Match Information
Game Notes	Loyola
Opponent	Colgate Raiders
Date	Friday, September 16, 2022
Time	5:00 p.m.
Location	Hamilton, N.Y. | Cotterell Court
Getting There	Directions
Online Media	Watch | Live Stats
Opponent	Holy Cross Crusaders
Date	Saturday, September 17, 2022
Time	4:00 p.m.
Location	Worcester, Mass. | Coach George Blaney Gymnasium
Getting There	Directions
Online Media	Live Stats

Start The Conference Schedule

• Loyola University Maryland volleyball begins its Patriot League schedule this weekend with a pair of matches on the road.
• The Greyhounds will start their trip in Hamilton, New York, on Friday, September 16, with a 5 o'clock game at Colgate University. They then head to Worcester, Massachusetts, to take on College of the Holy Cross at 4 p.m. the following day.
• The 2022 season will be Loyola's 10th in the Patriot League since it joined in 2013-14.

For Starters

• The Greyhounds began the year at the Penn State Invitational where they finished 1-2 with a three-set win over Duquesne, a five-set loss to West Virginia and a four-set loss to seven-time NCAA Champion Penn State. Lauren Link was named to the All-Tournament Team after 4.83 kills per set across the three matches.
• Loyola then played a Tuesday night match at Coppin State, rallying from a first-set loss to beat the Eagles in three. Link had 22 kills in the match, while Megan Bukala and Caitlin Churney each knocked down 10.
• The final non-conference tournament of the season took Loyola to Athens, Ohio, where it played in the Bobcat Invitational. The Greyhounds lost a pair of three-set contests to Bradley and Tennessee Tech and then dropped a four-set affair to host Ohio University. Link was named to the All-Tournament Team there, as well.

Link-ing The Kills

• Lauren Link broke out as a sophomore outside hitter for the Greyhounds in 2021, finishing second on the team with 3.24 kills per set, a mark good for fifth-best in the Patriot League. She had 17 matches with 10 or more kills, including each of the Greyhounds' last 13 contests. During that stretch, she averaged 14.1 kills per match and 3.6 kills per set.
• This season, Link has moved into a role as the Greyhounds' primary option on the outside, and she has the stats to back it up. In seven matches, she has put away 125 kills, an average of 4.81 per set. She posted 21 against both West Virginia and Penn State in the first tournament of the year, and she then had 22 versus Coppin State.

All Of The Records

• Katie Forsythe became the Patriot League and Loyola all-time record holder in digs on October 23, 2021, matching her previous status atop both the conference and school lists for digs in a season and a match.
• In that match at American, Forsythe had her 2,013th career dig early in the contest, passing the Eagles' Kristen Largay (2016-19) for tops in the conference; late in the match, she moved past Brittany Born's mark of 2,042 to set the school record. In 102 career matches, Forsythe has 2,332 digs.
• In 2019, she set the school record, and tied the Patriot League mark with 45 digs in a match, and her 753 digs that season stand as a school and conference mark.
• Forsythe is the NCAA Division I active career leader in digs per set with 5.9, a mark that ranks fourth all-time in NCAA history.
• The four-time Patriot League Libero of the Year 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. Last year, she ranked third in NCAA Division I with 5.71 digs per set.
• 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, and she repeated those honors last year in 2021.. She was invited to Colorado Springs for Team USA tryouts following the 2019 season.

Sophomore Sets It Up

• Kacy Sekunda moved into the primary setting role for the Greyhounds during the second weekend of 2021, and she handled the role with poise. She was second in the Patriot League in assists per set (9.82), and she also hit .260 with 90 kills.
• Sekunda's assists mark ranked No. 13 in NCAA Division I amongst freshmen setters.
• This year, she has averaged 9.7 assists per set and also has 20 kills in seven matches.