Central Washington University Athletics

2023: First ever Wildcat and junior to win the Cliff Harris Award... Harlon Hill finalist... CCA Ron Lenz National Defensive Player of the Year... Don Hansen National Defensive Player of the Year... D2Football.com National Defensive Player of the Year...1st Team All-American for the AFCA, AP, D2CCA, D2Football.com, and Don Hansen Football Gazette... D2CCA Super Region 4 Defensive Player of the Year... D2CCA and Don Hansen Football Gazette All-West Region 1st Team... J.V. Sikes Lone Star Conference Defensive Player of the Year... D2Football.com Elite 100... First Team All-LSC... AFCA Allstate Good Hands Team Nominee... Led the entire NCAA and tied a CWU single-season record for interceptions with 13... Led all of NCAA Division II and finished 3rd in CWU single-season history with 124 tackles... Had 64 solo tackles for 10th-most in CWU single season history... Had 60 assisted tackles for the 2nd-most in CWU single season history... 17 passes defensed was 3rd-most in CWU single season history... Led the team in tackles, total, solo, and assisted, in interceptions, and in pass breakups... Started all 13 games... Finished with 124 tackles: 64 solo, 60 assisted... Had 7 games with 10 or more tackles, career-high 14 tackles happened twice: at Midwestern State and at Texas A&M-Kingsville... Had 8.5 tackles for loss for a loss of 14 yards, 2 came at TAMUK... Forced 1 fumble at TAMUK... Recovered 1 fumble at #1 Colorado School of Mines in the NCAA Division II Playoffs... Had 13 interceptions with 4 games of 2 interceptions... Had 182 interception return yards with 1 return touchdown coming against #9 Angelo State... Had 4 pass breakups with 2 coming against Montana Tech.

2022: First Team Defense All-LSC... appeared in all 10 games and started seven... accumulated 69 total tackles, 43 solo, 26 assisted... had two tackles for loss for seven yards with 1.5 TFL's coming against #20 Texas A&M-Kingsville... had two interceptions, one each against Western New Mexico and Midwestern State... had eight pass breakups... had one fumble recovery against Texas Permian Basin.

2021: Turned in a strong freshman season, eventually settling in as the starter at free safety in Week 4 against Angelo State … finished fourth on the team with 50 total tackles, and second with three interceptions … collected a season-high eight tackles in playoff game at Northwest Missouri State … had seven tackles against Angelo State in his first career start … picked off passes against Midwestern State, Western Oregon (home), and Simon Fraser (home) … also broke up two passes.

High School: 2021 graduate of Aloha High School in Aloha, Ore. … played for his father, Bill Volk, at Aloha … All-State selection as a senior … three-time all-metro selection at wide receiver and twice an all-metro pick at defensive back … KOIN 6 News Athlete of the Year … four-time selection to the all-metro academic team.
 
Personal: Son of Bill and Kristin Volk … father played football at Western Oregon and is a member of the school’s athletic Hall of Fame … plans to major in Business.