Amarillo College freshmen Delany Galligan and Emery Bryan proved unstoppable on a frequent basis across 14 Western Junior College Athletic Conference matchups.
Argyle High School alum, Galligan, set the Amarillo College school record for hitting percentage in a season (.296) and ended the 2025 campaign with the second-highest kill total (332) in team history.
Bryan, a Poolville native, played her best ball during the most challenging stretch of the season. The 5-foot-10 middle blocker led AC in hitting percentage (.257) against conference opponents and tied for the second-highest block total (32) on the team.
The freshmen roommates, who grew up less than an hour apart in the Fort Worth area, are now the first rookies in team history to earn first-team WJCAC honors, as announced by the league earlier this week.
Galligan recorded a double-digit kill total in nine of AC’s 14 conference matches. The 5-foot-9 outside hitter had a season-high 22 kills – the second-highest single-game total in team history – during a five-set match at Clarendon College, Oct. 11.
Across 29 games, Galligan ended eight matches with a hitting percentage over .400 and 18 matches with a clip over .300.
The Argyle native nabbed a pair of WJCAC Player of the Week honors during her first two weeks in Badger blue. Galligan accumulated 105 kills via a .381 hitting percentage over AC’s first nine matches of the season, marking the most efficient offensive start to a career in team history.
Bryan earned the WJCAC Offensive Player of the Week honor after the Badgers’ historic upset of No. 15 Frank Phillips College on the road – a victory that marked AC’s first ranked road win since the reboot of athletics at Amarillo College in 2022.
During the final 10 games of the season, the Poolville High School product recorded a hitting percentage over .400 in five matches and added a team-best .308 clip during Sophomore Day versus the 11th-ranked Plainsmen.
Bryan’s hitting percentage (.244) over 28 games is the third-best mark in team history – only behind Galligan and Jaelynn Jackson’s sophomore clip (.259).
The freshmen duo of Galligan and Bryan accounted for 40.5% of the team’s kills this past fall.
