THIS WEEK IN ALASKA ANCHORAGE VOLLEYBALL...
 
Thursday, Sept. 16 – Marcus Pavilion – Lacey, Wash. – 6 pm ADT
Alaska Anchorage (7-5, 0-0 GNAC) at Saint Martin's (5-3, 0-0 GNAC)
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Saturday, Sept. 18 – New P.E. Building – Monmouth, Ore. – Noon ADT
Alaska Anchorage at Western Oregon (2-5, 0-0 GNAC [9/16 vs UAF])
 
LIVE VIDEO: Both matches free on YouTube through each opponent's website (smusaints.com & wouwolves.com) ... Direct links: Thursday / Saturday
 
LIVE STATS: Thursday at smusaints.com/sidearmstats/wvball/summary
                       Saturday at wouwolves.com/sidearmstats/wvball/summary
 
SOCIAL MEDIA: Check the @UAAVolleyball Twitter feed for in-match updates
 
UAA PROBABLE STARTERS (2021 stats)
S—Ellen Floyd, 5-10, Jr. (9.93 aps, 0.91 kps, .131 att%, 3.14 dps, 0.40 bps, 0.58 ace/set)
RS—Eve Stephens, 6-1, Jr. (3.84 kps, .259 att%, 2.44 dps, 0.79 bps, 0.49 ace/set)
OH—Lisa Jaunet, 5-10, So. (2.40 kps, .150 att%)
MB—Vera Pluharova, 6-2, Sr. (2.02 kps, .342 att%, 0.86 bps)
MB—Akor Maywin, 6-2, Jr. (1.45 kps, .396 att%, 0.87 bps)
DS—Reilly Plumhoff, 5-5, Fr. (2.19 dps, 0.70 aps)
L—Talia Leauanae, 5-8, Jr. (3.28 dps, 0.56 ace/set)
 
THE SERIES...
vs SMU: UAA leads 37-4 overall, 18-3 at SMU
Last: UAA 3-1 (3/19/21 at SMU) / Streak: UAA 25
Notes: The last five of the last six matches have gone four sets ... UAA's 25-match win streak is the longest in program history against any opponent ... the Seawolves have won 75 of 82 sets during the streak, which started in 2008 ... UAA has 13 straight at SMU ... SMU swept the 2007 series with a pair of 3-0 wins ... UAA leads 34-4 in GNAC matches (since 2001) ... teams played first two matches as Pac West Conference opponents in 1998 and 1999.
 
vs WOU: UAA leads 26-15 overall, 11-8 at WOU
Last: UAA 3-0 (4/10/21 at Ellensburg, Wash.) / Streak: UAA 15
Notes: The Seawolves have swept six straight season series ... UAA has won seven straight in Monmouth, including a 3-2 decision on their last visit, Oct. 12, 2019 ... teams have played only three 5-setters since 2006 ... UAA leads 24-14 in GNAC meetings (since 2001) and 17-7 under head coach Chris Green (since 2008) ... series started in 1981 but teams did not play again until 1999.
 
SCOUTING THE FOES: Prior to dropping their final three matches in Honolulu last week, Saint Martin's got off to its best start in program history by going 5-0, including a neutral-court upset of Hawaii Hilo on Sept. 10 ... picked ninth in the GNAC preseason coaches' poll, the Saints lead the league stats in opponent attack pct. (.119) and digs per set (19.07), powered by Fr. OH Tia Allen (3.50 kps, .159 att%, 3.40 dps) and So. OH Kylie Coon (2.59 kps, .158 att%) ... Western Oregon got off to a 2-2 start before losing three hard-fought matches in Honolulu last week, including 3-2 setbacks against UAA common opponents Hawaii Pacific and Biola ... the Wolves are led by So. OH Isabel Hurliman (3.21 kps, .232 att%, 2.12 dps).
 
NON-LEAGUE FINALES: The Seawolves had a tough finish to their non-conference season, going 1-3 last week at the Nanook Classic in Fairbanks ... UAA started well on Thursday, improving to 7-2 to a 25-12, 25-22, 25-10 rout of Ursuline ... the Seawolves' .414 hitting against the Arrows was their fifth-best percentage in the rally-scoring era (since 2001), led by Jr. RS Eve Stephens's 12 kills and career-high 6 aces ... on Friday, Colorado State-Pueblo fought off two match points in the 4th set to pull off a 17-25, 25-21, 19-25, 28-26, 15-9 win over UAA, which lost despite outhitting the Thunderwolves .185 to .145 ... Stephens had 19 kills, 16 digs and 5 blocks, while Jr. MB Akor Maywin had 8 kills on career-best .615 hitting in the loss ... a tired Seawolf team then dropped a 25-19, 25-19, 28-26 decision against Cal State LA, which hit .353 and overcame Maywin's career-high 10 kills ... in the finale Saturday, UAA got off to a fast start but fizzled in a 20-25, 25-22, 25-18, 25-19 loss to Drury ... Stephens finished with 14 kills and Jr. S Ellen Floyd had 43 assists, but UAA was done in by 17 service errors and 20 attack errors against the Panthers.
 
TEAM NOTES: UAA's three-match losing streak matches its longest since 2013 ... the Seawolves have never lost four straight regular-season matches under Chris Green ... UAA leads the early GNAC statistics with 2.30 aces per set, and ranks third with a .214 attack pct. ... the Seawolves are pursuing their 14th consecutive winning season, trying to extend the program record that began with Chris Green's arrival at UAA in 2008 ... the Seawolves are 74-17 (.813) at the Alaska Airlines Center since its opening in Sept. 2014 and 121-29 (.807) 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 its 39 full seasons and seven times in 12 full seasons under Green ... UAA is also trying to extend program-best streaks of 11 straight winning conference records and top-4 GNAC finishes ... the Seawolves are 20-15 against AVCA Top 25 teams since 2014 and 30-42 overall vs. ranked opponents under Green; prior to Green's arrival, UAA had lost 32 straight to ranked foes.
 
EVE OF DESTRUCTION: Jr. RS Eve Stephens has gotten her fourth collegiate season off to a rousing start as the GNAC Preseason Player of the Year earned GNAC offensive player-of-the-week accolades for her performance in Hawaii, then followed with all-tournament honors at the Seawolf Invitational and the Nanook Classic ... the 2019 AVCA Second Team All-American and two-time unanimous All-GNAC honoree has hit .259 thus far and ranks 2nd in the GNAC in both kills (3.84) and points (4.72) per set ... the Palmer (Colony HS) product has four double-doubles this year and 22 for her career after leading the GNAC in both kills and points per set in 2019 and 2020-21 ... with 1,170 career kills, Stephens has already risen to No. 5 on UAA's career list, and she needs just two more to catch Leah Swiss (2014-17) for No. 4 ... on UAA's other career lists, she currently ranks 3rd in kps (3.69), 8th in attack percentage (.284), 10th in block assists (239), 13th in total blocks (253) and 16th in victories (60) ... a star in the classroom as well, Stephens was voted CoSIDA Academic All-District 8 in 2019 with her GNAC-best 4.00 GPA in accounting.
 
THINK FLOYD: Another preseason All-GNAC pick, Jr. S Ellen Floyd captured GNAC Defensive Player of the Week honors for her effort in Hawaii and was an all-tournament pick at the Seawolf Invitational ... the 2019 All-GNAC selection and AVCA honorable mention All-American leads the GNAC with 0.58 aces per set and ranks 3rd with 9.93 assists per set, along with 18th in digs per set (3.14) – all while piloting an offense that has outhit its opponents .214 to .168 ... she has produced double-digit digs in nine of 12 outings, finishing with 17 digs and tying her career high with 7 kills in the win Chaminade, and tallying 52 assists and 19 digs in the win over Biola ... with more than 1.5 seasons remaining, Floyd is on pace to break UAA's all-time assists and aces records, already standing 4th with 3,043 assists and tied for 3rd with 139 aces (needs four to tie Leah Swiss [2014-17] for 2nd) ... her other career ranks stand at 3rd in assists average (9.42 aps), 3rd in aces per set (0.430) and 14th in victories (62).
 
'WOLF BITES: Sr. MB Vera Pluharova got her fifth and final season started in style, hitting a team-high .394 on the Hawaii trip, producing 7-plus kills in all four matches ... in the second match against Hawaii Pacific, she broke the 20-year-old school record for attack percentage, hitting .917 (career-high-tying 11 kills, no errors, 12 attacks) to lead that sweep ... in her fourth year as a starter, Pluharova ranks 4th in the GNAC with her .342 attack pct. and is 17th with 0.86 bps ... Pluharova ranks 5th on UAA's career list in blocks per set (1.09), plus 4th in block assists (330), 8th in total blocks (370, needs two to tie for 7th), 11th in attack pct. (.269) and 13th in victories (69) ... Jr. L Talia Leauanae is one of four Seawolves with three-plus years of experience in Green & Gold, and she has started 2021 well with 3.28 digs per set (14th in GNAC) and 0.56 aces per set (2nd in GNAC behind Floyd) ... the Maui native had 2 aces and 7 digs to help hold Hawaii Pacific to -.045 hitting in the Aug. 28 sweep, 14 digs and a career-high 4 aces in the win over Chaminade, and a UAA season-high 21 digs in the loss to CSU-Pueblo ... Leauanae ranks 15th on UAA's career list with 3.12 digs per set ... Jr. MB Akor Maywin is finally healthy after a pair of injury plagued seasons, and producing a high level ... the Texan leads the GNAC with a .396 attack percentage after producing back-to-back career highs of eight and 10 kills against Pueblo and CSULA, hitting a lofty .550 over the last three matches ... Maywin also leads the Seawolves and ranks 14th in the GNAC with 0.87 blocks per set.
 
GREEN MACHINE: Having led UAA to an unprecedented 13 straight winning seasons, UAA head coach Chris Green (274-106, .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 his fifth GNAC Coach of the Year award in 2019 ('09, '13, '15, '16) ... the 2016 AVCA D-II National Coach of the Year and 3-time AVCA D-II West Region Coach of the Year (2009, '15, '16), Green has led UAA to NCAA Tournament berths in eight of the last 10 full seasons, capturing No. 1 seeds in 2015 and 2016, and piloting the Seawolves to the national title match in 2016 ... in the 28 years before Green's arrival, the Seawolves made just two NCAA appearances ... UAA has won at a .769 clip (183-55) since the start of the 2013 campaign, including .828 (111-23) in league play ... Green's UAA teams have produced eight 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.
 
2021 Individual Honors
ELLEN FLOYD
Seawolf Invitational All-Tournament Team
GNAC Defensive Player of the Week, Aug. 23-29
Preseason All-GNAC Team
EVE STEPHENS
Nanook Classic All-Tournament Team
Seawolf Invitational All-Tournament Team
GNAC Offensive Player of the Week, Aug. 23-29
Preseason All-GNAC Team
GNAC Preseason Player of the Year
 
UAA School Records Broken/Tied in 2021
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Best Attack Pct. (min. 11 attacks) — .917 [11-0-12] by Vera Pluharova at Hawaii Pacific, Aug. 28 (old record: .909 [10-0-11] by Janelle Veith vs Seattle, 10/20/01)
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