Cards Volleyball Stats -- WEDNESDAY CARDINAL COUPLE

 20-4 VOLLEYCARDS RANKED #7 in D1

Meske's squad in third place in ACC standings. 

With the Louisville Volleyball squad set to play FSU Thursday in the LNFCUA...I figured it just might be time to catch up on a few of the stats that the Volleyball have amassed this season. The 20-4 record is impressive in Meske's first year as the head coach, and with losses to Texas, Kentucky, SMU and Pitt...the Cards have only lost to the #2 (UK), #3,(Pitt) #4 Texas and #10 SMU teams in the DI rankings. 

Kamden Schrand is the only Cards Volleyball player who has played in all of the 88 sets the Cards  have played in this season. Schrand, a libero out of Notre Dame Academy, also leads the Cards in a rather dubious stat....service errors on the season . 

In set assists, the runaway leader is Navelis Cabello...with 880. Cabello is a sophomore on the squad this season. 

Kills, as we know, are quite important in any squad's success and Cards have five players with over 200. Chloe Chicoine leads the way with 282 in 87 sets, Chicoine is a junior outside hitter who transferred to Louisville from Purdue this season. Also over 200 are Payton Peterson (255). Kaylissa Blackshear (248) and Kara Kresse (214). 

One question I get asked from time to time is "where is so-and-so from?"  Out of the 16 players on the roster..fFive of them call Indiana home. Two are from California and there is also two from Iowa. Finally, there is one each from Nebraska, Florida, Ohio, Illinois, Texas, Maryland and Kentucky. 

Finally, what is the class breakdown for the Cards? Five are freshmen, one is a redshirt freshman, two are sophomores, six are juniors, one is a red-shirt junior and there is one senior and one red-shirt senior. 

The Cards have a six game win streak that they are currently riding on and six games remaining in the regular season. The ACC does not have a conference post-season tournament...the winner is determined  by the regular season standings. 

Another question I get asked a lot is who are the best to ever play Volleyball at UofL? That is a really tough one to answer...but I will attempt to give you five I think that no one could really argue about...Anna DeBeer, Lola Arsanbekova, Melanie McHenry, Anna Stevenson and Claire Chausee. Feel free to debate any of these...i have four outside hitters in here and a middle blocker. SOME WOULD ADD CARA CRESSE TO THIS LIST...so I will as #6 

Wishing the best of luck and nothing but straight set wins for our VolleyCards the rest of the season and a "natty" 

WBB hosts Colorado tonight

Louisville women's basketball (1-1) hosts Colorado tonight in action at the KFC YUM! Center. The Cards are ranked #22 in the lateset DI NCAA rankings and Colorado beat New Mexico by 25 last Thursday night, so it couid be a tough one for Walz's crew. 

The Buffs play in the Big 12 and are not in the current DI Top 25. 

Game time is 7 p,m, and if you can't attend , it'll be on ACCNX 

paulie