2020 Volleyball Notes Back-To-Back Sun Belt Conference Regular-Season and Tournament Champions
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2020 Volleyball Notes Back-to-Back Sun Belt Conference Regular-Season and Tournament Champions MATCH INFO Live Stream: ESPN+ Match 3-4: vs. UTEP (0-0) TV Talent: Brant Freeman (PxP), Mick Haley Friday, Sept. 11 • 6 p.m. CST • San Marcos, Texas (Strahan Arena) Live Stats: Statbroadcast.com Saturday, Sept. 12 • 10 a.m. CST • San Marcos, Texas (Strahan Arena) Social Media: @TexasStateVball ABOUT THE MINERS SERIES NOTES Record: 0-0, 0-0 C-USA All-time Record: TXST leads, 11-5 2020 Schedule (2-0, 0-0 SBC) Head Coach: Ben Wallis Home Record: TXST leads, 7-2 SEPTEMBER Opponent Time (CT)/Results Coaching Record: 13-15 (2nd Season) Last Meeting: L, 2-3 at UTEP 4 vs. Central Arkansas^ W, 3-2 Current Streak: L3 Current Streak: UTEP, W1 4 at SFA^ W, 3-0 11 UTEP 6 pm 12 UTEP 10 am FIRST SERVE 18 Houston Baptist 6 pm • Texas State will begin its first season underSean Huiet, the sixth head coach in 19 Houston Baptist 11 am program history. Huiet has been with the program since 2006 and is the successor 25 ULM * 11 am 25 ULM * 6 pm to the legendary Karen Chisum who has 919 career wins with Texas State. 26 ULM * 1 pm • The Bobcats are the back-to-back reigning Sun Belt Conference regular-season and tournament Champions. OCTOBER Opponent Time (CT)/Results 2 UT Arlington * 6 pm • TXST achieved consecutive NCAA appearances for the first time in program history 3 UT Arlington * 6 pm in 2018-19. 9 at Louisiana * 11 am • The team will enter the season with a 14-match home winning streak. 9 at Louisiana * 6 pm 10 at Louisiana * 1 pm • TXST has nine regular-season conference championship titles and 11 tournament 23 Little Rock * 11 am titles. 23 Little Rock * 6 pm • Texas State are the favorites to win the Sun Belt Conference for the second 24 Little Rock * 1 pm consecutive year after receiving 10 votes and 69 total points in the 2020 Sun Belt 30 at UT Arlington * 6 pm 31 at UT Arlington * 6 pm Conference Preseason Coaches Poll. • The Bobcats will return the back-to-back Sun Belt Conference Setter of the Year and NOVEMBER Opponent Time (CT)/Results two-time AVCA All-Southwest Region honoree, junior, Emily DeWalt. 6 at Arkansas State * 11 am 6 at Arkansas State * 6 pm • The team also welcomes back two All-Sun Belt Second Team selections in senior 7 at Arkansas State * 1 pm middle blocker Tyeranee Scott and junior outside hitter Janell Fitzgerald. 20-22 Sun Belt Tornament~ TBD • Opens the 2020 season at Stephen F. Austin where they will play a doubleheader Home games in bold against Central Arkansas and SFA. ^SFA Tournament (New Orleans, La.) * Sun Belt Conference Match COVID-19 HIGHLIGHTS ~ Troy, Ala. • Due to Covid-19, seniors Johnson and Scott will be eligible to return for the 2021 TXST Athletics Website: www.txstatebobcats.com season. Facebook: www.facebook.com/TexasStateVball • The official 30-match schedule released has now been subtracted to 20 matches Twitter: www.twitter.com/TexasStateVball due to numerous fall postponements for the fall season. The initial schedule had Instagram: www.instagram.com/TXStateVolleyball three Power 5 programs coming to Strahan Arena for the first time since 2002. YouTube: www.youtube.com/TexasStateVball • The Sun Belt Conference schedule will be 16-matches long but will be against teams in the West Division only. Each team will play their divisional opponents three times in a single weekend and will have a home-and-home format with their travel partner (UT Arlington for Texas State) where they will play twice each meeting. TEXAS STATE SPORTS INFORMATION KEONTE’ HERRERA, Assistant Director Office: 512-245-2988 • Mobile: 254-338-7609 Email: [email protected] 2020 Texas State Bobcats NO. NAME HT. POS. CL-EXP HOMETOWN / HIGH SCHOOL (PREVIOUS SCHOOL) 1 Kenedi Rutherford OH 5-11 Jr-1L Houston, Texas / Ridge Point HS (UTSA) 2 Emily Smylie MB 6-1 Fr-HS New Braunfels, Texas / New Braunfels HS 3 Tyeranee Scott MB 6-0 Sr-3L Houston, Texas / Jersey Village HS 5 Tessa Marshall MB 6-1 So-1L Round Rock, Texas / Stony Point HS 6 Kayla Granado DS 5-4 Jr-2L Round Rock, Texas / Round Rock HS 7 Allie Smylie MB 6-1 So-1L New Braunfels, Texas / New Braunfels HS 8 Jillian Slaughter MB 6-0 Jr-2L San Antonio, Texas / James Madison HS 10 Caitlan Buettner OH 6-2 So-1L El Paso, Texas / Eastwood HS 11 Daleigh Ellison OH 5-10 Fr-HS Aledo, Texas / Aledo HS 12 Brooke Johnson DS/S 5-5 Sr-3L Tomball, Texas / Tomball HS 13 Courtney Heiser OH 5-11 So-1L The Woodlands, Texas / The Woodlands HS 14 Ryann Torres S 5-10 Fr-HS Buda, Texas / Hays HS 15 Megan Woods MB 6-4 Fr-HS Yorba Linda, Calif. / El Dorado HS 16 Janell Fitzgerald OH 6-1 Jr-2L Mansfield, Texas / Mansfield Legacy HS 17 Emily DeWalt S 5-10 Jr-2L Helotes, Texas / Louis D. Brandeis HS 18 Lauren Teske OH 6-0 R-So-1L Schertz, Texas / Samuel Clemens HS 21 Michelle Foster DS 5-5 So-1L Allen, Texas / Lovejoy HS 22 Kayla Tello DS 5-6 R-Fr-HS Buda, Texas / Hays HS Head Coach: Sean Huiet (Bowling Green, ‘03), 1st Season Associate Head Coach: Keith Anderson (Texas A&M, ‘14), 1st Season Recruiting Coordinator: Tori Plugge (Texas A&M, ‘13), 1st Season Graduate Assistant: Michele Maxwell (Texas State, ‘18), 2nd Season Athletic Trainer: Alex Dickinson (Cal Poly, ‘16), 1st Season AVCA Coaches Top 25 Poll (as of Dec. 23, 2019) Pronunciation Guide Rk Team Pts. Rec. Prev 3 Tyeranee Scott TEER-uh-knee 1 Stanford (64) 1600 30-4 3 6 Kayla Granado gruh-NAH-doe 2 Wisconsin 1536 27-7 5 10 Caitlan Buettner BEUT-ner 3 Baylor 1469 29-2 1 11 Daleigh Ellison DAY-lee 4 Minnesota 1408 27-6 7 13 Courtney Heiser HI-zur 5 Nebraska 1318 28-5 6 18 Lauren Teske TESS-key 6 Washington 1236 27-7 9 HC Sean Huiet like hewitt 7 Penn State 1206 27-6 8 RC Tori Plugge PUH-luu-gee 8 Texas 1097 23-4 4 9 Utah 1031 24-10 17 10 Florida 984 27-5 12 11 Pittsburgh 928 30-2 2 12 Kentucky 895 25-7 11 Sun Belt Preseason Coaches Poll 13 Purdue 835 24-8 14 East Division Pts. 14 Louisville 754 22-10 NR 1 Coastal Carolina (9) 69 15 Hawai’i 708 26-4 18 2 Troy (3) 60 16 Creighton 610 25-6 15 3 South Alabama 42 17 BYU 544 26-5 13 4 Appalachian State 41 18 Texas A&M 509 23-8 25 5 Georgia Southern 21 19 Cincinnati 475 27-7 NR 6 Georgia State 19 20 Marquette 402 28-6 16 21 San Diego 299 25-6 20 West Division Pts. 22 Western Kentucky 268 32-2 19 1 Texas State (10) 69 23 Colorado State 181 29-2 10 2 UT Arlington 53 24 Rice 133 27-4 21 3 Louisiana (2) 50 25 UCLA 105 19-12 24 4 Arkansas State 41 5 Little Rock 21 Others receiving votes: Michigan 81; UC Santa Barbara 52; Missouri 43; 6 ULM 18 Washington State 31; Southern California 18; Georgia Tech 8; Cal Poly 5; South Carolina 4; UCF 3. 2020 Texas State Volleyball TXST Head Coach Sean Huiet Sean Huiet took over as head coach for the 2020 season after spending 14 seasons as the assistant coach/associate head for the Bobcat volleyball program. Since joining the staff in 2006, Huiet has helped guide Texas State to 10 total championship titles, half with the Southland Conference and the other half with the Sun Belt Conference. Huiet has helped the Bobcats post a 303-168 (.643) record, which includes a 182-55 (.768) mark in conference matches, since arriving in San Marcos. In 2019, the Bobcats remained the undisputed champions of the Sun Belt Conference, winning the regular-season and TEAM INFO tournament title for the second consecutive year, and the Sun Belt West Division for the third straight (all records entering 2020) season. Texas State went 24-9 overall, 14-2 in league play, and was 15-3 at home. The team reached their second NCAA Tournament appearance in as many seasons, but fell in the first round to UC Santa COACHING STAFF Head Coach ................................................................................Sean Huiet Barbara, 3-1. The Bobcats paced the Sun Belt in opponent hitting percentage (.165) and ranked in Alma Mater ........................................................... Bowling Green, ‘03 the top five in service aces per set (1.57, No. 2), blocks per set (2.09, No. 3), hitting percentage (.234, Career Record - Years .............................................................0-0 - 1st Texas State Record ..................................................................... Same No. 3), assists per set (11.99, No. 4), and kills per set (12.89, No. 4). Associate Head Coach ..........................................................Keith Anderson Alma Mater .................................................................Texas A&M, ‘14 Year at Texas State ........................................................................ 1st Huiet coached Emily DeWalt to her second consecutive Sun Belt Conference Setter of the Year Recruiting Coordinator .............................................................. Tori Plugge accolade and All-Sun Belt First Team selection. DeWalt was also selected to the AVCA Southwest Alma Mater ...........................................................Bowling Green, ‘13 Year at Texas State ........................................................................ 1st All-Region Team and was named an honorable mention All-American by VolleyballMag.com for the Graduate Assistant ........................................................... Michele Maxwell second-straight season along with Cheyenne Huskey. Including DeWalt, the Bobcats had four All-Sun Alma Mater .................................................................Texas State, ‘18 Belt selections, including Huskey (first-team), Janell Fitzgerald (second-team), and Tyeranee Scott Year at Texas.................................................................................2nd Athletic Trainer ...................................................................