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IT'S TOURNAMENT TIME
For the first time since 2012, the Southern Connecticut State University volleyball team has ventured ahead into the NE10 Tournament. The Owls, who finished 8-6 in league play and tied with three other teams for fifth place, drew the No. 7 seed by virtue of tiebreakers and will face the No. 2 seed, AIC, on Tuesday night. Game time is set for 7 p.m. in Springfield, Mass.

ALL-TIME VS. AIC
The Yellow Jackets lead the all-time series with the Owls, 26-9. SCSU claimed a 3-1 win over AIC in their meeting earlier this year on Oct. 17.

IN THE NE10 TOURNAMENT
The Owls are 2-3 all-time in NE10 Tournament.
• 2012 - W - 3-0 - Saint Rose (Quarters)
              L - 3-1 - New Haven (Semis)
• 2011 - L - 3-1 - Stonehill (Quarters)
• 2009 - W - 3-2 - New Haven (Quarters)
              L - 3-1 - UMass-Lowell (Semis)

IN THE NCAA REGIONAL RANKINGS
Southern Connecticut moved up two spots to No. 6 in last week's NCAA regional rankings. This week's edition will be announced on Wednesday. SCSU debuted at No. 8 in the opening poll and then moved up two spots last week.

IT'S BEEN A WHILE
Tuesday's match will mark the first time since Sept. 9-16 that the Owls will have played three in a row away from home. Southern Connecticut played six matches on the road (three road, three neutral) during that stretch, but since then, have played no more than two straight matches away from home.

DOUBLE-DOUBLE TRACKER
Leanna Jadus - 20
Gabriela Vazquez - 16 
Alexandria Jurgens - 12
Alexandra Nimz - 3

LAST TIME OUT
Alyssa Gage had a game-high 12 kills to go along with a .579 hitting percentage, and Leanna Jadus registered her 20th double-double of the year as the Southern Connecticut State University volleyball team swept St. Michael's, 3-0, in the regular season finale.
• Jadus finished the match with 10 kills and 14 digs.
• Alexandria Jurgens had a game-high 29 assists.
• Kirstin Colwell had seven kills.
• Gabriela Vazquez tallied six kills and 13 digs.
• Anna Venard finished with a team-high 14 digs for Southern.

ON THE CUSP
Leanna Jadus needs just one more kill this season to set a new SCSU single-season record for kills. She has 394 so far this year, which matches Jenna Tammel's 2008 total.

JADUS MOVES UP THE CHARTS
Leanna Jadus moved into first place in program history in career attempts in the match against Adelphi and now has 3,342 as an Owl. She also now sits third all-time at SCSU in career kills (1,006). Next up in that department is Lauren McVey, who tallied 1,018 as an Owl. Sarah Beres is the record-holder with 1,118.

MONSTER NIGHT, WEEK FOR GAGE
Alyssa Gage set a new career-high with 21 kills against Adelphi (third-best single-game total in program history), while just committing one error in the match. She followed with 12 kills in the win over St. Michael's. In total, Gage notched a .517 hitting percentage last week.

NEW HIGH WATER MARK FOR JURGENS
Alexandria Jurgens registered a new single-game high with 43 assists in the match against Adelphi.

WIN NO. 20 IN THE BOOKS
The win over Franklin Pierce on Nov. 4 was the 20th of the year for the Owls. It marked the seventh 20-win season in program history. SCSU previously won 20 or more games in 1975, 1978, 1980, 2008, 2009 and 2012. The final three occurrences came under the guidance of current Owls' coach Lisa Barbaro. The school single-season record is 33 wins, set by the 1980 team.

HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS
The Owls finished the regular season with 13-3 home mark. The single-season record for home wins is 14, set during the 2009 season.

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.

WINNING SEASON IN THE BOOKS
The Owls' most recent six-game winning streak guaranteed a winning season in 2017. 

ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT RELEASES NEW LOGO
In conjunction with the 2017 Homecoming Weekend festivities, the Southern Connecticut State University athletic department announced a redesign of its Owl logo, effective Oct. 21, 2017. SCSU partnered with Phoenix Design Works of Maplewood, New Jersey for the development of the new athletics logos.

OWLS AMONG THE NE10 LEADERS
Coming into the week:
• Leanna Jadus is first in total attempts (1224), second in kills/set (3.65), fourth in service aces/set (0.44) and 13th in hitting percentage.
• Alyssa Gage is second with a .356 hitting percentage and is also fourth with 81 blocks.

THREE OWLS HONORED; JADUS NAMED PLAYER OF WEEK
For the third time this season, junior Leanna Jadus was  named as the NE10 Player of the Week, on Oct. 24. In addition, teammates Alyssa Gage and Gabriela Vazquez were also named to the weekly honor roll for their play in a 2-0 week for the Owls.
• Jadus averaged 4.3 kills and 5.0 digs per game, along with a .364 hitting percentage. She also notched her 14th and 15th double-doubles of the year in the process. Jadus posted 17 kills and 23 digs in a win over AIC and followed with 13 kills and 12 digs in a win over Merrimack
• Gage averaged 3.6 kills and had a .281 hitting percentage for the Owls. She registered 14 kills in a win over AIC and followed with 11 in a win over Merrimack.
• Vazquez averaged 3.3 kills and 3.0 digs per set, along with a .226 hitting percentage, for the Owls. She posted her 10th double-double of the year with 12 kills and 18 digs in a win over AIC and added 11 kills in a win over Merrimack. 

GAGE EARNS SPOT ON WEEKLY HONOR ROLL
Alyssa Gage was named to the NE10 weekly honor roll for her play in the Owls three wins during the week of Oct. 10.
• Gage had a monster week individually in a 3-0 week as a team for the Owls. She averaged 3.6 kills per set and posted an incredible .525 hitting percentage. Gage started the week with 13 kills and four blocks in a win over Saint Rose. She followed that up with 16 kills and a .682 hitting percentage in a win over Chestnut Hill and seven kills and a .700 hitting percentage in a win over Felician.

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.

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 2,458 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.

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 first and the third-highest single-season kill marks 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
A win will send the Owls into the semifinals against either Bentley or Saint Anselm. A loss will force the Owls to wait until the NCAA selection show to learn if they have earned an at-large bid in the field.