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SMU VOLLEYBALL VOLLEYBALL 2019 matcH NOTES 2015 & 2016 AMERICAN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS • 2015 NCAA FIRST ROUND • 2016 NCAA SECOND ROUND CONTACT: TRAVIS CHAMBLEE • PHONE: (214) 768-3735 • EMAIL: [email protected] THE MATCHUPS 2019 SCHEDULE AUG. 30-31, 2019 | SMU DOUBLETREE INVITATIONAL - MOODY COLISUEM | TEAMS: BRADLEY • UTSA • SFA RECORD 0-0 bradley THE AMERICAN 0-0 Hitting Pct. .204 NON-CONFERENCE 0-0 Opp. Hitting Pct. .166 HOME 0-0 Kills/Set 13.74 AWAY 0-0 Assists/Set 12.83 NEUTRAL 0-0 Aces/Set 1.35 Digs/Set 19.76 Blocks/Set 1.78 Date Opponent Time/Results SMU Head Coach Carol Price-Tarok SMU DoubleTree Invitational – Dallas, Texas Fri. Aug. 30 Bradley 12:30 p.m. MUSTANGS Fri. Aug. 30 UTSA 7:30 p.m. utsa Sat. Aug. 31 Stephen F. Austin 2 p.m. 0-0 | 0-0 AAC Hitting Pct. .222 Carolina Classic Volleyball Tournament - Conway, S.C. Opp. Hitting Pct. .200 Fri. Sept. 6 vs. East Tennessee State 11 a.m. 2018 TEAM STATS Kills/Set 13.92 Fri. Sept. 6 at Coastal Carolina 6 p.m. Hitting Pct. .183 Assists/Set 13.14 Sat. Sept. 7 vs. South Carolina State 10 a.m. Aces/Set 1.50 Opp. Hitting Pct. .199 Missouri State Invitational - Springfield, Mo. Kills/Set 13.20 Digs/Set 15.86 Fri. Sept. 13 vs. Dayton 10 a.m. Assists/Set 12.27 Blocks/Set 1.80 Fri. Sept. 13 at Missouri State 5 p.m. Aces/Set 0.93 Head Coach Laura Neugebauer-Groff Sat. Sept. 14 vs. Weber State 10 a.m. Digs/Set 17.75 Wed. Sept. 18 TCU 7 p.m. Blocks/Set 2.03 stephen f. austin Sat. Sept. 21 at Oklahoma 2 p.m. Head Coach Lisa Seifert Fri. Sept. 27 at Houston* 7 p.m. Hitting Pct. .239 Sun. Sept. 29 at Tulane* 1 p.m. Opp. Hitting Pct. .144 2018 LEADERS Fri. Oct. 4 Tulsa* 7 p.m. Kills/Set 13.17 Sun. Oct. 6 Wichita State* 1 p.m. Kills Brittany Adams 324 Assists/Set 12.14 Fri. Oct. 11 Memphis* 7 p.m. Assists Lily Heim 636 Aces/Set 1.52 Sun. Oct. 13 at USF* 12 p.m. Service Aces Kendall Patterson 23 Digs/Set 16.41 Fri. Oct. 18 Temple* 7 p.m. Digs Montana Watts 604 Blocks/Set 2.67 Sun. Oct. 20 Connecticut* 1 p.m. Blocks Meryn Kennedy 111 Head Coach Debbie Humphreys Fri. Oct. 25 at East Carolina* 6 p.m. Sun. Oct. 27 at Cincinnati* 11 a.m. ALL TIME SERIES | BRADLEY: 1ST MEETING; UTSA: SMU LEADS 8-4; SFA: SMU TRAILS 4-8 Fri. Nov. 1 at Memphis* 7 p.m. Sun. Nov. 3 UCF* 1 p.m. Fri. Nov. 8 at Wichita State* 7 p.m. KEY STORYLINES Sun. Nov. 10 at Tulsa* 1 p.m. Fri. Nov. 15 Tulane* 7 p.m. SMU IN OPENERS SCOUTING BRADLEY SCOUTING UTSA Sun. Nov. 17 Houston* 1 p.m. • The Mustangs are 13-10 all-time • The Braves went 24-9 last season, • The Roadrunners went 19-8 last in season-opening matches, and advancing to the second round of season, but lost three starters and American Athletic Conference Championship - Orlando, Fla. 16-7 in their home openers. When the NIVC at Iowa State. Hannah the libero from the 2018 roster. Fri. Nov. 22 Quarterfinals TBA starting the season in Moody Thompson is the top returning The three returning starters were Sat. Nov. 23 Semifinals TBA Coliseum, the win percentage attacker with 383 kills during her three of the top four attackers last Sun. Nov. 24 Championship TBA jumps to .750 with a 6-2 record. freshman season. Erica Haslag led season, including Kirby Smith, who Fri. Nov. 29 North Texas 2 p.m. SMU won its first home match in the team with 543 kills as a senior. led the team with 3.00 kills per set, four of the last six seasons. Bradley hit .204 as a team, while and Brianna McCulloch, who led Home matches in bold; *Conference match; All times CT. holding opponents to a .166 attack the team with 286 kills. SMU IN 2019 percentage. • The Mustangs return four of six SMU AGAINST SFA starters and the libero from last SMU AGAINST UTSA • 13th Meeting: The Mustangs are season. Montana Watts became • 13th Meeting: The Mustangs just 4-8 all-time against Stephen SOCIAL MEDIA just the second player in program are 8-4 against the Roadrunners, F. Austin, but won the last match in history with at least 600 digs in including a 4-1 record at home. the series, 3-0, on Aug. 28, 2010, in smumustangs.com multiple seasons. Meryn Kennedy SMU won the last meeting, a 3-1, Waco, Texas. smumustags.com/volleyball led the team with 111 blocks, and neutral-site victory in San Marcos, setters Lily Heim and Kendall Texas, on Sept. 8, 2017. SMU SCOUTING SFA smumustangs Patterson combined for 12.27 won four of the last six meeting • The Ladyjacks went 32-3 last smuvolleyball assists per set. in the series. The first match took season, including a stretch of 29 place on Aug. 30, 1997, with SMU straight wins to claim the Southland smumustangs SMU AGAINST BRADLEY winning 3-0 in Lubbock, Texas. Conference regular-season and smuvolleyball • SMU is facing Bradley for the first tournament championships. The time in program history. SMU is 4-1 streak ended with a loss at Texas smu.mustangs against teams from Illinois. The last in the NCAA Tournament. However, smuvolleyball match versus a team from Illinois the 2019 roster features just two was a 3-0 win against Eastern returning starters, and SFA has 11 smumustangs Illinois on Sept. 12, 2008. newcomers. 2019 SMU VOLLEYBALL • SMUMUSTANGS.COM • SMUVOLLEYBALL 1 SMU VOLLEYBALL BY THE NUMBERS Lisa Seifert has coached all 23 seasons of The age at which seniors Kendall Patterson SMU has six freshmen and seven the program’s existence. She has 397 wins and Montana Watts started playing newcomers on the 2019 roster. The at SMU, needing three wins to become volleyball together. They have been Mustangs also have five sophomores, with 397 the third head coach with 400 wins at 12 teammates ever since, and are both team 6 just three upperclassmen on the squad. SMU (Rhonda Rompola, WBB - 439; Carl captains this season. Neufeld, MTEN - 420). COACHING SPOTLIGHT THE SEIFERT FILE LISA SEIFERT • 11 All-America Selections • 17 All-Region Selections • 53 All-Conference Honors HEAD COACH • One Conference Player of the Year • Four Conference Position Players of the Year WINONA STATE, 1983 • One Conference Freshman of the Year 25TH SEASON • One CoSIDA Academic All-American of the Year • 80 Academic All-Conference Honors • Six AVCA Academic Team Awards • 2015 AVCA Region and American Athletic Conference Coach of the Year Lisa Seifert is the first and only volleyball coach in SMU history. Under • 2003 WAC Coach of the Year her tutelage, the Mustangs have moved into the national spotlight with team and individual regional and national rankings. She has coached • Member of the AVCA Coaches’ Poll Committee players to All-Conference honors 55 times and 10 All-America awards. • Member of the Northeast Regional Advisory Committee Mustang athletes have not only excelled on the court under Seifert, but • Former Member of the NCAA West Committee also in the classroom, where 80 student-athletes have been awarded • Served as the Mid-West Region Awards Chair Academic All-Conference honors. • 25 players Nationally-Ranked in the Top-50 since 2000 • All-Region Team Selection Committee She led the Mustangs to the American Athletic Conference championship in 2015 with a 17-3 mark and a program-record 27 wins • All-America Selection Committee overall with six losses. Avery Acker was named conference Player and • 2008 Freshman Recruiting Class Ranked 46th Setter of the Year, as the Mustangs set a school record, hitting .245 By PrepVolleyball.com as a team. Three players earned All-America status, with five being • 2010 Inductee into the St. Francis High School named to the all-conference team. Seifert won her second conference Hall of Fame Coach of the Year honor, and was named region Coach of the Year. Mustangs were forced to rely heavily on All-Freshman outside hitter • Elected in 2013 by her peers to serve as the President of Kathryn Wilkerson and senior co-captain Caitlin Rainbird, finishing the League Coaches for the newly-formed American SMU won a second straight American Athletic Conference with a 16-15 overall record. Athletic Conference championship in 2016, winning a program-record 18 conference matches with two losses. The Mustangs went 25-7 overall during the The 2009 season saw a Seifert-led squad produce a 19-12 record regular season, advancing to the NCAA Tournament for a second behind the program’s first All-American Honorable Mentions in SEASON RESULTS consecutive season. Five players earned all-conference awards with sophomore Dana Powell and senior Kendra Kahanek. As a whole, Morgan Heise being named Libero of the Year for a third straight the Mustangs’ defense set a SMU single-season record with 317.5 YEAR OVERALL CONF season. Kendall Patterson was named conference Freshman of blocks in just 121 games, while holding its opponents to 223.5 team 1996 7-24 3-13 the Year. blocks. The Mustangs were particularly tough at home winning 12 of 1997 15-19 5-9 14 games in Moody Coliseum. SMU advanced to the postseason for a third straight year, finishing 21- 1998 14-17 5-9 11 in 2017. It was a fifth consecutive 20-win season for the Mustangs, Seifert led the Mustangs to 25 wins in 2010, a school record at the 1999 20-13 9-5 who had four players earn all-conference awards.