T E XAS STAT E
2 0 1 4 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
THURSDAY-SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27-29
SUN BELT CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT SAN MARCOS, TEXAS | STRAHAN COLISEUM
TEXAS STATE BOBCATS
(19-11, 14-4 SBC)
Head Coach Karen Chisum (Texas State ‘72) | 35th Season (800-507-3) Streak W2
GEORGIA STATE PANTHERS
(10-19, 8-12 SBC)
Head Coach Sally Polhamus (Xavier ‘97) | 1st Season (70-64) Streak L1
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BOBCAT BITS 2013 SBC CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT REVIEW
Texas State enters the 2014 Sun Belt Conference Championship Tournament with a target on the team’s back as the Bobcats won the tournament last season to clinch the SBC’s only spot in the NCAA Tournament. The Bobcats beat UL Lafayette in four set to start the tournament then swept Arkansas State and UT Arlington to win Head Coach Karen Chisum and Texas State Volleyball the ninth conference championship in team history. Both Amari Deardorff and Ashlee Hilbun were named to the SBC AllTournament Team while Caylin Mahoney took home the Most Outstanding Player award.
ALL-CONFERENCE PERFORMERS
In just their first seasons at Texas State, freshmen Jordan Kohl and Lauren Kirch earned Sun Belt AllConference nods, both making the SBC All-Conference Second Team. In addition, Kohl took home the SBC Freshman of the Year award after twice being named the SBC Freshman of the Week this season. The duo led Texas State in kills during conference play while Kirch led the team in blocks and service aces against conference opponents and Kohl was third in blocks during conference play.
CHISUM NOTCHES 800TH CAREER VICTORY
Texas State Head Coach Karen Chisum earned her 800th career victory with a convincing 3-0 sweep of Troy on Saturday, Nov. 15. With the win, Chisum is just the 13th coach to reach 800 wins in NCAA Division I history and the 22nd collegiate volleyball coach ever to reach it. Only nine other coaches across all three NCAA divisions have done it with one team like she did. She is sixth in career wins among active NCAA Division I coaches and 11th among active coaches in all of the NCAA. Her last landmark victory was her 750th win over Seattle on Sept. 29, 2012, and she won her 700th game with a 3-0 sweep over Prairie View A&M on Sept. 7, 2010.
ANOTHER SBC FRESHMAN OF THE WEEK
Texas State’s Jordan Kohl is earned her second Sun Belt Conference Freshman of the Week honor of the season. Her award makes it the the third one for Texas State this year as Lauren Kirch also won it. Kohl had an impressive week, leading the Bobcats in kills on an undefeated 2-0 week. She averaged 4.00 kills and 1.14 blocks per set with 28 kills and eight blocks for the week. She was devastating in a 3-1 victory over Georgia State with 18 kills on a .615 hitting percentage and followed it with 10 more kills in a sweep of Troy with a .421 hitting percentage. She added five blocks against Troy and three more against Georgia State to put together a strong week for the freshman from San Angelo.
BEST CONFERENCE START SINCE 2003
Texas State started Sun Belt Confernece play with a six-match winning streak this season. It is Texas State’s best conference start since 2003 when the Bobcats went on a 7-0 run to start conference play, leading to an 18-2 Southland Conference record and a regular season conference championship. WWW.TXSTATEBOBCATS.COM
2014 SCHEDULE
(20-12, 15-5 SBC)
DATE OPPONENT 8/29 Lamar1 Wake Forest1 8/30 Houston1
9/3 9/5 9/6 9/9
BAYLOR WICHITA STATE2 UTSA2 ABILENE CHRISTIAN2 NORTH TEXAS2 PRAIRIE VIEW A&M
TIME/RESULT W, 3-2 L, 3-1 W, 3-1
L, 3-1 L, 3-2 W, 3-1 W, 3-0 L, 3-0 W, 3-1
9/12 Incarnate Word3 Texas Tech3 9/13 Gardner-Webb3
L, 3-2 L, 3-2 L, 3-1
9/16
* UT ARLINGTON
W, 3-2
9/19 9/21
9/25
* Arkansas State * UL Monroe
* SOUTH ALABAMA
W, 3-0 W, 3-1
9/27
* Troy
W, 3-2
10/4
* UL LAFAYETTE
10/8
* UT Arlington
10/10 10/12 10/17
10/19
10/23
W, 3-0 W, 3-0
L, 3-0
* APPALACHIAN STATE * UL MONROE
W, 3-0 W, 3-0
* Georgia State
L, 3-1
* ARKANSAS STATE
W, 3-1
* UALR
L, 3-1
10/25
* GEORGIA SOUTHERN
W, 3-0
10/31 11/2
11/8 11/14 11/15
* UL Lafayette * South Alabama
* UALR * GEORGIA STATE * TROY
W, 3-2 W, 3-1
11/20 11/22
* Appalachian State * Georgia Southern
L, 3-0 W, 3-0
L, 3-0 W, 3-1 W, 3-0
11/27-29 SBC CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT
11/27
Georgia State
7:30 p.m.
11/28
Arkansas State/UL Lafayette
6:30 p.m.
11/29
SBC Championship
1 p.m.
All Times Central Standard and subject to change | HOME GAMES | * SBC 1 Houston Cougar Classic (Houston, Texas) 2 Delta Zeta Classic (San Marcos, Texas) 3 Texas Tech Invitational (Lubbock, Texas)
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