PISCATAWAY, N.J. – Rutgers volleyball closes the home portion of its 2022 schedule with a pair of top 10 programs. The Scarlet Knights host No. 3 Wisconsin on Friday at 7 p.m. and No. 9 Minnesota on Sunday at 1 p.m.
Rutgers will celebrate seniors Lauren DeLo, Rachel Tam and Megan Vernon following Sunday afternoon’s match-up with the Golden Gophers.
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- The Scarlet Knights will be signing post-match autographs in the lobby following Friday’s contest with the Badgers.
- Redshirt freshman Alissa Kinkela leads the Scarlet Knight offense at 2.65 k/s and is coming off a Big Ten-high 14 kills last Sunday at Iowa. Kinkela has RU on the attack 10 times this season.
- Freshman Taylor Humphrey is second on the stat sheet at 2.57 k/s. The rookie has led RU in kills in six of the last seven matches. She has had 11 double-figure kill matches, which included 16 kills at No. 5 Purdue and 10 kills at No. 6 Ohio State and No. 13 Penn State. Humphrey has collected nine double-digit outings and led RU in the category 13 times.
- Assisting the offense has been redshirt junior Lauren DeLo. DeLo is putting up 6.93 helpers per set and ranks 10th in the Big Ten.
- Junior middle Kristina Grkovic, meanwhile, leads the squad with 29 aces, including a career-high five in RU’s victory over FDU in the final nonconference weekend. More recently, she joined the rally-era season leaders’ top 10 list. Grkovic is also third on the team in kills at 2.22 k/s hitting a team-best .262. On defense, she has racked up 92 blocks, coming up with 1.05 b/s. She recently joined the Rutgers rally-era season total block and solo block leaders list.
- Graduate student Vernon with RU with 98 total blocks. She is among the all-time rally-era leaders in career and solo blocks with 17 this season and 22 in her career. She is also swinging at a team-leading .274 clip for the offense.
- Junior Madyson Chitty is averaging 2.33 d/s this season and is fourth in the rally era with 3.07 d/s over her career. More recently she became the seventh Scarlet Knight to surpass the 800-career dig mark in the rally era.
- Rutgers nearly pulled off a third-set win against No. 15 Penn State on Nov. 6. The Scarlet…
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