No. 11 Georgia Tech Fights Past Florida State – Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

THE FLATS – The No. 11 Georgia Tech volleyball team rallied for a thrilling five-set victory on Friday night, coming back to defeat Florida State (21-25, 25-23, 18-25, 25-18, 16-14) inside O’Keefe Gymnasium. A career night from Paola Pimentel alongside another 20/20 double-double from Tamara Otene vaulted the Yellow Jackets to victory in front of yet another sold out crowd.

Quick Hits

• Georgia Tech has now won eight straight matches over the Seminoles, the longest winning streak in series history.
• Tech leads the all-time series, 38-22, including an excellent 23-10 record inside O’Keefe.
• This is the 21^st consecutive sellout at O’Keefe Gymnasium dating back to the 2021 season.
• Senior libero Paola Pimentel set a new career best with 29 digs, bringing her career total to 1,002. She becomes the 7^th Yellow Jacket in the modern scoring era to achieve 1,000 career digs.
• It was her seventh 20+ dig match of the season and the 11^th of her career.
• Pimentel has reached 1,000 digs while averaging 3.58 digs/set, the second highest career average in program history.
• Senior outside hitter Tamara Otene maintained her incredible form, making 20 kills and 23 digs tonight. She is now averaging 21 kills and 19 digs over her last three matches.
• This was her third consecutive double-double and second consecutive 20/20 match, the longest streak of her career.
• She becomes the first Yellow Jacket to ever accomplish back-to-back 20/20 double-doubles and is just the fifth to ever achieve multiple such matches over a career.
• The New Zealand native has now registered nine consecutive double-digit dig matches, continuing her career-best streak.
• Otene owns 938 career kills, the most on the roster as she closes in on her 1,000^th career kill.
• Freshman opposite Larissa Mendes delivered a career-best 21 kills. She becomes the first Tech freshman to record 20+ kills in an ACC match since Julia Bergmann’s 24 kill performance at Pitt (Nov. 8, 2019).
• The Brazilian has made 10+ kills in 13 of her first 17 collegiate matches.
• Freshman setter Heloise Soaresset a career-high with 59 assists, the most assists by a Yellow Jacket freshman in the modern scoring era.
• She is the first Jacket setter to reach the 50 assist mark this year.
• Junior outside hitter Bianca Bertolino notched her 40^th ace of the season in the second set. It’s the first time she has reached 40 aces in a single season as she becomes the first Jacket to reach the milestone since 2019 (Bergmann – 64). She finished the night with…