2017 Stanford Women’s Volleyball Athletics Communications • Arrillaga Family Sports Center • 641 Campus Drive • Stanford, CA • 94305 • GoStanford.com Women’s Volleyball Contact • Regina Verlengiere • c. 805.478.4198 • [email protected] Facebook.com/StanfordWVB • Twitter: @StanfordWVB • Instagram: @stanfordwvb 2017 Schedule Four-Match Road Swing Ahead Overall Record: 11-2 Pac-12 Record: 4-0 Cardinal plays at Oregon, Oregon State this week Date Opponent Location Result/ PT 8/25 Long Beach State Long Beach, Calif. W, 3-0 THIS WEEK: No. 2 Stanford (11-2, 4-0 Pac-12) hits the road again this 8/26 Iowa Long Beach, Calif. W, 3-0 8/26 Wright State Long Beach, Calif. W, 3-0 week to take on No. 16 Oregon (9-3, 2-2 Pac-12) on Friday at 8 p.m. and 9/1 #5 Penn State College Station, Texas L, 3-1 Oregon State (10-6, 0-4 Pac-12) on Sunday at 1 p.m. 9/3 Texas A&M College Station, Texas W, 3-0 9/8 Illinois Champaign, Ill. W, 3-0 CATCH THE CARDINAL: Live stat links for both matches can be found 9/9 #3 Penn State Champaign, Ill. L, 3-2 on the women’s volleyball schedule page on GoStanford.com. Friday’s 9/15 Pacific Stanford, Calif. W, 3-0# match will air on ESPNU with Paul Sunderland and Karch Kiraly on the 9/16 Saint Mary’s Moraga, Calif. W, 3-0 9/20 California* Stanford, Calif. W, 3-0# call, while Sunday’s match can be seen on Pac-12 Oregon and Pac-12. 9/24 #25 Colorado* Boulder, Colo. W, 3-2# com featuring Rich Burk. 9/27 Arizona State* Stanford, Calif. W, 3-0# 9/29 Arizona* Stanford, Calif. W, 3-0# SOCIAL MEDIA: 10/6 #16 Oregon* Eugene, Ore. 8 p.m.$ Facebook.com/StanfordWVB 10/8 Oregon State* Corvallis, Ore. 1 p.m.# 10/13 UCLA* Los Angeles, Calif. 6 p.m.# Twitter: @StanfordWVB 10/15 USC* Los Angeles, Calif. 3 p.m.# Instagram: @stanfordwvb 10/19 Washington* Stanford, Calif. 8 p.m.$ 10/21 Washington State* Stanford, Calif. 7 p.m. LAST TIME OUT: Stanford posted sweeps over Arizona State and Ari- 10/27 Arizona State* Tempe, Ariz. 8 p.m.# zona at home last week. Kathryn Plummer led the team with 4.17 kills 10/29 Arizona* Tucson, Ariz. 1 p.m.# per set on .353 hitting, while Tami Alade had 2.67 kills and 2.00 blocks 11/3 Oregon State* Stanford, Calif. 7 p.m. 11/5 Oregon* Stanford, Calif. 1 p.m.# per set. Setter Jenna Gray dished out 11.83 assists per set while leading 11/8 Washington* Seattle, Wash. 7 p.m.# Stanford to a .391 team attack percentage. 11/11 Washington State* Pullman, Wash. 7 p.m.# 11/15 USC* Stanford, Calif. 7 p.m.# 11/16 UCLA* Stanford, Calif. 8 p.m.# 11/22 Utah* Stanford, Calif. 6 p.m.# 2017 Stanford Volleyball Roster 11/25 California* Berkeley, Calif. 7 p.m.# 12/1-2 NCAA First & Second Rounds No Name Pos Ht Yr Hometown (High School) 1 Jenna Gray S 6-1 SO Shawnee, Kan. (St. James Academy) 12/8-9 NCAA Regionals 2 Kathryn Plummer OH/S 6-6 SO Aliso Viejo, Calif. (Aliso Niguel) 12/14 & 12/16 NCAA Final Four 4 Meghan McClure OH 6-0 FR Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif. (Santa Margarita) *Pac-12 conference match 5 Blake Sharp OH 5-11 FR Orinda, Calif. (Miramonte) Bold indicates home match played at Maples Pavilion 6 Tami Alade MB 6-2 JR Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada (Old Scona Academic) #Pac-12 Networks | $ESPNU 8 Michaela Keefe OH 6-2 RS FR Pacific Palisades, Calif. (Marymount) 9 Morgan Hentz L 5-9 SO Lakeside Park, Ky. (Notre Dame Academy) STANFORD VOLLEYBALL 10 Payton Chang S/DS 5-10 JR Newport Beach, Calif. (Mater Dei) BY THE NUMBERS 11 Kate Formico DS 5-9 FR Saratoga, Calif. (Archbishop Mitty) 12 Audriana Fitzmorris MB 6-6 SO Overland Park, Kan. (St. James Academy) 17 Merete Lutz OPP 6-8 RS SR Houston, Texas (Mirabeau B. Lamar) NCAA Championships ............................................................7 19 Alexis Froistad MB 6-2 JR Aromas, Calif. (Salinas) Final Four Appearances .......................................................20 20 Caitlin Keefe DS 5-11 SO Pacific Palisades, Calif. (Marymount) National Championship Matches .......................................15 21 Sidney Wilson OH 6-0 FR Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Havergal College) NCAA Tournament Wins ....................................................115 25 Courtney Bowen MB 6-4 RS SO Brooklyn, N.Y. (The Chapin School) Consecutive Years in the NCAA Tournament ......................36 Conference Championships ................................................19 Kevin Hambly, 1st season (Illinios ‘06) 30+ Win Seasons ..................................................................17 Head Coach: Denise Corlett, 29th season (UCLA ‘81) National Players of the Year ................................................17 Associate Head Coach: Erin Lindsey, 1st season (North Carolina ‘00) All-America Awards ..............................................................89 Assistant Coach: Taylor Formico, 1st season (UCLA ‘16) Conference Players of the Year ...........................................17 Volunteer Assistant Coach: All-Conference Selections .................................................118 CoSIDA Academic All-America Awards ...............................18 Pronunciation Guide: Tami Alade (uh-LAD-aye) Courtney Bowen (BOW-in) Audriana Fitzmorris (audri-ON-uh) Honda Award Winners ...........................................................7 Kate Formico (for-mi-KOH) Alexis Froistad (FROY-stad) Michaela Keefe (mi-KAY-luh) Olympians ..............................................................................9 Merete Lutz (muh-RET-uh LUT-z) --2017 Stanford Volleyball-- AVCA Coaches’ Poll (Oct. 2) ROAD TESTED: Stanford played its first home match of the season on Septem- ber 15. The Cardinal is slated to play 13 of its first 17 matches away from Maples 1. Florida 2. STANFORD Pavilion. In fact, nine of its first 11 matches were played on the road or at a neu- 3. Penn State tral site. Stanford is 5-0 this season in road matches. 4. Nebraska 5. Texas 6. Minnesota 7. Wisconsin STRAIGHT SETS: Ten of Stanford’s first 11 wins of the season have come in 8. BYU straight sets. The only sets the Cardinal has lost in a win were at then-No. 25 9. Washington 10. Kentucky Colorado on Sept. 24. 11. Kansas 12. Creighton 13. UCLA NATIONAL POLL: Stanford remained at No. 2 in the AVCA Poll this week after 14. Michigan State sweeping the Arizona schools at home last week. Florida held on to the No. 1 15. USC 16. Oregon spot, while Penn State, Nebraska and Texas round out the top 5. Seven Pac-12 17. Utah squads are ranked in the top 25, including No. 9 Washington, No. 13 UCLA, No. 18. Purdue 19. San Diego 15 USC, No. 16 Oregon, No. 17 Utah and No. 25 Colorado. 20. Iowa State 21. Northern Iowa 22. Michigan CLIMBING THE CHARTS: Redshirt senior Merete Lutz missed the Cardinal’s first 23. Colorado State five matches due to an ankle injury suffered in the team’s last preseason prac- 24. Wichita State 25. Colorado tice. The three-time All-American is seventh all-time at Stanford with a .357 ca- reer hitting percentage and moved into the program’s top 10 in career blocks STANFORD IN THE 2017 POLL Date Rank Date Rank with 429. Preseason 2 Aug. 28 1 Sept. 4 4 LEADING THE PAC: Sophomore Kathryn Plummer leads the Pac-12 and ranks Sept. 11 4 Sept. 18 4 ninth nationally with 4.73 kills per set, and also paces the league and is sixth in Sept. 25 2 the nation in points per set at 5.41. Sophomore Jenna Gray leads the conference Oct. 2 2 with 11.61 assists per set, while junior Tami Alade is tops in the Pac-12 with a Ranking Records... • 468 all-time weeks in the top-10 .417 attack percentage. • 513 total weeks in the poll • 69 weeks ranked No. 1 2017 SEASON FACTS THE LAST TIME STANFORD... Stanford’s Record When... Playing at home: 4-0 Playing on the road: 5-0 Won a match ................................................................................................... vs. Arizona, 9/29/17 Playing at a neutral site: 2-2 Lost a match ................................................................................................vs. Penn State, 9/9/17 Longest winning streak: 6 Won at home .................................................................................................. vs. Arizona, 9/29/17 Longest losing streak: 1 In three sets: 10-0 Lost at home .....................................................................................................vs. UCLA, 11/12/16 In four sets: 0-1 Won on the road ............................................................................................at Colorado, 9/24/17 In five sets: 1-1 Stanford wins first set: 10-1 Lost on the road.................................................................................................at UCLA, 10/21/16 Opponent wins first set: 1-1 Won 3-0 .......................................................................................................... vs. Arizona, 9/29/17 Winning first two sets: 10-0 Lost 3-0 ....................................................................................... vs. Loyola Marymount, 12/4/15 Losing first two sets: 0-1 Splitting first two sets: 1-1 Won 3-0 at home ............................................................................................ vs. Arizona, 9/29/17 Hitting .250 or better: 10-0 Lost 3-0 at home .......................................................................... vs. Loyola Marymount, 12/4/15 Hitting below .250: 1-2 Outhit opponents: 11-0 Won 3-0 on the road .................................................................................at Saint Mary’s, 9/16/17 Outhit by opponents: 0-2 Lost 3-0 on the road ............................................................................ at North Carolina, 9/10/15 Vs. ranked opponents: 1-2 Won in four