Indiana University Athletics
Wednesday, October 18
West Lafayette, Ind.
7:00 PM
Indiana University
at
#19 Purdue
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10/17/2023 9:00:00 AM | Women's Volleyball
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The Indiana Volleyball team (15-6, 5-3) will take a three-game winning streak into rival territory on Wednesday evening to face in-state foe and 19th-ranked Purdue in the second of two matches in a seven-day span between the two sides.
IU broke a 21-game losing streak to Purdue last week in Bloomington with an emphatic 3-1 victory at a sold-out Wilkinson Hall. Both teams are fresh off of weekend wins, with IU beating Michigan and Purdue downing Ohio State.
Purdue is expecting a sold-out and raucous Holloway Gymnasium for Wednesday night's clash (7:00 PM, BTN+) and will look for the series split while IU goes for the first season sweep of its in-state opponent since 2002. Sole possession of fourth place in the conference is on the line in West Lafayette.
Match Info
Wednesday, October 18th, 2023 | at #19 Purdue | 7:00 PM ET
TV: BTN+
Watch
Live Stats
Hoosier News and Notes
Team Breakdown
• The Hoosiers sit at 15-6 (5-3) 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). IU's 5-3 start to the conference slate is the best eight-game start in Big Ten play since 1993.
• IU earned two weekly honors from the Big Ten office, winning the league's Setter of the Week (Camryn Haworth) and Freshman of the Week (Ramsey Gary) awards.
The Hoosiers
• IU opened the season with its best 20-game start to a season (14-6) since beginning 15-5 in the 2010 campaign. The Hoosiers are 5-3 in the Big Ten for the first time since 1993.
• The Hoosiers possess five conference wins already this season including sweeps of Iowa and Maryland and a four-set victory over Illinois and No. 15 Purdue.
• A perfect weekend in Miami at the end of the non-conference schedule ensured the Hoosiers 10 wins in the preseason for the first time since 2019. It is 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.
• Head coach Steve 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 senior middle blocker Savannah 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 20th nationally with 1.92 aces per set. In total, IU has 138 aces on the season including 49 from Haworth (No. 1 in Big Ten and NCAA).
• The Hoosiers are 38th in the NCAA and 2nd in the Big Ten in total team blocks, racking up 181.0 stuffs across the first 21 matches of the season. They average 2.51 per set.
• IU is holding opponents to just .169 hitting offensively which ranks third in the Big Ten and top-50 nationally among team defenses. As a team, IU is hitting .245 which is on pace to be the best mark in program history for a single season.
• 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. IU is averaging 1,718 fans per game across eight home matches this season.
What's At Stake?
• A win over Purdue would extend IU's winning streak to four-straight games and move the Hoosiers' record to 16-6 (6-3) on the season.
• The Hoosiers haven't swept the season series over Purdue since 2002.
• A win in West Lafayette would give IU top-20 road wins in consecutive seasons for the first time in program history (IU won at No. 5 Ohio State in 2022).
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 (49) and assists (705).
• Among setters in the conference, she's top-three in total aces (49), assists (705), assists per set (9.79), blocks (40.0) and kills (63). She's also fifth in digs (150).
• 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 49 aces with 12 matches to play and will challenge for the rally-era single season record of 51 set in both 2005 and 2014. She is No. 14 in Big Ten history during the rally era in service aces with 138.
• For her career, Haworth has 2,320 assists, 595 digs and 140 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, 140+ aces and 100+ blocks. She's second among active juniors in career aces with 140.
#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 (330).
• She is now 10th all-time in blocks at IU and is the 14th athlete with 300+ blocks in an IU uniform.
• The veteran middle has played in 101 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.
• 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 eight Big Ten games, which includes matches against the nation's two-best teams, Kjolhede is hitting a whopping .400 (60-8-30) which includes 10 kills on a .643 clip against No. 2 Nebraska and 12 kills and no errors at Maryland. She is one of four athletes hitting .400 or better in conference play.
• She (.292) and graduate student middle blocker Kaley Rammelsberg (.319) 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 304 digs across 21 matches including four 20+ dig efforts in Big Ten play.
• Her 304 digs are most in the Big Ten and most among power five freshmen nationally. Among all freshmen in the nation, she is seventh 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 4.72 digs per set in conference play through seven matches and has 137 digs in total including 22 in the victory over Purdue. She has the most digs per set in conference play this season among any Big Ten player.
Opponent Breakdown: Purdue
Series History: 35-76 (Purdue leads) | Last Meeting: 10/11/23 (W, 3-1)
• The first rematch of the season for IU, the two teams will meet for the second time in seven days.
• Outside hitters Eva Hudson and Chloe Chicoine combined for 34 digs in the first matchup.
• Hudson and Chicoine are third and fourth in the Big Ten in kills. They're both top-six in kills per set.
• Maddie Schermerhorn is second in the Big Ten in digs per set with 4.30.
• Purdue defeated Ohio State 3-1 in Columbus on Sunday.
IU broke a 21-game losing streak to Purdue last week in Bloomington with an emphatic 3-1 victory at a sold-out Wilkinson Hall. Both teams are fresh off of weekend wins, with IU beating Michigan and Purdue downing Ohio State.
Purdue is expecting a sold-out and raucous Holloway Gymnasium for Wednesday night's clash (7:00 PM, BTN+) and will look for the series split while IU goes for the first season sweep of its in-state opponent since 2002. Sole possession of fourth place in the conference is on the line in West Lafayette.
Match Info
Wednesday, October 18th, 2023 | at #19 Purdue | 7:00 PM ET
TV: BTN+
Watch
Live Stats
Hoosier News and Notes
Team Breakdown
• The Hoosiers sit at 15-6 (5-3) 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). IU's 5-3 start to the conference slate is the best eight-game start in Big Ten play since 1993.
• IU earned two weekly honors from the Big Ten office, winning the league's Setter of the Week (Camryn Haworth) and Freshman of the Week (Ramsey Gary) awards.
The Hoosiers
• IU opened the season with its best 20-game start to a season (14-6) since beginning 15-5 in the 2010 campaign. The Hoosiers are 5-3 in the Big Ten for the first time since 1993.
• The Hoosiers possess five conference wins already this season including sweeps of Iowa and Maryland and a four-set victory over Illinois and No. 15 Purdue.
• A perfect weekend in Miami at the end of the non-conference schedule ensured the Hoosiers 10 wins in the preseason for the first time since 2019. It is 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.
• Head coach Steve 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 senior middle blocker Savannah 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 20th nationally with 1.92 aces per set. In total, IU has 138 aces on the season including 49 from Haworth (No. 1 in Big Ten and NCAA).
• The Hoosiers are 38th in the NCAA and 2nd in the Big Ten in total team blocks, racking up 181.0 stuffs across the first 21 matches of the season. They average 2.51 per set.
• IU is holding opponents to just .169 hitting offensively which ranks third in the Big Ten and top-50 nationally among team defenses. As a team, IU is hitting .245 which is on pace to be the best mark in program history for a single season.
• 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. IU is averaging 1,718 fans per game across eight home matches this season.
What's At Stake?
• A win over Purdue would extend IU's winning streak to four-straight games and move the Hoosiers' record to 16-6 (6-3) on the season.
• The Hoosiers haven't swept the season series over Purdue since 2002.
• A win in West Lafayette would give IU top-20 road wins in consecutive seasons for the first time in program history (IU won at No. 5 Ohio State in 2022).
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 (49) and assists (705).
• Among setters in the conference, she's top-three in total aces (49), assists (705), assists per set (9.79), blocks (40.0) and kills (63). She's also fifth in digs (150).
• 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 49 aces with 12 matches to play and will challenge for the rally-era single season record of 51 set in both 2005 and 2014. She is No. 14 in Big Ten history during the rally era in service aces with 138.
• For her career, Haworth has 2,320 assists, 595 digs and 140 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, 140+ aces and 100+ blocks. She's second among active juniors in career aces with 140.
#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 (330).
• She is now 10th all-time in blocks at IU and is the 14th athlete with 300+ blocks in an IU uniform.
• The veteran middle has played in 101 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.
• 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 eight Big Ten games, which includes matches against the nation's two-best teams, Kjolhede is hitting a whopping .400 (60-8-30) which includes 10 kills on a .643 clip against No. 2 Nebraska and 12 kills and no errors at Maryland. She is one of four athletes hitting .400 or better in conference play.
• She (.292) and graduate student middle blocker Kaley Rammelsberg (.319) 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 304 digs across 21 matches including four 20+ dig efforts in Big Ten play.
• Her 304 digs are most in the Big Ten and most among power five freshmen nationally. Among all freshmen in the nation, she is seventh 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 4.72 digs per set in conference play through seven matches and has 137 digs in total including 22 in the victory over Purdue. She has the most digs per set in conference play this season among any Big Ten player.
Opponent Breakdown: Purdue
Series History: 35-76 (Purdue leads) | Last Meeting: 10/11/23 (W, 3-1)
• The first rematch of the season for IU, the two teams will meet for the second time in seven days.
• Outside hitters Eva Hudson and Chloe Chicoine combined for 34 digs in the first matchup.
• Hudson and Chicoine are third and fourth in the Big Ten in kills. They're both top-six in kills per set.
• Maddie Schermerhorn is second in the Big Ten in digs per set with 4.30.
• Purdue defeated Ohio State 3-1 in Columbus on Sunday.
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