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Tech Volleyball Closes Road Swing with Trip to Las Vegas
September 11, 2019 | Women's Volleyball
The Red Raiders are set to travel west for a trio of matches at the UNLV Invitational.
LUBBOCK, Texas – The Texas Tech volleyball team is set to close out its 11-match road swing on Sept. 13-14 with a trip to the UNLV Invitational in Las Vegas, Nev. The Red Raiders will take on Pacific, host UNLV and Idaho at Cox Pavilion.
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Tech begins the invitational against Pacific on Friday at 2 p.m. (CT) before closing the night against host UNLV at 9 p.m. (CT). The Red Raiders will then finish out the event with a 1:30 p.m. (CT) match against Idaho on Saturday. Live stats will be available for all three matches.
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Tech begins the invitational against Pacific on Friday at 2 p.m. (CT) before closing the night against host UNLV at 9 p.m. (CT). The Red Raiders will then finish out the event with a 1:30 p.m. (CT) match against Idaho on Saturday. Live stats will be available for all three matches.
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| UNLV Invitational | |
| Dates | Friday-Saturday | Sept. 13-14 |
| Site | Location | Cox Pavilion | Las Vegas, Nev. |
| Match 1 - Friday | vs. Pacific | 2 p.m. (CT) | Live Stats |
| Match 2 - Friday | at UNLV | 9 p.m. (CT) | Live Stats |
| Match 3 - Saturday | vs. Idaho | 1:30 p.m. (CT) | Live Stats |
| Texas Tech Volleyball | Volleyball Home Page | Game Notes | Twitter |
RED RAIDER QUICK HITS
- Collecting two double-doubles on opening weekend, Emily Hill started her senior year with a bang and earned the Big 12 Conference's first Offensive Player of the Week award of 2019. The weekly nod was the first of her career and the first weekly offensive award since Lauren Douglass was dubbed the league's Offensive Player of the Week on Sept. 1, 2014.
- Texas Tech will be celebrating two team members during the month of September. Emily Hill will turn 22Â years old on Tuesday, Sept. 17, and sophomore Alex Kirby will turn 19 on Sunday, Sept. 22.
- As a unit, the Red Raiders rank seventh in the nation with 71 total blocks on the year.
- Emily Hill and Brooke Kanas earned early honors as both the senior and sophomore were represented on the 2019 All-Big 12 Volleyball Preseason Team. Hill earned All-Big 12 second-team honors at the tail end of the 2018 season and Kanas was dubbed a member of the All-Big 12 Second and Freshman Team in her first season with the scarlet and black.
- Two members of the Tech roster had standout performances at Northwestern – Emily Hill tallied a career-high 33 kills while freshman Caitlin Dugan hit .909 against the Wildcats. Hill's kill collection marked the first time a Red Raider has reached 33 kills in a single match since Nov. 20, 2004, and Dugan's .909 hitting percentage is the highest from a Red Raider since the squad took on CSU Bakersfield on Aug. 31, 2018.
- The Red Raiders welcome back 15 letterwinners from a strong 2018 season. The Tech roster contains four seniors, three juniors, nine sophomores and six freshman - highlighted by seniors Emily Hill and Chandler Atwood, juniors Allison White and Emerson Solano, as well as sophomores Brooke Kanas and Karrington Jones.
- Though the Red Raiders struggled through the NU Under Armour Challenge, Emily Hill's performance through three matches earned her All-Tournament Team recognition.
- Three Red Raiders – Emily Hill, Allison White and Emerson Solano – have started every match for Tech this season.
- Head coach Tony Graystone is 10 wins away from the 500th victory of his coaching career.
- On the national scale, senior outside Emily Hill leads the nation with 147 kills and 164.5 points. She ranks second in the nation with 378 total attempts and eighth overall averaging 5.44 kills per set.
- After a stellar outing at the U.S. Women's National Team Open Tryouts, sophomore Brooke Kanas became the fourth Red Raider in program history to earn a spot on the U.S. Women's Collegiate National Team. She spent June 23-29 training with the nation's domestic program in Anaheim, Calif. She is the youngest Red Raider to have spent a summer training with the U.S. Collegiate National Team.Â
- Head coach Tony Graystone's third season at the helm pushed the team to new heights as the Red Raiders met program marks that have not been touched in over a decade. Texas Tech's 17 regular-season wins marked the most since 2001 and the squad's six Big 12 victories were the crew's highest win count since the 2004 season. Thanks to the leadership from Graystone, associate head coach Morgan Thomas and assistant coach Brandy Huskey, the Red Raiders put together back-to-back winning seasons for the first time since 2000-01.
- Texas Tech welcomes seven new faces to the court in 2019 - six freshman and one sophomore transfer. Two freshmen, Cadi Boyer and Audrey Tuttle, graduated high school early and enrolled at Tech before the start of the 2019 spring semester. Other freshmen joining the crew are Caitlin Dugan, Lauren Dodson, Lindsey Dodson and Kylie Trefflich.Â
- The lone transfer to join the Red Raiders, sophomore Tatum Rohme comes to Texas Tech after a one-season stint at Arizona State. She made two appearances and accumulated 24 assists in her limited time as a Sun Devil. Rohme has already made an impact on the Tech roster after starting all four matches last week. She posted a career-high 45 assists against Northwestern, as well as 4 kills.
- The Texas Tech volleyball team was honored by the American Volleyball Coaches Association as an Academic Honor Roll Team after the squad posted a top-25 cumulative grade point average among all Division I institutions for the 2018-19 academic year. The prestigious honor was achieved thanks to a historic year in the classroom. In the fall, Tech placed a program-record 10 student-athletes on the Academic All-Big 12 Teams – nine first-team selections and one second-team nod. The Red Raiders also paced the Big 12 for the second straight year as four student-athletes recorded 4.00 grade point averages.
- You're not just seeing things. Freshmen Lauren and Lindsey Dodson are one of the few pair sisters to grace the Texas Tech volleyball program. The Dodsons are the first set of twins that head coach Tony Graystone has ever coached in his 20 seasons of coaching.
- Junior Emerson Solano returns to the floor after starting all 30 matches as Texas Tech's libero in 2018. Her 442 digs on the year ranked No. 10 in the school record book for digs per season and she ranked second in the Big 12 with 4.06 digs per set as a sophomore. Solano has started every match at libero during the 2019 season and Â
- A pair of Texas Tech volleyball matches have been selected to air on ESPNU while three other affairs are scheduled to broadcast on FOX Sports Networks. Tech's ESPN broadcasts begin with the Red Raiders' Sept. 25 match against West Virginia and will close with Tech's in-state showdown against Texas on Oct. 30. Additionally, the Red Raiders will appear on Fox Sports Networks against Houston (Sept. 20), Kansas (Oct. 16) and finally Iowa State (Nov. 20).
FINAL DETAILS
First Serve against Pacific is set for 2 p.m. (CT) on Friday, Sept. 13, in Las Vegas. Tech's Friday nightcap against UNLV will start at approximately 9 p.m. (CT) and the Red Raiders will close out the tournament on Saturday with a 1:30 p.m. (CT) match against Idaho. Live stats will be available for all four matches and a live stream will be available for all three matches.
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For all the latest information on the Texas Tech volleyball team, visit TexasTech.com or follow @TexasTechVB on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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For all the latest information on the Texas Tech volleyball team, visit TexasTech.com or follow @TexasTechVB on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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