WASHINGTON STATEÂ (0-0, 0-0 Pac-12)
vs. Virginia Commonwealth (0-0, 0-0 A10)
 | Sat., Aug. 25 | 1 p.m. PT
 Listen Live | WSU IMG Sports Network
 Live Statistics | WSUCougars.com
at NC State (0-0, 0-0 ACC)
 | Sun., Aug. 26 | 9:30 a.m. PT
 Television | ACC Network Extra
 Listen Live | WSU IMG Sports Network
 Live Statistics | WSUCougars.com
QUICK NOTES
- Washington State begins its 46th season of volleyball when it takes on Virginia Commonwealth Saturday, Aug. 25 in Raleigh, NC on the campus of NC State.
- WSU volleyball has won its season-opening match in 27 of the past 31 years.
- The Cougars have never faced VCU or NC State in regular season action.
- WSU enters the year coming off of back-to-back NCAA Tournament Second Round appearances. The team is one of just 19 DI teams to have won an NCAA Tournament game in each of the last two years.
BACK AND BETTER THAN EVER
The Cougars return a veteran squad that is coming off back-to-back NCAA Championship tournament Second Round appearances and returns 10 letterwinners. Six seniors dot the roster for the Cougars including outside hitter
Taylor Mims who is fresh off an MVP performance for the US Collegiate National Team-Europe at the 2018 Global Challenge in Croatia. In 2017, Mims was named to the 2017 All-Pac-12 Volleyball First Team and to the PrepVolleyball.com and VolleyballMag.com All-America Honorable Mention teams. She was a team co-captain and the Cougars statistical leader with 4.17 kills per set and 4.75 points per set, both sixth-best in Pac-12, 30th and 26th in NCAA. In addition to Mims, the Cougars return nearly their entire starting lineup from a season ago with
McKenna Woodford,
Claire Martin,
Jocelyn Urias, and
Ella Lajos give WSU a potent attack to rival any team in the nation. In the back,
Alexis Dirige, upped her game yet another level over the summer as she won gold, alongside of Mims, in Croatia as Team USA's libero. The junior enters the year just outside of the Cougars' top-10 in digs after becoming the fastest player in program history to reach 1,000 digs.
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