COUGARS VOLLEYBALL HEADS TO LOS ANGELES FOR RANKED FOES
The Washington State University volleyball team takes its 12-2 overall record and 1-1 Pac-12 record (ranked 33rd in the Sept. 25 AVCA Top 25 Coaches Poll) to Los Angeles for a pair of afternoon matches...WSU takes on No. 20 USC (10-3, 2-0) Sat., Sept. 30 at 1 p.m. in the Galen Center...24 hours later, WSU plays No. 13 UCLA (8-3, 1-1 pending 9/29 vs. No. 6 Washington) Sun., Oct. 1 at 1 p.m. in Pauley Pavilion...WSU defeated both UCLA and USC in 2016...links to Radio, Stats and Live Video are at the volleyball schedule page at wsucougars.com.

TUNE IN FOR COUGAR VOLLEYBALL ROAD MATCHES ON RADIO
Cougar volleyball fans can listen to all the road contests during the 2017 season LIVE in the Palouse on KQQQ-1150 AM radio…veteran area broadcaster Steve Grubbs is the voice of Cougar volleyball for the 12th consecutive season...road match audio is also available online at wsucougars.com.

WSU COACHING STAFF
Jen Stinson Greeny is in her seventh season as WSU's head coach (103-106 at WSU, 7 years; 215-130 in career, 11 years)...2016 Pac-12 Coach of the Year...Greeny bio on page 5...staff includes associate head coach Burdette Greeny (seventh year) and assistant coach Shannon Hunt (fifth year)...all coaches are former WSU student-athletes...technical operations Grant Schoenlein (first year), volunteer coach James Dorr (second year) and student coach Kyra Holt...Kaysie Shebenick is coordinator of operations (first year).

COUGARS ON THE NATIONAL STAGE
In the AVCA Coaches Top 25 Sept. 25 Poll the Cougars are 33rd...in other national rankings for Sept. 25 include: VolleyMob.com - 26th; PrepVolleyball.com - 28th; Pablo Rankings - 34th; Rich Kern Poll - 33rd; RKPI - 37th; and Massey Ratings - 24th...WSU will play eight teams this season that are ranked or have received votes in the AVCA Coaches Preseason Top 25 Poll...complete poll on page 4.

SINGING THE '17 SUPERLATIVES
US Collegiate National Team- Europe: Taylor Mims, All-Tournament Team, 
    Gold Medal at 13th Annual Global Challenge
US Collegiate National Team- Thailand: McKenna Woodford
US Collegiate Natl Team- Minneapolis: Casey Schoenlein
Mexican National Team at FIVB Grand Prix: Jocelyn Urias
Cougar Challenge Tournament, Pullman, Wash., WSU 1st place
    All-Tournament Team: Taylor Mims and McKenna Woodford
Missouri St. Dr. Mary Jo Wynn Invitational, Springfield, Mo., WSU 1st place
    All-Tournament: Taylor Mims MVP; McKenna Woodford, Ashley Brown

COUGARS DOMINATING AT MIDDLE BLOCKER
A pair of WSU middle blockers are dominating the Pac-12 with a combination of blocking and high percentage hitting...redshirt sophomore Jocelyn Urias and junior Ella Lajos are newcomers to the MB starting roles but have put up outstanding numbers...to date, Urias has 77 kills with 13 errors in 153 attacks for a .418 hitting percentage, second in Pac-12, and also has a 1.48 blocks per set average, fifth-best in Pac-12, 20th in NCAA...Lajos has 87 kills with 22 errors in 187 attacks for a .348 hpct, 9th-best in Pac-12 and also contributes 1.32 blocks per set which is eighth-best in Pac-12...in WSU's 3-1 win at Arizona, Urias went 10k-0e-18a (.556) with four blocks and Lajos was 7k-0e-13a (.538) with two blocks...WSU is the ONLY SCHOOL with two players in both the Pac-12 Hitting Percentage and Blocks Top 10 lists this week.

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