PISCATAWAY, N.J. – Big Ten volleyball action is back “On The Banks” and the Scarlet Knights make their first two appearances on national television this week.
Rutgers welcomes Iowa in the Big Ten opener at Jersey Mike’s Arena on Thursday at 6:00 p.m. and travels to Ann Arbor to face Michigan at Cliff Keen Arena on Sunday at 5:00 p.m. Both games will air live on BTN with Chris Vosters and Mac Podraza calling all the action against the Hawkeyes and Vosters joining Elena Shklya for the call with the Wolverines.
Admission to all home Rutgers volleyball games is free.
- Rutgers split matches in straight sets last weekend at the ODU Invitational falling to the host Monarchs who entered the weekend on a five-match win streak while besting UMES in the first-ever meeting with the Hawks.
- Natalie Robinson and Krista Dooley were both named to the all-tournament team. Robinson collected 10 kills, two aces and four blocks across the two matches, while Dooley posted five kills and five blocks.
- Against ODU, Robinson put away six kills along with a trio of blocks. RU collected seven aces with Bolen and Alissa Kinkela each serving up a pair. Anna Hartman and Alleigh Dutton led the defense with five digs each.
- In RU’s fifth sweep of the season against UMES ending nonconference action Rutgers served up 13 aces with five different Scarlet Knights serving up a point from the service line, with four Knights with multiple aces. RU was led by a career-high five aces from Lexi Visintine. Visintine and Avery Jesewitz led RU in kills with nine. while Aly Borellis set the offense up with a season-high tying 23 assists. On defense, it was Dooley with three blocks as well as Dutton leading the way in digs for the second-consecutive match with nine.
- With her five aces last weekend, Lily Bolen is up to 23 aces on the season thru 11 matches. She is four aces away from joining the RU freshman top five list. Additionally, her efforts at the service line currently have her averaging 0.66 per set ranking her 10th in the Big Ten and 20th in the country.
- In the nonconference finale with UMES last Friday, RU served up 13 aces, marking the fourth most in a match and second most in a three-set match by the Scarlet Knights in the rally era. It was the most aces in a match since also serving up 13…
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