Volleyball: #21 Ohio Northern (21-4 Overall, 4-1 OAC) at Wilmington (4-17 Overall, 0-5 OAC)
Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017, 7 pm - Fred Raizk Arena, Wilmington, Ohio
Tuesday's Preview: The No. 21-ranked Ohio Northern volleyball team enters Tuesday evening's contest winners of five straight matches ... Northern posted a perfect 3-0 record this past weekend during its annual ONU Triangular at the ONU Sports Center ... The Polar Bears defeated Rose-Hulman (Ind.), Albion (Mich.) and Ohio Athletic Conference-foe John Carroll with 3-0 sweeps in each contest ... The Polar Bears were led during the tournament by sophomores Chelsea Huppert and McKenna Jordan as the duo recorded 32 and 30 kills, respectively ... Huppert posted a team-best 13 blocks during the tournament ... Freshman setter Katie Wade dished out game-highs in assists in all three contests of the tournament and posted her 13th double-double of the season against Rose-Hulman (Ind.), posting 38 assists and 11 digs ... Senior Megan Nieszala added a team-best 44 digs during the tournament ... Through 25 matches this season, Huppert leads the team and is second in the OAC with 313 kills, while Jordan ranks second on the team and third in the OAC with 300 kills ... Huppert's .342 hitting percentage currently leads the team and ranks third in the conference ... Freshman Katie Wade currently leads the nation with 1,033 assists ... Her single-season mark currently ranks third among freshman in ONU history, and is 35 assists short of tying former Polar Bear for second place all-time on the all-time assists list for freshman ... Nieszala currently leads the OAC and ranks in the top-15 nationally with 488 digs, while sophomore McKenna Hostetler currently ranks second on the team and fifth in the OAC with 376 digs ... Huppert currently leads the league and ranks in the top-15 nationally with 96 total blocks, while senior Haley Potters ranks second on the team and in the OAC, and ranks in the top-15 nationally with 87 blocks ... Potters also has a team-best 31 service aces and ranks third in the OAC in the category ... Wilmington enters the contest currently riding an 8-game win streak ... In 21 contests this season, freshmen Ariel Goforth and Jillian Wesco lead the team with 149 and 137 kills, respectively ... Wesco currently leads the team with 139 digs, while Goforth and freshman Karley Schlensker are tied for second on the team with 133 digs each ... Setter and freshman Lauryn Griewahn ranks first on the team with 330 assists, while sophomore Alyssa McKenzie ranks second on the team with 156 assists ... Sophomore Meghan Koch currently leads the team with 37 blocks, while Wesco ranks second on the team with 24 blocks.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
| Kills | Blocks | Aces | Digs | Assists | ||||||||||||||
| 1. | Huppert | 313 | 1. | Huppert | 96 | 1. | Potters | 31 | 1. | Nieszala | 488 | 1. | Wade | 1033 | ||||
| 2. | Jordan | 300 | 2. | Potters | 87 | 2. | Langston | 28 | 2. | Hostetler | 386 | 2. | Nieszala | 61 | ||||
| 3. | Potters | 231 | 3. | Wade | 36 | 3. | Wade | 22 | 3. | Langston | 273 | 3. | Broering | 26 |
All-Time Series: Northern leads the all-time series against Wilmington by a perfect 25-0 record ... The Polar Bears have swept Wilmington in each of the last four matchups.
Head Coach Kate Witte: Witte is in her 27th season as head coach with a 685-225 record, a winning percentage of .753 ... She is the all-time winningest coach in ONU volleyball history.