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2014 Stanford Women’s Volleyball Athletics Communications • Arrillaga Family Sports Center • 641 Campus Drive • Stanford, CA • 94305 • GoStanford.com Women’s Volleyball Contact • Regina Verlengiere • o. 650.723.0996 • c. 805.478.4198 • [email protected] Facebook: Stanford Women’s Volleyball • Twitter: @StanfordWVB • Instagram: @stanfordwvb 2014 Schedule AVCA Showcase Opens Season Overall Record: 0-0 Pac-12 Record: 0-0 No. 3 Stanford battles Iowa State and No. 7 Nebraska on the road Date Opponent Location Result/ PT 8/29 Iowa State Ames, IA 5 p.m.# 8/31 #7 Nebraska Lincoln, NE 10 a.m.% THIS WEEK: The third-ranked Stanford women’s volleyball team will 9/5 Penn State Stanford, CA 6 p.m.# participate in the AVCA Showcase to open the 2014 campaign. The Car- 9/7 Illinois Stanford, CA 11 a.m.# 9/12 Duke Stanford, CA 7 p.m. dinal travels to Iowa State on Friday, Aug. 29 before taking on No. 7 9/13 Penn Stanford, CA 11 a.m. Nebraska in Lincoln on Sunday, Aug. 31. 9/13 Santa Clara Stanford, CA 7 p.m. 9/18 San Diego San Diego, CA 7:30 p.m. 9/19 Eastern Washington San Diego, CA 5 p.m. CATCH THE CARDINAL: Live stats for the match can be found on the 9/20 Cal State Northridge San Diego, CA 11 a.m. women’s volleyball schedule page on GoStanford.com. Friday’s match 9/23 California* Stanford, CA 6 p.m.# 9/26 Washington State* Stanford, CA 7 p.m. will be televised on Pac-12 Bay Area, while Sunday’s match can be seen 10/3 Oregon* Stanford, CA 7 p.m.$ on the Big Ten Network. 10/4 Oregon State* Stanford, CA 7 p.m. 10/10 Arizona* Tucson, AZ 8 p.m.# 10/12 Arizona State* Tempe, AZ 11 a.m.# SOCIAL MEDIA: 10/17 Colorado* Boulder, CO 6 p.m.# 10/19 Utah* Salt Lake City, UT 1 p.m.# Facebook.com/StanfordWVB 10/24 UCLA* Stanford, CA 6 p.m.# Twitter (@StanfordWVB) 10/26 USC* Stanford, CA 5 p.m.# Instagram (@stanfordwvb) 10/31 Oregon State* Corvallis, OR 6 p.m.# 11/2 Oregon* Eugene, OR 11 a.m.# 11/5 Arizona State* Stanford, CA TBA# STARTING FIVE: Stanford’s first five matches of the year are against op- 11/7 Arizona* Stanford, CA 7:30 p.m.# 11/12 USC* Los Angeles, CA 7:30 p.m.# ponents who appeared in last year’s NCAA Tournament, including 2013 11/13 UCLA* Los Angeles, CA 7 p.m.# champion Penn State at home on Friday, Sept. 5. Four of the five are 11/21 Utah* Stanford, CA TBA# ranked in the top 25 of the AVCA preseason poll (No. 1 Penn State, No. 7 11/22 Colorado* Stanford, CA 7 p.m. 11/26 Washington* Seattle, WA TBA# Nebraska, No. 11 Illinois and No. 21 Duke), while Iowa State is receiving 11/28 California* Berkeley, CA TBA# votes. 12/5-6 NCAA First & Second Rounds 12/12-13 NCAA Regionals 12/18&20 NCAA Final Four Oklahoma City, OK *Pac-12 conference match 2014 Stanford Volleyball Roster Bold indicates home match played at Maples Pavilion No Name Pos Ht Yr Hometown (High School) #Pac-12 Networks | %Big Ten Network | $ESPNU 2 Sarah Benjamin DS 5-8 FR San Diego, Calif. (Francis Parker) 3 Morgan Boukather OPP 6-1 SR Newport Beach, Calif. (Corona del Mar) 4 Kelsey Humphreys S 6-0 SO Newport Beach, Calif. (Corona del Mar) 7 Ivana Vanjak OH 6-4 RS FR Bad Soden, Germany (Albert-Einstein-Schule) 8 Megan McGehee MB 6-2 JR Lee’s Summit, Mo. (Lee’s Summit West) STANFORD VOLLEYBALL 10 Kyle Gilbert L 5-7 SR Encinitas, Calif. (Santa Fe Christian) BY THE NUMBERS 11 Sidney Brown OH 6-0 FR Tampa, Fla. (Berkeley Preparatory) 12 Inky Ajanaku MB 6-3 JR Tulsa, Okla. (Bishop Kelley) 16 Brittany Howard OH 6-3 JR Los Altos, Calif. (Mountain View) NCAA Championships ............................................................6 17 Merete Lutz MB 6-8 RS FR Houston, Texas (Mirabeau B. Lamar) Final Four Appearances .......................................................18 18 Grace Kennedy OH 6-3 SO Newport Beach, Calif. (Corona del Mar) National Championship Matches .......................................14 22 Madi Bugg S 6-0 JR Apex, N.C. (Cardinal Gibbons) NCAA Tournament Wins ....................................................104 23 Jordan Burgess OH 6-1 JR Fort Myers, Fla. (Berkeley Preparatory Consecutive Years in the NCAA Tournament ......................33 Conference Championships ................................................18 30+ Win Seasons ..................................................................16 Head Coach: John Dunning, 14th season (San Diego State ‘73) National Players of the Year ................................................15 Associate Head Coach: Denise Corlett, 26th season (UCLA ‘81) All-America Awards ..............................................................75 Assistant Coach: Jason Mansfield, 13th season (Ashworth ‘07) Volunteer Assistant Coach: Kasey Crider, 2nd season (Pepperdine ‘11) Conference Players of the Year ...........................................17 All-Conference Selections .................................................104 Pronunciation Guide: Inky Ajanaku (uh-JOHN-uh-koo) Kasey Crider (CRY-der) CoSIDA Academic All-Americans .........................................XX Morgan Boukather (BOW-kather) Kyle Gilbert (Kyle-the boy’s name) Honda Award Winners ...........................................................7 Merete Lutz (muh-RET-uh LUT-z) Megan McGehee (McGee) Ivana Vanjak (ee-VON-uh VON-yack) Olympians ..............................................................................9 --2014 Stanford Volleyball-- AVCA Coaches’ Poll (Preseason) ALL-AMERICAN: Stanford returns four of its five All-Americans from last season, in- cluding AVCA first-team selection Inky Ajanaku (Jr., MB, Human Biology) and AVCA 1. Penn State 2. Texas second-team pick Madi Bugg (Jr., S, Political Science). Additionally, Kyle Gilbert 3. STANFORD (Sr., L, Management Science & Engineering) and Jordan Burgess (Jr., OH, Human 4. Washington 5. USC Biology) were tabbed honorable mention by the AVCA. 6. Wisconsin 7. Nebraska 8. Purdue BY THE NUMBERS: The Stanford women’s volleyball program has won more NCAA 9. BYU 10. Florida Tournament matches (104), made more Final Four appearances (18) and been in 11. Illinois the national championship match (14) more times than any other program in the 12. Minnesota 13. Florida State nation. The Cardinal has captured 18 conference championships and produced 30 14. San Diego or more wins on 16 occasions. Stanford, along with Penn State, has won the most 15. Missouri 16. Michigan State NCAA titles (6) and appeared in all 33 NCAA Tournaments, having won all 33 of its 17. Hawai’i first-round matches. 18. Colorado State 19. Kentucky 20. North Carolina NATIONAL POLL: Stanford opens 2014 at No. 3 in the AVCA preseason poll. The 21. Duke 22. Kansas Cardinal is the only program in the nation to appear in the top 10 of every pre- 23. Creighton season poll since its inception in 1982. Defending national champion Penn State 24. American 25. Arizona State earned the top spot, while Texas came in ahead of the Cardinal. Pac-12 foes Wash- ington and USC round out the top 5. Four Pac-12 squads are ranked in the top 25 STANFORD IN THE 2014 POLL (No. 25 Arizona State), while Oregon, California, Arizona, Colorado and UCLA are Date Rank Date Rank Preseason 3 receiving votes. PAC-12 COACHES’ POLL: For the 13th time since 1986, the Pac-12 coaches picked Stanford to win the conference. The Cardinal garnered 114 points, just one ahead of second-place USC. Washington came in third, while Arizona State and California Ranking Records... • 426 all-time weeks in the top-10 rounded out the top 5. The coaches have correctly chosen the conference cham- • 460 total weeks in the poll pion in 17 of the previous 28 polls. • 54 weeks ranked No. 1 2014 SEASON FACTS THE LAST TIME STANFORD... Stanford’s Record When... Playing at home: 0-0 Won a match ............................................................................................ vs. Minnesota, 12/13/13 Playing on the road: 0-0 Playing at a neutral site: 0-0 Lost a match ............................................................................................vs. Penn State, 12/14/13 Longest winning streak: -- Won at home ............................................................................................. vs. Oklahoma, 12/6/13 Longest losing streak: -- In three sets: 0-0 Lost at home .......................................................................................................vs. USC, 10/30/13 In four sets: 0-0 Won on the road ............................................................................................ at Arizona, 11/27/13 In five sets: 0-0 Lost on the road...................................................................................... at Washington, 10/20/13 Stanford wins first set: 0-0 Opponent wins first set: 0-0 Won 3-0 ................................................................................................... vs. Minnesota, 12/13/13 Winning first two sets: 0-0 Lost 3-0 .................................................................................................................at USC, 10/4/13 Losing first two sets: 0-0 Splitting first two sets: 0-0 Won 3-0 at home ....................................................................................... vs. Oklahoma, 12/6/13 Hitting .250 or better: 0-0 Lost 3-0 at home ...............................................................................................vs. UCLA, 10/29/11 Hitting below .250: 0-0 Won 3-0 on the road ...................................................................................... at Arizona, 11/27/13 Outhit opponents: 0-0 Outhit by opponents: 0-0 Lost 3-0 on the road ..............................................................................................at