WASHINGTON STATE (2-0, 0-0 Pac-12)
at #17 Northern Iowa (2-2, 0-0 MVC) | Fri., Aug. 31 | 4 p.m. PT
                                                              | Sat., Sept. 1 | 9:30 a.m. PT
  Television | ESPN +
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QUICK NOTES
>> Washington State enters the weekend coming off a near perfect weekend in which the team went 2-0 beating VCU, 3-0, and snapping NC State's 12-match home winning streak with a 3-1 victory.
>> WSU is 2-4 all-time against Northern Iowa last meeting in the 2009 NCAA Tournament First Round (UNI W 3-0).
>> Taylor Mims was named NC State Tournament MVP while Alexis Dirige and McKenna Woodford took all-tournament honors.
>> After one week WSU is 4th in the nation in opponent hitting percentage having held its two opponents to .034 hitting.

DIRIGE CRACKS THE TOP-10 IN DIGS
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 Mimswho 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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IN THE TWITTERVERSE

👊👊 Great start to the season. Congrats @wsuvolleyball @jagreeny. Safe travels back home. #GoCougs https://t.co/JSxmEDFo0O

— Pat Chun (@pat_chun) August 26, 2018

Nice job on road today by both @wsuvolleyball and @WSUCougarSoccer with wins to stay unbeaten in early non-conference. Those two programs setting the standard for the other non-football sports. You CAN and should win at #WSU

— Ian Furness (@IanFurnessSea) August 26, 2018

So proud of where @jagreeny and her staff are leading @wsuvolleyball ! Great representatives of what it means to be a Coug! #GoCougs https://t.co/Yxpk6IQuwR

— Jim Akers (@JimAkers1) August 26, 2018

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