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Loyola Greyhounds Volleyball Contact: Ryan Eigenbrode • (410) 617-2337, p • (443) 622-0550, c [email protected] • www.LoyolaGreyhounds.com @LoyolaVB • @LoyolaHounds • facebook.com/LoyolaHounds 2018 Schedule Loyola Greyhounds at Charm City Challenge Day Date Opponent Time/Result Baltimore, Md. | Reitz Arena August Fri. 30 ^ vs. Furman W, 3-2 Canisius | Friday, September 13, 2019 | 12:30 p.m. Fri. 30 ^ vs. Coastal Carolina L, 3-0 Charlotte | Friday, September 13, 2019 | 7:00 p.m. Sat. 31 ^ Virginia L, 3-0 September UMBC | Saturday, September 14, 2019 | 2:00 p.m. Fri. 6 # Loyola Chicago L, 3-2 Fri. 6 # vs. Western Michigan L, 3-2 The Teams Sat. 7 # vs. Montana State L, 3-1 Tues. 10 Howard W, 3-2 Loyola University Maryland Canisius University Fri. 13 % Canisius 12:30 p.m. Overall Record 2-5 Overall Record 2-4 Fri. 13 % Charlotte 7:00 p.m. Sat. 14 % UMBC 2:00 p.m. Patriot League Record 0-0 MAAC Record 0-0 Tues. 17 Coppin State 7:00 p.m. Fri. 20 & Towson 7:00 p.m. UNC Charlotte UMBC Sat. 21 & vs. New Hampshire 10:00 a.m. Overall Record 4-4 Overall Record 2-4 Sun. 22 & vs. NJIT 3:30 p.m. Fri. 27 * Holy Cross 6:00 p.m. Conference USA Record 0-0 America East Record 0-0 Sat. 28 * Colgate 4:00 p.m. October Quick Hits About The ’Hounds Fri. 4 * Bucknell 7:00 p.m. Sat. 5 * Lafayette 3:00 p.m. Home Schedule Opens With Charm City Challenge Fri. 11 * Navy 7:00 p.m. • Loyola opens its home schedule this weekend when it hosts the Charm City Challenge Sat. 15 * Lehigh 7:00 p.m. Fri. 18 * Army West Point 7:00 p.m. presented by Residence Inn Owings Mills. The Greyhounds will host six games in the Tues. 22 * American 7:00 p.m. event, competing against Canisius College, UNC Charlotte and UMBC on Friday and Fri. 25 * Colgate 7:00 p.m. Saturday. Sat. 26 *$ Holy Cross 4:00 p.m. • The Greyhounds take on Canisius on Friday at 12:30 p.m., followed by a 7 p.m. game November that night against Charlotte. They wrap-up the tournament Saturday with a 2 p.m. Fr. 1 * Lafayette 7:00 p.m. outing against UMBC. Sat. 2 * Bucknell 4:00 p.m. • In other matches, Charlotte will take on UMBC at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, and the Retriev- Wed. 6 * American 7:00 p.m. ers will then play Canisius that evening at 5 o’clock. Charlotte and Canisius square off Sun. 10 * Navy 4:00 p.m. Tues. 12 * Lehigh 7:00 p.m. at 12 noon on Saturday. Sat. 16 * Army West Point 2:00 p.m. • All six matches in the tournament will be broadcast live on the Patriot League Net- Tues. 19 ! Patriot League Quarterfinals TBA work. Sat. 23 ! Patriot League Semifinals TBA Sun. 24 ! Patriot League Championship TBA Last Time Out Schedule subject to change; times listed as Eastern; home matches played at Reitz Arena; * - Patriot League match; ^ - Cavalier Classic (Charlottes- • Loyola took a 13-9 lead in the fifth set Tuesday night at Howard, and the Greyhounds ville, Va.); # - Rambler Challenge (Chicago, Ill.); % - Charm City Challenge (at Loyola.); & - Tiger Invitational (Friday at Loyola; Saturday/Sunday at parlayed the cushion into a 16-14 vicotry in the deciding game to beat the preseason Towson);$ – match played at Johns Hopkins University; ! - Patriot League MEAC North Division favorite, 25-17, 25-22, 20-25, 23-25, 16-14, in Washington, D.C. Championships (quarterfinal at higher seed; regular-season champion hosts semifinals and championship) • Mackenzie Fedota and Ann Ernst put up a block for the Greyhounds (2-5 overall), turning back Howard’s Kailyn Williams to make it 13-9, but the Bison (2-6) scored Next Up three-consecutive points to draw within one on a kill by Jurnee Tipton. Loyola sided out on a Howard service error, setting up match-point for the Greyhounds, but a Kira Coppin State Eagles Porter kill and a Loyola hitting miscue tied the set at 14-14. The Greyhounds again Baltimore, Maryland | Reitz Arena sided out with a Bison service error, and a bad set by Howard decided the match point Tuesday, September 17 | 7:00 p.m. in Loyola’s favor. • Ernst finished with a team-high 17 kills to go with four total blocks, and Cat Vaccaro Loyola Leaders posted nine kills. Molly Jarvis put away seven kills and had a match-high seven blocks. Kills/Set Ann Ernst 3.87 Career-High To Start Hitting % Molly Jarvis .296 • Ann Ernst came out of the gates with a strong performance for the Greyhounds against Furman in the first match of 2019. She posted a career-best 26 kills against the Assists/Set Ashley Dwyer 6.87 Paladins to top her previous best of 24 she put away against Akron her freshman year. Aces/Set Abby Hamilton 0.37 • Against Montana State, Ernst became the first Loyola player to reach 1,200 career kills Digs/Set Katie Forsythe 5.07 since the NCAA transitioned to 25-point rally scoring. This year, she is averaging 3.87 kills per set, a career-high number. Blocks/Set Adara Kellogg 0.71 • Over her last 16 matches of 2018, dating back to the Howard contest on September 25, 2019 Loyola Greyhounds Roster No. Name Cl. Pos. Ht. Hometown/High School 1 Sydney Wilcenski Jr. MB 6-2 Warren, N.J./Watchung Hills 2 Abby Hamilton So. OH 5-11 Colgate, Wis./Hartford Union 3 Clarke Dalton Jr. MB 5-10 Chicago, Ill./Kenwood Academy 4 Corinne Filograna So. DS 5-6 Collegeville, Pa./Mount Saint Joseph 5 Alaina Acchione Jr. S 5-5 Phoenixville, Pa./Villa Maria 6 Ann Ernst Sr. OH 5-9 Chicago, Ill./Whitney Young 7 Mary Grace Wilson Fr. DS 5-7 Arlington, Va./Yorktown 8 Ashley Dwyer Fr. S 5-9 Medina, Ohio/Medina 9 Adara Kellogg Fr. MB 6-3 Inver Grove Heights, Minn./Simley 10 Cat Vaccaro So. RS 5-11 Arlington, Va./Yorktown 11 Molly Jarvis Sr. MB 6-1 Mechanicsville, Va./Atlee 12 Megan Bukala Fr. OH 5-10 Leesburg, Va./Loudon County 13 Alex Fisher Jr. S 5-6 Queen Creek, Ariz./Basha/Central Florida 15 Mackenzie Fedota Jr. MB 6-1 Portland, Ore./St. Mary’s Academy 16 Cecylia Guye Fr. MB 6-2 Fairview Park, Ohio/St. Joseph Academy 17 Alexia Austin Fr. OH 6-0 Westborough, Mass./Westborough 18 Katie Forsythe So. L 5-7 Perry, Ohio/Gilmour Academy Pronunciation Guide Sydney Wilcenski . wil-SIN-ski Megan Bukala . boo-CAHL-uh Corinne Filograna . PHIL-oh-grah-nah Mackenzie Fedota. .fuh-DOUGH-tuh Alaina Acchione . AH-key-own Cecylia Guye . suh-SEAL-ee-uh GUY Ann Ernst . UHRNST Katie Forsythe . FOUR-cyth Adara Kellogg . uh-DARR-uh Alija Pittenger . AH-lee-uh PITT-en-jerr Cat Vaccaro . vuh-CARE-oh Eric Arriaga. .ARE-ee-ah-guh Molly Jarvis. JAR-viss Alija Pittnger | 4th Season | Michigan ’01 | Pronounced: ah-LEE-uh PITT-en-jerr • Alija Pittenger was named the head coach of the Loyola University Maryland volleyball program on January 26, 2015, and is in her fifth season with the Greyhounds. • Prior to coming to Loyola, Pittenger was the head coach at Fairfield University from 2008- 13 and after moving to the Baltimore area, she was an assistant coach at nearby Towson University in 2014. • She is a three-time conference coach of the year, earning the Patriot League recognition in 2018 at Loyola and the 2011 and 2012 MAAC honor at Fairfield. • In her 11 years as a head coach, Pittenger has amassed a 154-160 overall record and has reached the postseason seven times. • She guided Fairfield to four Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference regular-season champion- ships (2008, 2009, 2012 and 2013) and reached the MAAC Championships in all six of her seasons in Connecticut. • Pittenger and the Stags won the MAAC Championships in 2012 and 2013 to advance to the NCAA Championships. • She started her coaching career at the University of Southern Indiana in 2002, helping the Screaming Eagles to the NCAA Division II Championships Second Round. Pittenger then spent 2003-07 as an assistant at the University of Pittsburgh and was a part of two NCAA tournament coaching staffs for the Panthers. Ernst put away 250 kills for an average of 3.79 per set. She also Looking Back averaged 2.82 digs during that frame. • The Greyhounds had their most successful season since joining • Ernst led the Patriot League in kills per set last season (3.58), the Patriot League in 2018, finishing in a tie for third in the confer- and her .192 hitting percentage was more than 40 points higher ence and reaching the four-team Patriot League Championships than her .148 career mark. Heading into the season, Ernst had hit for the first time since joining the league in 2013. .125 in her first two campaigns, but last year, she swung at a .192 • Overall, Loyola went 14-16 during the year and 9-7 in Patriot clip while having a career-low number of errors to go with a ca- League action. reer-high number of attack attempts. • Over the course of her three-plus seasons – Ernst has played in Records In The Rear-View Mirror 93 career matches – she has recorded 10 or more kills 68 times • During the first weekend of November 2018, Katie Forsythe set a (73.1 percent of the time), 15 or more kills 39 times (41.9) and 20 pair of single-season digs records, rewriting history at both the or more 11 times (11.8).