Texas Tech Volleyball Hosts Iowa State on Senior Day
November 20, 2015 | Women's Volleyball
The senior class of Jenna Allen, Brianna Grant, Meghan Stacy and Carlie Foust with head coach Don Flora.
Nov. 20, 2015
LUBBOCK, Texas - Texas Tech volleyball (14-14, 3-11) hosts Iowa State (16-9, 9-5) on Saturday, Nov. 21, at 3 p.m. in the final home match at the United Supermarkets Arena in 2015.
Saturday's contest is Senior Day, where the team will honor the Red Raider seniors: Jenna Allen, Carlie Foust, Brianna Grant and Meghan Stacy in a pregame ceremony before first serve.
The Cyclones have a slight edge in the all-time series with the Red Raiders, leading 22-20. In the second Big 12 contest of the season, Iowa State picked up a 3-0 victory over Tech in Ames.
HICKORY PARK
Iowa State has strung together a 16-9 overall record, going 9-5 in conference action this season. Libero Caitlin Nolan leads the Big 12 in both total digs (517) and digs per set (5.88). Her average digs per set is also good for fifth in the NCAA in 2015. The Cyclone attack features five with 150 kills or more, with Jess Schaben leading the charge with 273 kills, averaging 3.17 per set. Iowa State is No. 21 in the latest NCAA RPI poll.
From last night: Carlie Foust moved to 4th in the Texas Tech single-season digs records w/ 453 this year! #WreckEm pic.twitter.com/IhMrbzkZYi
-- TexasTech Volleyball (@TTUVball) November 19, 2015
The Red Raiders close out the season a week from Saturday, when they travel to Lawrence to face the No. 10 Kansas on Nov. 28 at noon. The match will be broadcast live on WatchESPN.com and the Watch ESPN app. The Jayhawks (23-2, 11-2) are ranked ninth in the latest American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) poll and are fifth in the NCAA RPI rankings.
SENIOR SPECIAL
The Texas Tech senior class has been an integral part of the growth of the Red Raider volleyball program, amassing 52 wins during their time in Lubbock. The quartet of Jenna Allen, Carlie Foust, Brianna Grant and Meghan Stacy recorded 1,554 digs, 1,407 kills and 265 blocks during their time in the Scarlet & Black.
CARLIE'S CLIMBIN'
With nine digs at TCU on Wednesday, senior libero Carlie Foust moved from sixth to fourth in the Texas Tech single-season digs records with 453. She now sits 58 digs away from second-place all-time. With two matches left this season, Foust has an opportunity to climb as high as second if she can continue her recent pace. Her performance this season marks the fifth-straight season a Red Raider has broken into the top 10 in the category.
THIRD TIME'S THE CHARM
Foust won her third Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week award of 2015 on Nov. 16. With the honor, she is the first Red Raider in program history to win the award three times in one season. Her other two came on Aug. 31 and Sept. 28. She sits at second on the conference leaderboard in total digs (453) and digs per set (4.98). She has nine matches this season with 20+ digs.
GETTING IT DONE IN THE CLASSROOM
The Red Raiders placed nine on the 2015 Academic All-Big 12 team on Tuesday. It was the most of any university in the conference and marked back-to-back years to have nine representatives. Headlining the group was junior Marguerite Grubb, who was one of three Big 12 student-athletes nominated with a 4.0 GPA. Jenna Allen, Brianna Grant and Ashley Morgan rounded out the first team honorees, while Lauren Douglass, Carlie Foust, Audrey Fragniere, Victoria Hinneburg and Alyssa Ybanez garnered second team accolades.
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- Double T 104 3 (@gameday1043) November 20, 2015
CLEAN SWINGS
Junior Lauren Douglass is in the midst of a special season donning the Scarlet and Black, ranked inside the top 40 in the country in hitting percentage at .383. For five-straight weeks, she led the Big 12 and was ranked in the top 15 in the country in the category, climbing all the way to No. 2 in the NCAA earlier in the season. Douglass owns the top three single-match hitting percentages in the conference this season, her best is a .688 clip against Columbia on Sept. 4. At Kansas State, she led the team in kills for the 12th time this season behind eight. She has hit .400 or better in 13 matches in 2015. If she stays above .358 over the next two matches, she'll set the Texas Tech hitting percentage single-season record.
RECORDS WATCH
Two Red Raiders are moving closer to putting their names into the Texas Tech record books. With four matches left, Lauren Douglass has a hitting percentage of .383. If she stays above .358, she will have the school record for best hitting percentage in a single-season. On the career side of the record book, Marguerite Grubb is 104 assists from the 10th-best assist total, a figure she will almost certainly achieve next season if she doesn't hit it in 2015.
NOT SO FAST MY FRIEND
2015 is the first season the Big 12 utilized the video replay system and coaching challenges. The Big 12 and the Big Ten are the only two conferences in the NCAA that utilize the instant replay and coaching challenges. This season, head coach Don Flora is five-for-17 overall on challenges. Coaches will be permitted three challenges per match, and those challenges will have no effect on the number of allowed timeouts a team has remaining. The challenge must be lodged immediately following the rally and before the first referee's arm is extended to start the service for the next point. Only one challenge per rally will be allowed. Coaches will be allowed to request instant replay challenges only to review these instances:
-If the ball landed in or out
-If the ball made contact with a player
-If a net violation occurred
-Foot faults on a serve
