Match Information
Game Notes	Loyola
Location	Baltimore, Md. | Reitz Arena
Getting There	Directions
Opponent	Bucknell Bison
Date	Friday, September 30, 2022
Time	7:00 p.m.
Online Media	ESPN+ | Live Stats
Opponent	Lafayette Leopards
Date	Saturday, October 1, 2022
Time	4:00 p.m.
Online Media	ESPN+ | Live Stats

Home Opener

• Loyola University Maryland volleyball will make its 2022 home court debut this weekend with a pair of games in Reitz Arena.
• The Greyhounds will host Bucknell University at 7 p.m. on Friday, September 30, and the first day of October will then bring Lafayette College to the building for a 4 p.m. contest.
• Both games will be streamed live on the Patriot League Network on ESPN+.

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.
• Loyola opened Patriot League action last weekend with a 914-mile trip that took the Greyhounds first to Colgate University and then to College of the Holy Cross. The Greyhounds took the first set from the Raiders before falling in four, and they then defeated the Crusaders in Worcester.

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 11 matches, she has put away 193 kills, an average of 4.49 per set.
• Link's 4.49 kills per set are tops in the Patriot League and 15th in the NCAA.
• She has four matches with 20 or more kills, nine with 15-plus, and she has put away 11 or more kills in all 11 matches Loyola has played this year.

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 2,421 digs.
• With 5.85 digs per set over the course of her career, she is the active career leader in that category.
• 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.
• 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.

Setting It Up

• Loyola has employed two setters during the 2022 season with Kacy Sekunda putting up the majority of sets early in the season and Ashley Dwyer starting the last three contests.
• Sekunda has averaged 8.79 assists per set, while Dwyer has posted 6.55 after dishing out a season-high 50 at Navy.
• Together, the pair has helped Loyola lead the Patriot League in assists per set with 12.28.