Hartford Volleyball Game Program: November 14 vs. New Hampshire by HartfordHawks

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NUMBER POSITION HEIGHT YEAR MAJOR

21 DS/LIBERO 5-10 JUNIOR PSYCHOLOGY

HAWKS TIDBIT: Leading the team with 0.29 service aces per set, Greta De Gasper enters the weekend ranked eighth in the America East in the category.

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SCHEDULE DAY DATE OPPONENT

TIME+/RESULT

FRI. 8/27 VS. NORTHEASTERN# SAT. 8/28 AT BOSTON COLLEGE# SAT. 8/28 VS. SACRED HEART# FRI. 9/3 AT YALE$ FRI. 9/3 VS. QUINNIPIAC$ SAT. 9/4 VS. SYRACUSE$ FRI. 9/10 VS. MERRIMACK% SAT. 9/11 AT RHODE ISLAND% SAT. 9/11 VS. RIDER% THUR. 9/16 CENTRAL CONNECTICUT& FRI. 9/17 DARTMOUTH& SAT. 9/18 BROWN& TUES. 9/21 BRYANT SUN. 9/26 AT NEW HAMPSHIRE* FRI. 10/1 NJIT* SUN 10/3 UMBC* FRI. 10/8 AT UALBANY* SUN. 10/10 AT BINGHAMTON* SUN. 10/17 UALBANY* FRI. 10/22 STONY BROOK* SUN. 10/24 NJIT* FRI. 10/29 AT UMBC* SUN. 10/31 AT STONY BROOK* FRI. 11/5 BINGHAMTON* FRI. 11/12 AT NJIT* SUN. 11/14 NEW HAMPSHIRE* FRI. 11/19 AMERICA EAST SEMIFINAL^ SUN. 11/21 AMERICA EAST CHAMPIONSHIP^

L, 0-3 L, 1-3 L, 0-3 L, 0-3 W, 3-2 L, 0-3 W, 3-0 L, 1-3 L, 0-3 L, 0-3 L, 1-3 L, 0-3 L, 1-3 L, 0-3 POSTPONED L, 0-3 L, 0-3 W, 3-1 L, 1-3 L, 0-3 W, 3-0 L, 1-3 L, 0-3 W, 3-0 7 PM 7 PM TBD TBD

RED - HOME GAMES (HARTFORD VOLLEYBALL GYM) + ALL TIMES EASTERN AND ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE * AMERICA EAST CONFERENCE OPPONENT | ^ PLAYED AT THE HIGHEST OVERALL SEED # BOSTON COLLEGE INVITATIONAL | $ YALE INVITATIONAL | % URI INVITATIONAL & HARTFORD HAWKS INVITATIONAL

ON THE DOCKET Hartford wraps up the 2021 season with an America East matchup against New Hampshire.

SCOUTING THE WILDCATS New Hampshire enters Sunday’s contest having already secured a spot in the America East playoffs, sporting a 6-4 mark in conference play. The Wildcats, who host Binghamton on Saturday, dropped a 3-2 decision to UAlbany on Halloween. Abby Sullivan is one of the league’s top hitters, ranking first with a .344 hitting percentage. She leads the Wildcats with 196 kills and adds 70 blocks, the second-most on the team.

LAST TIME THEY MET

Hartford dropped a 3-0 decision on the road at New Hampshire on Sept. 26. Freshman Camryn Lughinbuhl led the way with a team-high 11 kills, while senior Alex Lucero contributed a matchhigh 17 digs.

LAST TIME OUT

Sunday’s program was created prior to the Hawks’ road match at NJIT on Friday. Prior to that contest, Hartford took down Binghamton, 3-0, earlier this month. Junior Maddie Lindsay and Luginbuhl led the way for the Hawks, tallying nine kills apiece. Posting its eighth-straight win in the series, Hartford held the Bearcats to a .075 hitting percentage.

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INSIDE THE SERIES Scoring a straight-set victory earlier this season in Durham, New Hampshire snapped a twogame losing streak against the Hawks. The Wildcats lead the all-time series, 46-5.

SERVICE ACE SPECIALISTS Junior Greta De Gasper and sophomore Kaleigh Fitzgerald have proven to be a dynamic duo from the service line. Leading the team with 0.29 and 0.26 service aces per set, respectively, De Gasper ranks eighth in the conference in the category, while Fitzgerald ranks 10th. The pair has combined for nearly half (44) of the Hawks’

96 service aces this season. De Gasper was stifling from the service line in the Hartford’s most recent outing, delivering a match-best five service aces.

ALEX THE GREAT Lucero has proven to be a stalwart on the Hartford line this season. A native of Plano, Texas, she has upped her game during America East action, as her 5.30 digs per set are a conferencehigh. Lucero, who tallied her 1,000th dig earlier this season against Bryant (Sept. 21), enters her final match ranked third alltime in Hartford’s rally-scoring era with 1,186 career digs.

AMERICA EAST S T A ND INGS

OVERALL AE W-L PCT W-L PCT

UMBC

16-11 .593

11-0 1.000

Stony Brook

13-12

7-4

UAlbany

12-14 .462

7-4 .636

New Hampshire

15-10 .600

6-4 .600

Binghamton

7-15 .318

3-7 .300

Hartford

5-18

3-7

NJIT

2-24 .077

.520

.217

.636

.300

0-11 .000

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(5-18 OVERALL, 3-7 AMERICA EAST)

# Name

Yr. Pos. Ht.

Hometown/Last School

Kaleigh Fitzgerald

So.

DS/L 5-9

Morgan Galligan

So.

5-10

Canonsburg, Pa./Canon-McMillan

Lika Nkenchor

Jr.

5-10

Ashburn, Va./Flinthill

4 Sophie Paspal

Fr.

6-3

Canton, Mich./Salem

Uzezi Ijoma

So.

5-10

McKenna Reiswig

So.

6-4

Forest Hill, Md./Bel Air

9 Robin Helms

Jr.

6-2

Merced, Calif./El Capitan

11 Valerie Diede

Sr.

6-2

Keizer, Ore./McNary

12 Maddie Lindsay

Jr.

6-3

Lehi, Utah/Lehi

13 Sara Gasparotto

Jr.

6-1

Mansue, Italy/Collegio Brandolini Rota

15 Camryn Luginbuhl

Fr.

6-0

Tolland, Conn./Tolland

19 Alex Lucero

Sr.

DS/L 5-7

Plano, Texas/Plano West

21 Greta De Gasper

Jr.

DS/L 5-10

Wales, Wis./Reading Memorial

Westfield, N.J./Westfield

Colle Umberto, Italy/Liceo Classico G. Marconi

HEAD COACH VINH NGUYEN - Fourth Season - Cal Poly Pomona ’00

ASSISTANT COACHES JAIME SNYDER - Third Season - Suny Brockport ’15 MEGAN ANDERSON - First Season - Hartford ’21

NEW HAMPSHIRE WILDCATS (15-10 OVERALL, 6-4 AMERICA EAST)

# Name

Yr. Pos. Ht.

Grace Tomann

So.

L/DS 5-7

Cold Spring, N.Y./Haldane

Aiden Hackenberg

Fr.

L/DS 5-6

Anderson, Texas/Anderson-Shiro

Kate Bilyeu

Sr.

6-0

Omaha, Neb./Omaha Marian

Mia Pagliarini

So.

L/DS 5-5

Springboro, Ohio/Springboro

6 Hannah Crist

Jr.

Cicero, Ind./Hamilton Heights

Jamison White

So.

S/RS 6-1

Hannah Serbousek

So.

6-0

Fort Collins, Colo./Fort Collins

9 Ali Stuessi

So.

L/DS 5-7

Fairhaven, Mass./Fairhaven

10 Wren Macaulay

Jr.

5-9

11 Kaleigh Whalen

So.

5-10

Hollis, N.H./Hollis Brookline

12 Kelly Kaufmann

So.

6-2

Raleigh, N.C./Athens Drive

14 Gabby Smith

So.

6-1

Carmel, Ind./Carmel

16 Marly Johnson

So.

L/OH 5-11

Sammamish, Wash./Eastlake

17 Erin Hedrick

Jr.

5-11

Montvale, N.J./ Pascack Hills

18 Abby Sullivan

Sr.

MB/RS 5-11

Methuen, Mass./Methuen

19 Ari Pola

Sr.

5-11

Auckland, New Zealand/Westlake

20 Ashleigh Nicoll

Fr.

6-1

Holly Springs, N.C./Holly Springs

23 Shea Purcell

Fr.

6-0

24 Marisa Armer

Fr.

6-1

26 Nadia Goich

Fr.

6-0

Hometown/Last School

Nashville, Tenn./Harpeth

Lake Orion, Mich./Lake Orion

Shaker Heights, Ohio/Laurel School Bradenton, Fla./Manatee Homer Glen, Ill./Lockport Township

HEAD COACH CHRIS FELICIANO - Third Season - New Jersey City Univ. ’03

ASSISTANT COACH RYAN SULLIVAN - First Season - Indiana ’11 MOLLY WOTTON - First Season - New Hampshire ’18 HARTFORD MARISSA SOISTMAN - First Season - HAWKS NJIT ’21 // #FLYHIGH

HARTFORD HAWKS

kaleigh

sophie

robin

FITZGERALD

SO | DEFENSIVE SPECIALIST

PASPAL

FR | RIGHT SIDE

HELMS

JR | MIDDLE BLOCKER

morgan

uzezi

valerie

GALLIGAN

SO | SETTER

IJOMA

SO | OUTSIDE HITTER

DIEDE

SR | MIDDLE BLOCKER

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lika

mckenna

maddie

NKENCHOR

JR | RIGHT SIDE/OUTSIDE HITTER

REISWIG

SO | RIGHT SIDE

LINDSAY

JR | OUTSIDE HITTER

HARTFORD HAWKS

sara

13 GASPAROTTO

JR | MIDDLE BLOCKER

camryn

15 LUGINBUHL

FR | OUTSIDE HITTER

VINH NGUYEN HEAD COACH Fourth Season

alex

19 LUCERO

SR | DEFENSIVE SPECIALIST/LIBERO

greta

De GASPER

JR | DEFENSIVE SPECIALIST/LIBERO

JAIME SNYDER ASSISTANT COACH Third Season

MEGAN ANDERSON VOLUNTEER ASSISTANT COACH First Season

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HARTFORD HAWKS 2021-22 Hartford Women's Volleyball Overall Team Statistics All games

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2021 T EA M S T A T I S T I CS

Game Records Overall

5 - 18 AMERICA EAST: 3-7 Team statistics

•

3-7

ATTACK Kills Errors Total Attacks Attack Pct Kills/Set SET Assists Attempts Assist Pct Assists/Set SERVE Aces Errors Attempts Serve Pct Aces/Set SERVE RECEPTIONS Errors Errors/Set Attempts Reception Pct DEFENSE Digs Digs/Set BLOCKING Block solo Block Assist Total Blocks Blocks/Set Block Errors Ball handling errors ATTENDANCE Total Dates/Avg Per Date Neutral Site #/Avg Current win streak Home win streak Match wins by #sets Team

Hartford Opponents

1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th TOTAL 0 0

0 0

3 12

1 6

1 0

OVERALL:Home5-18

Conference

5 18

HOME: 2-7

•

2-7

Away

2-7 AWAY: 1-7

Points by set Team

Hartford Opponents

1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th TOTAL

437 462 468 126 15 556 543 543 191 13

1508 1846

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Neutral

1-4 NEUTRAL: 2-4

HART

OPP

785 468 2837 .112 10.1

1010 396 2790 .220 12.9

722 2707 .267 9.3

937 2625 .357 12

96 147 1406 .895 1.2

126 173 1692 .898 1.6

126 1.6 1541 .918

96 1.2 1279 .999

1180 15.1

1343 17.2

42 235 159.5 2 36 57

33 313 189.5 2.4 21 30

1154 9/128 5/28 0 0

1381 9/153 -

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2021-22 Hartford Women's Volleyball Overall Individual Statistics All games Game Records Overall

Conference

5 - 18

1 2 3 4 7 8 9 11 12 13 15 19 21

Fitzgerald, Kaleigh Galligan, Morgan Nkenchor, Lika Paspal, Sophie Ijoma, Uzezi Reiswig, McKenna Helms, Robin Diede, Valerie Lindsay, Maddie Gasparotto, Sara Luginbuhl, Camryn Lucero, Alex De Gaspar, Greta

HARTFORD Opponents

## Player 1 2 3 4 7 8 9 11 12 13 15 19 21 -

HARTFORD Opponents

Away

2-7

Neutral

2-7

1-4

2021 I N D I VI DUAL S T A T I S T ICS

Team Box Score ## Player

Home

3-7

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SP MP-MS

78 78 25 60 54 36 77 78 55 20 78 77 76

78 78

78 78 25 60 54 36 77 78 55 20 78 77 76 -

78 78

23-3 23-23 14-0 22-6 20-8 19-2 23-23 23-23 17-15 14-0 23-23 23-0 23-12

23-23 23-23

18 34 1 45 63 22 98 68 121 7 294 3 11

785 1010

Attack K/S E

0.23 0.44 0.04 0.75 1.17 0.61 1.27 0.87 2.20 0.35 3.77 0.04 0.14

10.06 12.95

468 396

Receptions RE TA PCT

9 2 0 0 3 0 1 1 10 0 54 27 7 12

126 96

284 11 0 2 27 0 29 22 155 6 478 443 72 -

1541 1279

.968 .818 .000 1.000 .889 .000 .966 .955 .935 1.000 .887 .939 .903 -

18 11 0 23 53 21 47 42 63 2 177 0 11

111 130 2 164 267 75 304 313 467 21 899 8 76

2837 2790

PCT

.000 .177 .500 .134 .037 .013 .168 .083 .124 .238 .130 .375 .000

11 647 0 2 0 0 3 3 4 0 14 27 11

Set A/S

0.14 8.29 0.00 0.03 0.00 0.00 0.04 0.04 0.07 0.00 0.18 0.35 0.14

.112 .220

722 937

9.26 12.01

Dig DIG DIG/S

146 131 5 18 12 3 21 28 55 0 216 378 167 -

1.87 1.68 0.20 0.30 0.22 0.08 0.27 0.36 1.00 0.00 2.77 4.91 2.20 -

0 8 0 1 2 1 12 15 1 0 2 0 0 -

0 36 0 23 9 14 51 53 19 6 22 0 2 -

59 2257 2 12 11 6 22 29 23 3 66 167 50

2707 2625

PCT

.186 .287 .000 .167 .000 .000 .136 .103 .174 .000 .212 .162 .220

.267 .357

SA SA/S

0.00 0.56 0.00 0.40 0.20 0.42 0.82 0.87 0.36 0.30 0.31 0.00 0.03 -

0.26 0.10 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.21 0.02 0.05 0.24 0.12 0.29

96 126

Blocking TOTAL BLK/S 0 44 0 24 11 15 63 68 20 6 24 0 2 -

20 8 0 0 0 0 0 16 1 1 19 9 22

1.23 1.62

BE 0 1 1 4 0 4 9 7 0 2 8 0 0 -

BHE 0 54 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 -

Serve SE 27 16 12 0 1 0 0 14 5 1 23 24 24

147 173

257 202 50 1 7 0 0 158 13 15 216 219 268

1406 1692

1180 1343

15.13 17.22

42 33

235 313

159.5 189.5

2.04 2.43

36 21

57 30

.895 .898

Points PTS PTS/S

38.0 68.0 1.0 57.5 69.5 30.0 135.5 125.5 132.5 11.0 326.0 12.0 34.0 -

HARTFORD HAWKS // #FLYHIGH .918 .925

PCT

.895 .921 .760 1.000 .857 .000 .000 .911 .615 .933 .894 .890 .910

1040.5 1325.5

0.49 0.87 0.04 0.96 1.29 0.83 1.76 1.61 2.41 0.55 4.18 0.16 0.45 -

13.34 16.99

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NGUYEN Entering his fourth season as head coach of the Hartford volleyball team in 2021, Vinh Nguyen has transformed the Hawks into a winning program. Under the brief tutelage of Nguyen — who became the 11th head coach in the 44-year history of the program in February 2018 — the Hawks have become a potent threat in the America East Conference. In just his second season at the helm, Nguyen and the Hawks were on the doorstep of claiming the program’s first-ever NCAA Tournament berth. Earning the program’s first victory in the 2019 America East Tournament with an upset win over No. 2 New Hampshire, Hartford, which posted the most wins since the 2014 campaign, fought top-seeded UAlbany down to the wire in the title match. However, the Hawks fell just short of earning the league’s coveted automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament in five sets. That postseason run was an historic one for Hartford for several reasons, as it also marked the first time in program history that the Hawks qualified for the America East Tournament in back-to-back seasons. In his debut season at Hartford in 2018, Nguyen led the Hawks back to the conference tournament for the first time since 1996, ending a 22-year postseason drought for the program. Hartford also made a five-win improvement that season, posting 11 victories in 2018. Nguyen has brought the Hartford volleyball program to new heights in just three seasons. One year after he piloted the program its first top-four finish in the America East since 1995, he led the Hawks to their best ranking — a third-place finish — in the league standings in 26 years in 2019. In addition, that squad, which went 6-4 in conference play, posted the highest winning percentage (.600) since 1993, a season that saw the Hawks claim both the North Atlantic Conference Regular-Season and Tournament Titles. The 2020-21 season, Nguyen’s third at the helm, was unconventional for the Hawks. In addition to the typical fall season getting moved to the spring of 2021, the campaign was shortened to just 10 matches due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Behind three America East All-Conference performers, Hartford dominated on its home court inside the Hartford Volleyball Gym, posting a perfect 4-0 mark. The winning ways and recent postseason appearances aren’t the only indicators of the success of the program since Nguyen’s arrival. The numbers are also proof of the continued upward trajectory of the Hartford volleyball program. In 2019, Nguyen propelled the Hawks to the top of the America East statistics in nearly every category, both on the offensive and defensive side of the net. Hartford closed the book on one of its best seasons in recent years by finishing as the league’s stat leader in a plethora of offensive categories, including hitting percentage, total kills, kills per set, total aces, aces per set and assists per set. Defensively, Nguyen and the Hawks led the way in solo blocks, digs and digs per set. To go along with all of the team’s successes, Hartford’s players have flourished under Nguyen in his three seasons.

Jenna Bridges, a 2020 graduate who led the league in hitting percentage, kills per set, blocks per set and points per set in 2019, made history that season when she became the first Hawk since 1992 to earn recognition from the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) by earning a spot on the East All-Region Team.

VINH NGUYEN’S CAREER HIGHLIGHTS AMERICA EAST TOURNAMENT APPEARANCES 2018, 2019 AMERICA EAST TOURNAMENT FINALIST 2019 TWO AMERICA EAST PLAYERS OF THE YEAR Jenna Bridges (2018, 2019) AE ROOKIE OF THE YEAR AWARD Maddie Lindsay (2019) AVCA ALL-AMERICAN Jenna Bridges (2019) NINE AMERICA EAST ALL-CONFERENCE Megan Anderson (2x) Jenna Bridges (2x) Abbie Nash (2x) Maddie Lindsay (3x)

In addition, Bridges became the third player in program history — and the first since 1993 — to win America East Player of the Year honors, when she took home the distinction as a junior in 2018. She continued to make history in her final season, as she began Hartford’s first-ever repeat America East Player of the Year honoree after leading the league in five different statistical categories. Garnering an America East and program-record nine America East Player of the Week awards during her four-year career, Bridges went on to graduate as the program’s all-time leader in block assists. Nguyen and his Hawks made program history in several ways in 2019. Maddie Lindsay, a current junior, joined Bridges in earning a major award from the America East. A seven-time Rookie of the Week recipient, she became just the second Hartford player to earn Rookie of the Year honors, joining Stephanie Volkers, who took home the award in 2001. Nguyen has continued to demand excellence in the classroom from his student-athletes. For the ninth straight season, the Hawks took home an AVCA Team Academic Award. Most impressively, Hartford earned AVCA Team Academic Honor Roll distinction for the fourth time in as many seasons in 2020-21, as the squad’s 3.79 GPA was one of the top 46 marks among all Division I volleyball teams. Of the 15 members on the volleyball team last year, 14 student-athletes posted at least a 3.0 GPA during the academic year, with 11 of those Hawks achieving at least a 3.75 GPA. Since Nguyen’s arrival, the Hawks have combined for six America East All-Academic Team members, as 2021 graduate Megan Anderson, a three-time recipient of the award, joins Bridges, Abby Nash (’21) and Lindsay in earning the honor in 2019. Anderson also made program history in Nguyen’s first season by becoming Hartford’s first CoSIDA Academic All-American since 1992. Nguyen arrived at Hartford by way of North Texas, where he spent four seasons as an assistant coach, including three as the women’s volleyball team’s Associate Head Coach from 2015-17. He played an integral role in all aspects of Mean Green volleyball, specializing in the training of the middle and pin hitters, arm swing development and offensive/defensive blocking systems. Nguyen was hired full-time for the Mean Green in 2015 after spending the second half of the 2014 season as a volunteer assistant, helping lead the team into the Conference USA Tournament. The Mean Green had an outstanding year with Nguyen’s guidance in 2017. North Texas captured the CUSA Championship and finished the season with the best record in program history, a 29-3

mark. Nguyen’s expertise translated to individual success as well, as he coached three Mean Green student-athletes to First Team All-CUSA honors and one to Freshman of the Year accolades in 2017. In addition, he guided Carnae Dillard to two CUSA Player of the Year honors and a pair of All-America nods in 2014 and 2015. Nguyen brought 18-plus years of coaching at the collegiate level to North Texas, logging six season as a member of Cal State Fullerton’s coaching staff and 12 as an assistant at Cal Poly Pomona. At Cal State Fullerton, Nguyen reinvigorated the Titans’ offensive attack, as two hitters earned Big West Player of the Year awards and three received AVCA All-American honors. In addition, the squad led the Big West Conference in kills per set (14.45) in 2010 while calculating a school-record .246 team hitting percentage. That season, Nguyen helped propel the Titans to a BWC Championship and the program’s first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance. Nguyen also enjoyed a great deal of success at Cal Poly Pomona, leading the Broncos to 18plus wins in six seasons, including a 24-3 mark in 2005. That year, he also helped Pomona win its first California Collegiate Athletic Association Championship since 1990. Prior to his work at Cal Poly Pomona, Nguyen coached at five high schools in Southern California. He also worked with the San Gabriel, Magnum and Power Volleyball Clubs. Nguyen brings a wealth of experience outside of collegiate coaching to Hartford. In the summer of 2009, he was named the administrator to the Southern California High Performance teams that participated at the USA Championships in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where he oversaw the four SCVA HP teams. As a result, the SCVA Select Red Team earned a gold medal at the HP Championships. In 2007, Nguyen was hired by the USA Men’s National Team as a staff member to help them prepare for their run at World League, Pan-Am Cup, America’s Cup and Norceca Cup championships, which resulted in two gold medals, one silver and one bronze medal. He has also been involved with the USA High Performance Pipeline since 2003, and he has coached several development A2 camps throughout Michigan, Colorado, Montana and California. Nguyen played volleyball at Mt. San Antonio College and Long Beach City College before transferring to Long Beach State. He finished his schooling and graduated from Cal Poly Pomona in 2000 with a degree in kinesiology.

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