Volleyball Set to Conclude Regular Season
6/21/1999 8:00:00 AM | Volleyball
November 9, 1998
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Maryland (10-14, 3-10 ACC) returns home for its final three regular-season matches of the 1998 season. The Terps host Wake Forest (20-10, 6-8 ACC) on Tuesday, Nov. 10 at 5 p.m. On Friday, Nov. 13, Florida State visits College Park for a 7 p.m. matchup, and on Saturday, Nov. 14, the Terps conclude their 1998 regular-season schedule, hosting Duke (9-17, 4-10 ACC) at 5 p.m. Maryland leads the Wake Forest series, 13-0, with the last Terp win (3-1) coming on Sept. 26 of this year.
Maryland leads the Florida State series, 10-7, with Florida State collecting an earlier win (3-0) this season against the Terps. Duke leads the Maryland series, 19-15, with the Blue Devils handing the Terps a 3-0 loss on Sept. 25 of this year.
TERPS DROP ROAD CONTESTS AT CLEMSON AND AT GEORGIA TECH
Maryland dropped back-to-back ACC contests last weekend, losing in three to Clemson (13-15, 13-15, 10-15), and falling in four to Georgia Tech (4-15, 10-15, 15-2, 5-15). Freshman middle hitter Katie Cramer (Loveland, Colo.) led the Terps offensively against the Tigers, hitting .364 (10 kills, two errors, 22 total attempts). Senior middle hitter Jaime Summers (Conneaut Lake, Pa.) led all Terps against the Yellow Jackets, hitting .357 after totaling six kills on 14 swings with one error.
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 against North Carolina on Oct. 23, hitting .563 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 Oct. 24, she totaled 23 digs. Summers is hitting .261, and is third on the team in digs with 247. She has also recorded 83 blocks which tie her for second on the team.
NET NOTES
Maryland is hitting .177 as a team, and .162 in Atlantic Coast Conference play ... freshman Katie Cramer leads all hitters with a .296 hitting percentage and leads in blocks with 87 ... senior middle hitter Jaime Summers is hitting .261 ... junior outside hitter Beth Murphy is averaging a team-high 3.32 kills per game ... freshman setter Libby Alberts (Eden Prairie, Minn.) is averaging 9.51 assists per game ... senior outside hitter Kim Adolphs (Runcorn, Australia) leads all Terps on defense with a 3.47 digs per game average.
YOUNG GUNS
Of Marylands 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.
MICHIGAN ENDS TERP STREAK
Marylands 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 41 career losses in her 10 years in the league, and has a .655 winning percentage.
KRUGER NEARING 600 WIN PLATAEU
Maryland head coach Janice Kruger is 11 wins shy of career-win No. 600. Kruger owns a 589-228-6 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 recently collected career-win No. 600 to become the 13th all-time winningest coach. Kruger follows her as the nations 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.
MARYLAND TO HOST ACC TOURNAMENT
Following its three-match homestand which concludes the 1998 resular season, Maryland will play host to this years 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.
MARYLAND SCHEDULE & RESULTS
(10-14 Overall, 3-10 ACC)
S1 VILLANOVA W, 3-1 S4 vs. Michigan+ L, 1-3 S5 vs. Temple+ L, 2-3 S5 at Georgetown+ W, 3-2 S8 UMBC W, 3-1 S11 vs. San Diego State W, 3-2 S12 at Temple W, 3-2 S18 at Colorado State L, 1-3 S19 at Colorado L, 0-3 S25 * at Duke L, 0-3 S26 * at Wake Forest W, 3-1 S28 AMERICAN W, 3-0 O2 * GEORGIA TECH L, 2-3 O3 * CLEMSON L, 0-3 O7 * at NC State W, 3-2 O10 * at North Carolina L, 0-3 O13 * at Virginia L, 0-3 O18 * at Florida State L, 0-3 O23 * NORTH CAROLINA L, 0-3 O24 * NC STATE W, 3-1 O27 at George Mason W, 3-1 O30 * VIRGINIA L, 0-3 N6 * at Clemson L, 0-3 N7 * at Georgia Tech L, 1-3 N10 * WAKE FOREST 5:00 p.m. N13 * FLORIDA STATE 7:00 p.m. N14 * DUKE 5:00 p.m. N19-22 ACC TOURNAMENT TBA (at College Park, Md.) D3-6 NCAA 1st and 2nd Round TBA D10-13 NCAA Regionals TBA D17-19 NCAA Final Four TBA (at Madison, Wis.)+Georgetown Invitational Temple Owls Apollo Classic *ACC Match
ACC STANDINGS
(as of Nov. 9)
ACC Overall
Teams W L W L
North Carolina 11 3 23 6
Florida St. 11 3 21 8
Virginia 9 4 21 5
Georgia Tech 9 5 20 10
Clemson 9 5 18 8
Wake Forest 6 8 20 10
Duke 4 10 9 17
Maryland 3 10 10 14
North Carolina St. 0 14 10 16
TERPNOTES
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 41 games and has tossed up 126 assists for a 3.07 per game average.
KRUGERS 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 217-126 record at Maryland, and has a 589-228-6 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 Krugers 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 856 assists in 90 games for a 9.51 per game average.
TERPS STREAK SNAPPED
Marylands 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.
TERPS BY THE NUMBERS
.296
Terp freshman Katie Cramer is hitting a team-high .296.
1.06
Freshman Katie Cramer is averaging a team-high 1.06 blocks.
2.48
Maryland is averaging 2.48 blocks per game.
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Maryland senior Kim Adolphs is ranked fourth in the ACC in digs per game with a 3.51 per-game
average (Nov. 2).
8
Maryland, in 1997, 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.
8
Maryland freshman Katie Cramer is ranked eighth in the ACC in hitting percentage with a .301 mark (Nov. 2).
16.69
Maryland is averaging 16.69 digs per game.
AVCA/USA Today Poll
(as of Nov. 2, 1998)
1. Long Beach State 22-0 2. Penn State 22-0 3. Nebraska 21-0 4. BYU 21-1 5. Stanford 19-2 6. Florida 22-2 7. UC Santa Barbara 22-3 8. Wisconsin 20-3 9. Hawaii 18-2 10. Pacific 19-4 11. USC 15-4 12. Texas 17-3 13. Colorado 17-2 14. Arkansas 19-3 15. Illinois 16-6 16. Michigan State 16-4 17. San Diego 18-3 18. Arizona 18-4 19. Loyola Marymount 15-6 20. UCLA 9-10 21. Kansas State 14-7 22. Texas A&M 12-8 23. Minnesota 15-8 24. Texas Tech 17-8 25. Louisville 18-4
