Fresh off winning the Colonial Classic last weekend, the William & Mary volleyball team hosts VCU on Tuesday night. The 7 p.m. match-up has also been designated "Lace Up 4 Pediatric Cancer" night, raising funds and awareness for research and treatment of pediatric cancers.
Lace Up 4 Pediatric Cancer
From the Go 4 the Goal Foundation:
Lace Up 4 Pediatric Cancer began in the fall of 2011. Since then, professional, college and youth teams have participated in raising funds and awareness for kids battling cancer, the #1 disease killer of children. To date, over 250,000 athletes have Laced Up to show their commitment to the fight against pediatric cancer.
Go4theGoal's unwavering mission is to improve the lives of children battling cancer by providing financial support, developing and implementing unique hospital programs, funding innovative research, and granting personal wishes. Go4theGoal provides the best practices to patients, their families, and the hospitals and staff that care for them. Go4theGoal has been named a "Top Rated Nonprofit" by Great Nonprofits from 2012-2015.
For more information or to help the Tribe achieve its fundraising goal, visit
https://donate.go4thegoal.org/fundraise?fcid=755737.
Scouting the Tribe
W&M went 3-0 at the Colonial Classic last weekend, lifting the season record to 4-5 overall. Freshman
Casey Foote (Prospect, Ky.) was named the MVP of the tournament, after leading all players with 4.1 kills and 4.5 points per set. She also ranked seventh with 3.6 digs per set, and 10th with 0.3 aces per set. Joining Foote on the all-tournament team was classmate
Autumn Brenner (McLean, Va.), who averaged a spectacular 12.0 assists per set to go with 0.5 assists and 088 blocks; as well as sophomore
Katie Primatic (Pittstown, N.J.). Primatic hit a sparkling .552 for the weekend, more than 200 percentage points better than any other player from the four teams, and also provided 0.75 blocks per set.
Scouting the Rams
VCU comes into tonight with a 4-6 record, with a win over High Point and Charleston Southern last week. On offense, the Rams are being led by Sahbria McLetchie with 3.71 kills per set and Alica Kandler with 3.06 kills per set, hwile on defense Jasmin Sneed and Tori Baldwin both have 1.17 blocks per set and Rebekah Strange 5.06 digs per set.
The Series
The Tribe leads the all-time series with VCU, 41-38, and is 14-13 in Williamsburg.
News and Notes
- 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 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.
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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 senior
Gabrielle Pe (Virginia Beach, Va.) and junior
Maddie Sanford (Georgetown, Texas) 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.
