With his team having recently clinched its second straight Great Northwest Athletic Conference title, Alaska Anchorage volleyball coach Chris Green has added a pair of top 2017 prep recruits in the early signing period, inking Casey Davenport and Jalisa Ingram to national letters of intent.

Davenport, a 5-foot-6 setter, will come to UAA from Auburn, where she helped Auburn Mountainview to a 16-8 record, a second-place finish in the North Puget Sound League Olympic Division and a fifth-place performance at the 4A atate tournament this year. She averaged 9.6 assists and 1.0 kills per set as a senior, and 8.8 assists and 2.0 digs per set as a junior in 2015, when she led the Lions to a 14-4 mark.

“Casey is a talented setter with very good hands,” said Green, whose teams have gone 54-5 over the past two seasons. “Along with (current freshman) Madison Fisher, she will help to fill the big void left by the graduation of Morgan Hooe. She is a relatively smaller setter but with a solid vertical jump.”

Ingram, a 6-2 middle blocker/right-side hitter, earned All-Grand Canyon Conference first-team honors at Coconino High School in Flagstaff, Ariz., as a senior this year, leading her team to an 11-6 mark and its third straight 4A state tournament berth. The four-year letter-winner ranked ninth in the GCC with 148 total blocks in 2016.

“With the departure of (senior) Erin Braun, we wanted to recruit a big middle, and Jalisa has the size to help match up with some of the bigger middles that the GNAC has currently,” Green said. “With hard work, we think Jalisa has the ability to make a big impact on our program as a middle blocker or perhaps on the right side.”

Both signees play for established club programs, with Davenport suiting up for the Kent Juniors and Ingram with Revolution Volleyball Academy.