The William & Mary volleyball team wraps up its season-long homestand on Saturday night, hosting Elon in the "Spike Out Breast Cancer" game at 7 p.m. in Kaplan Arena.

Spike Out Breast Cancer
Saturday night is the Tribe's annual "Spike Out Breast Cancer" game, benefiting the Williamsburg chapter of Beyond Boobs!.  Beyond Boobs! is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting women diagnosed with breast cancer, as well as providing breast health education for all.  For more information, visit www.beyondboobs.org.

Scouting the Tribe
W&M is 8-12 on the year and 2-5 in the CAA, after sweeping Delaware 3-0 at home on Monday.  The Tribe is currently sixth in the league standings at the turn of the loop, and on pace to make the conference tournament.  As a team, the Green and Gold is ranked third in conference play with 1.15 aces per set, all the more impressive because no player is ranked among the league's top-10 individually.

Players who are in the top-10 in their categories include senior Carolyn Albright (Raleigh, N.C.), who's ranked fifth in the CAA with a .314 attack percentage.  She also leads the Tribe in blocks, with 0.88 per set.  Freshman Katie Kemp (Brentwood, Tenn.) is ninth in the conference with 5.47 assists per set as one half of W&M's setting rotation, and senior Dessi Koleva (Torrance, Calif.) ranks among the league-leaders in three different categories.  She is seventh in kills per set, with 3.27, and eighth in points, at 3.5 per set.  She also ranks 10th in digs (3.42 per set), and for the fourth time in four years is the only player to rank top-10 in both kills and digs.

Scouting the Phoenix
Elon is 3-17 overall and winless in league play.  Megan Gravley leads the team at 2.73 kills per set, while Ally Karle is a defensive menave at 1.20 blocks per set.  In the backcourt, Maddie Jaudon has 3.94 digs per set.

The Series
The Tribe is 4-1 all-time against its newest conference rival, including a perfect 4-0 in Williamsburg.  Last year, W&M won 3-1 at home, before Elon won 3-2 at their home gym.

News and Notes
- Against JMU, Koleva became the third player in school history with 1,000+ kills and 1,000+ digs in her career, joining Hall-of-Famers Heidi Erpelding '89 and Jennifer Torns '92 as the only players in school history with the "double-quadruple."  Koleva is also just the ninth player ever to surpass 1,000 kills, and the first since Erin Skipper '11.

- Albright is now just 10 blocks away from 400 in her career, a mark only three other players in school history have ever met.  Beth Ann Hull '89 was the first to accomplish that feat, with 409 blocks, then was surpassed by Anna Agbe-Davies '93 with 547 (still the record).  In recent years, only Caitlin Geraghty '06 has reached 400, making 482 stops in her career.

- Koleva was named to the all-tournament team at the AU Eagle Invitational, her third all-tournament honor in four events this season.

- Heather Pippus (Lake Oswego, Ore.) closed out the weekend in D.C. with a bang, with 17 kills and 20 digs in the win over UMBC.  Her 17 kills were the most for a Tribe freshman since Koleva hit the same mark in 2012.

- At the ECU Pirate Invitational, both Koleva and Pippus earned all-tournament honors.

- Mallory Brickerd (Ashburn, Va.) was named to the all-tournament team at Army, after leading W&M in kills, aces, and points on the weekend.

- Over the weekend at Army, Koleva became the eighth player in school history with 1,000+ digs in her career.

- After the season opening victory at the Tribe Invitational, W&M has now won five of its last eight home tournaments.

- Sara Zumbach (Franklin, Tenn.) was named the MVP of the Tribe Invitational, while Koleva and Albright also joined her on the all-tournament team.

- W&M leads the CAA in returning all-conference players with three; Koleva, Michelle Heath (Rustburg, Va.), and Zumbach.

- Coach Shelton is just five wins away from 100 at W&M.  She was also the head coach at Virginia for 13 years, amassing 235 wins there.