Lady Flames Set for Weekend Matches at Delaware
10/30/2025 9:28:00 AM | Women's Volleyball
Liberty (16-7, 4-6) plays its next four matches on the road against CUSA newcomers, beginning this Friday and Saturday at Delaware (7-12, 4-6).
Quick Hits
Quick Hits
- The Lady Flames and Blue Hens are tied in league standings at 4-6. Both teams have gone a combined 4-4 against common CUSA opponents.
- This week will mark Liberty's first trip to Delaware since posting a 3-1 win at Delaware, Sept. 23, 2000.
- Delaware went 20-7 last season, claiming a share of the CAA regular-season title before falling to Charleston in five sets in the conference final.
- In the preseason CUSA coaches' poll, Delaware was picked third and Liberty, sixth.
- Liberty tied its best 20-match start to a season in program history, as the Lady Flames started the 1996, 2008, 2014 and 2025 seasons at 15-5.
- Jenna Otts leads Liberty with 20 double-digit kill matches, scoring 10 or more kills in seven straight matches and 16 out of the last 17 contests.
- 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 outside hitter Carly O'Brien leads the Lady Flames with 11 double-doubles, followed by setter Alison Bierwagen with nine double-doubles.
- Jenna Otts posted her first 20-kill match as a Lady Flame, Friday against FIU, joining Carly O'Brien and Paige Overcash. This is the first time since 2019 that three Lady Flames have had at least one 20-kill match in the same year.
- Sophomore Layla Collins recorded a career-high seven blocks, Saturday against FIU.
- Charli Crowson went on a 10-point serving run during the fifth set of Liberty's win at Middle Tennessee, Oct. 18. She is the second Lady Flame this season to serve for 10 straight points, as Alison Bierwagen served up 10 consecutive points to start the Louisiana Tech match, Sept. 26.
- Liberty hit .305 on Oct. 10 against Kennesaw State. It was the team's eighth match hitting .300 or better this season, the most .300 matches by Liberty since the 2022 season (11).
- Liberty has posted its first-ever volleyball win over a Big Ten team (Rutgers) and Big 12 team (Houston) this season.
- Liberty received Conference USA Offensive Player of the Week honors each of the first five weeks of the 2025 season, in Paige Overcash (three times), Carly O'Brien (Sept. 22) and Jenna Otts (Sept. 29).
- Jeremy White is in 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).
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