Liberty Heads to Radford for Tuesday Match
9/7/2026 2:22:00 PM | Women's Volleyball
LYNCHBURG, Va. -Â Liberty (3-3) heads to take on former Big South rival Radford (2-4), Tuesday at the Dedmon Center.
Quick Hits
Quick Hits
- The Lady Flames posted a 1-1 record at their home tournament, Liberty Mountain Madness, over the weekend. Liberty swept Lamar before falling in four sets to three-time defending Big South champion High Point. Middle blockers Laney Daniell and Layla Collins combined to average 4.85 kills per set at a .542 clip.
- Radford, which was predicted to finish sixth in the Big South preseason coaches poll, went 1-2 at the Georgia Southern Tournament on the weekend, beating Prairie View A&M 3-1 before falling to both Eastern Kentucky (3-2) and Georgia Southern (3-0).
- On Sept. 15, 2025 in Lynchburg, Liberty overcame a 2-1 match deficit to beat Radford in five sets, with Carly O'Brien (19), Jenna Otts (18) and Paige Overcash (16) all topping 15 kills. Liberty is 10-2 in five-set matches under second-year Head Coach Jeremy White.
- Liberty was predicted to finish second in the 2026 CUSA Preseason Volleyball Coaches Poll. 2025 CUSA All-Conference second-teamers Carly O'Brien, Jenna Otts and Paige Overcash were all voted to the CUSA Preseason All-Conference Team.
- Sophomore middle blocker Laney Daniell has been Liberty's top attacker so far this season, averaging a team-best 2.83 kills per set while tying for second in CUSA with a .444 attack percentage.
- Freshman libero Melis Ural ranks seventh in CUSA with 3.52 digs per set, and she has reached double figures in digs in each of the last four matches.
- Three Lady Flames (Laney Daniell, Layla Collins, Addison Hart) have all recorded their first career 10-kill match this season.
- The Lady Flames have won the digs battle in every match but one this season, with Virginia edging Liberty in digs 56-54 last Tuesday.
- Liberty has won each of the last two meetings with Radford, a 3-0 sweep in 2022 and a 3-2 win last season. Four out of the last seven meetings between Liberty and Radford have been decided in five sets. Liberty's last trip to the Dedmon Center was for the 2017 Big South tournament.
- Last season, only three Lady Flames (Carly O'Brien, Jenna Otts and Paige Overcash) recorded at least one double-digit kill match. Through six matches this year, Liberty has already gotten at least one 10-kill match from six players (Layla Collins, Laney Daniell, Addison Hart, Carly O'Brien, Jenna Otts and Paige Overcash).
- After beating ETSU, 3-2, on Aug. 29, Liberty is 10-2 in five-set matches under Coach White.
- After returning just 16.3 percent of its point production from 2024 to 2025, the Lady Flames bring back 86.8 percent of their point production from 2025 into 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). Laney Daniell earned CUSA Offensive Player of the Week in week one this year.
- Liberty was one of nine NCAA Division I volleyball programs who ended the 2025 regular season with a first-year head coach and 20 or more wins.
- Liberty's Carly O'Brien and Kayla O'Brien are the first pair of sisters to play for Liberty volleyball during the same season since Abby and Kate Phillips in 2021.
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