Match Information
Opponent	Lehigh Mountain Hawks
Date | Location	Friday, October 1, 2021
Time	7:00 p.m.
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Location	Bethlehem, Pa. | Leeman-Turner Arena at Grace Hall
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Opponent	Lafayette Leopards
Date | Location	Saturday, October 2, 2021
Time	2:00 p.m.
Online Media	Live Stats
Location	Easton, Pa. | Kirby Sports Centea
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Game Notes	Loyola

On The Road    

• Loyola University Maryland volleyball takes its game on the road to start a stretch of five of its next six away from Reitz Arena.
• The Greyhounds travel to the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania this weekend for a pair of Patriot League matches. Lehigh will host the Greyhounds on Friday evening at 7 o'clock, and then Loyola visits Lafayette Saturday at 2 p.m.

Best Start    

• Loyola is off to the best start in its program history through 14 matches, going 11-3 in the opening weeks of the season. The Greyhounds' 3-0 start is also the best Loyola has started in Patriot League play since joining the conference in 2013.

More Good News    

• Last Saturday's win over Holy Cross marked the eighth-straight victory for the Greyhounds, dating back to Saturday, September 4, when they started the streak with a 3-0 sweep of Morgan State. The eight wins in a row are also a program record.

Killing It    

• Abby Hamilton has been putting up career highs on offense for the Greyhounds this year, averaging 4.28 kills per set through 14 matches. She is also hitting at a percentage, .217, that is considerably higher than her career mark of .188.
• She earned All-Tournament honors at each of the Greyhounds three tournaments this season, picking up the recognition at both the ODU and Towson Invitationals before being named the Most Valuable Player at Dig The District.
• In Washington, D.C., Hamilton had 43 kills for an average of 4.3 per set, and she also averaged 2.9 digs per set. She opened the tournament by hitting .632 with 12 kills, zero errors and 19 attempts against Maryland Eastern Shore. She then and 12 kills and 12 digs to go with three blocks Friday evening against George Washington. Hamilton then went off for 19 kills, 12 digs and three service aces in the victory over Georgetown.
• Her 12.93 attack attempts her set at fifth in NCAA Division I, and her kills per game average is second in the Patriot League.
• Against UMES on September 10, she recorded her 1,000th career kill in just her 75th career match. With 12 more kills, she'll tie Jac Bullock (2010-13) for ninth all-time at Loyola in kills.
• The native of Colgate, Wisconsin, has averaged 3.49 kills per set in 81 career matches. During her career, she has logged 10 or more kills in 67 of 81 outings with 10 of those contests of nine or fewer coming during her freshman year of 2018.

Leading Both Ways    

• The Greyhounds are leading the Patriot League in hitting percentage through matches of September 28, hitting .211 as a team through 14 matches with a conference-best 14.35 kills per set.
• Their success has not been limited to the offensive side of the net, however, as Loyola leads the Patriot League, and is 12th in NCAA Division I, in opponent hitting percentage with teams hitting just .133 this year. The Greyhounds are second in all of Division I in digs per set with an average of 19.7.

Freshman Dishing Out Assists    

• Freshman Kacy Sekunda has moved into the role of the Greyhounds' primary setter, posting 432 assists through 14 matches with an average of 10.05 per set. She is second in the Patriot League in assists per set and also is hitting .288 with 48 kills on 125 attempts.
• She has been named the Patriot League's Rookie of the Week each of the last three weeks, and she was also named the conference's Player of the Week on September 21.
• Over the last eight matches, Sekunda has averaged 307 assists for an average of 38.4 per match and 13.35 per set.

League-Leading Libero    

• Katie Forsythe has been the class of the Patriot League's liberos since stepping onto the court as a freshman in 2018, and by just about any measure, she has been the class of most liberos nationwide.
• After three seasons plus 14 matches, Forsythe is averaging 5.99, a mark good for No. 3 in NCAA Division I history, and she is the NCAA's active career leader in that stat category.
• The three-time Patriot League Libero of the Year and All-Patriot League First Team honoree has totaled 1,887 digs in her career, ranking her second all-time at Loyola and third in Patriot League history.
• She has finished in the top four of Division I players in digs per set during all three of her collegiate seasons, ranking fourth in 2018, third in 2019 and fourth in 2020. Her averages of 5.86, 6.17 and 6.04 are the three highest in Patriot League history.
• She was the first player in Loyola history to earn American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) All-Region honors, doing so in 2019 when she was also named the ECAC Defensive Player of the Year. She was then invited to Colorado Springs for Team USA tryouts following that season.
• Forsythe became the fastest player in Loyola and Patriot League history to reach 1,000 digs in a career, doing so in 44 matches whens he hit the plateau on September 22, 2019. She set conference and school records that year with 697 digs in a season.

Two Better Than Five    

• Loyola's two most-recent full seasons (2018 and 2019) produced 15 Patriot League victories during the regular-season and two trips to the conference championships. In the Greyhounds first five years in the League, starting in 2013, they won just 13 conference matches.