Temple College

PHILADELPHIA – Temple volleyball will play three matches in two days because it travels throughout city to play on the Palestra within the Sheraton College Metropolis Invitational.  Temple opens the weekend slate of video games with a match in opposition to Windfall on Friday at midday ET.  The following day the Owls will face off in opposition to George Washington at 1:30 p.m. and the host Penn at 5:30 p.m. The Penn/Temple contest would be the solely Owl match accessible this weekend on ESPN+.

 

QUICK SETS

• Temple returns to Philadelphia, however will journey throughout city to the Palestra to play within the Sheraton College Metropolis Invitational as it’ll tackle Windfall, George Washington, and Penn.
• Coming into this weekend, the Owls are 4-4 general after ending with a 1-2 document on the Cornell Event.  Temple dropped back-to-back matches versus UAlbany (1-3) and Colgate (1-3), however picked up a win in its final match of the weekend in opposition to the host, Cornell in 5 units (3-2).
• Windfall comes into this weekend with a 7-2 general document after internet hosting the Friar Basic final weekend, going 3-0. On Friday versus St. Peters, the Friars earned a 3-0 victory, and added a pair of victories the subsequent day in opposition to NJIT (3-1) and Holy Cross (3-0).
• The Quakers enter the weekend 0-6. Final weekend in California, Penn misplaced all three of its matches by the rating of 3-0. On Friday, UP misplaced to Cal State Northridge and St. Mary’s and on Saturday fell to San Francisco.
• The Colonials have began 3-7 this season. Final weekend, GW completed 1-2 on the opening day of Dig the District with a win over Binghamton (0-3) and Rider (3-2). On Saturday, George Washington was swept by Georgetown. And of their first midweek motion of the season on Tuesday, the Colonials fell to Coppin State.
• The Owls are led by head coach Linda Hampton Keith who’s in her first season on North Broad and has a profession document of 71-60. Previous to Temple, Hampton-Keith frolicked with the NC State Wolfpack from 2016-19 and led them to a NCAA Regionals look in 2017.

 

OWL ABOUT TEMPLE IN 2022

• Because the season begins, the Linda Hampton-Keith Period has begun as head coach for the Temple Owls volleyball group, making her the ninth volleyball head coach at school historical past.  Hampton-Keith comes into the season with a profession document of 67-56, an NCAA Regional look in 4 years at NC State between 2016-19.  Hampton-Keith takes over an Owls group that went 7-24 general, and 3-17 in AAC play a season in the past.  This 12 months’s roster consists of 11 returners that includes one red-shirt senior, two juniors, and 9 sophomores.
• Temple comes into the weekend 4-4 after going 1-2 final weekend on the Cornell Event, dropping to UAlbany (1-3) and Colgate (1-3) in 4 units, however ended the match with a hard-fought five-set win over Cornell.  With the win, the Owls moved to 3-0 in five-set matches in 2022.  Sophomore outdoors hitter Taylor Davenport led the Owls with 50 kills.  Final week at Cornell, Davenport led the Owls in two matches, together with reaching 20 kills versus Cornell.  It was the third time this season that the Columbia, S.C. native eclipsed the 20-kill mark, and on the season, she leads the group with 129 kills, rating fourth within the AAC convention.

 

TRANSFER EXPERIENCE

• The Owls start this season with two new faces to Philly, however not new faces to DI collegiate volleyball.  Junior Jelena Prolic and sophomore Chudear Tut have been added to move coach Linda Hampton-Keith‘s roster in April and can look to bolster the Owls’ offensive assault in 2022. Prolic spent the previous three seasons with Coastal Carolina, incomes herself two Solar Belt East Championships and two journeys to the convention championship spherical. The Subotica, Serbia native performed in 73 matches for the Chanticleers from 2019-21, tallying 176 kills and digging 197 balls from the surface hitter place. Tut, a former MEAC Rookie of the Yr, Second Crew All-MEAC, All-Event Crew from Coppin State will assist maintain the center for the Owls. Through the spring season of 2021, Tut led the group with 56 blocks and second with 151 kills. Moreover, she recorded 10 or extra kills 10 instances and double-digit blocks in all however one contest. Simply final season, the Minneapolis, Minn. native missed the primary half of the 12 months resulting from harm however completed with a school-record .353 hitting share on 98 kills.

• To date in 2022, Prolic has been key to the offense, tallying double-digit kills in six of the eight matches. Prolic is second on the group with 98 kills and had a career-high 19 putaways versus Delaware on Aug. 26.  Two weekends in the past, Tut was massive within the four-set victory over Military as she recorded 12 kills, her first double-digit kill match in a Owls uniform.

 

SETTING SITUATION

• Sophomore Patrycja Zielinska has led the Temple offense this season to a 4-4 general document. A season in the past, Zielinska recorded 827 assists in 31 matches. She is one in all solely three gamers this season within the AAC to common over 10 assists/set (10.06), which is third finest within the AAC.  In 2022, the Francizkow, Poland native has dished out 278 assists already.  On two events, this season Zielinska has topped the 50-plus assists mark twice in a match. On Sept. 3 versus St. Francis (Brooklyn), Zielinska guided the Owls to  a five-set win with a career-high 57 assists.

 

DEFENDING THE BACK ROW

• Going into 2022, Falanika Danielson had 797 profession digs after a career-high 470 in 2021.  The 2020 AAC Libero of the Yr is in search of her A thousandth-career dig, presently at 914.  Danielson has recorded 117 digs already in 2022 whereas averaging 3.55 digs/set, good for sixth within the AAC.  The Ewa Seaside, Hawaii native, set a season-high in digs within the five-set win versus UAlbany on Friday as she recorded a season-high 25, marking the  sixteenth time in her profession Danielson achieved the 20-plus assists mark.
• By way of eight season matches, freshman defensive Nalani McBride recorded 48 digs, with a career-high 11, twice, in opposition to St. Francis and Cornell.  Fellow defensive specialist Nikki Shimao additionally performed a giant half within the Owls’ success as she set a career-high 15 digs in opposition to UAlbany, totaling 60 up to now this season.

 

MIDDLE MANAGEMENT

• By way of eight matches into her profession, center blocker Samantha Jo Mikosky has been a gentle power, not simply as a center blocker, but in addition on the service line.  To date within the early season, Mikosky has averaged a third-best 1.22  blocks/set, together with a career-high 11 versus Colgate on Sept. 10, which ranks because the third-best mark at school historical past for a single match.  Her 39 whole blocks are the second-best within the AAC.  From the service line, the Bethlehem, Pa. native has linked with eight service aces, together with a career-high three within the five-set win versus Cornell on Sept. 10.

 

SCOUTING PROVIDENCE

• Kayla Grant has helped the Friars to seven wins via the primary 9 video games with a Huge East-leading .413 hitting share, totaling 80 kills.  Three different P.C. gamers have 80-plus kills, together with Shaliyah Rhoden with a team-high 93,  88 from Emma Nelson, and 83 from Niah Tucker.  Windfall additionally options three of the highest 5 servers within the Huge East, together with Mackenzie Taylor and Brielle Mullaly with a league-best 35 service aces, whereas Sammie Ruggles and Sasha Rudich are tied for the second with 34.

 

TEMPLE VS. PROVIDENCE

• The Friars and Owls have met on the volleyball courtroom 11 instances all-time, with the P.C. main the all-time collection with an 8-3 document.  The 2 groups first met 39 years in the past (1983) and final met in 1987.

 

SCOUTING PENN

• Madeline McGregor leads the Quakers with 54 kills, whereas averaging 2.70 kills/set, and Madison Risch is the one different Penn participant with 50-plus kills (51), averaging 2.68. As well as, setter Anna Shohfi is fifth within the Ivy League Convention with 8.67 assists/set and tied for fifth with 130 assists.

 

TEMPLE VS. PENN

• The cross-town rivals have met in 34 instances all through their program’s historical past, with Temple main all-time collection with a 22-12 document.  Simply final 12 months, the Owls knocked off Penn, 3-1.  Setter Patrycja Zielinska led Temple to victory with 41 assists behind an assault that hit .290 within the match.  Junior Kayla Spells tallied seven kills and a team-high 4 blocks within the win on her option to All-Metropolis Basic group accolades.

 

SCOUTING GEORGE WASHINGTON

• Liv Womble and Elizabeth Drelling lead the Colonials’ offensive assault this season, as every participant has recorded 100-plus kills.  The junior Womble has averaged 3.17 kills/set, which is nice for fourth within the Atlantic 10, whereas her 114 kills are third-best.  Fellow junior Drelling ranks sixth with 100 kills, averaging a ninth-best 2.86 kills/set.

 

TEMPLE VS. GEORGE WASHINGTON

• This would be the 57th assembly between the previous Atlantic 10 faculties within the all-time matchup, with every group successful 28 video games.  The collection dates again to 1983, however the two groups have not met for the reason that 2012 season.