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2016 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.com/StanfordWVB • Twitter: @StanfordWVB • Instagram: @stanfordwvb 2016 Schedule Pac-12 Play Concludes in Maples Overall Record: 19-7 Pac-12 Record: 13-5 Stanford hosts No. 19 Oregon, Cal Date Opponent Location Result/ PT 8/26 San Diego Stanford, Calif. L, 3-2 THIS WEEK: The 12th-ranked Stanford women’s volleyball team (19-7, 8/28 #3 Minnesota Stanford, Calif. W, 3-1# 13-5 Pac-12) wraps up the regular season at home this week, hosting 9/3 #17 Illinois Boulder, Colo. W, 3-2 9/4 #13 Penn State Boulder, Colo. W, 3-0# No. 19 Oregon (19-8, 12-6 Pac-12) on Wednesday, Nov. 23 at 7 p.m. and 9/9 #20 Purdue Stanford, Calif. L, 3-2# Bay Area rival California (9-19, 3-15 Pac-12) on Friday, Nov. 25 at 5 p.m. 9/11 Cal Poly Stanford, Calif. W, 3-2 9/16 Saint Mary’s Moraga, Calif. W, 3-0 Live stats for the matches can be found on the 9/17 Pacific Stockton, Calif. W, 3-0 CATCH THE CARDINAL: 9/20 California* Berkeley, Calif. W, 3-1# women’s volleyball schedule page on GoStanford.com. Wednesday’s 9/23 Oregon State* Corvallis, Ore. W, 3-0# match will also be televised on Pac-12 Bay Area and Pac-12 Oregon, 9/28 #7 Washington* Seattle, Wash. W, 3-2# while Friday’s match can be seen on Pac-12 Bay Area. 9/30 #17 Washington St.* Pullman, Wash. L, 3-2# 10/7 #19 Colorado* Stanford, Calif. W, 3-1# 10/9 Utah* Stanford, Calif. L, 3-1 SOCIAL MEDIA: 10/14 Arizona* Stanford, Calif. L, 3-1# Facebook.com/StanfordWVB 10/15 Arizona State* Stanford, Calif. W, 3-0 Twitter: @StanfordWVB 10/21 #15 UCLA* Los Angeles, Calif. L, 3-1# 10/23 #25 USC* Los Angeles, Calif. W, 3-0$ Instagram: @stanfordwvb 10/26 #7 Washington* Stanford, Calif. W, 3-0# Snapchat: StanfordWVB 10/28 #18 Washington St.* Stanford, Calif. W, 3-0# 11/4 Colorado* Boulder, Colo. W, 3-1# Stanford swept Arizona State and Arizona last week 11/5 #19 Utah* Salt Lake City, Utah W, 3-0 LAST TIME OUT: 11/10 USC* Stanford, Calif. W, 3-1$ on the road to move into third place in the Pac-12. Freshman outside 11/12 #13 UCLA* Stanford, Calif. L, 3-2 hitter Kathryn Plummer led the team with 4.67 kills and 5.17 points per 11/18 Arizona State* Tempe, Ariz. W, 3-0# set on .333 hitting. For her efforts she was named the Pac-12 Offensive 11/20 Arizona* Tucson, Ariz. W, 3-0# 11/23 #19 Oregon* Stanford, Calif. 7 p.m.# Player of the Week and picked up her third Freshman of the Week hon- 11/25 California* Stanford, Calif. 5 p.m.# ors. Freshman libero Morgan Hentz added 5.17 digs per set, racking up 12/2-3 NCAA First & Second Rounds 21 against the Wildcats (her most in a three-set match this season). 12/9-10 NCAA Regionals 12/15 & 12/17 NCAA Final Four 2016 Stanford Volleyball Roster No Name Pos Ht Yr Hometown (High School) *Pac-12 conference match 1 Jenna Gray S 6-1 FR Shawnee, Kan. (St. James Academy) Bold indicates home match played at Maples Pavilion 2 Kathryn Plummer OH/S 6-6 FR Aliso Viejo, Calif. (Aliso Niguel) #Pac-12 Networks | $ESPNU 3 Hayley Hodson OH 6-3 SO Newport Beach, Calif. (Laurel Springs School) 4 Kelsey Humphreys S 6-0 SR Newport Beach, Calif. (Corona del Mar) 6 Tami Alade MB 6-2 SO Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada (Old Scona Academic) STANFORD VOLLEYBALL 7 Ivana Vanjak OH 6-4 RS JR Bad Soden, Germany (Albert-Einstein-Schule) 8 Michaela Keefe OH 6-2 FR Pacific Palisades, Calif. (Marymount) BY THE NUMBERS 9 Morgan Hentz L/DS 5-9 FR Lakeside Park, Ky. (Notre Dame Academy) 10 Payton Chang S/DS 5-10 SO Newport Beach, Calif. (Mater Dei) NCAA Championships ............................................................6 12 Inky Ajanaku MB 6-3 RS SR Tulsa, Okla. (Bishop Kelley) 14 Halland McKenna DS 5-7 SO Laguna Beach, Calif. (Sage Hill School) Final Four Appearances .......................................................19 17 Merete Lutz OPP 6-8 RS JR Houston, Texas (Mirabeau B. Lamar) National Championship Matches .......................................14 19 Alexis Froistad MB 6-2 SO Aromas, Calif. (Salinas) NCAA Tournament Wins ....................................................109 20 Caitlin Keefe DS 5-11 FR Pacific Palisades, Calif. (Marymount) Consecutive Years in the NCAA Tournament ......................35 24 Audriana Fitzmorris MB 6-6 FR Overland Park, Kan. (St. James Academy) Conference Championships ................................................19 25 Courtney Bowen MB 6-4 RS FR Brooklyn, N.Y. (The Chapin School) 30+ Win Seasons ..................................................................17 Head Coach: John Dunning, 16th season (San Diego State ‘73) National Players of the Year ................................................15 Associate Head Coach: Denise Corlett, 28th season (UCLA ‘81) All-America Awards ..............................................................85 Assistant Coach: Cassidy Lichtman, 1st season (Stanford ‘11) Conference Players of the Year ...........................................17 Volunteer Assistant Coach: Tyler Taylor, 2nd season (Arizona ‘10) All-Conference Selections .................................................115 Pronunciation Guide: Inky Ajanaku (uh-JOHN-uh-koo) Tami Alade (uh-LAD-aye) CoSIDA Academic All-America Awards ...............................18 Courtney Bowen (BOW-in) Audriana Fitzmorris (audri-ON-uh) Alexis Froistad (FROY-stad) Honda Award Winners ...........................................................7 Hayley Hodson (HOD-son... rhymes with Rod) Michaela Keefe (mi-KAY-luh) Olympians ..............................................................................9 Cassidy Lichtman (LICKT-man) Merete Lutz (muh-RET-uh LUT-z) Halland McKenna (HOLL-und) Ivana Vanjak (ee-VON-uh VON-yack) --2016 Stanford Volleyball-- AVCA Coaches’ Poll (Nov. 21) NATIONAL POLL: Stanford remained at No. 12 in the AVCA top 25 this week. No. 1 Nebraska received all 64 first-place votes for a fourth straight week followed by 1. Nebraska (64) 2. Minnesota No. 2 Minnesota, No. 3 Wisconsin, No. 4 Kansas and No. 5 Texas. The Cardinal is 3. Wisconsin one of six Pac-12 squads ranked, joined by No. 7 Washington, No. 8 UCLA, No. 17 4. Kansas 5. Texas Utah, No. 19 Oregon and No. 25 Washington State. 6. North Carolina 7. Washington 8. UCLA IN THE NATION: Stanford is second in the country with 3.34 blocks per set, 9. Florida 10. BYU thanks in large part to its middle blockers Inky Ajanaku and Audriana Fitzmor- 11. San Diego ris. Ajanaku (1.49 bps) is second in the Pac-12 and eighth in the nation, while 12. STANFORD 13. Hawai’i Fitzmorris (1.46) is third in the conference and 11th in the country. 14. Michigan State 15. Penn State 16. Florida State CLIMBING THE CHARTS: Redshirt senior Inky Ajanaku began her final season 17. Utah on The Farm ranked ninth in program history in total blocks (435). She is cur- 18. Michigan 19. Oregon rently in fifth place with 578, passing Jennifer Detmer (1997-00), Jenn Harvey 20. Western Kentucky (2000-03), Laura Olesen (1985-89) and Kerri Walsh (1996-99). She needs just two 21. Creighton 22. Missouri blocks to pass Foluke Akinradewo (2005-09) for fourth place. Ajanaku’s 1.30 ca- 23. Kentucky reer average is tied for the sixth-best mark in school history with Akinradewo. 24. Dayton 25. Washington State SINGLE-SEASON MARK: Freshman libero Morgan Hentz has collected 465 digs STANFORD IN THE 2016 POLL Date Rank Date Rank this season, ranking ninth on the Cardinal’s single season list. Her 4.65 season Preseason 11 Oct. 10 12 average is the fourth-best mark in a single season in program history. Gabi Ailes Aug. 29 9 Oct. 17 14 Sept. 5 9 Oct. 24 17 (2007-10) holds the school’s single season records with 617 digs and 5.23 digs Sept. 12 12 Oct. 31 13 Sept. 19 11 Nov. 7 9 per set in 2009. Sept. 26 9 Nov. 14 12 Oct. 3 7 Nov. 21 12 Ranking Records... • 460 all-time weeks in the top-10 • 505 total weeks in the poll • 67 weeks ranked No. 1 2016 SEASON FACTS THE LAST TIME STANFORD... Stanford’s Record When... Playing at home: 7-5 Playing on the road: 10-2 Won a match .................................................................................................. at Arizona, 11/20/16 Playing at a neutral site: 2-0 Lost a match .....................................................................................................vs. UCLA, 11/12/16 Longest winning streak: 6 Won at home ......................................................................................................vs. USC, 11/10/16 Longest losing streak: 2 In three sets: 11-0 Lost at home .....................................................................................................vs. UCLA, 11/12/16 In four sets: 5-3 Won on the road ............................................................................................ at Arizona, 11/20/16 In five sets: 3-4 Stanford wins first set: 17-3 Lost on the road.................................................................................................at UCLA, 10/21/16 Opponent wins first set: 2-4 Won 3-0 ......................................................................................................... at Arizona, 11/20/16 Winning first two sets: 14-2 Lost 3-0 ....................................................................................... vs. Loyola Marymount, 12/4/15 Losing first two sets: 0-1 Splitting first two sets: 5-4 Won 3-0 at home ......................................................................... vs. Washington State, 10/28/16 Hitting .250 or better: