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A KEY HOMESTAND AWAITS
Winners of three in a row, the Southern Connecticut State University volleyball team plays its next three games at Pelz Gym. The Owls kick off action on Tuesday with a contest against AIC. Merrimack follows with a visit on Friday, while an important non-league game with Molloy bookends the other part of the weekend. All three games are set for 7 p.m. starts.

ALL-TIME VS. AIC
The Yellow Jackets lead the all-time series with the Owls, 26-8. AIC claimed a 3-1 win over the Owls in their last meeting last season.

ALL-TIME VS. MERRIMACK
Merrimack leads the all-time series with the Owls, 17-9. The Owls captured a 3-0 win over the Warriors in last year's meeting.

ALL-TIME VS. MOLLOY
The all-time series between SCSU and Molloy is even at 14-14. Molloy claimed a 3-1 win over the Owls back on Sept. 9 in the first meeting of this season between the clubs.

LAST TIME OUT
Junior Alyssa Gage posted a combined 22 kills and a remarkable .688 hitting percentage on the day as the Southern Connecticut State University volleyball team improved to 16-5 with 3-0 wins over Chestnut Hill and Felician on Saturday.
• Gabriela Vazquez had her ninth double-double of the year 14 kills and 13 digs in the win over Chestnut Hill.
• Jillian Chambers just missed out on her first double-double as an Owl with a game-high nine kills and 10 digs against Felician.

DOUBLE-DOUBLE TRACKER
Leanna Jadus - 13
Alexandria Jurgens - 9
Gabriela Vazquez - 9
Alexandra Nimz - 3

HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS
The Owls bring a 9-2 home mark into the week's action. The single-season record for home wins is 14, set during the 2009 season.

OWLS AMONG THE NE10 LEADERS
Coming into the week:
• Leanna Jadus is first in kills (287) and total attempts (852), second in kills/set (3.78), fifth in service aces/set (0.45) and ninth in hitting percentage.
• Alyssa Gage is tied for first with a .376 hitting percentage and is also sixth with 57 blocks.

VENARD NAMED TO WEEKLY HONOR ROLL
Anna Venard was selected to the NE10 weekly honor roll on Oct. 10. Venard posted back-to-back efforts with season-highs in digs in a 1-1 week for the Owls. She totaled 24 in a four-game win over Assumption and followed that up with 26 in a loss to Bentley.

OWLS MAKING PROGRESS
Thanks to the victory over Felician, the Owls notched their 16th win of the 2017 campaign, which eclipsed the team's win total from the entire 2016 season.

JADUS EARNS WEEKLY HONOR ROLL SPOT...X3
Leanna Jadus was named to the NE10 weekly honor roll on Oct. 3. Jadus averaged 4.0 kills and 4.2 digs per set in a 3-1 week for the Owls, posting double-doubles in all four games. Her top statistical effort came with 20 kills and 26 digs in a thrilling five-game win over NYIT. The 20 kills also matched a single-game career-high for Jadus.

JADUS EARNS WEEKLY HONOR ROLL SPOT...X2
Leanna Jadus was named to the NE10 weekly honor roll on Sept. 26 for her play against Pace and St. Anselm. Jadus averaged 5.0 kills and 2.5 digs per set in a 1-1 week for the Owls, along with a .306 hitting percentage. She registered a double-double with 17 kills and 13 digs in a win over Pace and added a team-high 13 kills against Saint Anselm.

JADUS EARNS SECOND PLAYER OF WEEK HONOR
Leanna Jadus was selected as the NE10 Player of the Week for the second time this year on Sept. 19. She led the Owls to a 2-0 week with triumphs over Queens and LeMoyne. Jadus posted a double-double in the win over LeMoyne with a game-high 18 kills and 14 digs and also had a game-high 10 kills in the win over Queens. She had 3.5 kills and 2.1 digs per set for the Owls.

JADUS EARNS WEEKLY HONOR ROLL SPOT
Leanna Jadus was named to the NE10 weekly honor roll for her play in the Owls' matches against Molloy, Bloomfield, LIU-Post, Post and Nyack.

NIMZ NETS 2,000
Alexandra Nimz recorded the 2,000th assist of her career in the win over Bloomfield and has 2,317 coming into the week. That tally is second all-time in SCSU history.

JURGENS MAKING A STATEMENT
Alexandria Jurgens has seen increased action in a setter's role since the opening week, and has fared well in that role. In fact, she narrowly missed her second career triple-double in the matches against LIU-Post and Molloy. Jurgens posted eight kills along with 17 assists and 13 digs against LIU-Post and had seven kills, 17 assists and 14 digs against Molloy. Jurgens is the last Owl to record a triple-double, posting a line of 11 kills, 19 assists and 12 digs in a win over LeMoyne on Oct. 8, 2016.

JADUS NAMED NE10 PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Leanna Jadus powered the Owls to a 3-0 opening week with triumphs over Bridgeport, Dominican and Georgian Court, posting two double-doubles in the process. For her efforts, she was named the NE10 Player of the Week. She averaged 4.22 kills and 3.78 digs per set while also hitting at a .281 clip. Jadus led the Owls in kills against Dominican and had double-doubles against Bridgeport and Georgian Court.

GAGE MAKES AN IMPACT
Junior transfer Alyssa Gage fit right into the Owls' rotation during the opening weekend. She posted a team-high .452 hitting percentage in the Owls' three wins, including a perfect 1.000 (7-for-7) mark in the opening win over Dominican, which established a new SCSU single-game record (min. 7 kills).

OFF AND RUNNING
The 4-0 start for the Owls was Southern's first since the 2009 season. That squad set a program record for consecutive wins to start a campaign with 13.

IT'S BEEN A WHILE
Southern's win over Bridgeport on Sept. 3 was the Owls' first over the Purple Knights since the 1999 season.

JURGENS HITS HALF-MILENNIUM MARK
Alexandria Jurgens tallied her 500th career kill in the win over Georgian Court on Sept. 3.

JADUS MOVES UP THE CHARTS
Leanna Jadus is now in third place in program history in career attempts with 2,968. Next up is Sarah Beres, who totaled 3,102 during her four-year career. She also now sits third all-time at SCSU in career kills (899). Next up in that department is Lauren McVey, who tallied 1,018 as an Owl.

A GOOD WAY TO START
The Owls had a pair of four-game homestands during the course of the 2017 season, including the opening four contests. The second four-game homestand took place later in September with matches against New Haven, Concordia, New York Tech and Wilmington.

LOOKING BACK AT LAST YEAR
Southern Connecticut finished the 2016 season with an overall record of 15-19 and a conference record of 4-10. The Owls improved on both their overall and NE10 win totals from the season prior.

THE CAPTAINS
For the second year in a row, senior Nicole Hauser will serve as a team captain. In addition, classmate Alexandra Nimz and junior Leanna Jadus will also fill this role in 2017.

RETURNING TO THE COURT
The Owls have 11 student-athletes returning from last year's team, including Alexandra Nimz, Nicole Hauser, Jourdan Hodge, Alexandria Jurgens, Anna Venard, Tea Carter, Gabriela Vazquez, Jennifer Dawson, Jenixza Febles, Jillian Chambers and Leanna Jadus.

OWLS WELCOME THREE NEWCOMERS
The Owls welcome three student-athletes to the team this year: Kirstin Colwell, Alyssa Gage and Gabriella Welsh.

THRIVING IN THE CLASSROOM
The American Volleyball Coaches Association recognized Southern Connecticut State University for the second year in a row with its Team Academic Award during the summer of 2017. In addition, the Owls were also the 2017 recipients of SCSU's Academic Team of Champions Award for having the highest team grade point average of any Owls' squad.

IN THE NE10 PRESEASON POLL
Southern Connecticut was selected 11th in the NE10 Conference Preseason Coaches' Poll, as voted on by the league's coaches.
2017 NE10 Conference Volleyball Preseason Coaches' Poll
1. AIC - 185 (8)
2. New Haven - 178 (4)
3. Le Moyne - 166
4. Adelphi - 160 (3)
5. Pace - 139
6. Saint Anselm - 129
7. Bentley - 128
8. Franklin Pierce - 98
9. Stonehill - 96
10. SNHU - 72
11. SCSU - 65
12. Saint Rose - 64
13. Merrimack - 42
14. Assumption - 41
15. Saint Michael's - 20

IMPACTING THE RECORD BOOKS
Among active Owls:
• Nicole Hauser has three of the five triple-doubles in program history, and also holds the single-match record with 25 kills. 
• Alexandra Nimz is ranked second all-time at SCSU in career assists. She also holds a share of the single-match record with 56 assists (set last year against Assumption) as well as two of the top-seven single-season assist marks in school history.
• Leanna Jadus ranks first all-time in single-season attempts and also posted the third-highest single-season kill mark in program history. Jadus also holds the top four of the top five single-game attempt tallies and four of the top-eight single-game kill marks in school history.
• Alexandria Jurgens is the last Owl to record a triple-double, posting a line of 11 kills, 19 assists and 12 digs in a win over LeMoyne on Oct. 8, 2016.

ON DECK
The Owls are back in action on Oct. 27 for a road match at Stonehill.