Ivy League Tournament Set To Begin For Women's Volleyball

Ivy Semifinal: No. 2 seed Princeton (14-8, 11-3) vs. No. 3 seed Brown (18-6, 9-5), 11/17 – 4 p.m. ET
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PRINCETON, N.J. – The No. 2 seed Princeton University women's volleyball team will open play at the Ivy League Tournament on Nov. 17 inside the John J. Lee Amphitheatre in New Haven, Connecticut, against No. 3 seed Brown.

Ivy Tournament Structure
The Ivy League tournament, which is in its second season, will be hosted by No. 1 seed Yale. The Bulldogs will take on No. 4 seed Harvard at 7 p.m. following the first semifinal between the Tigers and the Bears. The Championship match will take place on Nov. 18 at 6 p.m. with the winner earning an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

Last Time Out
In its final weekend of regular season play the Tigers earned a 3-1 victory over Dartmouth (25-16, 25-21, 23-25, 25-22) on Nov. 10 and a 3-1 (25-22, 16-25, 25-22, 26-24) win over Harvard on Nov. 11.

Ivy Standings
With an 11-3 record in conference matches, the Tigers finished second in the Ivy League regular season standings. Yale's 14-0 record in Ivy play saw it finish first and win the regular season title while Brown (9-5) came in third and Harvard (8-6) fourth.

Statistical Leaders
Freshman Kamryn Chaney leads Princeton and ranks second in the Ivy League in points per set (3.91), seventh in the in service aces per set (0.35), and fourth in kills per set (3.30) while freshman Sydney Draper leads both the team and the conference in assists per set (10.37), a number that also ranks No. 21 nationally.

Sophomore Lucia Scalamandre leads the Tigers, ranks first in the Ivy League and 10th in the nation with a .423 hitting percentage, and averages 0.87 blocks per set which leads the team and ranks ninth in the conference. Senior Kathleen Bishop's .307 hitting percentage ranks seventh in the Ivy League and freshman Sydney Bold is averaging 4.23 digs per set to lead the team and rank second in the conference.

Weekly Award Winners
Princeton swept the Ivy League's weekly awards on Nov. 13, with senior Maya Satchell named Player of the Week and Sydney Draper Rookie of the Week for the third time this season.

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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