The William & Mary volleyball team brings its four-game homestand to a close on Friday night, hosting James Madison in its lone match of the weekend.  The Tribe and the Dukes will square off at 7 p.m. in Kaplan Arena, in a match that can be followed through both live stats and live video on TribeAthletics.com.

Scouting the Tribe
W&M is 8-16 overall and 2-9 in the Colonial Athletic Association, after three matches in four days last weekend.  Junior Sydney Biniak (Elkridge, Md.) leads the team with 3.07 kills per set, with freshman Casey Foote (Prospect, Ky.) close behind with 2.97 kills per set.  On defense, junior Paige Humphrey (Oak Hill, Va.) has 0.87 blocks per set and sophomore Katie Primatic (Pittstown, N.J.) 0.82 per set, while junior Sara Zumbach (Franklin, Tenn.) ranks among the Tribe's all-time leaders with 4.59 digs per set.

Scouting the Dukes
JMU enters the weekend at 14-10 on the year and 6-5 in the CAA after three straight wins at home.  Janey Goodman is the reigning CAA Player of the Year, and ranks again atop the league with 4.58 kills per set on a .315 attack and 0.95 blocks per set.  Taylor Gail leads the defense with 1.25 blocks per set, and away from the net, Taylor Austin has 5.81 digs per set.

The Series
The Tribe and Dukes have met 88 times before Friday, and the all-time series is all square 44-44.  W&M is 18-11 all-time in Williamsburg, though JMU has won seven in a row.

News and Notes
- Oct. 22 against Northeastern, Zumbach surpassed the 1,000-dig mark in her career, just the ninth player ever at W&M to accomplish that feat.  She did it in just 72 matches, the fastest in school history, and became the first player to surpass 300 digs in each of her first three seasons.  No Tribe player has ever collected 300 digs all four years.

- Sophomore Katie Kemp (Brentwood, Tenn.) set career-highs in every category but aces against Northeastern.  She had 53 assists, 18 digs, four blocks, a kill, and five attempts.

- W&M's efforts for the "Dig Pink" campaign netted more than $1500 for stage 4 cancer treatment and research.

- Freshman Autumn Brenner (McLean, Va.) already ranks 16th all-time at W&M, across all eras, with 732 assists so far this season.  If she can reach 1,000 assists, it'll be just the ninth-such season ever for the Tribe, and the first since 2008.  The school, and freshman, record for a single year is 1,332 assists by Sarah Gubler '02 in 1998 (11.29 average).  Brenner is currently on pace for 885 assists, which would be the 17th-most all-time and the second-most for the current 25-pt scoring era (1,030 by Kim Mount '09 in 2008).

- Senior Gabrielle Pe (Virginia Beach, Va.) is closing in on 1,000 career digs, just 19 away from the magic milestone.  She currently ranks 10th all-time at W&M.  If both Zumbach and Pe reach 1,000 digs this season, they'll be the second pair of teammates to achieve that feat alongside Kathleen Hawley '07 and Erin Simmons '06, who both reached 1,000 in the 2005 season.

- Pe reached another major milestone against Hofstra on Oct. 21, becoming just the 16th player in school history to appear in more than 400 sets in her career.

- Foote is just 30 kills away from 300 for the season, a mark that would put her in select company.  Only three other players in school history have made 300 kills in their freshman campaigns, including Jennifer Torns '92 (383 in 1988), Becky Eggering '93 (326 in 1989), and Erin Skipper '11 (326 in 2007).

- The win over UNCW on Oct. 9 was the Tribe's 50th all-time in the series, the first school W&M has reached that milestone against.

- In the first match against Northeastern, Humphrey made three blocks to surpass the 200-block milestone.  She's just the fourth player in the current era (25-pts per set) to reach that mark.

- Primatic's Defensive Player of the Week nod on Oct. 11 came after she averaged 1.67 blocks, 1.89 kills, and 2.94 points per set.  She had seven kills and eight blocks in the win over Charleston, and tied her career-high with 10 kills and seven blocks against UNCW.

- Brenner made 64 assists as the Tribe earned a 3-2 comeback win over Davidson at the Gamecock Invitational, tied for 13th-most ever in a match for W&M.  It was also the highest total for any Tribe player since Cassie Crumal '11 made 66 in a match in 2007.

- Brenner was named the CAA Offensive Player of the Week on Sept. 19, after earning her second all-tournament nod of the season at the Gamecock Invitational with 10.88 assists per set.

- Foote earned W&M's first 20-kill match of the year in the win over Davidson.  The freshman record is 30, set in 2007 by Erin Skipper '11.

- This semester, junior Maddie Sanford (Georgetown, Texas) was inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma, the premier national honor society for business students.  Induction is limited to the top 10% of each class at member universities, comparable to requirements for Phi Beta Kappa (which has not traditionally inducted business students).

- Against VCU, Zumbach made a career-high 34 saves.  That's tied for the sixth-most ever in a match at W&M, and the most since All-American Lindsey Pflugner '10 also had 34 in a match in 2009.

- The match against VCU was also the Tribe's "Lace Up 4 Pediatric Cancer" fundraiser.  W&M well-surpassed its goal of $500 dollars, raising more than $800 on the night for the Go 4 the Goal Foundation.

- The Tribe's win in the Colonial Classic was its fifth home tournament title in the last decade.  In that span, W&M is 28-10 overall in home events.

- Foote was named the MVP of the Colonial Classic, after averaging 4.1 kills, 3.6 digs, and 4.5 points per set.  Brenner was also named to the all-tournament team, with a nigh-unfathomable 12.0 assists per set, as Primatic, who hit .552 and averaged 0.75 blocks per set.

- Foote was named the all-tournament team at Belmont, after averaging 2.5 kills and 2.6 digs per set for the weekend.

- Sophomore Heather Pippus (Lake Oswego, Ore.) was named to the all-tournament team at Clemson on the opening weekend, after scoring 18 kills against both Wofford and High Point.

- The Tribe started the year with three-straight five-set matches for the first time ever.  It was only the seventh three-match stretch of its kind in school history, while the school record of four-straight five-set matches was set back in 1988.

- Brenner was named the CAA Rookie of the Week on Aug. 29, after piling up  132 assists at the Clemson Invitational.  That was more than five other CAA teams had total on the first weekend.

- Melissa Ferris is in her first season as W&M's head coach, after a very successful 18 years as an assistant coach in Division I.  Her most recent stop was at Rice, where she spent 12 years.  Ferris is the eighth head coach in school history.

- W&M earned a perfect 1000 score in the APR last year, led by the classroom heroics of Pe and Sanford, who were both named to the W&M Provost's Award list (for having a GPA over 3.5).

- If Pe plays every scheduled match this season, she'll tie the Tribe's all-time record of 121 matches currently held by Jill Hannah '98.  She can hold the record outright if W&M makes the CAA Tournament for the fourth time in the last five seasons.