Volleyball On Midwest Swing To Iowa & No. 2 Nebraska

PISCATAWAY, N.J.  – Rutgers volleyball continues its current road trip heading out to the midwest to meet with Iowa on Friday, Oct. 11 at Xtreme Arena and No. 2 Nebraska at the Devaney Center on Saturday, Oct. 12.
 

• The Scarlet Knights opened Big Ten play two weeks ago with a pair of five-set contests against Iowa and at Michigan and last week faced its first top-ten Big Ten program in No. 9 Wisconsin and kicked off its current road trip at Maryland with straight-set setbacks.
• Redshirt junior Alissa Kinkela led RU in both contests last week with double-figure kills as she continues to move up the all-time career list at Rutgers with 843 career kills. Her 3.63 kills per set currently tops the Scarlet Knights’ rally-era single-seasoneason leaders list and is 11th among Big Ten attackers. 
• Also ranked in Big Ten stats are freshmen Natalie Robinson and Lily Bolen. Robinson is sixth with 1.35 blocks per set and reached the double-figure block mark for the first time in her career in the last meeting with the Hawkeyes. Bolen, meanwhile, has totaled 24 aces and averages 0.55 per set to rank eighth in the league. 
• In the mid-week clash with the No. 9 Badgers last week, Kinkela led the Scarlet Knights with 10 kills while sophomores Zora Hardison and Anna Hartman along with freshman Avery Jesewitz posted six kills apiece Junior Aly Borellis registered 25 helpers for the attack surpassing the 2,000 career assist mark. On defense, sophomore Kenzie Dyrstad logged 10 digs, while freshman Natalie Robinson, senior Emrullah and Jesewitz each had a pair of blocks.
• At Maryland on Saturday, Hardison and Hartman both collected blocking career marks. Hardison set a season-high with seven stops, which included a new career mark in block assists. Hartman, meanwhile, tied her career-high with six rejections. Borellis posted a double-double, her second as a Scarlet Knight and 20^th of her career behind 31 assists and 12 digs. Dyrstad aided the defense with a game-high 13 digs.Kinkela led the attack with 11 kills while adding six digs and three blocks.

• Rutgers hit a number of milestones in the opening week of Big Ten action with the Scarlet Knights going to five sets against both Iowa and Michigan.
• Alissa Kinkela was named the Big Ten Co-Player of the Week by the Big Ten…