NCAA Girls
October 16, 2024
SMU, coming off its upset of No. 1 Pittsburgh, continues its gauntlet of an ACC schedule by enjoying host to Stanford on Wednesday.
SMU is one in every of a handful of ranked NCAA Division I groups in motion on a day with simply 17 matches.
This version of Volleyball Right now contains Tuesday’s outcomes, information that Hawai’i is leaving the Huge West for the Mountain West and our weekly replace of USA gamers in professional leagues overseas.
NCAA volleyball report
WEDNESDAY: SMU (13-4, 5-1), which moved as much as No. 9 on this week’s VolleyballMag Tremendous 16 Media Ballot, is coming off back-to-back matches with Pitt and now entertains No. 5 Stanford (13-2, 5-1). It’s their first ACC assembly as new members of the convention. Within the different ACC match, AVCA No. 17 Georgia Tech (11-4, 3-3) is house for Clemson (8-9, 0-6), which is tied with Syracuse for final place. Idle Louisville (14-2, 6-0) is the one group left unbeaten in ACC play.
The SEC’s two matches have No. 16 Kentucky (9-7, 2-3) at Tennessee (9-6, 2-3) and AVCA No. 25 Auburn (14-2, 4-1) at Alabama (9-7, 1-4).
There are two Huge Ten matches when Indiana (9-7, 2-4) goes to Illinois (11-5, 3-3) and Iowa (9-9, 3-3) is at Northwestern (3-11, 1-5).
The Huge 12 has 5 matches. No. 13 Arizona State (16-2, 5-1) is house for Houston (8-7, 3-2), No. 18 TCU (12-4, 4-2) is at Texas Tech (9-8, 1-4), No. 24 BYU (10-6, 3-3) is at Iowa State (8-7, 2-2), Colorado (9-8, 2-3) is at Arizona (12-4, 1-4) and UCF (8-6, 1-4) goes to West Virginia (6-11, 0-6).
The highest two groups within the American Athletic Convention sq. off when Rice (11-4, 6-0) performs at South Florida (10-7, 6-0).
Winless watch: 0-19 Hampton of the CAA provides it one other strive when the Pirates play host to Norfolk State of the MEAC.
TUESDAY: There have been 5 matches, together with Nevada’s five-set Mountain West victory over visiting Utah State. Gabby McLaughlin, a 5-foot-8 freshman outdoors, led the Wolf Pack with 21 kills, an help, 9 digs and two blocks, one solo, and three of her group’s 12 aces. Kinsley Singleton had six of these aces …
FGCU swept visiting Stetson within the ASUN behind 18 kills from Skylar English, who had no errors in 36 assaults to hit .500 and added an help, three of her group’s 9 aces, eight digs and two blocks. It marked victory No. 250 for coach Matt Botsford …
Charleston Southern swept visiting Presbyterian for its first Huge South victory of the yr. One other Skylar, Skylar Yates, led with 12 kills, an help, three aces, six digs and two blocks, one solo … LIU of the NEC swept at Saint Peter’s of the MAAC as Bella Correia had 10 kills with one error in 21 assaults, 4 digs and two blocks … and Japanese Illinois held off visiting SIUE in 4 of their Ohio Valley Convention match as Future Walker had 20 kills, an help, an ace, two blocks and 12 digs. Laura Paniagua had 22 digs, an help and an ace and Eire Hieb had seven blocks, one solo, to go together with 10 kills whereas hitting .353.
NCAA volleyball stat leaders
Here’s a random have a look at the numbers.
Arissa Smith of Mississippi State leads the nation in hitting share (.497), forward of Tennessee’s Keondreya Granberry (.487) and San Diego State’s Shea Rubright (.487).
TCU’s Melanie Parra leads in kills per set (5.22), adopted by Evansville’s Guila Cardona (5.17) and Caylen Alexander of Hawai’i (4.98). Cardona, nevertheless, leads in complete kills with 362, adopted by Binghamton’s Tsvetelina Ilieva (352) and Alexander (324).
Boston Faculty’s Juia Haggerty has an enormous lead in blocks per set (2.06), adopted by Purdue’s Raven Colvin (1.71) and Marianna Singletary of Texas (1.62). Haggerty additionally leads in complete blocks (130, 27 solo). Western Kentucky’s Izzy Van De Wiele is subsequent with 100, 14 solo, and Colvin is third at 106, 17 solo.
Drake’s Jada Willis leads in digs per set (6.60), adopted by Valparaiso” Emma Hickey (5.93) and Georgia Southern’s Ashlyn Lovett (5.76). Hickey has essentially the most digs (439), Wills is subsequent (429) and Oakland’s Emily Wichmann is third (383).
Maryland’s Samantha Schnitta leads with 53 aces, adopted by Mercer’s Brooke Phillips (49) and Missouri’s Jordan Iliff and FDU’s Hannah Schmidt (46 every).
A fast run by group stats reveals Pittsburgh main in hitting share (.343), Penn State in kills per set (14.88), Idaho State in blocks per set (3.14) and Saint Francis in aces per set (2.66).
Essentially the most kills in a match this season had been 42 by Nina Cajic, who did in a four-set win for Tennessee towards Western Michigan. Alexander of Hawai’i had 38 in a five-set win over Texas State. Essentially the most kills in a sweep had been 25, by Binghamton’s Ilieva towards New Hampshire and South Dakota State’s Sylvie Zgonc towards Florida A&M.
The one-match blocks chief is Cal’s Ellie Hamm, who had 17, three solo, in a five-set win over Syracuse. Marci Bell of Idaho State had 14, two solo, in a four-set win over CSUN, and essentially the most in a sweep was by Minnesota’s Phoebe Woleye, who had 14, one solo, in a win over Maryland.
Hawai’i headed to Mountain West
Hawai’i’ll go away the Huge West in 2026 to develop into a full member of the Mountain West. Hawaii has been an MWC football-only member since 2012.
As Spectrum Information reported, “It’s to be decided what occurs to 4 UH sports activities the Mountain West doesn’t sponsor: males’s volleyball, ladies’s water polo, seashore volleyball and males’s swimming and diving. If UH can’t stay within the Huge West as an affiliate member in these sports activities at a value of $25,000 per sport per yr, it is going to look to put them within the Mountain Pacific Sports activities Federation, (Hawai’i athletic director Craig) Angelos mentioned.”
USA gamers worldwide replace
Avery Skinner had a whopping 24 kills, hitting .391, and was named MVP as she powered Chieri to a sweep of Cuneo in Italy. USA nationwide mate Ashley Evans had a kill and set Bergamo to a 4 set win over Busto Arsizio. Additionally in Italy, Lindsey Ruddins had seven kills and two blocks as Scandicci swept city-rival Firenze …
In Japan, Stephanie Samedy and Hisamitsu Springs started their season with two wins over Kurobe. Samedy had 13 kills and two blocks in a sweep after which had 28 kills and two aces in a five-set win. Kash Williams and PFU Blue Cats opened the Japanese league season with a sequence break up towards Himeji. Williams had eight kills and two blocks within the first match when PFU gained in 5 units after which had six kills and a block in a three-set loss. Brionne Butler and Mac Could marked their Japanese league debut with two wins for Astemo Rivale Ibaraki over Gunma Inexperienced Wings. Brionne Butler had 13 kills (.722) and three blocks in her debut. Could added 11 kills. Within the second match, Could had 19 kills and an ace in a four-set win. Butler added 4 kills and two blocks …
In Türkiye, Kendall Kipp had two kills and a block as VakifBank survived Kuzeyboru in 5 units. Annie Mitchem had 5 kills and two aces as Aras Kargo was swept by Galatasaray and Yaasmeen Bedart-Ghani led Sigorta Store with 14 kills and a block in a three-set loss to Bahcelievler. Micaya White had seven kills and a block. Julia Sangiacomo added 5 kills and two blocks as an alternative to Sigorta Store …
In Brazil, Jenna Grey and Minas gained one other trophy by claiming the Brazilian Tremendous Cup with a sweep over rival Praia Clube …
In Germany, Serena Bruin had a match-high 4 blocks and added 5 kills as Aachen swept Munster. Teammate Cara McKenzie added 4 kills and a match-high 4 aces. Setter Jenna Ewert was named MVP as Potsdam swept Erfurt. Ewert had 4 kills, three aces and a block. Danielle Harbin had eight kills, three aces, and one block. Eleanor Holthaus had eight kills, one block, and an ace. Sabrina Starks rounded out the American scorers with 4 kills, three blocks, and two aces. Kira Thomsen had 12 kills for Erfurt. Jaelyn Keene had 5 kills and an ace as Schwerin swept Suhl. And Emma Clothier had 4 kills and two blocks as Dresdner gained a back-and-forth four-set encounter with Wiesbaden. Rachel Anderson-Gomez completed with 9 kills and two blocks for Wiesbaden …
In France, Breana Runnels had eight kills and a block and Bella Bergmark had 5 kills and 4 blocks as Nancy swept Cannes. Lauren Matthews led Cannes with 12 kills, two aces and one block. Morgahn Fingall’s Volero Le Cannet group misplaced in 5 to Paris SC, however she had 28 kills, hit .328, and had three blocks and an ace. Michigan State alum and Canadian nationwide group member Jaz White was named MVP for Paris after having 11 kills (.579), three blocks and two aces. Lexi Hadrych picked up one other MVP award as TFOC beat Chamalieres in 4 units. Hadrych had 11 kills (.529), a block and an ace. Karson Bacon added 4 kills and two blocks. Akuabata Okenwa led Chamalieres with 15 kills (.538) and an ace. Haylie Bennett was named MVP as Nantes swept Quimper. Bennett had 14 kills (.481), three blocks and an ace.
