Add another national honor to the resume of UCLA middle attacker Cameron Thorne.
Off the Block announced Wednesday that a nationwide voting committee selected Thorne as the winner of the 2025 Ryan Millar Award.
The Ryan Millar Award, which is named after the former BYU All-American and U.S. Olympian, is presented to the nation’s best middle attacker in NCAA Division I-II men’s volleyball during the regular season.
Thorne finished with a .521 attack percentage and had double-digit kills in six matches, including a season-high 17 kills on an .842 attack percentage in a regular season win against UC Irvine. The middle attacker also was in the nation’s top 15 with a 1.10 blocks per game average to help UCLA advance to the NCAA Tournament finals.
The voting committee for the Ryan Millar Award was comprised of more than 25 college men’s volleyball head coaches and volleyball reporters from around the nation. The top four vote-getters were named finalists for the Ryan Millar Award.
Thorne earned 44 votes – double the votes of runner-up Loyola middle attacker Nicodemus Meyer. Lincoln Memorial middle attacker Matthew Gentry finished in third place with 21 votes, while USC middle attacker ended in fourth place with 20 votes.
This is the 10th year that Off the Block has presented the Ryan Millar Award.
Off the Block is a national award winning website that launched in 2011 and is the nation’s leader in college men’s volleyball coverage.
2025 Ryan Millar Award voting results
1. Cameron Thorne, UCLA – 44 votes
2. Nicodemus Meyer, Loyola – 22 votes
3. Matthew Gentry, Lincoln Memorial – 21 votes
4. Parker Tomkinson, USC – 20 votes
5. DiAeris McRaven, Long Beach State – 5 votes
6. Stilian Delibosov, CSUN – 3 votes
7. D’Aaron McCraney, McKendree – 2 votes
8. Relja Milosavljevic, Quincy – 1 vote