THIS WEEK IN ALASKA ANCHORAGE VOLLEYBALL...

Thu. Oct. 10 — 6 pm ADT — LCEF Court — Portland, OR
Alaska Anchorage (10-4, 5-1 GNAC) at Concordia-Portland (6-7, 4-2 GNAC)
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Sat., Oct. 12 — 6 pm ADT — New PE Building — Monmouth, OR
Alaska Anchorage at Western Oregon (3-10, 1-5 GNAC [10/10 vs UAF])
 
LIVE VIDEO & STATS: gnac.tv
 
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UAA PROBABLE STARTERS (2019 stats)
S—Ellen Floyd, 5-10, So. (10.10 aps, 0.60 kps, .087 att%, 2.33 dps, 0.65 bps)
RS—Eve Stephens, 6-1, So. (3.98 kps, .266 att%, 2.08 dps, 0.88 bps)
MB—Kayla McGlathery, 6-0, Jr. (2.16 kps, .305 att%, 0.96 bps)
MB—Vera Pluharova, 6-2, Jr. (1.36 kps, .345 att%, 1.36 bps)
OH—Vanessa Hayes, 5-11, Sr. (2.77 kps, .211 att%, 1.38 dps, 0.63 ace/set)
DS—Anjoilyn Vreeland, 5-6, Jr. (2.94 dps, 0.35 aps)
L—Talia Leauanae, 5-8, So. (3.43 dps, 0.57 aps, 0.24 ace/set)
 
OREGON TRAIL: The Seawolves look to extend a three-match winning streak when they make their first Lower 48 road trip in three weeks, facing upstart Concordia-Portland on Thursday and Western Oregon on Saturday ... UAA has won its last 10 matches in Oregon.
 
HOME SWEEP HOME: The Seawolves played perhaps their best volleyball of the season last week, earning home sweeps of Central Washington (25-22, 25-21, 25-18) and Northwest Nazarene (25-7, 25-20, 25-18) at the Alaska Airlines Center ... on Thursday, So. S Ellen Floyd tallied 41 assists, 3 kills, 8 digs and 3 blocks to help avenge last year's home loss to the Wildcats ... Jr. MB Kayla McGlathery had 12 kills on .455 hitting,  So. RS Eve Stephens ripped 11 kills without an error, and So. L Talia Leauanae had 15 digs as UAA won the hitting battle .302 to .163 ... McGlathery added 11 kills on .529 hitting against NNU as she earned GNAC Offensive Player of the Week honors ... Stephens had 11 more kills, Floyd dished 33 assists and Leauanae made 12 digs ... UAA also got 8 kills from Fr. OH Hannah Pembroke and 3 aces from Fr. DS Maggie Schlueter as the 25-7 first-set score was their most lopsided win of the season.
 
THE SERIES
vs. CU: UAA leads 8-0 overall, 4-0 in Portland
Last: UAA 3-1 (10-27-18 at CU) / Notes: UAA has swept five of the first eight meetings since Concordia joined the GNAC in 2015 ... the Cavaliers have one at least one set in each of the last three meetings in Portland ... first meeting was a UAA road sweep, Sept. 19, 2015.
 
vs. WOU: UAA leads 23-15 overall, 10-8 in Monmouth
Streak: UAA 12 / Last: UAA 3-1 (10-25-18 at WOU) / Notes: The Seawolves have swept six straight season series ... UAA has won the last six matches and 18 of the last 22 sets in Monmouth ... WOU won four straight matches from 2011-12 ... teams have played only two 5-setters since 2006 ... UAA leads 22-14 in GNAC meetings (since 2001) and 15-7 under head coach Chris Green (since 2008) ... series started in 1981 but teams did not play again until 1999.
 
SCOUTING THE FOES: Concordia-Portland has bounced back from an 0-5 start ­­– which included three 5-set losses – to win six of its last eight and ascend to fourth place in the GNAC standings ... the Cavaliers are led by Jessica Wheeler (3.10 kps, .193 att%, 2.45 dps) and Katelyn Brandenburg (1.86 kps, .332 att%, 0.67 bps) ... Western Oregon has suffered 5- and 4-match losing skids, snapping the latter with Thursday's 3-1 victory at Saint Martin's ... the Wolves, who have played just two home matches thus far, are led by Sianna DeCarli (2.62 kps, .179 att%, 0.50 bps) and Sarah Crowell (2.03 kps, .148 att%, 1.18 dps).
 
TEAM NOTES: UAA leads the GNAC with 2.27 aces per set and a .152 opponent attack percentage, while ranking 2nd in blocks per set (2.51) and attack pct. (.240) ... in the NCAA Div. II national stats, the Seawolves rank 8th in both blocks per set and in aces per set, along with 38th in attack pct. ... the Seawolves are 65-15 (.813) at the Alaska Airlines Center since its opening in Sept. 2014 and 111-26 (.810) at home since 2009; UAA has never lost consecutive matches at the Alaska Airlines Center ... UAA has reached the 20-win plateau 14 times in 39 years and the six times in 11 years under Chris Green ... the Seawolves recorded their 11th straight winning season in 2018, extending the program record that began wTUith Green's arrival at UAA in 2008 ... UAA also extended program-best streaks of 10 straight winning conference records and top-4 conference finishes ... the Seawolves are 18-14 against AVCA Top 25 teams since 2014 and 28-41 overall vs. ranked opponents under Green; prior to Green's arrival, UAA had lost 32 straight to ranked foes ... UAA set an Alaska Airlines Center record for attack percentage in the 25-8, 25-12, 25-12 win over Concord, hitting .444 (37-9-63), while the Mountain Lions' 32 points were the second-fewest allowed by a Seawolf club since 25-point rally scoring took effect in 2008.
 
ROCKIN' EVE: Rightside hitter Eve Stephens delivered one of the best rookie seasons in Seawolf history last year, claiming unanimous First Team All-GNAC, Second Team All-West Region and GNAC Freshman of the Year honors, and this year she started with All-GNAC Preseason Team, all-tournament honors at both the D2 West Region Showcase and Seawolf Invitational, and most recently the GNAC Offensive Player of the Week for Sept. 16-22 ... in the current GNAC stats, the former Colony High School star leads the way in kills per set (3.98) and points per set (4.68), along with ranks of 9th in blocking (0.88 bps) and 14th in attack pct. (.266) ... in the NCAA Div. II national stats, she is 15th in points and 26th in kills ... with 105 kills in the last 24 sets, she is nearly on pace to become the first Seawolf since Jackie Matthisen in 2009 to average more than 4.00 kps ... playing all rotations after being subbed on the back row last year, Stephens has already recorded four double-doubles as well, averaging 2.09 dps.
 
HAYES MAKER: Sr. OH Vanessa Hayes made the move from middle blocker to outside hitter last year and showed steady improvement, averaging 2.56 kps on .189 hitting ... a Preseason All-GNAC selection in her final campaign, Hayes has looked like a veteran on the outside this year, hitting .211 and collecting 2.77 kills per set ... along with her GNAC-leading 0.63 aces per set, she also ranks 10th in points per set (3.62) and 13th in kills per set ... in the national stats, she is 5th in aces ... the Oregon native earned her third career double-double with 14 kills and a career-high 13 digs in the 5-set win over Biola and has produced double-digit kills in eight of 14 matches this year ... a starter on UAA's 2016 NCAA Runner-Up squad, she ranks in UAA's career top 20 lists in multiple categories, currently at 7th in block assists (265), 11th in total blocks (286), 15th in kills (782) and 6th in victories (84); she needs just one more win to catch former GNAC Player of the Year Katelynn Zanders (2012-15) for 5th on that list.
 
MORE 'WOLF BITES: So. S Ellen Floyd has dished 9.80 assists per set to rank 4th in the GNAC stats, earning all-tournament honors at both the Seawolf Invitational and D2 West Region Showcase ... a Florida native, Floyd already stands 13th on UAA's career list with 1,400 assists, boosted by season-high 52-assist efforts in recent 4-set wins over Saint Martin's and MSU Billings ... now officially 1.5 years into her career, she also premieres this week at 5th on UAA's assists per set list with 8.92 ... in the current GNAC stats, Floyd ranks 3rd assists per set (10.10) and 9th in aces per set (0.42) ... Jr. MB Vera Pluharova and Jr. MB Kayla McGlathery give UAA two front-liners among the GNAC's top-10 blocking leaders ... now in her second year as a starter, Pluharova ranks 2nd in the league with 1.36 bps, while McGlathery is 7th with 0.96 bps ... the 2014 GNAC Newcomer of the Year and an all-league pick, McGlathery has returned to the Seawolves this season after taking four years off from the sport and currently ranks 5th in the league with a .305 attack pecentage ... meanwhile, Plurecently notched a career-high-tying 10 kills against MSU Billings, improving the Czech's hitting percentage to a team-high .345, which would rank 3rd in the GNAC if she met the league minimum of 3.0 attacks per set ... boosted by 27 digs in the loss to Regis, Jr. L/DS Anjoilyn Vreeland ranks 19th in the early GNAC stats with 2.94 dps ... Fr. DS Maggie Schlueter has made her debut after a redshirt campaign and shown off a dangerous serve, producing 31 aces and just 18 errors ... the Texan is 2nd in the GNAC and ranks 9th nationally with 0.60 aces per set, serving at least one ace in 12 of 14 matches.
 
GREEN MACHINE: Having led UAA to an unprecedented 11 straight winning seasons, UAA head coach Chris Green (243-94, .721) has established himself as the most successful coach in program history and one of the top mentors in the NCAA Div. II ranks, earning the 2016 AVCA D-II National Coach of the Year award ... a 4-time GNAC Coach of the Year (2009, '13, '15, '16) and 3-time AVCA D-II West Region Coach of the Year (2009, '15, '16), Green has led UAA to NCAA Tournament berths in seven of the last nine seasons, capturing No. 1 seeds in 2015 and 2016; in the 28 years before Green's arrival, the Seawolves made two NCAAs ... UAA has won at an .779 clip (152-43) since the start of the 2013 campaign, including .825 (99-21) in league play ... Green's UAA teams have produced six All-Americans, five GNAC Players of the Year, six GNAC Newcomers of the Year and five GNAC Freshmen of the Year ... hired in Feb. 2008 as the sixth coach in UAA Volleyball history, Green spent the previous nine seasons (1999-07) as the head coach at Western Nebraska Community College, where he built a powerhouse program ... among his list of accomplishments at WNCC were a 453-55 record, the 2007 NJCAA Div. I national championship, 2006 NJCAA runner-up, and four straight 'Final 4' berths ... the Cougars finished in the top 10 at the national tournament in all of Green's seasons, producing a total of 10 first-team and six second-team All-America certificates ... in 2011, he was inducted into the NJCAA Hall of Fame.
 
2019 INDIVIDUAL HONORS
Ellen Floyd
Seawolf Invitational All-Tournament Team
D2 West Region Showcase All-Tournament Team
Vanessa Hayes
GNAC Preseason Team
Kayla McGlathery
GNAC Offensive Player of the Week, Sept. 30-Oct. 6
Eve Stephens
GNAC Preseason Team
Seawolf Invitational All-Tournament Team
D2 West Region Showcase All-Tournament Team
GNAC Offensive Player of the Week, Sept. 16-22