The William & Mary volleyball team hits the road this weekend for the final time this season, traveling south to face UNCW and College of Charleston.  The Tribe will take on the Seahawks Friday night at 7 p.m., and finish the trip at Charleston on Sunday at 1 p.m.  Live video and live stats are available for both matches on TribeAthletics.com.

Scouting the Tribe
W&M is 8-17 overall, and 2-10 in the Colonial Athletic Association entering the final two weeks of the season.  Junior Sydney Biniak (Elkridge, Md.) leads the offense with 3.05 kills per set, while freshmen Casey Foote (Prospect, Ky.) and Alex Stein (East Setauket, N.Y.) are providing 2.91 and 2.20 kills per set as well.  On defense, the junior class again leads, with Paige Humphrey (Oak Hill, Va.) locking down the net with 0.85 blocks per set, and Sara Zumbach (Franklin, Tenn.) having a career-year with 4.51 digs per set.

Scouting the Seahawks
UNCW is 14-10 overall and 4-8 in the CAA, currently a game behind pace to make the tournament after losing four in a row.  The Seahawks have a number of strong individuals, including Nicole Lott who is averaging 3.37 kills and 3.15 digs per set, and Kendall Bender, who leads three players with more than a block per set at 1.54.  In the backourt, Sydney Alvis has 4.31 digs per set.

Scouting the Cougars
The College of Charleston is 15-10 overall, 8-5 in league play after falling to JMU on Thursday night, and will play Elon on Saturday before facing the Tribe.  The Cougars have three players averaging better than 2.7 kills per set, led by Devon Rachel who has 2.81 kills per set.  McKala Rhodes is among the CAA leaders with 4.83 digs per set, and Jane Feddersen leads the team in blocks with 0.94 per set.

The Series
- Earlier this season, the Tribe downed defending champions UNCW in five sets in Williamsburg.  That brought the all-time series to 50-11 in favor of W&M.
- That same weekend, W&M also beat Charleston 3-1 for its first win in the series.

News and Notes
- Senior Gabrielle Pe (Virginia Beach, Va.) is closing in on 1,000 career digs, just six 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.

- 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.

- Foote is just 24 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).

- 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 739 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).

- 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.

- 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.  All-time, Humphrey's 203 block-assists ties her for 16th in school history.

- Sophomore Katie Primatic's (Pittstown, N.J.) 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.