Women's Volleyball Set to Travel
6/21/1999 8:00:00 AM | Volleyball
November 2, 1998
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Maryland (10-12, 3-8 ACC) travels to Clemson (16-8, 7-5 ACC) and Georgia Tech (19-9, 8-4 ACC) this weekend for ACC play. This weekend's play marks the second time the Terps have met both the Tigers and the Yellow Jackets. Clemson handed the Terps a 3-0 loss on Oct. 3, while Georgia Tech escaped College Park with a 3-2 win.
VIRGINIA HANDS TERPS 3-0 LOSS
Virginia sophomore Andrea Fischer pounded down a team-high 15 kills and hit .444 to lead the Cavaliers to a three-game sweep against Maryland last Friday, 15-3, 15-6, 15-8. Offensively for the Terps, junior outside hitter Beth Murphy (Golden, Colo.) totaled a team-high eight kills and senior middle hitter Jaime Summers (Conneaut Lake, Pa.) hit a team-high .250 to pace the Terps. Freshman outside hitter Angie Banys (Chicago, Ill.) recorded a team-high 10 digs to lead the Terps on defense.
TERPS SERVE UP 12 ACES IN WIN AGAINST GEORGE MASON
Maryland sophomore outside hitter Katie Jentes (Madbury, N.H.) totaled four service aces, and the Terps recorded 12 as a team, in a 15-13, 15-12, 7-15, 15-11 win against George Mason on Tuesday night. Leading the Terps on offense was junior outside hitter Kate Hannas (Ellicott City, Md.) who hit .357 after totaling 12 kills on 28 swings. She also led the Terps on defense with 14 digs.
SUMMERS BACK ON TRACK
Maryland senior middle hitter Jaime Summers (Conneaut Lake, Pa.) returned to seasons past against NC State and North Carolina on Oct. 7 and Oct. 10, respectively, totaling a season-high 23 kills against NC State, and hitting a season-high .421 against North Carolina. She recorded double-figure kills and digs against NC State for only the sixth time this season. Summers erased her old season-high of .421 this past weekend, hitting .563 against North Carolina on Friday after totaling nine kills on 16 swings with no errors. She also totaled 11 digs to lead the Terps on defense. Against NC State on Saturday, she totaled 23 digs. Summers is hitting .261, and is second on the team in digs with 233. She has also recorded 78 blocks which rank her third on the team.
NET NOTES
Maryland is hitting .179 as a team, and .165 in Atlantic Coast Conference play ... freshman Katie Cramer (Loveland, Colo.) leads all hitters with a .301 hitting percentage and is tied for the lead with Kate Hannas (Ellicott City, Md.) in blocks with 80 ... senior middle hitter Jaime Summers is hitting .261 ... junior outside hitter Beth Murphy is averaging a team-high 3.30 kills per game ... freshman setter Libby Alberts (Eden Prairie, Minn.) is averaging 9.59 assists per game ... senior outside hitter Kim Adolphs (Runcorn, Australia) leads all Terps on defense with a 3.51 digs per game average.
YOUNG GUNS
Of Maryland's six starters, only two, Jaime Summers and Kim Adolphs, have played or started prior to this year. Junior Beth Murphy is a transfer from Duquesne; junior Kate Hannas and sophomore Maren Stuart played sparingly last season; and freshman Libby Alberts is making her collegiate debut.
ACC STANDINGS
(as of Nov. 2)
ACC Overall
Teams W L W L
North Carolina 10 2 22 5
Florida St. 9 3 19 7
Virginia 8 3 20 4
Georgia Tech 8 4 19 9
Clemson 7 5 16 8
Wake Forest 6 6 18 9
Maryland 3 8 10 12
Duke 3 10 8 16
North Carolina St. 0 11 10 14
BRIDOVA BACK FROM INJURY
Maryland sophomore setter Katarina Bridova (Bratislava, Slovakia) returned from an earlier ankle injury to see significant playing time against North Carolina on Oct. 23. She totaled 23 assists and seven digs in the three games. Bridova has seen action in 36 games and has tossed up 107 assists for a 2.97 per game average.
MICHIGAN ENDS TERP STREAK
Maryland's 33-match regular-season winning streak was snapped after Michigan defeated the Terps, 3-1, at the Georgetown Invitational on Sept. 4. It was the Terps' first regular-season loss since their loss to Florida on Oct. 18, 1996. The Wolverines won game one, 15-8, but the Terps came back in game two, grabbing a 15-13 win. The experienced Wolverine attack proved to be too much, however, for the young Terp squad, as they took the final two games, 15-8, 15-5, respectively.
KRUGER STILL LEADS ACC ACTIVE COACHES
Maryland head coach Janice Kruger (Nebraska, '77) leads all ACC active coaches in career victories. Kruger has totaled 78 career ACC wins and 39 career losses in her 10 years in the league, and has a .672 winning percentage.
KRUGER NEARING 600 WIN PLATAEU
Maryland head coach Janice Kruger is 11 wins shy of career-win No. 600. Kruger owns a 589-226-6 career record in 20 years of coaching. Kruger would become the 14th coach all-time to record 600 wins. Cal State Sacramento head coach Debbie Colberg is presently three wins shy of win No. 600, and she is the 13th all-time winningest coach. Kruger follows her as the nation's 14th all-time winningest coach.
THE LAST TIME
The last time a Janice Kruger-coached Maryland volleyball team dropped four consecutive ACC regular-season matches was during the 1993 season. The Terps suffered a 3-0 loss to Florida State on Oct. 30; a 3-0 loss to Duke on Nov. 4; a 3-1 loss to North Carolina on Nov. 5; and a 3-0 loss to Georgia Tech on Nov. 12. The Terps finished the year with a 6-8 ACC record.
KRUGER'S COURT
Terrapin head coach Janice Kruger is in her 11th season at Maryland after being named ACC Coach of the Year last season, her third such honor. Kruger has guided the Terps to back-to-back undefeated regular-season ACC records, and to a perfect 25-0 regular-season record last year. She owns a 217-124 record at Maryland, and has a 589-226-6 career record in her 20 years.
WHAT IF...
If Maryland finishes the 1998 season with a below-.500 record, it will mark the first time since 1988 that a Terp team has posted a below-.500 mark. It will also mark only the second time Maryland head coach Janice Kruger has coached a team that has finished below .500 in her 20 years of coaching. The 1988 Maryland team, which was Kruger's first year at the helm of the Terp program, finished with an 11-22 record. Kruger has posted three consecutive 20-win seasons the last three years, including a school-record 27-win last season.
QUICK SET
Freshman Libby Alberts has earned the starting nod for the Terps at the setter position. In her first year in a Maryland uniform, Alberts has totaled 796 assists in 83 games for a 9.59 per game average.
TERPS' STREAK SNAPPED
Maryland's 34-match ACC regular-season winning streak came to a halt on Sept. 25, after the Terps dropped a 3-0 decision to the Duke Blue Devils. The streak dated back to Oct. 21, 1995, when the Terps suffered a 3-1 loss to Clemson. The last time a Maryland team had been swept in the ACC regular season was Oct. 20, 1995, when Georgia Tech defeated the Terps, 3-0. Maryland ran through the ACC standings in 1996 and 1997, posting an undefeated mark of 16-0 in both seasons. No other team in ACC history has recorded a 16-0 ACC regular-season record.
MARYLAND TO HOST ACC TOURNAMENT
Maryland will play host to this year's ACC Tournament, Nov. 19-22, at Ritchie Coliseum. Maryland captured the ACC championship in 1996, defeating Georgia Tech in three games in Atlanta. The winner of the championship receives an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
TERPS BY THE NUMBERS
8
Maryland became only the eighth team in NCAA Division I history to record an undefeated regular-season record. The Terps finished the regular-season with a 25-0 record.
.301
Terp freshman Katie Cramer is hitting a team-high .301.
2.53
Maryland is averaging 2.53 blocks per game.
1.07
Freshman Katie Cramer is averaging a team-high 1.07 blocks.
16.78
Maryland is averaging 16.78 digs per game.
5
Maryland freshman middle hitter Katie Cramer is fifth in the ACC in hitting with a .313 percentage (as of Oct. 27).
3
Maryland senior outside hitter Kim Adolphs ranks third in the ACC in digs per game with a 3.47 per game average (as of Oct. 27).
