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Volleyball Home with Scary Plans for LA Teams

WSU VOLLEYBALL HOME WITH SCARY PLANS FOR LA TEAMS
The Washington State University volleyball team (14-8 overall, 3-7 Pac-12) is home this weekend for a pair of matches against the top-ranked Pac-12 Conference LA schools...No. 8 UCLA (17-3, 8-2) is in Bohler Gym Friday, Oct. 30 at 7 p.m...children will have a opportunity for Trick-or-Treating, a Costume Contest, and children in costume are admitted at no charge...WSU women's basketball will sign autographs pregame...Sunday, Nov. 1, No. 1 USC (22-0, 10-0*pending 10/30 match at No. 5 UW) comes to Pullman for a 12:30 p.m. match...this is Volleyball Youth Day and all players in uniform tops or team t-shirts are admitted without charge while family members of Youth players pay only $2 each...after the match there is a Free one-hour Serving Clinic for players in grades 6 through 12...both matches will be webcast live through www.Pac-12.com.
COUGAR COACHING STAFF
Jen Stinson Greeny is in her fifth season as WSU's head coach (67-84 at WSU, 5 years; 179-108 in career, 9 years) - complete Greeny bio on page 5...assistant coaches Burdette Greeny (fifth year) and Shannon Hunt (third year)...all coaches are former WSU student-athletes...volunteer coach James Dorr (first year)...Katie Hinrichs is coordinator of operations (fifth year).
WSU IN NCAA NATIONAL STATISTICS (through 10/25/15):
> WSU is 45th in Team aces per set at 1.54 saps (leads Pac-12)
> WSU is 7th in Team blocks per set at 3.00 bps
> WSU is 27th in Team opponent hitting percentage at .160
> WSU is 19th in Team total blocks at 222.0
> Kyra Holt is 50th in kills per set at 4.00 kps
> Kyra Holt is 44th in attacks per set at 11.25 aaps
> Claire Martin is 33rd in blocks per set at 1.32 bps
> Kyra Holt is 38th in points per set at 4.63 pps
NOTEABLE WSU ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
> WSU is one of only 15 programs nationally to have at least two Top 25 Prepvolleyball.com (2013 - 14th, 2015 - 21st) and one honorable mention recruiting class ranking (2014) the last three years.
> McKenna Woodford named Pac-12 Freshman of the Week (Sept. 14-20)
> Cougars won three of the non-conference tournaments in 2015 with MVP awards going to Taylor Mims (Lone Star Showdown) and Kyra Holt (Cougar Challenge and Idaho Volleyball Classic).
SOMMER CLAIMS DIGS RECORD
Kate Sommer became the WSU career digs record-holder Oct. 18, 2015, when she surpassed Kelly Hyder's 1,773 career digs, set from 2006-2009...Sommer is the lone senior on the Cougars 2015 squad...Sommer, from Pacific Palisades, Calif., also passed one of her coaches, WSU assistant Shannon Wyckoff Hunt, who tallied 1,254 digs from 1994-97 as an all-round position player due to the libero position coming into NCAA play in 1999...Sommer has accumulated 1,803 digs to date.
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Players Mentioned

Kyra Holt

#22 Kyra Holt

OH
6' 1"
Junior
Claire Martin

#12 Claire Martin

MB
6' 4"
Freshman
Taylor Mims

#10 Taylor Mims

MB
6' 3"
Freshman
Kate Sommer

#2 Kate Sommer

DS/L
5' 4"
Senior
McKenna Woodford

#5 McKenna Woodford

OH
6' 4"
Freshman

Players Mentioned

Kyra Holt

#22 Kyra Holt

6' 1"
Junior
OH
Claire Martin

#12 Claire Martin

6' 4"
Freshman
MB
Taylor Mims

#10 Taylor Mims

6' 3"
Freshman
MB
Kate Sommer

#2 Kate Sommer

5' 4"
Senior
DS/L
McKenna Woodford

#5 McKenna Woodford

6' 4"
Freshman
OH