MALIBU, Calif. ­Â— Senior outside hitter Julie Rubenstein of the Pepperdine women’s volleyball team picked up the most significant athletic award of her just-completed collegiate career, as she was named to the AVCA All-American third team today.

 

Rubenstein (Camarillo, Calif./Oaks Christian HS) ended one of the top careers in school history earlier this month after the Waves’ first-round NCAA Tournament loss to Long Beach State.

 

She earned All-West Coast Conference honors in each of her four seasons, including the last three on the first team. She was selected to the AVCA All-Pacific Region first team honors for the first time this season. Rubenstein was also voted Pepperdine’s Female Student-Athlete of the Year for 2007-08, is a three-time WCC Commissioner’s Honor Roll recipient, a two-time WCC All-Academic selection and a two-time CoSIDA Academic All-District honoree.

 

She is Pepperdine’s first AVCA All-American selection since 2003.

 

Rubenstein led the WCC in both kills (4.42) and points (5.14) per set in 2008. She finished her Pepperdine career third all-time with 1,743 kills, third with 2,064 points, fifth with 4.12 kills per set and fifth with 116 service aces. Quite impressively, she never missed a set in her four-year career, playing in all 423.