Road Contests At Cornell & Columbia Up Next For Women's Volleyball

Match 19: Princeton (10-8, 7-3) vs. Cornell (6-13, 4-6), 11/3– 7 p.m. ET
Match 20: Princeton (10-8, 7-3) vs. Columbia (14-4, 5-3), 11/4 – 5 p.m. ET
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PRINCETON, N.J. – Ivy League play continues for the Princeton University women's volleyball team with a match in Ithaca, New York, against Cornell on Nov. 3 before another against Columbia in New York, N.Y., on Nov. 4.

Last Time Out
While the Tigers fell to Yale on Oct. 27, they bounced back on Nov. 4 with a 3-1 (16-25, 25-23, 25-21, 25-12) victory over Brown inside Dillon Gymnasium.

Ivy Standings
With a 6-2 record in Ivy League play, the Tigers sit second. Yale (8-0) sit atop the conference standings and Harvard (5-3).

Statistical Leaders
Freshman Kamryn Chaney leads Princeton and ranks second in the Ivy League in points per set (3.85), third in the in service aces per set (0.40), and fourth in in kills per set (3.27) while freshman Sydney Draper leads both the team and the conference in assists per set (10.30), a number that also ranks No. 23 nationally.

Sophomore Lucia Scalamandre leads the Tigers, ranks first in the Ivy League and 10th in the nation with a .431 hitting percentage, and averages 0.96 blocks per set which leads the team and ranks seventh in the conference. Senior Kathleen Bishop's .317 hitting percentage ranks eighth in the Ivy League and freshman Sydney Bold is averaging 4.16 digs per set to lead the team and rank fourth in the conference.

Weekly Award Winners
Princeton swept the Ivy League's weekly awards on Oct. 16, with Scalamandre honored as Player of the Week and Rookie of the Week.

Chaney's Rookie of the Week award was the third Rookie of the Week honor for the Tigers this season, as freshman Sydney Draper received the award on Sept. 4 and Sept. 25.

The Pursuit of Ivy Title No. 20
The Tigers aim to continue its tradition of success in 2023 and capture a 20th Ivy League Championship. A conference championship in 2023 would also be the Tigers' second-straight and third in the past four seasons. Princeton's 19 Ivy titles are the most by any team in the conference, with Yale's 12 coming in second.

Head Coach Sabrina King
A three-time Ivy Coach of the Year (2019, 2016, 2015), King has guided Princeton to five Ivy titles (2022, 2019, 2017, 2016, 2015). King has also coached four Ivy Players of the Year and spent seven seasons as an assistant coach, winning conference championships in 2007 and 2004. As a player, King won three Ivy titles, was named All-Ivy League on three occasions and was the 1999 Ivy Player of the Year.

A Summer of Service
Erin McNair spent two weeks in Kenya over the summer with HEART (Health Education Africa Resource Team), a faith-based humanitarian organization that focuses on empowering vulnerable women, children, and youth in Africa to thrive beyond HIV. The WEEP mother's (Women's Equality Empowerment Program) is one of the many programs that HEART has in which they provide single, vulnerable mother with skills and resources to overcome their current situations to provide for them kids and themselves. The experience was so impactful for McNair that she has decided to take Swahili at Princeton to further pursue the culture in hopes of returning in the future.

Summer Standouts
McNair wasn't the only Tiger to have a busy summer. Kathleen Bishop worked at the German Aerospace Center, Ella Bunde studied abroad at the London School of Economics, Gracie Wood was a Clinical Science Intern at the Topcon Healthcare Innovation Center (THINC) division with Topcon Healthcare, Mariah Haislip was a Summer Fellow with J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management – U.S. Private Bank, Shelby Fulton took an online course on machine learning and did personal coding projects, Valerie Nutakor worked as a patient safety assistant at a hospital while obtaining an EMT certification and Julia Cabri was an intern with Exabeam, a cyber security company in the Bay Area.

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