PREVIEW: Women’s Volleyball aims to complete season sweep against Coker

SALISBURY, N.C. – The Catawba College women's volleyball team is setting up for its second battle with the Coker Cobras on Wednesday night at Goodman Arena.

Over the Weekend

- Catawba is coming off a pair of defeats to national vote-receiving Lenoir-Rhyne and Limestone

- Lauren Bodell led the offensive charge with a combined .135 hitting percentage including 14 kills

- Sofia Beard paced the squad in kills per set at 3.25 on an even .000 percentage

- Haley Moffett dished out 43 assists with 18 digs at setter while Riley Hill collected 38 digs and six assists at libero

- At the net, Katie Clark recorded six blocks with five solos, four of which occurred at Limestone to set the team's individual season high

Team Leaderboard

- Another strong pair of matches for Kelcie Love kept the junior outside hitter in the squad's kills lead, hammering 137 this season for a 2.28 per-set average

- Clark maintains the top slot in blocking with 37 total stops while adding 73 kills in the middle

- Hill's 293 digs leads the Catawba Indians while she also boasts a team-high 16 service aces, surpassing her mark of 12 as a rookie in 2023

- Moffett paces Catawba in assists with 279, slightly ahead of Sydney McCutcheon's 267

Last Dance with Coker

- Catawba snagged its first league triumph of the year at Coker on Oct. 4 in a gritty 3-2 win

- In her collegiate debut, Lillie Kate Rogers stole the show with 18 kills and 13 digs while providing pivotal points in the fourth and fifth sets

- Moffett also had a double-double in the contest, amassing 29 assists and 14 digs

- The matchup was high-flying with the Catawba Indians setting season highs of 64 kills, 206 attacks, 62 assists, and 113 digs

All-Time Series

- The blue and white are 23-4 in matches against the Cobras with seven straight victories

- Before battling Catawba to five sets on Oct. 4, Coker had fallen via sweep in six consecutive matches

- Since 2013, when Catawba and Coker became South Atlantic Conference foes, the Cobras are winless at Goodman Arena with 10 losses including eight sweeps

- The last triple-double in Catawba history was recorded by Rachel Stanford against Coker on Nov. 7, 2017 when she tallied 18 kills, 20 assists, and 15 digs

Scouting the Cobras

- Coker comes to Salisbury with a 3-16 record including SAC wins over Limestone and Newberry

- The Cobras have fallen 11 times in a row as their last victory came in a 3-0 blanking of Newberry on Sep. 20; four of those losses occurred in five sets

- Freshman right-side hitter Cayla Gilmore tops the Cobras with 196 kills as senior Taylor Hills has 179 kills from the outside while hitting a team-best .182

- Laila Hixon and Maddy Roberts have split setting duties at 335 and 299 assists, respectively

- Rookie Kailyn Ivey holds the team-high blocking total with 69 stops, featuring 21 solo denials

Follow Along

The match will be broadcast on FloSports ($) with live stats on CatawbaAthletics.com.