No. 16 Tech Takes Yellow Jackets’ First West Coast Trip to Play Cal and No. 6 Stanford – Volleyball — Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

THE FLATS – No. 16 Georgia Tech volleyball (17-4, 9-3 ACC) concludes its four-game ACC road stand with Cal Friday at 10 p.m. ET and No. 6 Stanford Saturday at 10 p.m. ET.

Tech most recently pulled off back-to-back five-set road wins the first of which was against Duke and the second against No. 25 UNC, which was the program’s third top-25 win of the season.  

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 214 wins (2nd most behind Shelton Collier), 120 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 81^st consecutive week and within the top-20 rankings for the 58^th consecutive week after being ranked 16th for the second week.
• This will be Tech’s third match in the overall series against Stanford, the first in almost three decades with the last meeting being back in 1995.
• The Yellow Jackets sit 1-0 over California in the overall series after their lone meeting in the 2003 season where Tech won 3-1 in Dallas, Texas.
• Senior Bianca Bertolino is 13th in the nation and sixth among P4 players with .56 aces/set this year. She has cracked the GT Top 10 for career aces (6th-160) and is on pace to set a modern scoring era record for aces/set for a career.
• She is currently on a seven-game double-double streak which started back in October against Virginia.
• Bertolino and senior Tamara Otene lead the team in kills this season with 272 respectively, both sitting with 3.49 kills/set.
• Otene recently pulled off a historic feat with the help of Luanna Emiliano, as the two Jackets were the first in program history to record 20/20 double-doubles in the same match against Duke on Friday (Otene: 27 kills, 21 digs; Emiliano: 37 assists, 20 digs).
• Otene stands as the only player in the modern scoring era with multiple 20/20 double-doubles and is now tied for 2nd most in program history (3) one away from tying Cris Omiecinski (1992-95) for the most, all-time.
• Junior libero Sofia Velez has continued to be a force to be reckoned with in the Yellow Jackets’ defensive efforts, marking 4.6 D/set last week.
• Velez has now recorded 10 or more digs in 96 of her 100 collegiate matches and has recorded 10 or more digs in the last nine consecutive matches
• The transfer has…