LA MIRADA, Calif. --- Biola Volleyball made it to at least the NAIA National Quarterfinals for the sixth season in a row in 2015, and its effort was keyed by a ultra-talented senior class of eight student-athletes.
 
Three of those seniors were awarded Tachikara-NAIA All-American honors on Tuesday morning as selected by the 2015 national championship tournament committee.
 
Joclyn Kirton earned her third career NAIA All-American honor, Alyssa Mason earned her second and Britta Blaser made the All-American cut for the first time in her four-year career as an Eagle.
 
Kirton has worked her way up the NAIA ranks the past three seasons as she earned a third team selection as a sophomore, second team selection last year and made the first team in 2015.
 
Kirton led Biola's attack this season with 365 kills. She got herself over 1,000 career kills during her senior year as she ends her four-year career with 1,213 total kills. She hit .323 this season to set a new career-best and lift her career hitting percentage to .266.
 
Alyssa Mason earned two all-conference honors and an All-American honor as an outside hitter for the Eagles the past two seasons, but with the graduation of former NAIA Player of the Year Amy Weststeyn she was called on to play middle blocker in 2015 and she killed it. She was named to the first team.
 
Mason missed a handful of games with injury in the middle of the Golden State Athletic Conference season, but when she was in the mix for the Eagles she was one of the best players in the country. The long, strong senior from Redlands ended the year with 318 kills and a hitting percentage of .439 that led the NAIA. She finishes her three years as an Eagle with 995 career kills and a career attack percentage of .315. Where she truly made her presence known this season was in the blocking game. She had 118 total blocks this season, which was 44 more than her previous season-best.
 
Blaser had a career year this season as she worked her way to a career-best in kills, hitting percentage and points. She was named to the NAIA All-American third team.
 
For Blaser this honor is a reward for four years of incredibly hard work and refining of raw talent. The powerful outside hitter unleashed her wrath on Biola's opponents this season as she upped her attack percentage to .288 and was one of Head Coach Aaron Seltzer's most consistent attacking options from game one to game 34 this season.
 
All three of these players will graduate this year and leave the door open for new players to make an impact next season.