Friday, October 6
University Park, Pa.
7:00 PM
Indiana University
at
#14 Penn State
Volleyball Central: at No. 14 Penn State and Maryland
10/5/2023 9:00:00 AM | Women's Volleyball
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The first back-to-back match road weekend in conference play takes the Indiana Volleyball team (12-5, 2-2) out to the east coast for a date with No. 14 Penn State and Maryland on Friday (October 6th) and Saturday (October 7th).
IU has split matches in the first two weeks of conference play, beating Illinois and Iowa but dropping games to No. 1 Wisconsin and No. 2 Nebraska. No. 14 Penn State marks a third ranked opponent in the first five games of conference play for the Hoosiers.
Head coach Steve Aird and assistant coach Kevin Hodge return to Penn State Friday where the pair both played and coached. Aird also served four years as the head coach at Maryland.
Led by All-Big Ten setter Camryn Haworth, freshman libero Ramsey Gary and a plethora of arms in the middle and on the pins, IU will be looking for a first-ever win in Happy Valley and a second-straight win in College Park. Both matches will start at 7:00 PM ET and be broadcasted via BTN+
Match Info
Friday, October 6th, 2023 | at #14 Penn State | 7:00 PM ET
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Live Stats
Saturday, October 7th, 2023 | at Maryland | 7:00 PM ET
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Hoosier News and Notes
Team Breakdown
• The Hoosiers sit at 12-5 (2-2) heading into the weekend's competition. On the season, IU has quality wins at Miami (FL) and home against Illinois. All five losses have come to teams who have won national titles before and are top-50 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 and vs. No. 2 Nebraska. IU will get its third ranked opponent of the season in Happy Valley on Friday (No. 14 Penn State).
• 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 Gary (L), Ava Vickers (MB) and Luca Fickell (S) to the roster.
The Hoosiers
• 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.
• Graduate student Kaley Rammelsberg as well as Haworth and Saris were All-Tournament selections at the Stacheville Challenge (Sept. 8-9) as IU handled opponents in three easy sweeps.
• Haworth followed that up by winning the program's first Big Ten weekly honor of the season (Setter of the Week) after an impressive showing at the 305 Challenge (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.
• As a team, the Hoosiers are 1st in the Big Ten and 11th nationally with 2.05 aces per set. In total, IU has 117 aces on the season including 41 from Haworth (No. 1 in Big Ten and NCAA).
• The Hoosiers are 21st in the NCAA and 1st in the Big Ten in total team blocks, racking up 154.0 stuffs across the first 11 matches of the season.
• IU is holding opponents to just .166 hitting offensively which ranks third in the Big Ten this season.
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 (41) and assists (561).
• Among setters in the conference, she's top-three in total aces (41), assists (561), assists per set (9.84), blocks (35.0) and kills (44). She's also fourth in digs (119).
• 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 top-five 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 41 aces with 16 matches to play and will challenge for the rally-era single season record of 51 set in both 2005 and 2014.
• For her career, Haworth has 2,176 assists, 564 digs and 132 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.
#18 Rammelsberg, Kaley
• The graduate student and IU's only fifth-year player, Rammelsberg has been on a tear in the early portions of the season, hitting .360 (121-27-261) across the first 14 matches she's played.
• For her career, between stops at IU and High Point, Rammelsberg has 872 kills, 352 blocks and 1102.5 points while hitting a collective .339 on 198 attempts.
• IU's all-time hitting percentage list is based on athletes with over 1,000 career attempts in the Cream and Crimson. In three seasons, she has hit .316 which is second in program history.
• Her 23 blocks across the three-game Stacheville Challenge were the most in a three-match span by an IU athlete since the 2014 campaign.
• She followed up her impressive weekend with a 15-kill effort in the win over Miami (FL) just one from matching her career high set at Georgia Tech in 2021.
#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 (317).
• She is 13th all-time in blocks at IU and is also the 14th athlete with 300+ blocks in an IU uniform. It would take 325 total stuffs to crack the top-10 in IU's all-time ranks.
• The veteran middle has played in 97 games of her college career and has started 93 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 Rammelsberg have combined to play 216 matches, put away 1,433 kills and reject 669 shots during their collegiate careers: making them one of the most veteran duos in college volleyball. Duke's middle blocker duo (237 career matches) and Dayton's (233) 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 four Big Ten games, which includes matches against the nation's two-best teams, Kjolhede is hitting a whopping .429 (31-4-63) which includes 10 kills on a .643 clip against No. 2 Nebraska.
#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 241 digs across 17 matches including three 15+ dig efforts during IU's weekend in Miami.
• Her 241 digs are most among Big Ten freshmen and most among Power Five freshmen in the NCAA this year ahead of Kansas' Raegan Burns (187) and Illinois' Lily Barry (167). Among freshmen in all of the NCAA, Gary 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.
• She is averaging 5.29 digs per set in conference play through for matches and leads the Big Ten overall in both digs (241) and digs per set (4.23) this season.
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: #14 Penn State
Series History: 1-60 (Penn State leads) | Last Meeting: 11/11/22 (L, 0-3)
• The Nittany Lions are led by a veteran group of transfers including setter Mac Podraza, outside hitter Jess Mruzik and opposite Camryn Hannah.
• Penn State is off to a 4-0 start in the Big Ten having beaten top-15 Minnesota on the road last Saturday.
• Mruzik averages 4.53 kills per set while Podraza runs an efficient offense with 10.32 assists per set.
Opponent Breakdown: Maryland
Series History: 5-11 (Maryland leads) | Last Meeting: 11/25/22 (L, 2-3)
• The Hoosiers and Terrapins twice went to five sets last year with each team winning away from home.
• Sydney Dowler, a senior, runs the offense for Maryland. They look for Sam Csire (2.94 kps) and Samantha Schnitta (2.74 kps) in attack.
• Middle duo Anastasia Russ and Eva Rohrbach each rank top-10 in the conference in blocks and blocks per set.
IU has split matches in the first two weeks of conference play, beating Illinois and Iowa but dropping games to No. 1 Wisconsin and No. 2 Nebraska. No. 14 Penn State marks a third ranked opponent in the first five games of conference play for the Hoosiers.
Head coach Steve Aird and assistant coach Kevin Hodge return to Penn State Friday where the pair both played and coached. Aird also served four years as the head coach at Maryland.
Led by All-Big Ten setter Camryn Haworth, freshman libero Ramsey Gary and a plethora of arms in the middle and on the pins, IU will be looking for a first-ever win in Happy Valley and a second-straight win in College Park. Both matches will start at 7:00 PM ET and be broadcasted via BTN+
Match Info
Friday, October 6th, 2023 | at #14 Penn State | 7:00 PM ET
TV: BTN+
Watch
Live Stats
Saturday, October 7th, 2023 | at Maryland | 7:00 PM ET
TV: BTN+
Watch
Live Stats
Hoosier News and Notes
Team Breakdown
• The Hoosiers sit at 12-5 (2-2) heading into the weekend's competition. On the season, IU has quality wins at Miami (FL) and home against Illinois. All five losses have come to teams who have won national titles before and are top-50 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 and vs. No. 2 Nebraska. IU will get its third ranked opponent of the season in Happy Valley on Friday (No. 14 Penn State).
• 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 Gary (L), Ava Vickers (MB) and Luca Fickell (S) to the roster.
The Hoosiers
• 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.
• Graduate student Kaley Rammelsberg as well as Haworth and Saris were All-Tournament selections at the Stacheville Challenge (Sept. 8-9) as IU handled opponents in three easy sweeps.
• Haworth followed that up by winning the program's first Big Ten weekly honor of the season (Setter of the Week) after an impressive showing at the 305 Challenge (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.
• As a team, the Hoosiers are 1st in the Big Ten and 11th nationally with 2.05 aces per set. In total, IU has 117 aces on the season including 41 from Haworth (No. 1 in Big Ten and NCAA).
• The Hoosiers are 21st in the NCAA and 1st in the Big Ten in total team blocks, racking up 154.0 stuffs across the first 11 matches of the season.
• IU is holding opponents to just .166 hitting offensively which ranks third in the Big Ten this season.
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 (41) and assists (561).
• Among setters in the conference, she's top-three in total aces (41), assists (561), assists per set (9.84), blocks (35.0) and kills (44). She's also fourth in digs (119).
• 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 top-five 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 41 aces with 16 matches to play and will challenge for the rally-era single season record of 51 set in both 2005 and 2014.
• For her career, Haworth has 2,176 assists, 564 digs and 132 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.
#18 Rammelsberg, Kaley
• The graduate student and IU's only fifth-year player, Rammelsberg has been on a tear in the early portions of the season, hitting .360 (121-27-261) across the first 14 matches she's played.
• For her career, between stops at IU and High Point, Rammelsberg has 872 kills, 352 blocks and 1102.5 points while hitting a collective .339 on 198 attempts.
• IU's all-time hitting percentage list is based on athletes with over 1,000 career attempts in the Cream and Crimson. In three seasons, she has hit .316 which is second in program history.
• Her 23 blocks across the three-game Stacheville Challenge were the most in a three-match span by an IU athlete since the 2014 campaign.
• She followed up her impressive weekend with a 15-kill effort in the win over Miami (FL) just one from matching her career high set at Georgia Tech in 2021.
#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 (317).
• She is 13th all-time in blocks at IU and is also the 14th athlete with 300+ blocks in an IU uniform. It would take 325 total stuffs to crack the top-10 in IU's all-time ranks.
• The veteran middle has played in 97 games of her college career and has started 93 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 Rammelsberg have combined to play 216 matches, put away 1,433 kills and reject 669 shots during their collegiate careers: making them one of the most veteran duos in college volleyball. Duke's middle blocker duo (237 career matches) and Dayton's (233) 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 four Big Ten games, which includes matches against the nation's two-best teams, Kjolhede is hitting a whopping .429 (31-4-63) which includes 10 kills on a .643 clip against No. 2 Nebraska.
#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 241 digs across 17 matches including three 15+ dig efforts during IU's weekend in Miami.
• Her 241 digs are most among Big Ten freshmen and most among Power Five freshmen in the NCAA this year ahead of Kansas' Raegan Burns (187) and Illinois' Lily Barry (167). Among freshmen in all of the NCAA, Gary 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.
• She is averaging 5.29 digs per set in conference play through for matches and leads the Big Ten overall in both digs (241) and digs per set (4.23) this season.
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: #14 Penn State
Series History: 1-60 (Penn State leads) | Last Meeting: 11/11/22 (L, 0-3)
• The Nittany Lions are led by a veteran group of transfers including setter Mac Podraza, outside hitter Jess Mruzik and opposite Camryn Hannah.
• Penn State is off to a 4-0 start in the Big Ten having beaten top-15 Minnesota on the road last Saturday.
• Mruzik averages 4.53 kills per set while Podraza runs an efficient offense with 10.32 assists per set.
Opponent Breakdown: Maryland
Series History: 5-11 (Maryland leads) | Last Meeting: 11/25/22 (L, 2-3)
• The Hoosiers and Terrapins twice went to five sets last year with each team winning away from home.
• Sydney Dowler, a senior, runs the offense for Maryland. They look for Sam Csire (2.94 kps) and Samantha Schnitta (2.74 kps) in attack.
• Middle duo Anastasia Russ and Eva Rohrbach each rank top-10 in the conference in blocks and blocks per set.
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