Former Cal setter Carli Lloyd, who was the 2010 AVCA Player of the Year and led the Golden Bears to their only two NCAA Final Four appearances in program history, was named the 2017 USA Volleyball Female Indoor Player of the Year on Friday.

Lloyd helped Team USA capture the bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics and was named team captain in 2017. She started 15 of the team's 26 matches this year and played in 68 total sets in helping the Americans finish 18-8 on the season.

Lloyd started all nine matches of the FIVB World Grand Prix preliminary round as the U.S. Women reached the FIVB World Grand Prix Finals Round with a young roster including just one other Olympian.

"Through our 2017 summer competitions, lineups, opponents and countries changed, but one thing stayed constant: Carli Lloyd," U.S. Women's National Team Head Coach Karch Kiraly said. "She led a new group through real adversity to a series of tough wins during World Grand Prix, battling the world's best. She faced even greater adversity with an injury in World Grand Champions Cup, yet from start to finish, Carli maintained a relentless devotion to making people around her better and helped USA to a strong start in the new Olympic quad."

Lloyd started both matches of the USA Volleyball Cup as Team USA split a pair of contests with Brazil as four additional Olympians returned to the court. She battled through injuries at the season-ending FIVB World Grand Champions Cup to help the Americans finish with the bronze.

"I feel thankful and extremely honored to receive this recognition," Lloyd said. "To be selected means that my efforts this summer positively affected my team and the USA program and this is a great focus of mine on a daily basis. I strive to bring the best version of myself each day with hopes that it can make those around me better as well. I love this sport, I love to compete and I still have goals that I am striving to reach with this USA team. Receiving this award shows me that I am on the right track and that there is more work to be done."

Lloyd was a three-time All-American at Cal, also helping the Bears reach the NCAA Elite Eight on two other occasions. She ranks second on Cal's all-time assists list and is seventh in blocks.

Following the FIVB World Grand Champions Cup, Lloyd opted out of her professional league contract and returned to the United States to have surgery on her injured shoulder. She was recently able to get back on the practice court and train at full speed.

"I am really invested in finding the best version of myself, both on and off of the court," Lloyd said. "These last few months out of competition have forced me to turn inwards and find new goals for when I am with a team again."