TEMPE – Fresh off of a sweep at then-No. 5 Oregon, No. 17 Sun Devil Volleyball is on the road for a second-straight week, traveling to Utah on Friday before heading to Colorado on Sunday.
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Friday’s match at Utah will be at 6 p.m. MDT (5 p.m. MST) in the Huntsman Center. The match at Colorado on Sunday begins at noon MDT (11 a.m. MST) in the CU Events Center. Both matchups will be on the Pac-12 Network, with live scoring available as well. As always, updates can be found on social media: @SunDevilVB on X and @sundevilvolleyball on Instagram.
Sun Devil Outlook
No. 17 Arizona State (18-2, 6-2 Pac-12)
- The Sun Devils split their matches last weekend, falling in five at Oregon State before earning a huge sweep over then-No. 5 Oregon in Eugene. That was the first top-five win for the program since 2013, just the fifth ever. It is the only true road sweep over a top-five team in ASU history.
- The ranked win boosted Arizona State in the AVCA Coaches Poll, moving up two spots to No. 17, the highest ASU has been since 2015. JJ Van Niel is just the second first-year head coach at ASU to have a ranked team, the other being Debbie Brown in 1983. Her team was ranked for 11 weeks and got as high as No. 13.
- The win over Oregon was the 12th sweep of the season and the first sweep over the Ducks since 2018, also on the road. The team is already tied for the fourth-highest number of sweeps in a season in program history, knotted with 1995. The most in a single season at ASU is 15.
- Senior opposite Marta Levinska has had a fantastic senior year so far. She leads the team in kills and is ranked in the top 25 in the nation for total kills (296), kills per set (4.23), total points (350) and points per set (5.00). She is now 48 kills away from ninth place in the record book for career kills. She cracked the top 10 over the weekend, now tied for 10th with Jami Coughlin (1998-01) Earlier this season, she was the back-to-back Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week, the first time that has happened to a Sun Devil.
- Graduate setter Shannon Shields had a strong weekend, notching double-doubles in both matches. She has had five…
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