No. 7 Tech Advances to the Second Round of the NCAA Tournament – Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

MADISON, WIS. – No. 7 seed Georgia Tech volleyball (21-9, 12-8 ACC) continues its 2024 season after knocking out the Tennessee Volunteers (15-12, 11-0 SEC) in round one of the NCAA Volleyball Tournament on Thursday night in five-set fashion. Tamara Otene had the performance of a season with a career-high 33 kills, the most kills by a Yellow Jacket in an NCAA appearance under the direction of Michelle Collier. Bianca Bertolino also showed-out on Thursday’s match with a career-high 25 kills.

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• Otene becomes the second Yellow Jacket to record 30+ kills in a NCAA Tournament match while Collier is at the helm. Julia Bergmann was the first with 31 kills against Lipscomb in the 2021 season.
• Her 15 digs against Tennessee earned Otene her 13^th double-double of the season, 35^th overall. Otene has earned a double-double in all of Tech’s last four contests.
• This was the fourth match this season Otene hit .400 or higher.
• Bertolino’s 25 kills are the third most in an NCAA Tournament match by a Collier-coached Yellow Jacket.
• Her 25 kills and 15 digs earned the Argentinian her 17^th double-double this season, 34^th overall as well as brought her to 24 games with double-digit kills this season.
• Sofia Velez has now recorded 10 or more digs in 104 of her 110 collegiate matches after posting 19 digs against the Volunteers
• Bertolino’s performance put her just shy of the 400-kill mark this season (398) while Otene sits with 443.
• Luanna Emiliano led the team as far as assists with 37, the third most by a Tech player in the NCAA Tournament under Collier, while Heloise Soares recorded a season-high 28 assists in the Jackets’ 5-2 rotation.
• Emiliano’s 37 assists and 13 digs earned the setter her 12^th double-double of the season, 79^th of her career.
• Liv Mogridge and Logan Wiley tied the Yellow Jacket modern scoring era record for blocks in a NCAA Tournament with five respectively.
• As a team, Tech recorded a season-high 79 kills and 76 assists.
• The Yellow Jackets also had their second highest number of total attempts (194) and third highest number of digs (81).
• This is the second time Georgia Tech has gone to five-sets in a NCAA Tournament match.
• The Yellow Jackets tied their modern scoring era record for points in an NCAA Tournament match, 111, which was previously set against Florida in the 2023 season.
• This was Tech’s fifth consecutive five-set match, 11th five-set match this season.

SET BY SET

Set 1 (GT 25- TEN 18)

Set one saw a tight matchup between the Yellow Jackets…