Lady Flames to Host Jax State in CUSA Home Opener
10/2/2024 10:15:00 AM | Women's Volleyball
Liberty (8-6, 2-0) opens up the home portion of its Conference USA schedule this weekend, hosting Jacksonville State (7-8, 0-2).
- The Lady Flames were voted fourth in the CUSA Preseason Coaches' Poll, while Jax State appears eighth.
- The Lady Flames, one of four teams to start CUSA play at 2-0, posted a pair of wins at Louisiana Tech last weekend. Liberty outhit LA Tech, .221-.067. Meanwhile, the Gamecocks fell twice at defending CUSA champion Western Kentucky.
- Kate Gammer averaged 4.14 kills per set in two matches at Louisiana Tech, leading all players in kills on both Friday (15) and Saturday (14). She needs 44 more kills to reach 1,000 for her career.
- Erica Lowery collected 5.14 digs per set, adding 0.57 aces per set, at Louisiana Tech. She posted back-to-back 20-dig matches, Sept. 21 and Sept. 27.
- Gammer (3.27) and Kamryn Bacus (3.23) are the only pair of teammates in Conference USA to both average 3.0 kills or better this season.
- Madison Blane ranks fourth in CUSA in both hitting percentage (.322) and blocks per set (1.21). She is the reigning CUSA Defensive Player of the Year.
- Liberty setter Charli Morris dished out a season-high 26 assists, Friday at LA Tech. Morris (4.65 assists per set) and Charli Crowson (4.86) share setting duties. Crowson is second in CUSA with 0.45 aces per set.
- Gardner-Webb transfer Autumn Flowers is ranked sixth in CUSA with a .320 hitting percentage.
- Current Liberty assistant coach Todd Garvey will coach against Jax State for the first time since guiding the Gamecocks to a 103-39 record in five seasons as their head coach (2018-22). He went 2-0 against Liberty during his time at Jax State.
- Liberty held Louisiana Tech to a -.011 hitting percentage on Saturday, making LA Tech the first Liberty opponent to hit negative for a full match since NJIT on Oct. 11, 2019.
- Liberty is off to a 2-0 Conference USA record under first-year head coach Nolan Albrecht. The best conference start for a Liberty first-year head volleyball coach came in 2018, when the Lady Flames started ASUN play at 4-0 for then first-year head coach Trevor Johnson.
- Liberty has posted two 15-ace matches so far this season. That is the most 15-ace matches by the Lady Flames since 2002, when Liberty also served up 15 or more aces twice.
- This is the first time in program history that two Liberty freshmen (Carly O'Brien, Charli Crowson) have both posted a five-ace match in the same season.
- On Sept. 7 against UC San Diego, Liberty placed four (Kamryn Bacus - 16, Kate Gammer - 15, Elizabeth Helmich - 11, Madison Blane - 10) in double figures in kills. It was the first time since Dec. 3, 2022 against Western Carolina that four Lady Flames scored 10+ kills in the same match.
- Kate Gammer and Kamryn Bacus have both scored 10 or more kills in the same match 27 times in their careers, including on four occasions this season. Liberty is 21-6 in those matches.
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