Article is here: https://athletics.augustana.edu/news/2024/4/22/mens-volleyball-max-sellers-earns-avca-all-american-honors.aspx

Congratulations Max!!

This is amazing, what a huge accomplishment!

I'll echo that.

Another year of driving for miles to see your son excel - I can't think of anything better.

And I still see the bio from when Max was manager of Kingstonian in U2. Not sure how old he was (8? 10?) and all he put was "my name is Max and I like volleyball."

Congrats Max, that sounds amazing (I'm going to pretend I understand what being an All American means - best in country, perhaps? If so, that's one hell of an achievement)

New guy Jim here. My son plays alongside Max, so I've been privileged to watch Max's greatness. I will go ahead and say what Allan probably won't -- Max got screwed in the awards last year (named to second-team all-conference when he clearly was a first-teamer). So this year is sweet sweet redemption for Max and very well deserved recognition. All the other coaches in the conference know what a tough competitor Max is and how valuable he is to Augustana. They game plan for him (and usually fail at it because Max is too smart, lol!!). The fact that Max is coming back sets the bar even higher for the team's aspirations next year. I can't wait!

Also, the team gets Allan's photo skillz for one more year... ;)

Thanks Jim!  I think I will refer to Jim as my "hype man" from now on.  😎

He is very kind!  

The one story I will share that I never would have before all this happened was from our game in Green Bay against St. Norbert.

I sometimes watch to see if there's interaction between Max and an opposing coach after the match and I noticed there was in this match.

So I asked Max and he said the St. Norbert coach said this:

"It will be a travesty if you aren't an All-American this season. "

So there were still no expectations of an award like that. But it was nice that Max heard that from another coach.  😎

Amazing stuff young Sellers, well done sir 

Congrats Max!

Woohoo!! Go Max!

Congratulations Max!

Incredible! Well done Max!

Congrats Max!!

Well done, Max!!!!

Thank you guys for the kind comments! I really appreciate the support! Sorry for the late response!

So proud of my son!

I think the late response can be excused now that you're officially more than just partially American.

The Shrimps have an opening for you next season!

With Max playing a 5th year, could it be the inspiration for a sort of BRB in United.  ie The GAP or Exchange Year.  A coach can assign 1 or 2 (Junior or Sophomore)  players to a gap year.  They cannot play, as they are in Europe, but they are coached at their European University using the existing RP mechanism.  They then get an extra year as a Senior.

Thus you can defer a star player to a season  when your later recruitment matches their talent, or if you get a surplus of talent you can organise it over 5 seasons better.  For the plus of an  extra season of High level Senior play, you have the negavitve of the loss of using  XP on them in the gap year.

Does such a thing exist IRL?

James, I know in the NBA that teams draft players from overseas that are more seen as development players so they keep them overseas and maintain their rights until they are ready to play in NBA

Awesome, way to go Max!!