SUN BELT CONFERENCE VOLLEYBALL For Immediate Release | November 2, 2015 Contact: Kati Morse [email protected]) Phone: 985-299-8076 Mercedes-Benz Superdome 1500 Sugar Bowl Drive New Orleans, LA 70112 | SunBeltSports.org | @SunBelt | #FunBelt 2015 SUN BELT CONFERENCE VOLLEYBALL STANDINGS SCHOOL CONFERENCE CONF. PCT OVERALL OVERALL PCT STREAK Arkansas State 13-0 1.000 22-1 0.957 W18 Appalachian State 12-0 1.000 19-4 0.826 W15 Texas State 10-3 0.769 15-11 0.577 W2 UT Arlington 7-6 0.538 16-9 0.640 L1 South Alabama 7-6 0.538 13-11 0.542 L2 Little Rock 7-6 0.538 11-12 0.478 W1 Troy 6-8 0.429 13-15 0.464 L4 UL Monroe 3-10 0.231 13-15 0.464 L1 Georgia Southern 3-10 0.231 8-17 0.320 L4 Georgia State 2-10 0.167 6-16 0.273 W2 UL Lafayette 1-12 0.077 5-21 0.192 L8 NEWS & NOTES UPCOMING SCHEDULE RECENT RESULTS Georgia Southern Gears Up to Host Championship Tuesday, October 27th Georgia Southern will host the Sun Belt Confer- Monday, November 2nd Troy at South Alabama USA, 3-1 ence Tournament in Hanner Fieldhouse Nov. 20- Mississippi State at Troy 6:00 PM Wednesday, October 28th 22. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased Little Rock at Arkansas State ASU, 3-1 by visiting GSEagles.com/SBCVBall. Passes for Thursday, November 5th Texas State at UL Monroe 6:30 PM Friday, October 30th the entire tournament are available for just $25 UL Lafayette at Appalachian State ULL, 3-0 for adults and $10 for youth 12-and-under. Sin- Friday, November 6th Georgia Southern at Arkansas State ASU, 3-0 Georgia Southern at App State 5:30 PM South Alabama at Georgia State GSU, 3-0 gle-day passes can be purchased for $10 (adults) Troy at UT Arlington UTA, 3-2 or $5 (youth), and students at all Sun Belt Con- Arkansas State at Georgia State 6:00 PM ference schools gain free admission. Single-day UT Arlington at UL Lafayette 6:30 PM Saturday, October 31st Little Rock at South Alabama TBA UL Lafayette at Georgia State GSU, 3-1 group tickets (25 or more people) are available Little Rock at Georgia Southern LR, 3-1 for $7 but can only be purchased in advance by Saturday, November 7th UL Monroe at UT Arlington ULM, 3-1 calling 1-800-GSU-WINS. The Eagles play their Georgia Southern at Georgia State 6:00 PM Troy at Texas State TXST, 3-0 Texas State at UL Lafayette 6:30 PM next two matches on the road, meeting App Sunday, November 1st State Friday and Georgia State Saturday. Georgia UT Arlington at UL Monroe 6:30 PM South Alabama at App State App, 3-1 Southern’s home and regular-season finale is Sunday, November 8th UL Monroe at Texas State TXST, 3-0 Nov. 13 against Troy in Hanner Fieldhouse. Alex Arkansas State at App 11:30 AM Beecher, who came into the weekend ranked Little Rock at Troy 12:00 PM eighth in the country in digs per set, went over 1,600 for her career with 15 digs against Appala- chian State Oct. 23. The redshirt junior has 1,659 career digs, 48 away from the Georgia Southern career record, which was set in 2003. She needs 103 to break her own single-season record of 604, set in 2012. Redshirt junior Crysten Curry collected her 300th career block at UL Lafayette Oct. 16, as she notched six in the match. She ranks seventh in career blocks at Georgia South- ern with 311. Her 63 solo blocks ranks ninth, and her 248 block assists ranks sixth. Setter/ right side Katie Bange has nine double-doubles this season, and five of the nine have included double-figure kills. Setter Kat Minnerly ranks fifth on the school’s career assist list with 2,785. The senior played in her 100th career match against Chicago State Sept. 12.Three juniors who received medical redshirts last season - Beecher, Curry and Bange - have returned to the lineup this season and played in every match. www.SunBeltSports.org @SunBelt @SunBelt /SunBeltConference /SunBeltSports 1 MEDIA SERVICES SUN BELT VOLLEYBALL STUDENT-ATHLETES OF THE WEEK OFFENSIVE STUDENT-ATHLETE DEFENSIVE STUDENT-ATHLETE CHAMPIONSHIP CENTRAL The 2015 Sun Belt Conference Volleyball OF THE WEEK OF THE WEEK Championship will be held November 20-22 at Georgia Southern University in States- boro, Georgia. For more information, please visit www.SunBeltSports.org to find 2015 Sun Belt Conference Volleyball Champi- onship Central. When at the main page, scroll over “Championships” and click on “Volleyball” to be taken to the champion- ship central page. WEEKLY RELEASES The Sun Belt Conference weekly releas- es will be available on the conference’s official website, www.SunBeltSports.org every Monday afternoon beginning August 31st and continuing through the end of the season. Weekly releases will include the Sun Belt Conference Offensive, Defensive, Setter and Freshman student-athlete of the week, updated conference statistics, the latest polls and conference and team notes. Updated stats will be available on KRISTINA STINSON MARKIE SCHAEDIG SunBeltSports.org following each night of GEORGIA STATE | JR | OH | EDUCATION ARKANSAS STATE | JR | L | HEALTH competition. PROMOTION Junior Kristina Stinson fueled Georgia State to MEDIA GUIDE its first two conference wins of the season, a A-State junior libero Markie Schaedig registered The 2015 Sun Belt Conference Volleyball sweep over South Alabama and a 3-1 win over 52 digs (7.43 per set) in the team’s two wins over Media Guide is available online at www. UL Lafayette. Stinson totaled 34 kills on .406 Little Rock and Georgia Southern over the last SunBeltSports.org. Visit the volleyball page hitting, her best two-match stretch this season. week. She tallied 28 digs (7.00 per set) against and click “Media Guide” on the top naviga- Stinson also added three more aces to up her Little Rock Wednesday night before recording tion pane. 2015 tally to 35. Entering the weekend, she 24 (8.00 per set) Friday night versus Georgia ranked 54th in the nation in aces per set. Stin- Southern. She also dished out the second-most EMAIL LIST: son’s 21 kills on Saturday was her second-high- assists on the team in the two matches with 11. Media members may request to receive est total this year. Sun Belt Conference News, Press Re- leases and Weekly Releases via email. Media should send an email to morse@ SETTER FRESHMAN sunbeltsports.org with the subject “Media OF THE WEEK OF THE WEEK News” requesting to be added to the media distribution list. MEDIA CONTACTS For additional information on the 2015 Sun Belt Conference Volleyball Championship and other media requests, please contact Kati Morse, Digital Media Assistant at the Sun Belt Conference: morse@sunbeltsport. org SUN BELT SOCIAL Follow the Sun Belt Conference on our social media accounts below. PAIGE BROWN MADISON DAIGLE APPALACHIAN STATE | SR | S | SPANISH TEXAS STATE | FR | MB | MARKETING For the week, Brown amassed 90 assists and Freshman Madison Daigle led Texas State to a averaged 12.8 assists per set. Brown is the first 2-0 weekend with 21 kills in two matches, for setter in the Sun Belt to reach 1,000 assists this an average of 10.5 kills per match. She was season (1,012) and is averaging a league-best deadly efficient with a .500 hitting percentage, 11.91 per set. For her career, Brown has now including a .533 Sunday against UL Monroe. She amassed 4,155 career assists and is just 50 away hit a .476 with 12 kills for a 4.00 kills per set from taking sole possession of 3rd all-time and average against Troy on Saturday. Averaging 3.50 254 from breaking the all-time program record kills per set, the freshman played like a veteran, at Appalachian State. adding two blocks on the weekend. 2 www.SunBeltSports.org @SunBelt @SunBelt /SunBeltConference /SunBeltSports www.SunBeltSports.org @SunBelt @SunBelt /SunBeltConference /SunBeltSports 3 SUN BELT VOLLEYBALL SUN BELT VS. 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