T E XAS STAT E
2 0 1 5 B O B C AT V O L L E Y B A L L 6th Winningest Active DI Coach | 8 Regular Season Conference Championships | 9 Conference Tournament Championships
MATCHES 17-18: THURSDAY - 6:30 P.M. | SATURDAY - 12 P.M.
2015 SCHEDULE DATE OPPONENT
(8-8, 3-1 SBC)
8/28 TCU1 8/29 Arizona1 (7-6, 3-0 SBC) AND (5-10, 0-3 SBC) SMU1 2 SAN MARCOS, TEXAS - STRAHAN COLISEUM 9/3 UTSA 9/4 PRAIRIE VIEW A&M2 LAMAR2 9/5 INDIANA2 TEXAS STATE BOBCATS (8-8, 3-1 SBC) 9/8 OREGON Head Coach Karen Chisum (Texas State ‘72) | 36th Season (810-517-3) 9/11 South Dakota State3 Streak L1 Northern Illinois3 9/12 Wichita State3 LITTLE ROCK TROJANS (7-6, 3-0 SBC) 9/15 Sam Houston State 9/18 * GEORGIA STATE Head Coach Van Compton (Arkansas State) | 28th Season (480-345) 9/20 * UL LAFAYETTE Streak W3 9/24 * Georgia State 9/26 * Appalachian State GEORGIA SOUTHERN EAGLES (5-10, 0-3 SBC) 10/1 * LITTLE ROCK 10/3 * GEORGIA SOUTHERN Head Coach Dustin Wood (East Stroudsburg ‘03) | 3rd Season (40-39) 10/6 * UT ARLINGTON Streak L4 10/9 Baylor 10/15 * UT Arlington 10/17 * Arkansas State BROADCAST & SOCIAL MEDIA 10/22 * Troy LIVE VIDEO: txstatebobcats.com/showcase /TexasStateVball 10/24 * South Alabama LIVE STATS: texasstate.statbroadcast.com 10/30 * UL MONROE @TexasStateVball LIVE AUDIO: txstatebobcats.com/radio 10/31 * TROY 11/5 * UL Monroe BOBCAT BITS 11/7 * UL Lafayette SMITH TEARING IT UP 11/13 * SOUTH ALABAMA Senior libero Sierra Smith has been on a rampage on the back line for the Bobcats this season. She has 11/20-22 SBC Championship Tournament
LITTLE ROCK
GEORGIA SOUTHERN
double-digit digs in 10 of 16 matches so far this season with a high of 31 digs at UTSA. What’s been most impressive though lately, is the work she has done in short-set matches. Smith tallied 23 digs each in back-to-back sweeps for the Bobcats which is an average of 7.67 digs per set. In the team’s most recent match, she averaged 5.00 digs per set. She owns the Texas State record for most digs in a season and for most digs in a match, and the way she is playing right now, could break both of those. For the year, Smith avergaed 4.02 digs per set and has 205 digs on the season.
TIME/RESULT
L, 3-0 L, 3-0 L, 3-0 W, 3-2 W, 3-0 W, 3-0 L, 3-2 L, 3-0 W, 3-1 L, 3-1 L, 3-0 W, 3-0 W, 3-1 W, 3-0 W, 3-0 L, 3-0 6:30 P.M. 12 P.M. 6:30 P.M. 7 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 6 p.m. 6 p.m. 12 p.m. 6:30 P.M. 6:30 P.M. 6:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 6:30 P.M. TBA
All Times Central Standard and subject to change | HOME GAMES | * SBC 1 SMU/TCU Crosstown Challenge (Fort Worth/Dallas, Texas) 2 Delta Zeta Classic (San Marcos, Texas) 3 Shocker Volleyball Classic (Wichita, Kansas)
KIRCH RETURNS
Sophomore middle blocker Lauren Kirch, coming off a freshman season that led to an All-Sun Belt Conference selection, did not play from August 29 against SMU until the September 26th match at Appalachian State due to injury. She is making her way back after playing in three sets at Appalachian State. She put down a season-high four kills. Fortunately for the Bobcats, Texas State’s depth at middle blocker has served them well. Junior Morgan Lewis and freshman Madison Daigle have both stepped up to play well for the Bobcats. Lewis finished with 13 kills against Georgia State while Daigle tallied 23 kills combined in matches against GSU and ULL.
STRONG START TO THE CONFERENCE SEASON
Texas State showed why the team was chosen to finish second, even receiving first place votes, in the Sun Belt Conference’s preseason rankings with a great start to the conference season. The Bobcats put down Georgia State, 3-1, and followed with an outstanding sweep of UL Lafayette for a 2-0 start in Sun Belt action. After that, the Bobcats went on the road to sweep Georgia State in the team’s first conference road match of the season.
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