Friday, October 21
Los Angeles, Calif.
8:00 PM
UCLA
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Stanford
The Bruins are ranked in the Top 20 nationally in four statistical categories.
#15 Bruins Host #14 Stanford, California
October 19, 2016 | Women's Volleyball
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Friday, Oct. 21
#14 Stanford at #15 UCLA
8 p.m.
Pauley Pavilion
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Sunday, Oct. 23
California at #15 UCLA
12 p.m.
John Wooden Center
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#15 UCLA HOSTS #14 STANFORD AND CALIFORNIA
The 15th-ranked Bruins host the Bay Area schools this weekend to open up a four-match homestand. UCLA entertains #14 Stanford on Friday at 8 p.m. at Pauley Pavilion in a match which will air on Pac-12 National and Los Angeles. On Sunday, the Bruins venture down Bruin Walk to the John Wooden Center where they will face California at 12 p.m. The UCLA-Cal contest will feature free live video, while both matches next week will have free live audio on UCLABruins.com.
WHAT'S NEXT
The homestand concludes next weekend with another two-venue stint, as UCLA hosts Colorado on Friday, Oct. 28 at 6 p.m. at the John Wooden Center and Utah on Saturday, Oct. 29 at 8 p.m. at Pauley Pavilion. Both matches will air on Pac-12 Los Angeles and will also feature free live audio on UCLABruins.com.
BRUINS IN THE POLLS
The Bruins moved up five spots to 15th in this week's AVCA Top 25 Coaches poll. Eight UCLA opponents are in the Top 25 (#5 San Diego, #7 Washington, #13 Hawai'i, #14 Stanford, #18 Washington State, #20 Utah, #23 Oregon and #25 USC), while Arizona (#26) and Colorado (#28) are both receiving votes.
VAN WINDEN, FORMICO EARN PAC-12 WEEKLY HONORS
Fresh off a 2-0 week, the Bruins picked up a pair of Pac-12 Conference weekly honors on Monday, as freshman Torrey Van Winden was named Offensive Player of the Week, while senior Taylor Formico earned Defensive Player of the Week accolades. The Pac-12 awards are the first for both Van Winden and Formico.
Van Winden led the Bruins in kills in both victories, recording 33 (4.12 per set) to go with 18 digs (2.25 per set) and six blocks in eight sets. Last Wednesday at #16 Oregon, Van Winden had a match- and season-best 19 kills with a .341 hitting percentage. She added a career-high 12 digs for her first double-double, adding three blocks, including two solos. Van Winden came back two days later to again lead the Bruins in kills with 14 versus Oregon State. She produced a .444 percentage with only two miscues in 27 attempts to go with six digs and three blocks. Van Winden's .380 hitting percentage over the last two matches is over 100 points higher than her season average. She is third on the team with 2.76 kps and 3.18 points per set, adding 0.96 digs per set and 0.72 blocks per set.ย
Formico posted 51 digs (6.38 per set) in eight sets last week. She had 29 digs against Oregon, adding an ace, while recording 22 at Oregon State. In four of Formico's eight sets, she registered at least eight digs, including eight in the second set in Eugene and 10 in the third, both Bruin victories. The senior had eight digs in each of the first two sets in Corvallis. It was the sixth and seventh times this season that Formico has surpassed 20 digs. She has double figures in digs in all 18 matches this season, 40 in a row dating back to last year and 106 in her career. Formico is tops on the squad with 5.06 dps, adding seven service aces, which is third on the team.
Since 2011, when the conference started handing out Offensive, Defensive and Freshman of the Week honors, UCLA has won 11 Offensive, six Defensive and four Freshman awards (21 total). Three of those have come this season. In addition to the two on Monday, senior Jennie Frager was named Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week on Aug. 29. The Bruins have 82 all-time Pac-12 weekly awards.
CLIMBING THE CHARTS
Senior Taylor Formico will possibly move into third place on UCLA's all-time digs list this weekend. She has 1,370, which is fourth in the Bruin annals, and 35 behind third-place Samantha Shaver (1,405). Formico will have a ways to go to get to second-place Lainey Gera (2,009). Formico's career total is now at 2,162 (792 at UCSB in 2012) ... senior Jordan Anderson's 3.96 kills per set would rank her tied for sixth in Bruin history ... junior Reily Buechler is 65 kills away from becoming the 28th Bruin to reach the 1,000-kill mark ... senior Claire Felix's .338 hitting percentage currently ranks sixth in school history.
TEAM NOTES
UCLA started its season at 7-0, its best start since 2006 when it began with 20 consecutive victories. The previous two times the Bruins opened a year with at least six straight wins, they have reached the third weekend of the NCAA Tournament (2006 - National Semifinals; 2011 - National Champions) ... Oct. 9 against Arizona marked the only time this season that the Bruins lost when holding their opponent under a .200 hitting percentage (13-1 record) ... the Arizona loss was also the only time the Bruins were defeated when losing the hitting battle (14-1) ... UCLA is 10-0 when either leading or tying its opponent in blocks ... the Bruins are 14-1 when winning the third set, but 0-3 when losing the stanza after intermission.
PLAYER NOTES
Senior Jordan Anderson has double figures in kills in 14 of her last 16, tying a season high with 17 kills at Oregon last Wednesday. She also has 17-kill performances against Pacific (Sept. 1) and San Diego (Sept. 10). Anderson set a new career high in Eugene when she had six block assists ... junior Reily Buechler posted the second double-figure kill, error-free match of her career against Arizona State (Oct. 7) when she had 12 kills in 21 attempts for a .571 hitting percentage. Her first such match came against Arizona last Oct. 16 (16 kills/31 attempts/.516). Buechler has at least five kills in every match and 11 double-figure kills contests ... the reigning Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week, freshman Torrey Van Winden, has three matches in a row with double figures in kills and seven on the season. She posted her first double-double at Oregon (19 kills, 12 digs), adding 14 kills, a .444 hitting percentage and six digs at Oregon State (Oct. 14). Over her last three matches, Van Winden is averaging 3.77 kills, 1.92 digs and 0.77 blocks per set, posting a .351 hitting percentage ... freshman Kylie Miller posted the second double-double of her career when she went for 23 assists and 12 digs against Arizona. Her season high in assists came versus Washington State (Sept. 23) when she had 35, while her best in digs was at Colorado (13) on Oct. 2. Miller also has five aces, including two against Arizona ... sophomore Zana Muno has double figures in digs in three in a row to give her 10 such matches on the year. She set a new season best with 23 digs at Oregon and is averaging 3.46 dps over her last three. Muno is also chipping in at the net with 1.55 kills and 0.61 blocks per set over the last eight matches ... senior Claire Felix has just three hitting errors in her last five matches, posting 27 kills in 74 attempts for a .324 hitting percentage. She was error-free against Arizona with eight kills in 22 attempts (.364). Felix has four double-figure kills matches, including 16 against LBSU and WSU, as well as eight contests with at least four blocks ... senior Jennie Frager had 13 blocks in last week's two victories, posting eight at Oregon and five at Oregon State. She has at least four blocks on 13 occasions. Offensively, Frager posted her eighth double-figure kills match of the year with 12 at Oregon ... senior Taylor Formico, the reigning Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week, set a new UCLA career high with 36 digs against Arizona. Her two highest dig totals as a Bruin have come versus the Wildcats (35 last Nov.). Formico, who has double figures in digs in all 18 matches this season, 40 in a row dating back to last year and 106 in her career, has at least 20 digs in seven contests and an ace in four of her last six ... junior Ryann Chandler posted her team-best eighth double-double at Oregon with 30 assists and 13 digs. She has notched double figures in assists and digs in four of her last six matches, averaging 6.39 assists and 2.57 digs per set during that span. Chandler also tied a career high with three aces versus Arizona State ... freshman Savvy Simo had nine digs against both Arizona and Oregon. She has six double-figure digs matches, with a season-high 13 against Pacific and Hawai'i.
BRUINS IN THE NATIONAL AND PAC-12 RANKINGS
UCLA is one of four teams which is ranked in the Top 20 nationally in four statistical categories (through Oct. 17 matches), joining #1 Nebraska, #3 Minnesota and #10 Florida. The Bruins are second in digs per set (18.38), 10th in kills per set (14.37), 11th in assists per set (13.47) and 19th in opponent hitting percentage (.155), also coming in at 46th in blocks per set (2.49). Individually, senior Taylor Formico is 27th in dps (5.06). As far as conference teams go, the Bruins are first among Pac-12 foes in dps and second in opponent hitting, aps and kps. Formico is second in dps, junior Ryann Chandler is fifth in aps (8.66), senior Jordan Anderson is 10th in kps (3.21) and seniors Claire Felix (.361) and Jennie Frager (.353) are seventh and eighth, respectively, in hitting.
SCOUTING THE STANFORD CARDINAL
Stanford (11-5, 5-3 Pac-12) finished up a four-match homestand with a 2-2 record, defeating Colorado and ASU, but falling to Utah and Arizona. The Cardinal are hitting .261 as a team, averaging 13.82 kills, 1.06 service aces, 14.23 digs and 3.42 blocks per set. Five players are posting at least two kills per set, led by senior Inky Ajanaku's 2.65. Freshman Kathryn Plummer is second at 2.58 kps, while freshman Audriana Fitzmorris is third with 2.51. Freshman Jenna Gray (6.31 assists per set) and senior Kelsey Humphreys (5.48) are splitting the setting duties. Freshman Morgan Hentz is tops on the team with 4.35 dps, while five players are averaging at least a block per set, led by sophomore Tami Alade (1.58 bps), Ajanaku (1.55) and Fitzmorris (1.46).
THE MATCHUP: BRUINS VS. CARDINAL
Stanford leads the all-time series with UCLA 49-38 and is 22-17 in matches in Westwood. The Cardinal have won seven in a row. UCLA came close to snapping its skid last year on Nov. 27 at Pauley Pavilion, but the Bruins lost in five. UCLA's last win against Stanford came as the second victory of a 2011 sweep (3-0 at Stanford, 3-2 at UCLA).ย
SCOUTING THE CALIFORNIA GOLDEN BEARS
Like Stanford, California (8-10, 2-6 Pac-12) completed its recent four-match homestand with a 2-2 mark, defeating Colorado and Arizona, while falling to Utah and Arizona State. The Golden Bears are hitting .218 as a team, averaging 13.57 kills, 0.74 service aces, 14.09 digs and 1.84 blocks per set. Five players are averaging at least two kills per set, led by sophomore Ashten Smith-Gooden's 2.81. Freshman Bailee Huizenga is second (2.73 kps), while junior Christine Alftin is third (2.64). Senior Alyssa Jensen handles the setting duties and is recording 10.32 assists per set. Senior Maddy Kerr is tops on the team in dps (4.10), while senior Jenelle Jordan is first with 0.95 bps.ย
THE MATCHUP: BRUINS VS. GOLDEN BEARS
UCLA holds a 59-8 all-time series advantage against California, having won three in a row, including a sweep in Berkeley last Sept. 27. The Bruins are 28-4 at home versus the Golden Bears, including a sweep on Nov. 16, 2014.
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