Indiana University Athletics
Saturday, October 14
Bloomington, Ind.
7:00 PM
Indiana University
vs
Michigan
Volleyball Central: vs. Michigan
10/13/2023 10:00:00 AM | Women's Volleyball
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Coming off a big win over No. 15 Purdue on Wednesday evening, the Indiana Volleyball team (14-6, 4-3) will look to parlay that momentum into a third-straight victory when Michigan (3-13, 1-6) visits town on Saturday (Oct. 14) evening.
The Hoosiers beat their in-state foe for the first time since 2012 with an emphatic four-set win in front of a sold-out Wilkinson Hall crowd of 2,725 fans. Now in fourth place in the Big Ten, IU has its eyes on a fifth conference win of the season before heading to West Lafayette next Wednesday.
IU hasn't started a Big Ten season 5-3 since the 1993 season and will look to secure its 15th victory overall in the fewest number of games since the 2010 campaign. First serve will be at 7:00 PM on BTN+ from Wilkinson Hall.
Match Info
Saturday, October 14th, 2023 | vs. Michigan | 7:00 PM ET
TV: BTN+
Watch
Live Stats
Hoosier News and Notes
Team Breakdown
• The Hoosiers sit at 14-6 (4-3) heading into the weekend's competition. On the season, IU has quality wins at Miami (FL) and Maryland as well as beating No. 15 Purdue at home. All six losses have come to teams who have won national titles before and are top-60 RPI programs.
• IU tested itself early in the season with a trip to the Long Beach Invitational. A tough weekend at The Beach, which featured three defeats and eight of nine set loss by four of fewer points, was a strong litmus test for the Hoosiers in the early going of the season.
• With a straight sweep of opponents at the Stacheville Challenge and four wins at the 305 Challenge, IU won seven-straight contests heading into Big Ten play.
• The Hoosiers' only losses in the Big Ten have come at No. 1 Wisconsin, vs. No. 2 Nebraska and at No. 14 Penn State. Those three teams are a combined 18-0 in Big Ten play and sit first through third in the conference standings.
• A victory over No. 15 Purdue (Oct. 11) was the fourth top-15 win of the Steve Aird era and the first in Wilkinson Hall (opened in 2019).
• 12 players from last year's roster return including All-Big Ten junior setter Haworth, junior outside hitter Mady Saris, sophomore outside hitter Candela Alonso-Corcelles and senior middle blocker Savannah Kjolhede.
• IU adds Cincinnati transfer Avry Tatum (OPP) as well as talented freshmen Ramsey Gary (L), Ava Vickers (MB) and Luca Fickell (S) to the roster.
The Hoosiers
• IU is on its best 20-game start to a season (14-6) since beginning 15-5 in the 2010 campaign. The Hoosiers are 4-3 in the Big Ten for the first time since 1993.
• The Hoosiers possess four conference wins already this season including sweeps of Iowa and Maryland and a four-set victory over Illinois and No. 15 Purdue.
• IU closed out non-conference play with four wins in Miami at the 305 Challenge including an impressive five-set thriller over Miami (FL) on its home court. Haworth won the program's first Big Ten weekly honor of the season (Setter of the Week) after an impressive showing in South Beach (Sept. 15-16).
• A perfect weekend in Miami ensured the Hoosiers 10 wins in the non-conference for the first time since 2019 and be the fourth season since the turn of the century the program brought 10+ wins and at least one power five victory home out of the preseason.
• Aird became the first coach in program history with multiple seasons of 10+ wins in non-conference with at least one true road win over Power Five team (2019 and 2023). IU's nine victories by sweep in the non-conference were the most since winning nine during the 2010 preseason.
• To follow up a strong end to the preseason slate, IU beat Illinois 3-1 at Wilkinson Hall to kick off the Big Ten season. The Hoosiers blocked the Illini 18 times with a career-high 12 stuffs from Kjolhede. The victory was the final in a run of eight-straight wins, IU's longest winning streak since 2017.
• As a team, the Hoosiers are 1st in the Big Ten and 18th nationally with 1.91 aces per set. In total, IU has 132 aces on the season including 47 from Haworth (No. 1 in Big Ten and NCAA).
• The Hoosiers are 24th in the NCAA and 2nd in the Big Ten in total team blocks, racking up 174.0 stuffs across the first 20 matches of the season. They average 2.52 per set.
• IU is holding opponents to just .174 hitting offensively which ranks fourth in the Big Ten and top-50 nationally among team defenses.
• The Hoosiers sold out matches vs. No. 2 Nebraska and No. 15 Purdue with the latter setting a new Wilkinson Hall Attendance Record of 2,725.
Building on Momentum
• The Hoosiers took a massive step forward in the 2022 season, playing to 16 total wins including nine in the conference. IU finished eighth in the conference last year after being picked 13th to begin the season.
• IU won nine conference games in 2022 compared to four in 2021 which marked a five-win increase, tied for the second-biggest jump in program history.
• An overall jump from 10 to 16 wins in 2022 was tied for the third-biggest improvement between seasons in program history.
Returning Numbers
• IU returns a strong core of athletes from its 2022 team including six of seven starters. Coming along with that includes a large majority of team statistics from last year that return for another go-around. The Hoosiers return 98.4% of kills and 96.8% of blocks from last year's roster.
• Four different players on IU's roster last year had 200+ kills and all four athletes return including Saris, Alonso-Corcelles, Kjolhede and junior outside hitter Morgan Geddes.
Player Watch
#10 Haworth, Camryn
• Haworth has built on an impressive 2022 season, continuing her fine form into 2023 as a junior and a team captain. She leads the conference in aces (47) and assists (677).
• Among setters in the conference, she's top-three in total aces (47), assists (677), assists per set (9.81), blocks (39.0) and kills (62). She's also fifth in digs (143).
• She became the first IU athlete to earn First Team All-Big Ten honors since 2010 (Ashley Benson) and was named to the 2023 Preseason All-Big Ten team.
• The Fishers, Ind. native became the 11th player in program history to record 2,000 assists, crossing the mark in a 33-assist effort against Jacksonville on September 16th.
• She is one of just 19 players in program history with 100 career aces and broke the program's rally-era record (in place since 2001) with aces 131 and 132 of her career against Nebraska. She is No. 4 all-time in program history and will challenge for the all-time mark of 197 in the next year.
• In her time at IU, she has three of the best five single-season aces performances in the rally-scoring era. She's got 47 aces with 13 matches to play and will challenge for the rally-era single season record of 51 set in both 2005 and 2014. She is No. 15 in Big Ten history during the rally era in service aces with 138.
• For her career, Haworth has 2,292 assists, 588 digs and 138 aces. She is just the fourth player in program history with 2,000+ assists, 500+ digs and 100+ aces in an IU uniform.
• She matched her career high with 51 assists in a win at Miami (FL), the third time in her career she's recorded 50+ assists in a single match. She has had four or more aces on seven occasions in her time at IU including a five-ace performance over Stetson.
• The junior was named the conference's setter of the week after her performance in Miami, becoming the first IU player to win a Big Ten weekly award in consecutive seasons since Ashley Benson (2009-10). She has four double-doubles on the season, her last coming against Illinois.
• She is the only active junior in NCAA Division I volleyball with career numbers of 2,000+ assists, 500+ digs, 200+ kills, 135+ aces and 100+ blocks. She's second among active juniors in career aces with 138.
#15 Kjolhede, Savannah
• The Colleyville, Texas native was one of the Big Ten's best blockers last year and is 7th among active Big Ten players in blocks (329).
• She is now 10th all-time in blocks at IU and is also the 14th athlete with 300+ blocks in an IU uniform.
• The veteran middle has played in 100 games of her college career and has started 97 of those including all 18 during her freshman campaign which was shortened by COVID-19. The only games she missed was against Radford and Lindenwood in which she was a healthy, unused sub.
• She and graduate student Kaley Rammelsberg have combined to play 222 matches, put away 1,489 kills and reject 685 shots during their collegiate careers: making them one of the most veteran duos in college volleyball. Duke's middle blocker duo (241 career matches) and Dayton's (237) are the only ones confirmed to have played more.
• Against Illinois, she blocked a career-high 12 shots, becoming just the seventh player in program history with 12-or-more blocks in a single game. She passed 300 career blocks during the match and helped lead IU to 18 total team blocks in the dominant victory.
• Through six Big Ten games, which includes matches against the nation's two-best teams, Kjolhede is hitting a whopping .398 (57-8-123) which includes 10 kills on a .643 clip against No. 2 Nebraska and 12 kills and no errors at Maryland.
• She (.292) and Rammelsberg (.318) are both among IU's all-time top five best hitters (with at least 1,000 career attempts). Only two athletes in program history have ever finished their careers with a hitting percentage of .300 or better.
#32 Gary, Ramsey
• One of the top-rated prep liberos in the 2023 class, Gary has lived up to the billing early in her college career. She has 283 digs across 20 matches including three 20+ dig efforts in Big Ten play.
• Her 283 digs are most among Big Ten freshmen and most among Power Five freshmen in the NCAA this year Among freshmen in all of the NCAA, Gary is ninth in digs.
• Gary's 24 digs in the win over Illinois were not only a career high but the most in a single game by an IU freshman since Caitlin Cox in 2008. IU's all-time freshman digs record sits at 402 which Gary will challenge for in the final two months of the season.
• She is averaging 4.46 digs per set in conference play through seven matches and has 116 digs in total including 22 in the victory over Purdue.
BIG TEN PRESEASON POLL
Hoosiers among middle group of teams.
• IU was picked 8th in the Big Ten Preseason Volleyball poll, its highest mark since the conference begin ranking all 14 teams.
• Haworth made the Preseason All-Big Ten team, IU's first such honor since the 2010 season (Ashley Benson).
Opponent Breakdown: Michigan
Series History: 43-44-1 (Michigan leads) | Last Meeting: 10/21/22 (W, 3-1)
• The Wolverines are in the first year of the Erin Virtue era in Ann Arbor.
• Roster turnover and a tough non-conference schedule has Michigan at 3-13 (1-6) entering Saturday night's contest.
• Michigan beat Northwestern last weekend for its first conference victory.
• Per set, these are the two best serving teams in the conference with IU at 1.91 aces per set and Michigan at 1.86 per set.
The Hoosiers beat their in-state foe for the first time since 2012 with an emphatic four-set win in front of a sold-out Wilkinson Hall crowd of 2,725 fans. Now in fourth place in the Big Ten, IU has its eyes on a fifth conference win of the season before heading to West Lafayette next Wednesday.
IU hasn't started a Big Ten season 5-3 since the 1993 season and will look to secure its 15th victory overall in the fewest number of games since the 2010 campaign. First serve will be at 7:00 PM on BTN+ from Wilkinson Hall.
Match Info
Saturday, October 14th, 2023 | vs. Michigan | 7:00 PM ET
TV: BTN+
Watch
Live Stats
Hoosier News and Notes
Team Breakdown
• The Hoosiers sit at 14-6 (4-3) heading into the weekend's competition. On the season, IU has quality wins at Miami (FL) and Maryland as well as beating No. 15 Purdue at home. All six losses have come to teams who have won national titles before and are top-60 RPI programs.
• IU tested itself early in the season with a trip to the Long Beach Invitational. A tough weekend at The Beach, which featured three defeats and eight of nine set loss by four of fewer points, was a strong litmus test for the Hoosiers in the early going of the season.
• With a straight sweep of opponents at the Stacheville Challenge and four wins at the 305 Challenge, IU won seven-straight contests heading into Big Ten play.
• The Hoosiers' only losses in the Big Ten have come at No. 1 Wisconsin, vs. No. 2 Nebraska and at No. 14 Penn State. Those three teams are a combined 18-0 in Big Ten play and sit first through third in the conference standings.
• A victory over No. 15 Purdue (Oct. 11) was the fourth top-15 win of the Steve Aird era and the first in Wilkinson Hall (opened in 2019).
• 12 players from last year's roster return including All-Big Ten junior setter Haworth, junior outside hitter Mady Saris, sophomore outside hitter Candela Alonso-Corcelles and senior middle blocker Savannah Kjolhede.
• IU adds Cincinnati transfer Avry Tatum (OPP) as well as talented freshmen Ramsey Gary (L), Ava Vickers (MB) and Luca Fickell (S) to the roster.
The Hoosiers
• IU is on its best 20-game start to a season (14-6) since beginning 15-5 in the 2010 campaign. The Hoosiers are 4-3 in the Big Ten for the first time since 1993.
• The Hoosiers possess four conference wins already this season including sweeps of Iowa and Maryland and a four-set victory over Illinois and No. 15 Purdue.
• IU closed out non-conference play with four wins in Miami at the 305 Challenge including an impressive five-set thriller over Miami (FL) on its home court. Haworth won the program's first Big Ten weekly honor of the season (Setter of the Week) after an impressive showing in South Beach (Sept. 15-16).
• A perfect weekend in Miami ensured the Hoosiers 10 wins in the non-conference for the first time since 2019 and be the fourth season since the turn of the century the program brought 10+ wins and at least one power five victory home out of the preseason.
• Aird became the first coach in program history with multiple seasons of 10+ wins in non-conference with at least one true road win over Power Five team (2019 and 2023). IU's nine victories by sweep in the non-conference were the most since winning nine during the 2010 preseason.
• To follow up a strong end to the preseason slate, IU beat Illinois 3-1 at Wilkinson Hall to kick off the Big Ten season. The Hoosiers blocked the Illini 18 times with a career-high 12 stuffs from Kjolhede. The victory was the final in a run of eight-straight wins, IU's longest winning streak since 2017.
• As a team, the Hoosiers are 1st in the Big Ten and 18th nationally with 1.91 aces per set. In total, IU has 132 aces on the season including 47 from Haworth (No. 1 in Big Ten and NCAA).
• The Hoosiers are 24th in the NCAA and 2nd in the Big Ten in total team blocks, racking up 174.0 stuffs across the first 20 matches of the season. They average 2.52 per set.
• IU is holding opponents to just .174 hitting offensively which ranks fourth in the Big Ten and top-50 nationally among team defenses.
• The Hoosiers sold out matches vs. No. 2 Nebraska and No. 15 Purdue with the latter setting a new Wilkinson Hall Attendance Record of 2,725.
Building on Momentum
• The Hoosiers took a massive step forward in the 2022 season, playing to 16 total wins including nine in the conference. IU finished eighth in the conference last year after being picked 13th to begin the season.
• IU won nine conference games in 2022 compared to four in 2021 which marked a five-win increase, tied for the second-biggest jump in program history.
• An overall jump from 10 to 16 wins in 2022 was tied for the third-biggest improvement between seasons in program history.
Returning Numbers
• IU returns a strong core of athletes from its 2022 team including six of seven starters. Coming along with that includes a large majority of team statistics from last year that return for another go-around. The Hoosiers return 98.4% of kills and 96.8% of blocks from last year's roster.
• Four different players on IU's roster last year had 200+ kills and all four athletes return including Saris, Alonso-Corcelles, Kjolhede and junior outside hitter Morgan Geddes.
Player Watch
#10 Haworth, Camryn
• Haworth has built on an impressive 2022 season, continuing her fine form into 2023 as a junior and a team captain. She leads the conference in aces (47) and assists (677).
• Among setters in the conference, she's top-three in total aces (47), assists (677), assists per set (9.81), blocks (39.0) and kills (62). She's also fifth in digs (143).
• She became the first IU athlete to earn First Team All-Big Ten honors since 2010 (Ashley Benson) and was named to the 2023 Preseason All-Big Ten team.
• The Fishers, Ind. native became the 11th player in program history to record 2,000 assists, crossing the mark in a 33-assist effort against Jacksonville on September 16th.
• She is one of just 19 players in program history with 100 career aces and broke the program's rally-era record (in place since 2001) with aces 131 and 132 of her career against Nebraska. She is No. 4 all-time in program history and will challenge for the all-time mark of 197 in the next year.
• In her time at IU, she has three of the best five single-season aces performances in the rally-scoring era. She's got 47 aces with 13 matches to play and will challenge for the rally-era single season record of 51 set in both 2005 and 2014. She is No. 15 in Big Ten history during the rally era in service aces with 138.
• For her career, Haworth has 2,292 assists, 588 digs and 138 aces. She is just the fourth player in program history with 2,000+ assists, 500+ digs and 100+ aces in an IU uniform.
• She matched her career high with 51 assists in a win at Miami (FL), the third time in her career she's recorded 50+ assists in a single match. She has had four or more aces on seven occasions in her time at IU including a five-ace performance over Stetson.
• The junior was named the conference's setter of the week after her performance in Miami, becoming the first IU player to win a Big Ten weekly award in consecutive seasons since Ashley Benson (2009-10). She has four double-doubles on the season, her last coming against Illinois.
• She is the only active junior in NCAA Division I volleyball with career numbers of 2,000+ assists, 500+ digs, 200+ kills, 135+ aces and 100+ blocks. She's second among active juniors in career aces with 138.
#15 Kjolhede, Savannah
• The Colleyville, Texas native was one of the Big Ten's best blockers last year and is 7th among active Big Ten players in blocks (329).
• She is now 10th all-time in blocks at IU and is also the 14th athlete with 300+ blocks in an IU uniform.
• The veteran middle has played in 100 games of her college career and has started 97 of those including all 18 during her freshman campaign which was shortened by COVID-19. The only games she missed was against Radford and Lindenwood in which she was a healthy, unused sub.
• She and graduate student Kaley Rammelsberg have combined to play 222 matches, put away 1,489 kills and reject 685 shots during their collegiate careers: making them one of the most veteran duos in college volleyball. Duke's middle blocker duo (241 career matches) and Dayton's (237) are the only ones confirmed to have played more.
• Against Illinois, she blocked a career-high 12 shots, becoming just the seventh player in program history with 12-or-more blocks in a single game. She passed 300 career blocks during the match and helped lead IU to 18 total team blocks in the dominant victory.
• Through six Big Ten games, which includes matches against the nation's two-best teams, Kjolhede is hitting a whopping .398 (57-8-123) which includes 10 kills on a .643 clip against No. 2 Nebraska and 12 kills and no errors at Maryland.
• She (.292) and Rammelsberg (.318) are both among IU's all-time top five best hitters (with at least 1,000 career attempts). Only two athletes in program history have ever finished their careers with a hitting percentage of .300 or better.
#32 Gary, Ramsey
• One of the top-rated prep liberos in the 2023 class, Gary has lived up to the billing early in her college career. She has 283 digs across 20 matches including three 20+ dig efforts in Big Ten play.
• Her 283 digs are most among Big Ten freshmen and most among Power Five freshmen in the NCAA this year Among freshmen in all of the NCAA, Gary is ninth in digs.
• Gary's 24 digs in the win over Illinois were not only a career high but the most in a single game by an IU freshman since Caitlin Cox in 2008. IU's all-time freshman digs record sits at 402 which Gary will challenge for in the final two months of the season.
• She is averaging 4.46 digs per set in conference play through seven matches and has 116 digs in total including 22 in the victory over Purdue.
BIG TEN PRESEASON POLL
Hoosiers among middle group of teams.
• IU was picked 8th in the Big Ten Preseason Volleyball poll, its highest mark since the conference begin ranking all 14 teams.
• Haworth made the Preseason All-Big Ten team, IU's first such honor since the 2010 season (Ashley Benson).
Opponent Breakdown: Michigan
Series History: 43-44-1 (Michigan leads) | Last Meeting: 10/21/22 (W, 3-1)
• The Wolverines are in the first year of the Erin Virtue era in Ann Arbor.
• Roster turnover and a tough non-conference schedule has Michigan at 3-13 (1-6) entering Saturday night's contest.
• Michigan beat Northwestern last weekend for its first conference victory.
• Per set, these are the two best serving teams in the conference with IU at 1.91 aces per set and Michigan at 1.86 per set.
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