Lady Flames to Host Old Dominion, Friday
1/27/2021 12:00:00 AM | Women's Volleyball
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Match Notes
Old Dominion at Liberty
Lynchburg, Va. - Liberty Arena
Match Date: Friday, Jan. 29
Match Time: 1:30 p.m.
Live Video: ESPN+
Live Stats: StatBroadcast
Liberty hosts first-year program Old Dominion on Friday at Liberty Arena. The Lady Flames opened Liberty Arena last Friday with a 3-0 setback to VCU, while the Monarchs (2-1) began the season with home wins over George Mason and Delaware State sandwiched around a 3-0 loss to VCU.
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Current Liberty sophomore Sarah Shanton spent the 2019-20 academic year training with Old Dominion volleyball before transferring to Liberty. A total of eight current Monarchs players were her teammates last year at ODU.
Liberty hosted VCU last Friday in the first volleyball match at Liberty Arena. With a 10 a.m. start, it was the earliest NCAA Division I women's volleyball match this season, and likely the earliest in a calendar year that any NCAA Division I women's volleyball match has ever been contested.
STARTING ROTATION
1. Head Coach Trevor Johnson enters his third season at the helm after being named to the VolleyballMag.com Under 40 Coaching Hotshots list. Under his guidance, Liberty has posted an average of 18 wins per season and has made two ASUN semifinal appearances.
2. After finishing in a tie for third place in the 2019 ASUN standings with an 11-5 conference record, the Lady Flames appear third in the 2021 Preseason Coaches' Poll.
3. Despite its season-opening setback to VCU last Friday, Liberty is 7-1 in non-conference home matches under third-year head coach Trevor Johnson.
4. Freshman Trinity Watts led Liberty with nine kills on Friday against VCU, becoming the first Liberty freshman since Leah Clayton against Pitt in 2016 to lead Liberty in kills during a season opener.
5. Senior Amaya Williams was voted the 2021 ASUN Fan-Voted Preseason Setter of the Year. A member of the 2017 Big South All-Freshman Team, Williams is the Lady Flames' active leader with 1,303 career assists.
6. Prior to last Friday's match agaist VCU, Kainah Williams had not played in a match since Nov. 16, 2018, a span of 798 days. She hit an efficient .556 with six kills against VCU.
7. Freshman Lydia Burts made her collegiate debut in the third set last Friday vs. VCU, totaling four blocks in that set alone. She is the first Liberty true freshman to lead the Lady Flames in blocks since Kallie Corbin had three blocks against Portland, Aug. 31, 2006.
