Match Information
Opponent	Army West Point Black Knights
Date	Friday, September 22, 2023
Time	7:30 p.m.
Location	West Point, N.Y. | Gillis Field House
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Opponent	Colgate Raiders
Date	Saturday, September 23, 2023
Time	4:00 p.m.
Location	Hamilton, N.Y. | Cotterell Court
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Game Notes	Loyola

On The Road

• Loyola University Maryland volleyball heads to the State of New York for two matches this weekend, the second of Patriot League play. 
• The Greyhounds first go to Army West Point on Friday, September 22, for a 7 p.m. contest, followed by a 4 p.m. date the following day at Colgate.

Looking Back

• Loyola opened Patriot League matches on September 15 with a four-set loss to Navy. The Greyhounds led late in the fourth set, 23-22, but the Midshipmen came back to score the last three points to close the match.
• Four Greyhounds had 10 or more kills with Lauren Link's 14 leading the way. Caitlin Churney hit .455 with 11 kills and just one error, and she also had seven blocks.
• Bryanne Soares had 43 assists and a team-high 21 digs in the match to go with three blocks.

Victory Of Note

• Loyola's win over West Virginia on September 1 marked the first time the Greyhounds have beaten a team from the Big 12, Big Ten, ACC, SEC or Pac-12 since September 2009 when they toppled Maryland in four sets.

Churney In The Middle

• Caitlin Churney has led Loyola with a .430 hitting percentage since September 8, totaling 37 kills with only six errors in 72 attempts in the four matches that included the Jack Kaiser Volleyball Classic at St. John's and the Patriot League-opener versus Navy.
• She has hit .438 or higher in the last three matches (Siena, Stony Brook, Navy) and had a .455 mark with 11 kills and one error versus Navy.
• Churney leads Loyola in blocks this year with 28 total, an average of 0.72 per set. Her season-high of seven came against Navy when she had two solos and was in on five others.

Soares Sets

• Bryanne Soares has stepped in as a six-rotation setter for most of the last four matches after the Greyhounds opened the year in a 5-2. 
• Against Stony Brook, Siena, St. John's and Navy, Soares has 134 assists (9.57 per set) with a season- and Loyola-high of 43 coming in the four-set match against Navy. The Greyhounds' hitting percentage has seen a corresponding rise as Loyola has hit .216 in those four matches after starting at .171 in the first seven.
• Soares also has been a key component on defense, leading the team with 3.64 digs per set over the stretch. 

Setting & Hitting

• Kacy Sekunda was named the Patriot League Player of the Week on August 29 after leading the Greyhounds in the first weekend of the season. Playing as a right-side hitter and setter, Sekunda averaged 2.91 kills, 5.0 assists and 2.36 digs in 11 sets that covered three matches.
• She had the first triple-double by a Loyola player since 2015 when she had 11 kills, 24 assists and 11 digs in the tournament's finale against Robert Morris. Her triple-double was the first for Loyola since Molly Werts recorded one, also in a four-set win, on September 11, 2015, against Manhattan.
• Sekunda followed that performance by recording another triple-double against West Virginia, posting 11 kills, 22 assists and 11 digs. She has played in eight matches this year and is averaging 2.39 kills, 4.89 assists and 2.32 digs per set while hitting .240.

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.
• Last season, Link moved into a role as the Greyhounds' primary option on the outside, and she had the stats to back it up. In 24 matches, she put away 406 kills, an average of 4.56 per set. Link's 4.56 kills per set were tops in the Patriot League and ninth in the NCAA. She had seven matches with 20 or more kills, 16 with 15-plus, and she has put away 11 or more kills in all but two of the 25 matches Loyola has played this year.
• To start the 2023 season, she has six matches with 10 or more kills and one with 20-plus, a season-high 21 coming against Robert Morris.

Brenner Comes Back

• Sophie Brenner missed the first seven matches of the 2023 season with an injury, but she returned at the St. John's tournament and is averaging 2.17 kills per set in the last four matches.
• Last year, she was one of the Greyhounds' most productive hitters in the latter portion of the season, posting eight or more kills in 10 of the last 11 matches.

Up Next

• Loyola returns to Reitz Arena next weekend for two conference matches, hosting Lehigh on Friday, September 22, and Bucknell the following evening.