career kills.
 
She earned All-State First Team recognition a year ago, a season in which she was also named First-Team All-League and All-District. Brenner has earned All-League First Team honors as a freshman, junior and senior, and she is a three-time team Most Valuable Player, too.
 
In club, she has played for East Coast Power Volleyball, earning USAV Nationals and Big South Tournament Prep Volleyball Star Search recognition in 2019. She also picked up that honor in 2018 at the USAV Nationals. In the classroom, she has earned distinguished honors at Unionville.
 
Sekunda is a two-time All-Pennsylvania honoree at State College Area High School, earning the honors in 2018 and 2019 in years which she also was named a Mid-Penn All-Star. She has led the Little Lions to four-straight District XI Championships while recording more than 1,000 assists and 700 kills.
 
She is an Under Armour All-American nominee and has been a two-time team captain at State College. On the club circuit, she has played for Revolution Pittsburgh and Central Penn, helping teams finish third in the Premier Division at the 2018 AAU National Championships and fifth in the same level at the 2019 competition.
 
Sekunda has been a high honor roll student at State College, and she comes from an athletic family. Her father, Glenn, played college basketball at Syracuse and Penn State, leading the Nittany Lions to an NCAA Tournament bid in 1995-96 before he went on to play 11 years of professional basketball overseas. Sekunda's two older brothers have played college basketball; Bryan competed at Stony Brook and Tommy is a player at Seton Hill.