Regular Season Play To Conclude For Women's Volleyball Against Dartmouth & Harvard

Friday, November 10

Princeton, N.J.

7:00 PM

Princeton University

Dartmouth

Regular Season Play To Conclude For Women's Volleyball Against Dartmouth & Harvard

November 08, 2023 | Women's Volleyball

Match 21: Princeton (12-8, 9-3) vs. Dartmouth (6-13, 4-6), 11/10 – 7 p.m. ET
Match 22: Princeton (12-8, 9-3) vs. Harvard (14-4, 5-3), 11/11 – 5 p.m. ET
Dartmouth: ESPN+ | International Feed | Live Stats
Harvard: ESPN+ | International Feed | Live Stats
Program

PRINCETON, N.J. – The Princeton University women's volleyball team wrap up regular season play with a pair of upcoming matches inside Dillon Gymnasium, first hosting Dartmouth on Nov. 10 then Harvard on Nov. 11.

Senior Day
Prior to Tigers' match against Harvard on Nov. 11, a ceremony will be held honoring Princeton's Class of 2024 consisting of Kathleen Bishop, Maya Satchell and Julia Cabri.

Clinched
Thanks to the Tigers' win over Columbia on Nov. 4, Princeton clinched a spot in the Ivy League Tournament. The Tigers have now clinched a spot in the Ivy League Tournaments in both its years of existence. The 2023 Ivy League Tournament will take place in New Haven, Connecticut, and will be hosted by Yale who the Ivy Championship outright and secured the No. 1 seed.

Last Time Out
Princeton completed the weekend sweep, first defeating Cornell, 3-0 (25-17, 25-20, 25-22) in Ithaca, New York, on Nov. 3 then Columbia, 3-0 (25-23, 25-18, 25-10), in New York, New York.

Ivy Standings
With a 9-3 record the Tigers sit second in the Ivy League conference standings. Yale's 12-0 record has it first, while Brown and Harvard each have a 7-5 record.

Statistical Leaders
Freshman Kamryn Chaney leads Princeton and ranks second in the Ivy League in points per set (3.89), third in the in service aces per set (0.39), and fourth in in kills per set (3.23) while freshman Sydney Draper leads both the team and the conference in assists per set (10.20), a number that also ranks No. 47 nationally.

Sophomore Lucia Scalamandre leads the Tigers, ranks first in the Ivy League and No. 8 in the nation with a .436 hitting percentage, and averages 0.92 blocks per set which leads the team and ranks eighth in the conference. Senior Kathleen Bishop's .317 hitting percentage ranks sixth in the Ivy League and freshman Sydney Bold is averaging 4.13 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 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.

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.