Lady Flames Set to Host WKU on Senior Weekend
11/13/2025 9:55:00 AM | Women's Volleyball
Liberty (20-7, 8-6 CUSA) closes out the regular season against defending CUSA champion WKU (22-5, 13-1), Friday and Saturday at Liberty Arena.
Quick Hits
Team Notes
Quick Hits
- The Lady Flames carry a four-match winning streak into the weekend, most recently earning a pair of five-set victories at Missouri State. The Hilltoppers have won five in a row since an Oct. 24 loss to UTEP which snapped WKU's 100-match Conference USA regular-season winning streak.
- WKU is tied with UTEP atop CUSA standings, while Liberty sits in fifth place.
- The Flames have secured their 24th 20-win season in program history and first since 2022 (22-9).
- Jenna Otts leads Liberty with 22 double-digit kill matches, scoring 10 or more kills in 11 straight.
- 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.
- Carly O'Brien leads Liberty with 14 double-doubles, totaling 28 kills and 20 digs on Friday at Missouri State before recording 15 kills and 24 digs, Saturday.
- During Liberty's current four-match winning streak, the Lady Flames average 15.29 kills per set.
- Liberty is 9-2 in five-set matches this season, with its nine five-set wins being its most since 2012 (9).
- On Friday at Missouri State, Liberty's 82 kills were its most since scoring 82 at Presbyterian College on Nov. 2, 2007. The Lady Flames' 98 digs were their most since collecting 100 digs at UC Irvine, Sept. 16, 2010.
- Liberty (Otts - 3.31; Overcash - 3.28; O'Brien - 3.06) is the only CUSA team with three players averaging 3.0 kills per set or more.
Team Notes
- There have been 13 matches this season in which Carly O'Brien, Jenna Otts and Paige Overcash have all reached double figures in kills, including in each of the last for matches.
- Based on current league standings, Liberty can finish anywhere from fourth to seventh seed in the 2025 CUSA Volleyball Championship, which will be hosted by FIU next week in Miami, Fla.
- 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 this 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 at Liberty. 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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