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Utah Volleyball to Open 2014 Season at Home this Weekend
8/26/2014 12:00 AM | Volleyball
Aug. 26, 2014 
Matches 1-3: vs. Montana State (0-0), vs. Missouri State (0-0), vs. New Mexico State (0-0)
When: Friday, Aug. 29 and Saturday, Aug. 30
Where: Salt Lake City, Utah (Crimson Court)
Live Stats: UtahUtes.com
Television: N/A
Live Web-Stream: UtahUtes.com (Lance Barton, Play-by-Play)
All-Time Series: Utah leads 9-3 (H: 4-1, A: 3-1, N: 2-1) | Missouri State leads 3-4 (H: 1-0, A: 1-3, N: 1-1) | Tied 17-17 (H: 7-8, A: 7-7, N: 3-2)
Utes Open 2014 Season Hosting Utah Classic
Utah (0-0) officially opens the 2014 schedule at Crimson Court hosting the Utah Classic. Utah welcomes Montana State (0-0), along with Missouri State (0-0) and New Mexico State (0-0). Action gets underway on Friday Aug. 29 with the Bears taking on the Aggies at 4:30 p.m., followed by the Utes hosting the Bears at 7 p.m. Saturday's contests include Utah facing the Bears at 10 a.m. before concluding the tournament against the Aggies at 7 p.m. Montana State will face the Aggies at Noon and the Bears at 5 p.m.
COVERING THE UTES
A live video stream will be provided for all three of Utah's matches, which can be found by clicking the "Watch Utah Volleyball Live" link under the "Multimedia" tab on the Utah Volleyball web page at UtahUtes.com.
Lance Barton will provide play-by-play for Friday's broadcast, while Jon Oglesby takes over play calling on Saturday.
Live stats will be provided for all six matches over the weekend as well and can be found by clicking the "Gametracker" link at UtahUtes.com.
FOLLOWING UTAH VOLLEYBALL
Make sure to "Like" Utha Volleyball on Facebook to receive inside information from the Utes, as well as set-by-set updates during matches.
Fans can also stay connected with the Utah Volleyball program by following @UtahVolleyball on Instagram and Twitter.
SCOUTING THE FIELD
Montana State - The Bobcats are coming off a 6-25 season from 2013 where they went 4-16 in Big Sky play. Head coach Kyle Weindel (3rd Year) welcomes back eight letterwinners from 2013, including four starters in Kennadie Clute, Loni Kreun, Natalee Godfrey and Eli Svisco. Clute led the Bobcats with 513 kills (4.38/set) last season, while Godfrey led the squad with a .250 hitting percentage and 89 total blocks
Missouri State - Bears head coach Melissa Stokes is in her 19th season under the helm and brings back two starters from a team that went 21-11 overall and finished fourth in the Missouri Valley Conference with a record of 12-6. Olivia Brand led the squad with 283 kills (2.62/set) in 2013 and Simone House tallied a .340 hitting percentage.
New Mexico State - The Aggies went 22-11 last season and won the Western Athletic Conference with a mark of 14-2. Head coach Mike Jordan (17th Year) and the Aggies were in the first round of the NCAA Tournament last season, falling in three sets to Arizona. NMSU's top returners include Gwen Murphy, Bradley Nash and Taylor Livoti.
SERIES HISTORY
The Utes are 9-3 overall when facing Montana State, but the two teams have not face each other since 1997 when Utah downed the Bobcats 3-1 in Logan, Utah. Utah is 4-1 against the Bobcats since 1990.
Utah is just 3-4 against Missouri State in a series that dates back to 1984. The two teams last met in 2010 with Utah falling 2-3 in Springfield, Mo. The Utes had won two straight matches against the Bears prior to the defeat.
The Utes and Aggies will face each other for the 35th time in a series that dates back to 1975. The series is tied 17-17, but Utah has claimed victories over NMSU in four out of the previous five matches, which includes a 3-2 win over the Aggies in Las Cruces, N.M., last season.
WELCOME BACK
Head coach Beth Launiere, who is in her 25th season at Utah, welcomes back nine letterwinners from last season's team that went 21-13 overall and finished in a tie for seventh place in the Pac-12 with a mark of 9-11. Six of those letterwinners are seniors and it includes returning starters Chelsey Schofield-Olsen, Bailey Bateman, Shelby Dalton, Kendall Cygan and Kalee Kirby. Lea Adolph and Tess Sutton also return as the team's primary liberos.
Dalton, an AVCA Honorable Mention All-American in 2013, returns as the leading hitter with 336 kills (2.62/set) and a .276 attacking percentage and Scholfield-Olsen returns as well after following her with 302 kills (2.42/set) last season. Schofield-Olsen led the Utes with 399 digs last season and Adolph followed with 253. Kirby led the way with 735 assists last year, while Cygan tallied 728 assists in Launiere's 6-2 system. Bateman returns as the team's leading blocker after posting 162 total blocks (nine solo) in 2013 and Dalton followed with 141 total blocks as well.
NEW TO THE TEAM
Head coach Beth Launiere has seven newcomers added to the squad in 2014, which includes one junior college transfer and six incoming freshman. Brenna DeYoung transfers in from Snow College, while Carline Sipiora, Emma Kirst, Eliza Katoa, Adora Anae, Jessie Jorgensen and McCall Phillips make the transition from high school to the college game.
Katoa, who hails from Layton, Utah, was an Under Armour All-American following her senior year at Layton High School last fall.
CHASING HISTORY
The 2014 Utah Volleyball squad will have four different players setting their sites on not only competing for a Pac-12 Championship, but also putting their mark in the record books as well.
Chelsey Schofield Olsen, who became the 14th member of the 1,000 kill club last season, will look to become just the fourth player in school history to become a member of the 1,000 kill/1,000 dig club. She needs just 26 digs to accomplish the feat and will look to do so this weekend in Crimson Court.
Shelby Dalton heads into the 2014 season with 681 career kills and will need 319 kills to become the 15th member of the 1,000 kill club and will need just 65 total blocks to earn her way into the 400 block club. Bailey Bateman needs just 48 blocks to become a member of the 400 block club as well, and should both players accomplish the mark, they would become just the 10th and 11th players to do so, respectively. Kendall Cygan, who has 1,321 career assists heading into this weekend, will need 679 assists over the course of the 2014 campaign to become just the seventh member of the 2,000 assist club.
WHERE THEY PLAY
The Utes will split matches this season between Crimson Court and the Huntsman Center. Utah opens the season in Crimson Court, where the team has tallied a record of 189-65 since 1994, and will closeout the regular season inside the confines of the Huntsman Center.
Utah will host at least six matches inside Crimson Court, including a Pac-12 weekend against California (Oct. 17) and Stanford (Oct. 19). The final six home matches, between Nov. 7 and Nov. 28, will be held inside the Huntsman Center, while two games (Arizona, Oct. 3 and Arizona State, Oct. 5) have yet to be determined due to construction inside the Huntsman Center.
2014 SCHEDULE NOTES
Utah will face 10 teams that qualified for the NCAA Tournament last season, which includes non-conference foes New Mexico State and BYU. The Utes will play 14 home games, which includes a pair of tournaments - the Utah Classic (Aug. 29-30) and the Lipscomb Invitational (Sept. 12-13).
UTES PICKED 10TH IN PAC-12 PRESEASON POLL
Despite finishing in a tie for seventh place and returning six seniors, Pac-12 coaches voted Utah to finish 10th overall in the conference this season. Stanford and USC both received five first place votes in the preseason poll, but it was the Cardinal narrowly edging out the Trojans in total points, 114-113. Washington (two first place votes) was picked to finish third, Arizona State was tabbed fourth, while both California and Oregon tied in points to round out the top-five teams.
UTES ON THE PAC-12 NETWORKS
Utah's Pac-12 TV schedule includes home games against Arizona (Oct. 3), Arizona State (Oct. 5), California (Oct. 17), Stanford (Oct. 19), USC (Nov. 7), UCLA (Nov. 9), Washington State (Nov. 13) and Colorado (Nov. 28).
The Utes will play on the Pac-12 Networks when the team travels to Colorado (Sept. 25), Oregon State (Sept. 27), USC (Oct. 11), Washington (Oct. 24), Washington State (Oct. 26), Stanford (Nov. 21) and California (Nov. 23).
UP NEXT
Following the Utah Classic, the Utes will travel to Moraga, Calif., next Saturday, Sept. 6, to take on Cal Poly in a neutral court match before playing at St. Mary's. The matches will be played inside McKeon Pavilion at 12 p.m. (MT) and 8 p.m. (MT).
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Matches 1-3: vs. Montana State (0-0), vs. Missouri State (0-0), vs. New Mexico State (0-0)
When: Friday, Aug. 29 and Saturday, Aug. 30
Where: Salt Lake City, Utah (Crimson Court)
Live Stats: UtahUtes.com
Television: N/A
Live Web-Stream: UtahUtes.com (Lance Barton, Play-by-Play)
All-Time Series: Utah leads 9-3 (H: 4-1, A: 3-1, N: 2-1) | Missouri State leads 3-4 (H: 1-0, A: 1-3, N: 1-1) | Tied 17-17 (H: 7-8, A: 7-7, N: 3-2)
Utes Open 2014 Season Hosting Utah Classic
Utah (0-0) officially opens the 2014 schedule at Crimson Court hosting the Utah Classic. Utah welcomes Montana State (0-0), along with Missouri State (0-0) and New Mexico State (0-0). Action gets underway on Friday Aug. 29 with the Bears taking on the Aggies at 4:30 p.m., followed by the Utes hosting the Bears at 7 p.m. Saturday's contests include Utah facing the Bears at 10 a.m. before concluding the tournament against the Aggies at 7 p.m. Montana State will face the Aggies at Noon and the Bears at 5 p.m.
COVERING THE UTES
A live video stream will be provided for all three of Utah's matches, which can be found by clicking the "Watch Utah Volleyball Live" link under the "Multimedia" tab on the Utah Volleyball web page at UtahUtes.com.
Lance Barton will provide play-by-play for Friday's broadcast, while Jon Oglesby takes over play calling on Saturday.
Live stats will be provided for all six matches over the weekend as well and can be found by clicking the "Gametracker" link at UtahUtes.com.
FOLLOWING UTAH VOLLEYBALL
Make sure to "Like" Utha Volleyball on Facebook to receive inside information from the Utes, as well as set-by-set updates during matches.
Fans can also stay connected with the Utah Volleyball program by following @UtahVolleyball on Instagram and Twitter.
SCOUTING THE FIELD
Montana State - The Bobcats are coming off a 6-25 season from 2013 where they went 4-16 in Big Sky play. Head coach Kyle Weindel (3rd Year) welcomes back eight letterwinners from 2013, including four starters in Kennadie Clute, Loni Kreun, Natalee Godfrey and Eli Svisco. Clute led the Bobcats with 513 kills (4.38/set) last season, while Godfrey led the squad with a .250 hitting percentage and 89 total blocks
Missouri State - Bears head coach Melissa Stokes is in her 19th season under the helm and brings back two starters from a team that went 21-11 overall and finished fourth in the Missouri Valley Conference with a record of 12-6. Olivia Brand led the squad with 283 kills (2.62/set) in 2013 and Simone House tallied a .340 hitting percentage.
New Mexico State - The Aggies went 22-11 last season and won the Western Athletic Conference with a mark of 14-2. Head coach Mike Jordan (17th Year) and the Aggies were in the first round of the NCAA Tournament last season, falling in three sets to Arizona. NMSU's top returners include Gwen Murphy, Bradley Nash and Taylor Livoti.
SERIES HISTORY
The Utes are 9-3 overall when facing Montana State, but the two teams have not face each other since 1997 when Utah downed the Bobcats 3-1 in Logan, Utah. Utah is 4-1 against the Bobcats since 1990.
Utah is just 3-4 against Missouri State in a series that dates back to 1984. The two teams last met in 2010 with Utah falling 2-3 in Springfield, Mo. The Utes had won two straight matches against the Bears prior to the defeat.
The Utes and Aggies will face each other for the 35th time in a series that dates back to 1975. The series is tied 17-17, but Utah has claimed victories over NMSU in four out of the previous five matches, which includes a 3-2 win over the Aggies in Las Cruces, N.M., last season.
WELCOME BACK
Head coach Beth Launiere, who is in her 25th season at Utah, welcomes back nine letterwinners from last season's team that went 21-13 overall and finished in a tie for seventh place in the Pac-12 with a mark of 9-11. Six of those letterwinners are seniors and it includes returning starters Chelsey Schofield-Olsen, Bailey Bateman, Shelby Dalton, Kendall Cygan and Kalee Kirby. Lea Adolph and Tess Sutton also return as the team's primary liberos.
Dalton, an AVCA Honorable Mention All-American in 2013, returns as the leading hitter with 336 kills (2.62/set) and a .276 attacking percentage and Scholfield-Olsen returns as well after following her with 302 kills (2.42/set) last season. Schofield-Olsen led the Utes with 399 digs last season and Adolph followed with 253. Kirby led the way with 735 assists last year, while Cygan tallied 728 assists in Launiere's 6-2 system. Bateman returns as the team's leading blocker after posting 162 total blocks (nine solo) in 2013 and Dalton followed with 141 total blocks as well.
NEW TO THE TEAM
Head coach Beth Launiere has seven newcomers added to the squad in 2014, which includes one junior college transfer and six incoming freshman. Brenna DeYoung transfers in from Snow College, while Carline Sipiora, Emma Kirst, Eliza Katoa, Adora Anae, Jessie Jorgensen and McCall Phillips make the transition from high school to the college game.
Katoa, who hails from Layton, Utah, was an Under Armour All-American following her senior year at Layton High School last fall.
CHASING HISTORY
The 2014 Utah Volleyball squad will have four different players setting their sites on not only competing for a Pac-12 Championship, but also putting their mark in the record books as well.
Chelsey Schofield Olsen, who became the 14th member of the 1,000 kill club last season, will look to become just the fourth player in school history to become a member of the 1,000 kill/1,000 dig club. She needs just 26 digs to accomplish the feat and will look to do so this weekend in Crimson Court.
Shelby Dalton heads into the 2014 season with 681 career kills and will need 319 kills to become the 15th member of the 1,000 kill club and will need just 65 total blocks to earn her way into the 400 block club. Bailey Bateman needs just 48 blocks to become a member of the 400 block club as well, and should both players accomplish the mark, they would become just the 10th and 11th players to do so, respectively. Kendall Cygan, who has 1,321 career assists heading into this weekend, will need 679 assists over the course of the 2014 campaign to become just the seventh member of the 2,000 assist club.
WHERE THEY PLAY
The Utes will split matches this season between Crimson Court and the Huntsman Center. Utah opens the season in Crimson Court, where the team has tallied a record of 189-65 since 1994, and will closeout the regular season inside the confines of the Huntsman Center.
Utah will host at least six matches inside Crimson Court, including a Pac-12 weekend against California (Oct. 17) and Stanford (Oct. 19). The final six home matches, between Nov. 7 and Nov. 28, will be held inside the Huntsman Center, while two games (Arizona, Oct. 3 and Arizona State, Oct. 5) have yet to be determined due to construction inside the Huntsman Center.
2014 SCHEDULE NOTES
Utah will face 10 teams that qualified for the NCAA Tournament last season, which includes non-conference foes New Mexico State and BYU. The Utes will play 14 home games, which includes a pair of tournaments - the Utah Classic (Aug. 29-30) and the Lipscomb Invitational (Sept. 12-13).
UTES PICKED 10TH IN PAC-12 PRESEASON POLL
Despite finishing in a tie for seventh place and returning six seniors, Pac-12 coaches voted Utah to finish 10th overall in the conference this season. Stanford and USC both received five first place votes in the preseason poll, but it was the Cardinal narrowly edging out the Trojans in total points, 114-113. Washington (two first place votes) was picked to finish third, Arizona State was tabbed fourth, while both California and Oregon tied in points to round out the top-five teams.
UTES ON THE PAC-12 NETWORKS
Utah's Pac-12 TV schedule includes home games against Arizona (Oct. 3), Arizona State (Oct. 5), California (Oct. 17), Stanford (Oct. 19), USC (Nov. 7), UCLA (Nov. 9), Washington State (Nov. 13) and Colorado (Nov. 28).
The Utes will play on the Pac-12 Networks when the team travels to Colorado (Sept. 25), Oregon State (Sept. 27), USC (Oct. 11), Washington (Oct. 24), Washington State (Oct. 26), Stanford (Nov. 21) and California (Nov. 23).
UP NEXT
Following the Utah Classic, the Utes will travel to Moraga, Calif., next Saturday, Sept. 6, to take on Cal Poly in a neutral court match before playing at St. Mary's. The matches will be played inside McKeon Pavilion at 12 p.m. (MT) and 8 p.m. (MT).
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