Oct. 10, 2005
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AZTECS RETURN HOME TO HOST SAN DIEGO AND TCU THIS WEEK
*After spending the past two weekends on the road, San Diego State returns home on Tuesday, Oct. 11, for a match with cross-town rival University of San Diego at 7:00 pm. (PDT) in Peterson Gym.
*The Aztecs will resume Mountain West Conference play at home next Sunday (Oct. 16) when they host first-year league member TCU at 11:00 a.m. in Peterson Gym.
SERIES RECORD
*San Diego State holds a 25-18 advantage in its series with University of San Diego over the years. However, since 1997, the Toreros have been victorious in 13 of the 15 meetings between the schools and have won the last four. The Aztecs are 11-8 at home vs. USD, 10-9 on the Toreros' home floor, and 4-1 at neutral sites.
*The Aztecs have won both of their previous matches against TCU. Those contests came during the 1997 season when SDSU and the Horned Frogs were members of the Western Athletic Conference. San Diego State won 3-0 in Peterson Gym and 3-1 in Fort Worth.
SCOUTING THE OPPOSITION
*San Diego begins the week with a record of 13-2 overall and 3-1 in the West Coast Conference. The Toreros are ranked 15th in the nation in this week's CSTV/AVCA poll. The USD attack is led by Kristen Carlson (5.45 kpg, 3.15 dpg, .297) and Christie Dawson (3.70 kpg, .393). The Toreros were ranked 20th in the nation last week in hitting percentage at .272, and have since improved that mark to .280. Senior setter Lindsey Sherburne (13.68 apg, 2.42 dpg) was a third team All-American in 2004.
*TCU, in its first year in the Mountain West Conference, has an overall mark of 11-7 and is 1-3 in league play. The Horned Frogs will host Wyoming on Tuesday evening (Oct. 11) and will be at UNLV on Friday (Oct. 14) prior to visiting San Diego for Sunday morning's match. Anna Vaughn is the team kill leader at 4.01 kpg and is hitting a team-leading .321 while averaging 1.09 blocks per game. Freshman middle blocker Gabbi McHugh is from nearby Oceanside, Calif., where she attended Vista High School.
HEAD COACH Mark Warner
*San Diego State head coach Mark Warner is in his 11th season at the helm of the Aztec women's program. His career record over that span stands at 173-153 (.531).
*Over the past 10 years, Warner has led his teams to a pair of NCAA Tournament berths and a Western Athletic Conference championship. His tutelage has produced 15 all-conference players and he was named the Mountain West Conference co-coach of the year in 2002.
MOST RECENTLY
*San Diego State dropped a 3-1 (30-24, 24-30, 30-32, 30-32) decision at UNLV in it lone match last weekend.
*Four Aztecs finished in double figures in kills led by junior Audra Dent with 22. Others included Lindsey Noll (18), Melanie Greene (13) and Brandie Molnar (11). Greene and Molnar recorded double-doubles with 17 and 19 digs respectively.
*In addition, sophomore libero Aime Cordeiro had a career-high 35 digs while Noll added seven blocks.
CORDEIRO SETS RECORD
*Aime Cordeiro's 35 digs in the match at UNLV established a new Mountain West Conference record. The old mark was 34 by Wyoming's Carissa Lee (in five games) set this season on Sept. 3 vs. Northern Colorado.
*Her dig total is also an MWC record for a league match, besting the previous record of 33 by Lindsey Evans (BYU) at UNLV in 2004.
*Cordeiro's effort was the second-most digs in a match ever by an Aztec, tying the total turned in by Angela Rock vs. Texas during the 1984 season. It was the most digs in a match by an Aztec since 1997 and only the eighth time that an SDSU player surpassed the 30-dig mark.
*Cordeiro continues to lead the MWC in digs (overall) with an average of 5.11 per game. In MWC play, her average of 5.07 dpg also ranks first. She tops both lists by more than a dig per game.
*She has reached the 20-dig plateau in six matches this season.
*In the Aztecs' last two outings in which she played (at Air Force and UNLV), she averaged seven digs per game.
NOLL LEADS THE OFFENSE
*In last weekend's match at UNLV, Lindsey Noll hit .455 with 18 kills, seven blocks and six digs. She has now hit .400 or higher in seven matches this fall and is hitting .397 over SDSU's last seven contests. She has averaged 4.69 kills per game in her last three outings.
*The senior middle blocker, a 6-5 transfer from Missouri, is hitting .334 in all matches and .392 in league contests to lead San Diego State. Both of those attack percentages rank second in the Mountain West Conference this week.
*In the Aztecs' last five matches, she is averaging 1.52 blocks per game and leads the team with an overall average of 1.16 bpg. Her blocking averages rank her sixth overall and third (1.53 bpg) in conference match stats.
*Her 20 kills in the match against Air Force on Sept. 30 tied her career high which she set vs. Texas A&M in 2003 while playing at Missouri.
*Noll's eight total blocks vs. New Mexico (Oct. 1) was one shy of her career high.
DENT SETS CAREER MARK
*In the UNLV match, right side hitter Audra Dent led the Aztecs with a career-high 22 kills.
*That total surpassed her previous personal best of 14 set last season vs. James Madison.
*Dent accounted for 23 points in the match (as did teammate Lindsey Noll), the most this season by an Aztec.
*She also had four digs to tie her personal career best.
*Her seven blocks vs. New Mexico on Oct. 1 was a personal season best and her two solo efforts in that match tied a career high.
GREENE DOUBLES UP
*Junior OH Melanie Greene recorded her seventh double-doubles (kills and digs) of the season with 13 kills and 17 digs at UNLV last Friday.
*She has notched five double-doubles in SDSU's most recent seven matches.
*Greene's 17 digs was her high as an Aztec and tied her collegiate career best set against UCLA when she was at Washington State during her freshman season (2003).
*She leads the Aztecs with an average of 3.36 kills per game.
*In 2005, she is accounting for an average of 3.93 points per game to lead the squad.
*Her six service aces against Binghamton on Sept, 17 was a new career best while her 20 kills in the match vs. Cleveland State later that same day tied her career high.
WALLER SERVES IT UP
*Although she did not have any service aces at UNLV, freshman outside hitter Alicia Waller continues to rank among the top 10 in the league in that category.
*She is fourth the Mountain West Conference this week in the overall stats at 0.48 sapg. In league contests, she ranks seventh at 0.57 sapg.
*She recorded seven service aces in the win over Wyoming on Sept. 24, the most in a match by an Aztec since Robyn Gregg had nine against Air Force on October 18, 2002.
*Those seven aces in the Wyoming match ties for the most in any match by an MWC player this season and are the most in a league contest in 2005. Waller also had six aces in a match earlier this year (vs. Cal State Fullerton on Sept. 7).
WORKING LONG HOURS
*Prior to the win match at New Mexico on Oct. 1, the Aztecs had not played a five-game match this season and became the last MWC in 2005 to do so.
*SDSU's last five-game match prior to that came against James Madison on Sept. 11, 2004.
*Before to the win in Albuquerque, the team's last victory in a five-game match was against University of San Diego on Nov. 4, 2003.
DUAL SETTERS
*San Diego State is using a two-setter rotation this season, alternating sophomore Kristen Castillo and freshman Leah Lathrop.
*Each setter has appeared in all 58 games, and the two have averaged a total of 12.50 assists, 0.43 service aces and 2.76 dpg.
*Lathrop recorded the first double-double of her collegiate career with 24 assists and 10 digs in the win at Air Force on Sept. 30.
SOLID IMPROVEMENT
*Halfway through the 2005 regular season, statistical comparisons to last season indicate that the Aztecs are a much-improved team in 2005.
*Here are stat averages from the 2004 season and after the first 14 matches of the current campaign:
2005 2004KPG..........15.64.,,..2.84Pct.,,,,,,,,,,.216.,,,,.152Asst/G..,,,,,13.98.,,.11.55Aces/G.,,,,,,.1.69.,,,.1.12Digs.,,,,,,,.15.16.,,.11.83Blocks..,,,,,,2.54.,,,.2.47AZTEC WIN TWO TOURNEYS
*San Diego State won a pair of tournament titles in 2005: the Red Raider Round-Up and the Medical Mutual CSU Invitational.
*The Aztecs captured the crown at the Medical Mutual CSU Invitational with a perfect 3-0 record. It was the second straight tournament title for the Aztecs, who had won the Red Raider Round-Up at Texas Tech the previous weekend with a 2-1 mark (tourney championship based on game W-L record).
*It marked the first time that SDSU won two in-season tournaments in the same year since it won tourneys at University of San Diego and New Mexico during the 1996 campaign.
ALL-TOURNEY AZTECS
*Four different Aztecs earned all-tournament honors during the three tournaments that SDSU competed in earlier this season.
*Sophomore libero Aime Cordeiro was a three-time all-tourney selection (Aztec Invitational, Red Raider round-UP, Medial Mutual CSU Invitational).
*Junior outside hitter Melanie Greene earned the honor at both the Red Raider Round-Up and the Medial Mutual CSU Invitational. She was also named the MVP of the latter event.
*Junior Audra Dent and freshman Alicia Waller were named all-tourney at the Aztec Invitational.
AZTEC NOTES
*As a team, SDSU ranks among the top four in the conference in kills, assists, digs, blocks and service aces. The Aztecs lead the MWC in digs in all matches.
*Sophomore Brandie Molnar, in her first season at SDSU, recorded her first double-double as a collegiate player with 11 kills and 19 digs at UNLV. Her dig total in that match represented a career-best.
*Kristen Castillo is hitting .419 from her setter position with only three attack errors over 58 games. Last season she finished with a .263 attack percentage.
*Three Aztecs have recorded at least one block in every match this season: Audra Dent, Lindsey Mahan and Lindsey Noll.
*Wyoming's 53 points scored vs. SDSU on Sept. 24 were the fewest allowed (since rally scoring began) by the Aztecs since they gave up just 45 to Harvard on Sept. 18, 2003.