No. 10 WSU TAKES ON BEAVS AND NO. 20 DUCKS THIS WEEK IN OREGON
The Washington State University volleyball team, 14-2 overall, 4-0 Pac-12, coming off the third upset win over a top 10 team, finds itself highly-ranked: No. 10 in the Oct. 3 AVCA Coaches Top 25 Poll and in a tie with No. 20 Oregon for first place in the conference...Taylor Mims is the Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week for Sept. 26-Oct. 2...WSU travels to Corvallis to play Oregon State (8-7, 1-3) Fri., Oct. 7 at 7 p.m. in Gill Coliseum: on Pac-12 Network with announcers Rich   Burk and former Cougar Camryn Irwin...Sun., Oct. 9 at 1 p.m. WSU takes on No. 20 Oregon (11-2, 4-0* pending 10/7 match at No. 8 UW)...stats, radio and video links can be found at wsucougars.com.

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 (83-94 at WSU, 6 years; 195-118 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).

ANOTHER WEEK, ANOTHER LEAP FOR WSU IN NATIONAL STANDINGS
Make that three consective upset wins (UW, UCLA, Stanford) over Top 10 teams and the WSU volleyball team is ranked No. 10 in the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Coachers Top 25 Poll for Week 6 (Oct. 3)...last week WSU was ranked No. 17, its first top 25 ranking since the 2009 season (21st was highest that year)...WSU's highest ranking was No. 5 in the Oct. 17, 1995 poll (when Head Coach Jen Stinson Greeny and Asst. Coach Shannon Wyckoff Hunt were Cougar starters)...other national rankings for Oct. 3: PrepVolleyball.com College Top 50 rankings, WSU is ranked No. 11th up from 13th last week...WSU is ranked No. 11 in the Rich Kern Poll, No. 5 in the Pablo Rankings, No. 9 in the RKPI, and 7th in the Massey Ratings.

COUGARS PAC-12 NOTES
> WSU defeated three Top 10 teams in a row: at No. 4 UW, at No. 9 UCLA and vs. No. 9 Stanford.
> Sept. 30 was WSU's fourth win over the Cardinal all-time (61 matches), and first time since 2002 (which was a 3-1 win in Pullman).
>This season's 4-0 start equals the best conference start for the Cougars since the 1997 volleyball season when Head Coach Jen Greeny and Assistant Coach Shannon Wyckoff were players.
> The last time WSU had back-to-back road wins at Oregon State and Oregon was in 2002; Cougs had 3-0 wins to end Pac-10 season.

PAC-12 LEADERS FROM OVERALL MATCHES (as of 10/3)
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS (TOP 10):
Rank in conference, WSU player (conf. leader)
Kills - 5th Kyra Holt 3.76 kps (Adora Anae, Utah 4.73 kps)
Hitting Pct. - 4th Taylor Mims .387 (Elise Ruddins, USC .473)
Assists - No WSU player (Bailey Tanner, Washington 10.71 aps)
Service Aces - No WSU player (Oluoma Okaro, Arizona St. 0.42 saps)
Digs - 7th Alexis Dirige 4.02 dps (Amanda Benson, Oregon 5.00 dps)
Blocks - 2nd Claire Martin 1.55 bps & 4th Taylor Mims 1.48 bps
    (Audriana Fitzmorris, Stanford 1.62 bps)
Points - 5th Kyra Holt 4.35 pps (Adora Anae, Utah 5.42 pps)

TEAM STATISTICS: 
Rank in Overall Matches (Leader)
Kills - WSU is 8th at 13.36 kps (UCLA 14.62 kps)
Hitting Percentage - WSU is 5th at .258 (Oregon .313)
Opponent Hitting Pct - WSU is 1st at .129
Assists - WSU is 10th at 12.24 aps (UCLA 13.63 aps)
Service Aces - WSU is 4th at 1.24 saps (Washington 1.52 saps)
Digs - WSU is 12th at 13.19 dps (UCLA 18.06 dps)
Blocks - WSU is 2nd at 3.33 bps (Stanford 3.39 bps)

PAC-12 LEADERS FROM CONFERENCE ONLY MATCHES
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS (TOP 10):
Rank in conference, WSU player (conf. leader)
Kills - t-4th Kyra Holt 4.00 kps (Andor Anae, Utah 4.72 kps)
Hitting Pct. - 5th Taylor Mims .368 & 6th Casey Schoenlein .366
    (Ronika Stone, Oregon .500)
Assists - No WSU player (Bailey Tanner, Washington 10.94 aps)
Service Aces - 4th Tani Stephens 0.29 saps & 8th Alexis Dirige 0.24 saps
     (Bailey Tanner, Washington & McKenna Martin, Arizona 0.44 saps)
Digs - 5th Alexis Dirige 4.59 dps (Amanda Benson, Oregon 5.33 dps)
Blocks - 1st Claire Martin 1.59 bps & 5th Taylor Mims 1.41 bps
Points - 5th Kyra Holt 4.38 pps (Adora Anae, Utah 5.25 pps)

TEAM STATISTICS: 
Rank in Overall Matches (Leader)
Kills - WSU is 7th at 13.24 kps (UCLA 15.06 kps)
Hitting Percentage - WSU is 7th at .208 (Oregon .313)
Opponent Hitting Pct - WSU is 3rd at .172 (Stanford .151)
Assists - WSU is 7th at 12.29 aps (Oregon 14.33 aps)
Service Aces - WSU is 2nd at 1.12 saps (Washington 1.50 saps)
Digs - WSU is 10th at 13.24 dps (USC 17.06 dps)
Blocks - WSU is 2nd at 3.21 bps (Stanford 3.29 bps)

WSU IN NCAA NATIONAL STATISTICS (as of 10/3):
> WSU is 2nd in Team blocks per set at 3.33 bps
> WSU is 5th in Opponent Hitting percentage at .129
> WSU is 5th in Team total blocks at 193.0
> WSU is 9th in Win/Loss percentage at .875 (14-2)
> WSU is 43rd in Team hitting percentage at .258

INDIVIDUALS
> Claire Martin is 12th in blocks per set at 1.55 bps
> Taylor Mims is 13th in total blocks at 86 blocks
> Taylor Mims is 15th in blocks per set at 1.48 bps
> Taylor Mims is 35th in hitting percentage at .387
> Claire Martin is 37th in total blocks at 76 blocks
> Kyra Holt is 68th in points per set at 4.35 pps
> Kyra Holt is 81st in kills per set at 3.76 kps
> Kyra Holt is 87th in total points at 252.5 points
> Kyra Holt is 97th in total kills at 218 kills