ODESSA, Texas (November 19, 2025) – Sophomore outside hitter Ashlee Macias of The University of Texas Permian Basin women's volleyball team has been named Second-Team All-Lone Star Conference for the 2025 season.

Despite suffering an early-season injury during UTPB's very first day of the season, Macias bounced back to lead the team with 272 kills (4.25 K/S) and 297.0 points (4.64 PTS/S). She had the second-highest kills per set average in a season in program history for players with at least 500 attempts.

Macias totaled 688 attempts this season and led the Falcons with a .265 attack percentage. She was also fourth on the team with 200 digs (3.13 D/S), was sixth with 14 service aces, matching the number from her freshman season, and was eighth with 15 blocks (T2nd with 7 solo blocks). She started in 18 of her 19 matches played on the season and saw action in 64 sets. Macias recorded double-digit kills 13 times during the season, had five matches with at least 20 kills, had 12 matches with double-digit digs, and had nine double-doubles. He also hit at least .300 percent seven times during the season.

A 2025 LSC Preseason Player to Watch (Offense), Macias started her season by recording 23 kills on 54 attempts in a 3-0 loss vs. Adams State University (Sept. 5) and finished just one kill shy of breaking into the top-five for kills in a single match in program history. She also added 12 digs against the Grizzlies while her 23 kills were the most in a three-set match in the LSC this season. Then in UTPB's second match of opening day, a 3-2 loss vs. Southern Nazarene University (Sept. 5), she shattered UTPB's previous school record for attack percentage by hitting .737 percent on 19 attempts. The previous record was .684 percent by Travana Matthews vs. Texas A&M International University on September 7, 2018. It was also the sixth-highest attack percentage in a match in the LSC this season.

Macias left that match vs. Southern Nazarene with an injury, but before the end of the month, returned to the court in triumphant fashion to lead UTPB to a 3-1 win over St. Edward's University (Sept. 26) in its LSC opener. In her return to the lineup for the first time since the first day of the season, Macias led all players with 21 kills and added 10 digs against the Hilltoppers. It was also her second time going over the 20-kill mark in her first three matches of the season. In the very next match, a 3-1 defeat to St. Mary's University (Sept. 27), Macias led UTPB with 16 kills and a career-high 18 digs for her third double-double in four matches played.

Macias would lead all players with 10 kills and added 11 digs in a big 3-0 win at Oklahoma Christian University (Oct. 4). Then in a 3-2 defeat at Western New Mexico University (Oct. 7), Macias led the Falcons with 23 kills, tying her then-career-high set during the season opener, and also led UTPB with 15 digs, giving her double-digit kills in each of her first seven matches of the season to go along with five double-doubles.

Macias finished with 20 kills and just three attack errors on 37 attempts, good for a .459 hitting percentage, as UTPB earned another big road win, 3-0 at Dallas Baptist University (Oct. 4). Macias did not have a single error through two sets against the Lady Patriots, and it was her fourth match of the season with 20 or more kills. In addition, it was the second-most kills in a three-set match in the LSC this season, trailing only her own number of 23 kills set against Adams State earlier in the year.

In her best performance of the season, Macias put down a program record of 35 kills to help the Falcons overcome a 2-1 deficit and pull out a 3-2 home win over Eastern New Mexico University (Nov. 1). Macias' 35 kills broke the previous UTPB single-match record of 27 kills set by Amithy Henry vs. Texas A&M International University on September 13, 2007. In addition to breaking the program record, it was the most kills in a match in the LSC this season. Macias also finished the match against the Greyhounds hitting an awesome .456 percent on 57 swings, and added 16 digs for her seventh double-double of the season.

In the final two matches of the season, Macias recorded back-to-back doubles-doubles with 14 kills and 12 digs in a 3-0 win over Texas A&M International University (Nov. 14) and a match-high 19 kills with 14 digs in a 3-1 win over Texas A&M University-Kingsville (Nov. 15). She finished the season with five straight matches recording 12-plus digs.

Macias was named to the Kathleen Brasfield Invitational All-Tournament Team for her efforts during the first day of the season, was later named UTPB's Edgardo Madrid & Associates Women's Student-Athlete of the Month for October, and would appropriately be named the LSC Offensive Player of the Week after her record-breaking match against ENMU.

The UTPB volleyball team has had a Falcon named Second-Team All-LSC in each of the last four seasons.

UTPB finished its 2025 season 11-16 overall and 9-8 in the Lone Star Conference, and tied for ninth place in the conference standings. It was the second year in a row under Head Coach CJ Allard that the Falcons finished with nine wins in the LSC, and was the second consecutive season the Falcons finished above .500 in Lone Star Conference – the first time in program history they have accomplished that feat.

Overall, 47 student-athletes were honored by the all-conference program, which also included honorable mentions. The awards are voted on by the league's head coaches.