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Liberty Volleyball Set for Road Test at UTEP
10/2/2025 10:16:00 AM | Women's Volleyball
Liberty (14-1, 2-0) carries a 10-match winning streak into a weekend matchup at UTEP (12-2, 2-0). It is the only CUSA series this weekend where both teams are 2-0 in conference play.
Quick Hits
Quick Hits
- The Lady Flames are tied with BYU for the most wins of any NCAA Division I volleyball program so far this season, at 14-1. Only Nebraska (12-0) and Texas (11-0) have better winning percentage than Liberty.
- Liberty (Rutgers, Houston) and UTEP (Arizona) both have Power Four wins on their resume this season. Entering the weekend, UTEP (.299) and Liberty (.285) rank first and second in CUSA in attack percentage.
- A Liberty player has won the CUSA Offensive Player of the Week each of the first five weeks of the season, with Paige Overcash winning the first three, followed by Carly O'Brien (Sept. 22) and Jenna Otts (Sept. 29).Â
- UTEP is 6-0 against Liberty in volleyball, with the Miners defeating the Lady Flames in the first round of the CUSA Volleyball Championship in both 2023 and 2024.
- Jenna Otts leads Liberty with 13 double-digit kill matches, including nine straight 10-kill contests entering this week.
- Liberty (Carly O'Brien - 31 at Houston; Paige Overcash - 30 vs. ECU) is the only NCAA Division I volleyball team with two players who have 30-kill matches this year.
- Liberty outhit Louisiana Tech .379-.032 last weekend, with the Lady Flames posting 3.00 blocks per set. The Lady Flames also served up 3.00 aces per set.
- Liberty is 6-0 in five-set matches this season.
- On Saturday against LA Tech, Zoe Hall's nine blocks were the most by a Lady Flame this season, while Aubrey Acheson served up a team season-high five aces.
- Liberty's current 10-match winning streak is its longest since winning 12 in a row from Oct. 14 through Nov. 18, 2022. The 2022 season marked Liberty's most recent conference regular-season title (Atlantic Sun) and most recent 20-win season (23-9).
- On Aug. 30, Liberty overcame a 2-0 deficit for the first time since 2016, beating Rutgers. Liberty's six five-set wins are its most since posting six five-set victories during the full 2012 season.
- Liberty's .440 hitting percentage against LA Tech was its sixth best single-match attack percentage in the rally-scoring era and best since hitting .461 (41-6-76) against Elon, Sept. 7, 2019.
- Liberty is the only CUSA team with three players (O'Brien, Otts, Overcash) averaging 3.0 kills per set or more.
- Jeremy White begins his first season at Liberty. He served as head coach at Southeastern Louisiana for the last six years, posting a 113-58 record and leading the Lions to two NCAA Tournaments. Last year, Southeastern posted a nation-leading 24-match winning streak.
- Former Tulsa head coach Ryan Wills (2014-22) serves as an assistant coach. Mackenzie Martin is in her first year as an assistant coach after finishing her playing career at The Citadel last season.
- Liberty welcomes 11 newcomers this season, including four transfers. Graduate students Zoe Hall (TCU) and Shyia Richardson (Louisiana) join the Lady Flames, along with junior Molly Littlefield (Gardner-Webb) and sophomore Layla Collins (Virginia Tech).
- Freshman Kayla O'Brien joins her older sister, sophomore Carly O'Brien, on the Lady Flames' roster. They are the first pair of sisters to play for Liberty Volleyball in the same season since Abby and Kate Phillips in 2021.
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