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CSUN Travels to UCSB Tuesday Before Hosting Hawai'i in Finale
11/22/2022 2:27:00 PM | Women's Volleyball
CSUNÂ THIS WEEK:
MATCH #31 (BIG WEST MATCH #19)
CSUN Matadors (9-21, 4-14Â Big West) @ UC Santa Barbara (19-9, 15-3Â Big West)
Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022Â - 7:00 p.m. PT
The Thunderdome - Santa Barbara, Calif.
Live Stats // ESPN+
MATCH #32 (BIG WEST MATCH #20)
Hawai'i (20-6, 17-1 Big West) @Â CSUN Matadors (9-21, 4-14Â Big West)
Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022Â - 7:00 p.m. PT
Premier America Credit Union Arena - Northridge, Calif.
Live Stats //Â ESPN+
In-game Twitter updates:Â @CSUNWVB
FORÂ STARTERS
Coming off a split on its two-match road trip to UC Riverside and UC Davis last week, the CSUN women's volleyball team (9-21, 4-14 Big West) concludes the 2022 road schedule Tuesday at UC Santa Barbara (19-9, 15-3 Big West) at 7 p.m. The Matadors conclude the season at home Saturday against Hawai'i (20-6, 17-1 Big West) at 7 p.m. CSUN will honor its three seniors (Lauryn Anderson, Elizabeth Gannon, Magdalena Juric) is a pre-match ceremony.
FOLLOW YOUR MATADORS
Follow CSUN Matador women's volleyball online at the official home of CSUN athletics, www.GoMatadors.com. All home matches will be streamed live on ESPN+ with Darren Preston handling the play-by-play. All matches will also feature live stats at GoMatadors.com.
For road matches, related links to the match, including for any live stats, audio and video, will be posted before the match on the women's volleyball schedule page of GoMatadors.com. Fans are also encouraged to check the CSUN Athletics Department's official Twitter feed (@GoMatadors) and the volleyball-specific feed (@CSUNWVB) for news and notes throughout the week as well as updates of matches in progress.
SCOUTING THE OPPOSITION
UC Santa Barbara (19-9, 15-3Â Big West)Â picked up its 15th Big West win of the season Saturday as the Gauchos swept UC Riverside on the road. UCSB, which has yet to drop a home match in 2022, outhit the Highlanders .305 to .179 while Tallulah Froley led all hitters with 12 kills on .409 hitting.
Series: Tuesday's match is the 55th meeting all-time between CSUN and UC Santa Barbara with the Gauchos holding a 44-10 lead in the series. UCSB claimed this season's first meeting, winning in four sets in Northridge. The Matadors are 3-24 all-time against UCSB in Santa Barbara.
Hawai'i (20-6, 17-1 Big West), which travels to UC Santa Barbara on Friday before heading to Northridge on Saturday, swept CSU Bakersfield on Sunday to claim at least a share of The Big West title. Middle blocker Amber Igiede led all players with 16 and six blocks in the win over CSUB.
Series: Saturday's match is the 30th meeting all-time between CSUN and Hawai'i with the Rainbow Wahine holding a commanding 27-2 lead in the series. CSUN last defeated the Rainbow Wahine in 2014 when the Matadors won in straight sets at home. CSUN's other win over Hawai'i came the season before (2013) when the Matadors upset the Rainbow Wahine in a thrilling five-setter (15-10 in set five).
NEVAREZ MOVES UP CSUN CAREER KILLS LIST
With her ninth kill against UC Irvine on Oct. 29, senior Nicole Nevarez became the 14th player in program history to reach 1,000 career kills. With a team-high 301 kills this season, Nevarez has moved up into 12th place on the all-time CSUN kills list with 1,062. She has passed Ana Khristich (1,004 kills) and Nancy Ma (1,030 kills) this season and heads into Tuesday's match having appeared in 114 matches and 429 sets in her career while posting 1,062 career kills on 3,242 career attempts to go with 828 career digs, 198 career blocks and 72 career aces. She now ranks eighth in the CSUN all-time top-10 in career attacks and is fifth in the CSUN Rally Scoring era top-10 in solo blocks (49), seventh in attacks and ninth in kills. This season has been her best season offensively - an defensively - with season career-highs of 301 kills on a season career-high .214 hitting percentage to go with 297 digs and 69 blocks, both career-highs.
| NO. | NAME | YEARS | SETS | KILLS |
| 1. | Laura Walter | 1998-01 | 383 | 1,694 |
| 2. | Aeryn Owens | 2015-18 | 412 | 1,555 |
| 3. | Missy Clements | 1991-94 | 408 | 1,464 |
| 4. | Kathleen Dixon | 1987-90 | 434 | 1,326 |
| 5. | Nancy Nicholls | 1989-92 | 444 | 1,251 |
| 6. | Natalie Allen | 2010-14 | 468 | 1,215 |
| 6. | Casey Hinger | 2011-14 | 433 | 1,215 |
| 8. | Cieana Stinson | 2012-15 | 424 | 1,213 |
| 9. | Alexis Cormier | 1998-01 | 341 | 1,196 |
| 10. | Mahina Haina | 2010-13 | 417 | 1,181 |
| 11. | Angela Hupp | 2006-09 | 431 | 1,122 |
| 12. | Nicole Nevarez | 2018- | 429 | 1,062 |
| 13. | Nancy Ma | 1996-98 | 229 | 1,030 |
| 14. | Ana Khristich | 1991-94 | 450 | 1,004 |
BARRON LEADS BIG WEST WITH SIX TRIPLE-DOUBLESÂ
After posting her first career triple-double in CSUN's five-set win over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on Sept. 16, Carisa Barron has notched five triple-doubles in 17 Big West matches. The only Big West women's volleyball player with multiple triple-doubles this season (UC Riverside's Tayler Hifo has one), Barron has three triples in her last seven matches.
The sophomore from Bakersfield, who notched her sixth of the season at UC Riverside (12 kills-10 digs-19 assists) last week, has emerged as one of CSUN's top offensive threats this season. She ranks third on the Matadors with 234 kills (2.02 kps) while also averaging a team-high 5.10 assists per set along with 2.18 digs per set. With 696 total attacks this season, she has taken the most swings from the setter spot since Sydney Gedryn had 406 attacks in 2012.
MITCHELL EARNS TWO BIG WEST PLAYER OF THEÂ WEEK AWARDS
Breanna Mitchell was named Big West Defensive and Freshman of the Week after collecting 51 digs while averaging 5.67 digs per set as the Matadors split road matches at UC Riverside and UC Davis last week. In Thursday night's come-from-behind five-set victory at UC Riverside, the true freshman out of Temecula and Linfield Christian School equaled the program's rally-scoring-era single-match record of 34 digs to lead all players. That total is also the fourth-best in school history overall, and tied for second-most in a Big West contest in 2022. On Saturday afternoon in a four-set loss at UC Davis, Mitchell added a team-high 17 digs along with a pair of aces. Mitchell is now a two-time Big West Defensive Player of the Week and Big West Freshman of the Week, having also earned the pair of recognitions together back on Sept. 19.
PRICE NAMED CSUN'SÂ DIRECTOR OF WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL
John Price was named Director of Women's Volleyball at CSUN in June of 2022. He will oversee both the indoor and beach volleyball programs. Price returned to the CSUN indoor program in 2021 where he served as an assistant on interim head coach Susie Terrusa's staff. Price previously as an assistant coach on Jeff Stork's women's volleyball coaching staff from 2012-2015. He also served one season as the head coach of the CSUN women's volleyball team in 1993, compiling a record of 12-17 as an NCAA Independent.
Price's CSUN resume also includes 12 seasons as the head coach of the nationally-ranked Matador men's volleyball team (1986-1997) where he amassed an overall record of 194-158 (.551) leading CSUN to a 23-10 record and a berth in the 1993 NCAA Championship match where the Matadors fell to UCLA. Price then moved on to CSU Bakersfield women's volleyball and remains the winningest coach in program history. He posted a career record of 232-169 (.579) over 14 seasons, leading the Roadrunners to a 28-4 overall record in his first season. Price was also at the helm of the CSUB program when the school made the transition from NCAA Division II to Division I status. Price's 2008 squad was the first Roadrunner team in any sport to post a winning record (18-15) in the school's Division I era.
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