Serena Patterson arrived at UTEP four years ago when the program was at the bottom of Conference USA, an afterthought on any kind of national landscape.
She helped change that, and after one of the great seasons in program history that will continue this weekend at the conference tournament as a second seed from the West Division, the 5-foot-10 outside hitter was named to the All-Conference USA first team.
This follows Patterson making the second team last season.
Junior outside hitter and middle blocker Alianza Darley is now following in Patterson's footsteps, as she was named to the All-C-USA second team.