PISCATAWAY, N.J. – Rutgers volleyball will be road warriors the rest of October with five of its next six games outside of New Jersey. RU begins a three-match road trip meeting No. 1 Wisconsin on Friday, Oct. 13 at 8 p.m. (ET) and travels to Illinois on Sunday, Oct. 15 for a 2 p.m. (ET) start.
- Five of Rutgers volleyball’s next next six games outside of New Jersey starting this weekend. Following this weekend’s road series, RU will close out the season series with Minnesota on Friday, Oct. 20 before hosting the Fighting Illini on Sunday, Oct. 22 at Jersey Mike’s Arena.
- Rutgers is coming off a historic victory as they knocked off No. 16 Minnesota, 3-1, for the program’s first-ever top-25 win. Three Scarlet Knights landed in double-figures with Alissa Kinkela and Big Ten Setter of the Week Alyssa Nayar each collecting double-doubles. Kinkela was one kill shy of tying her season-high with a team-leading 17 kills and 13 digs and Nayar added 45 helpers and 14 digs. Anna Hartman swung at a .407 clip with 12 kills on 27 swings with only one error and Rikki Williams collected 10 kills.
- Redshirt sophomore right side Alissa Kinkela leads the offense with 3.18 k/s and a .304 hitting percentage. In her third season “On The Banks”, Kinkela is currently third in the rally-era career kills per set at 2.84 behind Caitlin Saxton’s 3.13 k/s (2008-10) and Sarah Schmid’s 3.18 k/s (2012). In Big Ten play, she is averaging a team-leading 3.32 k/s. Over the last three final nonconference matches, Kinkela hit .457 with 41 kills on 81 attacks with only four errors to average 3.42 k/s from the right pin. More recently she tied her season-high with 18 kills hitting .325 against then-No. 19 Purdue and double-doubles versus Maryland and No. 16 Wisconsin.
- Senior middle Kristina Grkovic is second on the squad at 2.28 k/s hitting .362 along with a team-leading 19 aces, which included a career-high tying five against N.C. State. She is currently ranked 10th in hitting percentage and ninth in aces in the Big Ten. Most recently, Grkovic was one kill shy of tying her career-high last against Maryland hitting .667 in the four-set match. During the final week of nonconference play, Grkovic cracked the Rutgers rally-era career kills and aces top ten lists and is among RU’s rally-era career leaders in…
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