Volleyball to open season on Monday at Indiana State
Aces coming off excellent 2019 campaign
 EVANSVILLE, Ind. – – It has been a total of 424 days since the University of Evansville volleyball team last took to the floor, but the Purple Aces hope that it is worth the wait when they open up the 2020-21 season on Monday, January 25 at Indiana State with a 2 p.m. CT match.
Let’s Get Rolling
– UE is coming off of a 2019 campaign that saw the team go 16-14 on the way to its first MVC Championship berth since 2008
– The Aces picked up a 6th place finish in the league and put up a resilient effort against Illinois State in the opening round of the tournament in November of 2019 in Cedar Falls, Iowa
– With the finish, the Aces cemented their first winning record since going 17-13 in 2010 while earning the most conference victories (7) since winning nine Valley contests in 2009
Non-Conference
– Evansville will play an abbreviated non-conference schedule in the spring, taking on Saint Louis and Western Kentucky in a pair of matches in Bowling Green, Ky. on January 31
One More Time Around
– Allana McInnis is the lone senior on the UE squad and has been one of the top setters in program history
– She has a total of 2,980 assists in her college career, which ranks fourth in the UE record books
– In 2019, McInnis averaged 10.48 assists per set, ranking 50th in the NCAA and third in the MVC…she finished with 39 or more assists in 20 matches during the 2019 season
– The top two contests of her career saw her post 65 helpers against EIU before recording 64 in the win over TTU
– McInnis is one of nine players in program history to have 1,000+ assists in a season…her 1,228 in 2019 was 4th-most in UE history
Record-Breaker
– Evansville’s offense in 2019 was led by Melanie Feliciano
– Her 4.18 kills per set was the second-highest tally in the conference, third among all freshmen and 34th overall in the NCAA
– She was named to the All-MVC Second Team while being named an All-Freshman Honorable Mention by VolleyballMag.com
– Feliciano’s total of 456 kills set the Evansville program mark for a freshman; the previous record of 434 came in 1997 by Jessica Kiefer
Scouting the Opponent
– Indiana State posted a 7-21 mark in 2019 while going 5-13 in the MVC
– The Sycamores are led by senior Nikkie White, who averaged 2.99 kills per set and finished with a total of 281 for the season
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