WSU VOLLEYBALL TRAVELS TO CALIFORNIA FOR LBSU MIZUNO INVITE
The Washington State University volleyball team (2-1), winner of the Purdue Mortar Board Premier tournament, has won its season-opening match in 23 of the past 25 years...Cougars travel to the Long Beach State Mizuno Invitational, at the Walter Pyramid this weekend...WSU plays Northeastern (3-1) Fri., Sept. 2 at 10 a.m...the Huskies have wins over Bethune-Cookman, North Florida and Florida Atlantic...Cougars take on UC Irvine (1-2) Sat., Sept. 3 at 10 a.m. and host Long Beach State (1-2) at 7 p.m...UC Irvine's lone win is over then-No. 7 USC, a 3-0 win at USC...LBSU defeated Texas Tech and lost to Pac-12 member Colorado 3-0...all WSU matches will have radio/internet broadcasts (see below) with Friday morning's broadcast on KHTR 104.7 FM.

TUNE IN FOR COUGAR VOLLEYBALL ROAD MATCHES ON RADIO
Cougar volleyball fans can listen to all the road contests during the 2016 season LIVE in the Palouse on KQQQ-1150 AM radio and/or KHTR- 104.7 FM…veteran area broadcaster Steve Grubbs is the voice of Cougar volleyball for the 11th consecutive season...road match audio is also available online at wsucougars.com.

COUGAR COACHING STAFF
Jen Stinson Greeny is in her sixth season as WSU's head coach (71-93 at WSU, 6 years; 183-117 in career, 10 years) - complete Greeny bio on page 4...assistant coaches Burdette Greeny (sixth year) and Shannon Hunt (fourth year)...all coaches are former WSU student-athletes...volunteer coach Milan Vucinic (first year)...Katie Hinrichs is coordinator of operations (sixth year).

Senior OH Kyra Holt was named the MVP of the Purdue Mortar Board Premier tournament Aug. 26-27...Holt tallied 48 kills (4.36 kps), hit .309, had three aces, 26 digs and nine blocks to lead the Cougars to wins over No. 24 Kentucky (3-0), Wyoming (3-1) and the loss to No. 20 Purdue (3-1)...joining Holt on the All-Tournament team were senior OH Hailey Bethune (22 kills, .500, nine blocks), and sophomore MB Taylor Mims (19 kills, .302, 3 aces, 15 blocks)...Holt is a 2016 Preseason All-Pac-12 selection, 2015 All-Pac-12 First Team and a member of the 2016 Pac-12 All-Stars China Tour.

ON THE NATIONAL STAGE
WSU is ranked No. 24 in the Aug. 29 PrepVolleyball.com College Top 50, moving up from the preseason No. 33 ranking, after upsetting No. 24 Kentucky, playing tough against No. 20 Purdue on their home court, and defeating Wyoming to win the Purdue Mortar Board Premier tournament... other Pac-12 schools in this week's Top 50 are: 5. UCLA, 11. Washington, 13. Stanford, 21. Oregon, 24. WSU, 28. Arizona, 46. Utah, and 48. Colorado...other Cougar 2016 opponents in these rankings include: 22. Kentucky, 23. Purdue, 49. Long Beach State; teams on the bubble: USC, Idaho, Arizona State and UC Irvine...during the 2015 season, WSU was ranked twice during the season in the PrepVolleyball.com College Top 50: No. 46 (Oct. 12) and No. 44 (Oct. 19)...WSU received votes in the AVCA Top 25 Poll Aug. 29, 2016, Sept. 21, 2015, and again Oct. 12, 2015...WSU will play 10 teams this season that are ranked or have received votes in the 2016 AVCA Preseason Top 25