Harms and Colyer earn first career All-Heart honors for 2025 play

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - With the NAIA women's volleyball season nearing the start of national tournament play, the Clarke University women's volleyball team saw two members receive Heart of America Athletic Conference All Conference honors on Wednesday with juniors Kortney Harms and Keely Colyer being named as Honorable Mentions.

Both Harms and Colyer share similarities outside of their status as juniors on the team and being recognized as All-Heart selections with both playing the same positions as setter/opposite hitter combinations, were the only players with over 200 kills, and both being the only members of the team to play in every single set played by the Pride in 2025.

Harms, a Flanagan, Ill. native, led CU in assists with 343, which finished as the 19th-highest mark in the Heart, while producing the second-most kills on the team at 216, a career-high, the second-most digs on the team at 207, as she also led the Pride with a career-high 36 service aces, added 27 total blocks, and finished the year with a career-best .144 hitting percentage.

Colyer, a Markham, Ill. native, was the team leader in kills on the season as she played more as a pin hitter than as a setter through the entirety of the season with her kills total ending at 234, which is 54 more kills than her previous career-high set in 2024, as she also produced a career-best .126 hitting percentage on a team-high and career-high 749 attempts. Her 186 assists still finished second behind Harms where she was also able to produce 144 digs, 25 aces, and 43 total blocks to have the third-best blocking total on the team, only behind starting middles Kelsey NeCollins and Kaelyn Minich.

With their six-rotation status, both Harms and Colyer were able to accomplish the rare volleyball feat of a triple-double, double digit counting numbers in three different stat categories, a combined seven times throughout the season, including when they both did it in the same match twice, first on Aug. 29 in a four-set defeat to Mount Marty where Harms finished with 12 kills, 16 assists, and a career-high 19 digs as Colyer posted a career-high with 20 kills while adding a season-high with 22 assists and finishing at 10 digs, then again on Sept. 23 at William Penn where both finished with 11 kills, Colyer had the higher dig total with 13 to 11 for Harms, and Harms produced 15 assists to Colyer's 10.

Colyer's other triple-double came on Sept. 20 in the Kehl Center where she matched that 22-assist performance while producing 10 kills and 11 digs against the Wildcats in five sets and Harms was able to produce two other triple-doubles in the form of a 10-kill, 13-assist, 10-dig match against Missouri Valley then having a 14-kill, 10-assist, 12-dig night at Central College in CU's final non-conference match of the season.

Full Heart Release: https://heart.prestosports.com/sports/wvball/2025-26/releases/20251119gbtzg4

This is the first time both Colyer and Harms have earned All-Heart recognition in their three seasons as members of the Pride women's volleyball team as they highlight a large returning group for the 2026 season in head coach Matt Gagner's first full offseason leading Clarke.