M-Club 2025: Regina Thomas

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🗓️ 2 November 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Regina Thomas is a member of the 2025 M-Club Hall of Fame class. Thomas was strong presence on and off the field for Ole Miss during her college career from 2008-11. Thomas became the first Ole Miss volleyball athlete to be recognized as an All-American by the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA), earning third team honors in 2010 and honorable mention in 2011. She was the first Rebel to be selected All-South Region twice (2010-11) by the AVCA. A three-time All-SEC honoree, Thomas currently ranks third in the record book for career attack percentage rally scoring (Min. 1,500 attempts) at .340 and third in a match in rally scoring (play to 25) at .682. Thomas was nominated as a candidate for the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award in 2011 due to her notable achievements in the community and classroom. Thomas, a two-time team captain, was on the SEC Academic Honor Roll all four years while at Ole Miss. Following her Ole Miss career, Thomas played professional volleyball in the Swedish Elitserien Division, the top-tier volleyball league in Sweden. The 2025 M-Club Hall of Fame induction ceremony is November 13, two days prior to Ole Miss hosting Florida in football. For tickets, head to OleMissAlumni.com and go to the events page. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	Welcome into another edition of our M Club 2025 and Duck T interviews.
0:15.0	And today, Regina Thomas from Ole Miss Volleyball, first of our Old Miss, All-American in volleyball as well.
0:22.2	Can't share a career a little more than a decade ago now. Regina, you're in the middle of
0:26.2	moving, got a lot going on personally. But hey, good to talk to you, good to connect with you.
0:31.1	And it's going to be an awesome time here in a couple weeks now. Wow, just a couple of weeks,
0:35.7	November 13th at the end of Ole Miss,
0:37.8	Ole Miss alumni.com is where you will find those tickets if you would like to come join
0:42.6	great group and inductees, including Regina.
0:45.2	Let's start off here really easily.
0:47.5	How did you kind of find out about this honor?
0:49.7	Who called you?
0:50.4	Take me through the process of how you heard about it?
0:53.3	Actually, last year when we were in Ole Miss, at Ole Miss for the alumni weekend,
0:59.8	we had heard about the Hall of Fame ceremony also going on.
1:03.0	And so one of my teammates and I were talking about that, she had mentioned like,
1:07.3	oh, it would be great if you were inducted.
1:09.5	And I'm like, girl, what is that
1:10.9	product even like? I love her to death. And I'm so grateful for her, Caitlin Weiss. She is the one
1:16.9	who got the ball rolling with all of that. So I knew that there was a possibility that I could be
1:21.5	inducted. But to actually be inducted, it's still, or chosen to be inducted, it still kind of
1:27.4	took me off guard. I had just left work, and I was in the parking lot, heading to my car, and I received a miss call from Jessica. She got the voice message telling me to give her a call back. And normally I would wait until I'm home and settled. I was like, you know, I want to hear this move in a calmer environment, but I was like, I need to know now. So I called her as I'm walking to my car
1:48.5	after work and she shared the news with me. I'm in the middle of the parking lot at work,
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