The University of Akron Athletics
Zips Volleyball to Take on Syracuse
September 13 | Women's Volleyball
AKRON, Ohio-Due to the severity of Hurricane Ike this weekend the regularly scheduled Louisiana-Lafayette Invitational was cancelled. The women's volleyball team will instead play at Syracuse University on Sunday, Sept. 14 at 3:00 p.m.
MEDIA INFORMATION• Live stats will be available here.
NATIONAL RANKINGS
• Junior setter Kara Smith (Secor, Ill./El Paso-Gridley)
ranks 20th nationally in assists per set posting 11.04 (A/S)
• Junior outside hitter Brionna
Patterson (Sandusky, Ohio/Sandusky) ranks 17th on the national
list in kills per set averaging 4.26 (K/S).
TEAM NOTES
• As a team through two weeks of play, UA is leading opponents
in almost every category including attack percentage (.203 to
.176), digs (381-373) and kills (356-342).
• After ranking second last week, UA moved into the number one
spot in the Mid-American Conference in blocks posting 2.37 (B/S)
which includes 17 solo blocks, the most of any league school to
date.
• Akron is fifth in the conference in assists per set after
posting 180 (11.25 A/S) over the weekend (Sept. 5-6). 161 of those
hailed from Smith who currently ranks fourth in the MAC in assists
per game posting 11.04 (A/S).
• Akron will open up at home against the University of Toledo,
Oct. 4 at 7:00 p.m. in the James A. Rhodes Arena.
PLAYER NOTES
• Patterson once again gave a dominant performance last
weekend (Sept. 5-6) posting a team high in kills three of four
matches including a mark of 24 against Montana State (Sept. 6),
just one shy of her career high. Her consistent performance all
weekend secured her spot on the all-tournament team for the second
weekend in a row.
• For the week of Sept. 8, Patterson ranks second in the MAC
in kills per set (4.26 K/S) only behind Northern Illinois's Meagan
Schoenrock who is averaging 5.00 (K/S).
• Against UC Davis (Sept. 6), junior Liz
Martin (Lowell, Ind./Lowell) led the team in kills posting 11.
A solid all-around player, Martin is second on the squad this
season in kills (59) and digs (69).
• Freshman Courtney Jarvis (Amherst, Ohio/Amherst Steele)
provided a much need spark off the bench in the Zips win against NC
State (Sept. 5) providing nine kills to only two errors (.467),
four digs and a service ace.
• Currently sixth on the Zips all-time assists list is Smith
who entered the 2008 season with 1,976 to her name. Thus far, Smith
has posted 298 on the year.
• Senior Jennifer Stewart (Kentwood, Mich./East Kentwood)
needs 157 more kills before she becomes the eighth member of the
prestigious Millennium Club which requires Zips athletes to post
1,000 career digs and kills in their time as a Zip. Stewart
surpassed the 1,000+ digs mark in 2007 when she ended the year with
1,080 digs.
OPPONENT AT A GLANCE
SYRACUSE
Game Time: Sept. 14, 3:00 p.m. (EST)
All-Time Series: 1-2 since 1990
Conference: Big East
2008 Record: 3-4, 0-0 Big East
