MATCH INFORMATION
MATCH #7: Cornell at Bucknell
MATCH TIME: Friday, Sept. 16, 2016; 7:00 p.m.
MATCH SITE: Davis Gym (Lewisburg, Pa.)
SERIES RECORD: Cornell leads, 13-2
LAST MEETING: Cornell won, 3-0; Sept. 13, 2014
2016 RECORDS: Cornell (3-3, 0-0 Ivy); Bucknell (2-7, 0-0 Patriot)
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LIVE VIDEO 
 
MATCH #8: Cornell vs. Buffalo
MATCH TIME: Saturday, Sept. 17, 2016; 10:30 a.m.
MATCH SITE: Davis Gym (Lewisburg, Pa.)
SERIES RECORD: Cornell leads, 14-6-1
LAST MEETING: Buffalo won, 3-0; Sept. 6, 2013
* 2016 RECORDS: Cornell (3-3, 0-0 Ivy); Buffalo (0-10, 0-0 MAC)
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LIVE VIDEO: None

MATCH #9: Cornell vs. Oakland
MATCH TIME: Saturday, Sept. 17, 2016; 4:00 p.m.
MATCH SITE: Davis Gym (Lewisburg, Pa.)
SERIES RECORD: Oakland leads, 1-0
LAST MEETING: Oakland won, 3-0; Sept. 11, 2010
* 2016 RECORDS: Cornell (3-3, 0-0 Ivy); Oakland (5-6, 0-0 Horizon)
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LIVE VIDEO: None
 
*records prior to Friday's contests
 
THE BUCKNELL INVIATIONAL: Cornell returns to the Bucknell Invitational this weekend as it heads to Lewisburg, Pa., to take on the host Bison on Friday, Sept. 16 at 7 p.m. The following day, the Big Red will face Buffalo at 10:30 a.m., before playing Oakland at 4 p.m. Cornell's game vs. Bucknell will be streamed live on the Patriot League Network and all three contests will have live stats available.

THE SERIES VS. BUCKNELL: Cornell first played the Bison in volleyball during the 1984 season, a 2-0 victory for the Big Red, which went on to win nine consecutive matches before Bucknell earned a 3-2 victory during the 1996 season. The teams have met five times since (2004, 2007, 2012, 2013, 2014) with Cornell winning four of those five contests to take the 13-2 lead in the all-time series.
 
VS. THE PATRIOT LEAGUE: The Big Red is 89-42-1 against the current members of the Patriot League, thanks mostly to a 55-29-1 record over Colgate. Cornell also has a winning record against Army (6-2), Bucknell (13-2), Holy Cross (4-0), Lafayette (4-1) and Lehigh (5-2). The Big Red's series with Navy is tied at 2-2, while American is the only team in the Patriot League with a winning record against Cornell (4-0) … The Big Red has never played the two newest members of the league – Boston University or Loyola ... Coach Vande Berg is 1-1 against the Patriot League.

THE SERIES VS. BUFFALO: Cornell holds a 14-6-1 advantage all-time against the Bulls in a series that began in 1974. The teams split the first three meetings with each squad winning once and tying one time. The Big Red went on to win eight straight contests from 1979 to 1981 before the series took a decade-long break. Since resuming in the 1993 season, the series is tied at 5-5 with Buffalo winning the last meeting, 3-0, in 2013.
 
VS. THE MID-AMERICAN CONFERENCE: Cornell is 15-17-1 against the current members of the Mid-American Conference, thanks mostly to a 14-6-1 record against Buffalo. The Big Red also has a winning record against Western Michigan (1-0), but a losing mark against Akron (0-5), Bowling Green (0-1), Central Michigan (0-1) and Kent State (0-4). Cornell has never faced Ball State, Eastern Michigan, Miami (Ohio), Northern Illinois, Ohio University or Toledo ... Coach Vande Berg is 0-0 all-time vs. the MAC.
 
THE SERIES VS. OAKLAND: The Grizzlies won the only meeting in the series, 3-0, on Sept. 11, 2010.
  
VS. THE HORIZON LEAGUE: Cornell is 2-4 all-time vs. the current members of the Horizon League with wins against Cleveland State (1-2) and Milwaukee (1-0). The Big Red is 0-1 all-time vs. Oakland and Wright State, and has never faced Green Bay, Northern Kentucky, UIC, Valparaiso, or Youngstown State.
 
THE HEAD COACH: Trudy Vande Berg is in her second season as The Wendy Schaenen '79 Head Coach Of Volleyball at Cornell (9-21, .300) ... Vande Berg became the 11th head coach in Cornell volleyball history in March 2015 after spending three seasons as the Big Red's top assistant coach ... Prior to her time at Cornell, Vande Berg spent time as an assistant coach at North Florida, Duke, and Iowa State and as a volunteer assistant at Wisconsin. She also served as head coach of the Team Iowa Ice professional club in the Premier Volleyball League, where she guided the team to the championship in her second year at the helm.
  
SETTING UP: Senior Alyssa Phelps is just the fourth player in Big Red history to surpass 2,500 assists in a career, sitting fourth overall with 2,531 helpers. She needs just 265 more to surpass Whitney Fair '06 in third place.
 
BIG BLOCKER: Senior Macey Wilson ranks 15th in Cornell history for career solo blocks (40), needing just seven more to move past Traci Mizoguchi '96 in 14th place. She is also sixth in block assists (250) and ninth in total blocks (290), needing 12 and eight, respectively, to move up a notch.
 
ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM:  Juniors Kit McCarty and Emily Wemnoff were named to the Cornell Invitational All-Tournament … Junior Maddy Sroufe was named to the UMKC Kangaroo Klassic All-Tournament Team.  
 
DID YOU KNOW:
* Alyssa Phelps is a research assistant in the Ophir Integrative Neuroethology Lab at Cornell … Alyssa and Jenna Phelps are sisters.
* Kiley McPeek has 10 relatives that are Cornell alumni. Her father, Jeff '82, played sprint football for the Big Red, while her great uncle Richard Boerner was a member of the Cornell heavyweight varsity eight that won the IRA national championship in 1958 … This past summer, she did an internship in Istanbul, Turkey and was in the country during the attempted coup d'état.
* Kit McCarty is one of eight children – she has four brothers and three sisters.
* Zoe Lequeux is a French citizen.
* Carla Sganderlla can speak Portuguese ... Her brother attends Cornell.
* Kara Rogers lived in Germany for a year … Her sister is a member of the Yale swimming team.
* Maddy Sroufe's younger sister plays volleyball at VCU.
* This past summer, Chelsea Sincox worked for congressman Pete Olson … Last summer she interned at NASA.
 
SEASON OPENERS: With its win over Colgate on Sept. 3, Cornell improved to 29-14-1 all-time in season openers. Since 1995, the Big Red is an impressive 16-5 in the first match of the season ... Coach Vande Berg is a perfect 2-0 in season openers.
 
NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK: The Big Red added six freshmen – as Samanta Arenas, Lily Barber, Sophia Beaudoin, Jenna Phelps, Katie Randolph and Jada Stackhouse – to the roster for the 2016 season. The six student-athletes hail from six different states and the group consists of two middle blockers, two outside hitters, one setter, and one defensive specialist.
 
UP NEXT: The Big Red opens up Ivy League play next weekend when it travels to New York City to take on Columbia on Saturday, Sept. 24 at 2 p.m.