No. 15 Tech Set to Host Syracuse and Boston College – Volleyball — Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

THE FLATS – No. 15 Georgia Tech volleyball (18-5, 10-4 ACC) returns home to O’Keefe Gymnasium to celebrate its eight graduating seniors before Friday’s 5 p.m. match against Syracuse (14-12, 2-12 ACC). The Yellow Jackets will finish the week hosting Boston College (12-14, 5-9 ACC) Sunday at 1 p.m. Tech most recently went 1-1 on west coast after sweeping Cal and falling to No. 6 Stanford its seventh top-25 match of the season.

Parking

Standard parking will be available in the Family Housing lots for Friday night’s match while standard parking will be available in the McCamish, East O’Keefe and Family Housing lots for Sunday’s match.

Clear Bag Policy

Georgia Tech has implemented a clear bag policy. Any outside items brought into the facility must be contained within a clear bag. For more information on Georgia Tech’s policy, go to https://ramblinwreck.com/clearbag/

Week Schedule

Storylines

• This is head coach Michelle Collier’s 11th season on The Flats, tying AVCA Hall of Famer Shelton Collier for the longest tenured coach in program history. At GT, she has 215 wins (2nd most behind Shelton Collier), 121 ACC victories (program record) seven NCAA Tournament match victories (program record) & is the first coach to have led the Jackets to four straight NCAA Tournament appearances.
• Tech remains in the top-25 polls for the 82^ndconsecutive week and within the top-20 rankings for the 59^th consecutive week after being ranked 15th in the latest AVCA/TARAFLEX Division I Women’s Volleyball Poll.
• Georgia Tech volleyball saw a 15^th place ranking back in September before downing both South Alabama and Alabama State.
• The Yellow Jackets are one of only two Power 4 programs (Oklahoma) to have three players averaging over 3.00 kills/set: Tamara Otene (3.54), Bertolino (3.45), and Larissa Mendes (3.10).
• Otene leads the Yellow Jackets in kills with 297 while Bertolino sits just behind her with 290. The two seniors work on offense help the Yellow Jackets sit fifth in conference standings for kills with 11,115 kills total, averaging 13.27 kills per set.
• Otene hit the 1,000 career kill mark with 11 kills last season against Boston College (Oct. 27) and now nears the 1,000 kill mark as a Yellow Jacket.
• Bertolino is two service aces away from setting a new modern scoring era record and is on track to surpass Julia Bergmann who racked up 164 service aces during her time as a Yellow Jacket (2019-22).
• Senior Bertolino is 12th in the nation and seventh among P4 players…