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Lady Flames Set for Visit from Kennesaw State
10/9/2025 10:59:00 AM | Women's Volleyball
Liberty (14-3, 2-2 CUSA) plays host to Kennesaw State (9-5, 3-1), Friday and Saturday at Liberty Arena.
Quick Hits
Quick Hits
- Friday will be Liberty's Dig Pink match, raising awareness for breast cancer research. Meanwhile, Liberty will celebrate its volleyball alumni with an on-court recognition on Saturday.
- This weekend's matches will feature all of this season's CUSA Offensive Player of the Year recipients so far, in Liberty's Paige Overcash (three times), Carly O'Brien (Sept. 22) and Jenna Otts (Sept. 29) and KSU's Manu Johnsen (Oct. 6).
- Kennesaw State went 2-0 last weekend at FIU, while Liberty dropped two matches at UTEP. The Owls posted a reverse sweep on Saturday, winning 3-2.
- Liberty's 10-matech winning streak, which ended last Saturday at UTEP, was its longest since a 12-match winning streak during the 2022 season.
- Jenna Otts leads Liberty with 14 double-digit kill matches, scoring 10 or more kills in 10 out of the last 11 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.
- Zoe Hall leads all CUSA players with 1.67 blocks per set in conference-only matches. In her last home match, Sept. 27 against LA Tech, she tied her career high with nine blocks.
- Liberty (Otts - 3.29; Overcash - 3.29; O'Brien - 3.05) is the only CUSA team with three players averaging three kills or more per set.
- Liberty is 6-0 in five-set matches this season, including 3-2 wins over Rutgers and Houston.
- Entering this week, only Towson (15-2) had more wins than Liberty's 14 among all NCAA Division I volleyball teams.
- Starting in the 2018 season, Liberty has faced Kennesaw State 15 times over the last eight seasons. That's more meetings than against any other team during that span.
- Liberty has already hit .300 or better more times this season (seven) than last year (twice).
- Liberty's .440 hitting percentage against LA Tech, Sept. 26 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- Freshman Kayla O'Brien joins her sister, sophomore Carly O'Brien, on the Lady Flames' roster. The last sisters to play for Liberty Volleyball in the same year were Abby and Kate Phillips in 2021.
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