Texas Tech University Athletics
Monday, September 16
Lubbock, TX
6 PM
Texas Tech Athletics
vs
Abilene Christian
Volleyball Welcomes Abilene Christian in Home Opener
September 15, 2019 | Women's Volleyball
The Red Raiders will play host to the Wildcats on Monday at United Supermarkets Arena.
LUBBOCK, Texas – After a 2-1 weekend at the UNLV Invitational, the Texas Tech volleyball team (6-4) welcomes Abilene Christian to United Supermarkets Arena for its home opener on Monday, Sept. 16. First serve is set for 6 p.m.
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Live stats, as well as a live stream on Texas Tech TV, will be available for the Red Raiders first home match of the 2019 season. Additionally, discounted tickets will be available for Texas Tech faculty and staff as the Red Raiders host their faculty/staff appreciation night.
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Live stats, as well as a live stream on Texas Tech TV, will be available for the Red Raiders first home match of the 2019 season. Additionally, discounted tickets will be available for Texas Tech faculty and staff as the Red Raiders host their faculty/staff appreciation night.
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| Texas Tech (6-4) vs. Abilene Christian (2-7) | |
| Date | Time | Monday, Sept. 16 | 6:00 p.m. (CT) |
| Site | Location | United Supermarkets Arena | Lubbock, Texas |
| Follow Along | Live Stats | Watch |
| Promotion | Faculty/Staff Appreciation Night - $3 ticket with TTU Faculty/Staff ID |
| Texas Tech Volleyball | Match Notes | Twitter | Facebook | 2019 Record Book |
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.
- Head coach Tony Graystone is eight wins away from the 500th victory of his coaching career.
- After their performances at the UNLV Invitational, Allison White and Emily Hill picked up All-Tournament Team honors. White finished the weekend with 25 kills and 12 total blocks while Hill 52 kills and 41 digs.
- Texas Tech will be celebrating two team members during the month of September. Emily Hill will turn 22 years old on Tuesday, Sept. 17, and sophomore Alex Kirby will turn 20 on Sunday, Sept. 22.
- As a unit, the Red Raiders rank 10th in the nation with 71 total blocks on the year.
- Senior Emily Hill has played 400 sets over the course of her career. The Denton, Texas native played 126 sets as a freshman at Mississippi State and has participated in 274 sets since she arrived at Tech in 2017.
- 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.
- Helping Texas Tech to a victory over UNLV, Allison White posted a career-high 15 kills, .667 hitting percentage and 18 points against the Rebels.
- 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 now 21 years of coaching.
- Finally home at United Supermarkets Arena, the Red Raiders welcome back 15 letterwinners who played on their home court last year. 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.
- Three Red Raiders – Emily Hill, Allison White and Emerson Solano – have started every match for Tech this season.
- On the national scale, senior outside Emily Hill leads the nation with 178 kills and 222.5 points.
- 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 United Supermarkets arena in 2019. 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. The lone transfer to join the Red Raiders, sophomore Tatum Rohme comes to Texas Tech after a one-season stint at Arizona State. Rohme has already made an impact after taking over as the Red Raider's setter.
- 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.
- A major part of the Texas Tech defense, 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. Racking up 149 digs this year, Solano has started every match at libero during the 2019 season and is averaging 4.13 digs per set.
- 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 on Monday is set for 6 p.m. at United Supermarkets Arena. Live stats, as well as a live stream, will be available for the match. For all the latest information on the Texas Tech volleyball team, visit TexasTech.com or follow @TexasTechVB on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.Â
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