MATCH INFORMATION
MATCH #13: Cornell at Brown
MATCH TIME: Friday, Oct. 6, 2017; 7:00 p.m.
MATCH SITE: Pizzitola Sports Center (Providence, N.H.)
SERIES RECORD: Cornell leads, 40-26
LAST MEETING: Cornell won, 3-1; Oct. 29, 2016 (Providence, R.I.)
2017 RECORDS: Cornell (5-7, 1-2 Ivy); Brown (5-9, 0-3 Ivy)
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MATCH #14: Cornell at Yale
MATCH TIME: Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017; 5:00 p.m.
MATCH SITE: Lee Amphitheater (New Haven, Conn.)
SERIES RECORD: Yale leads, 42-25
LAST MEETING: Yale won, 3-1; Oct. 28, 2016 (New Haven, Conn.)
2017 RECORDS: Cornell (5-7, 1-2 Ivy); Yale (8-4, 2-1 Ivy)
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THE MATCHUP: The Big Red volleyball team wraps up a four-game road trip this weekend as it travels to Brown on Friday, Oct. 6 and Yale on Saturday, Oct. 7. Cornell, which sits right below the Bulldogs and just above the Bears in the Ivy League standings, will look to get its first Ivy road win of the season and gain some ground in the conference.

THE SERIES VS. BROWN: Cornell's series with Brown began in the 1976 season and the Big Red has dominated from the beginning, winning the first seven meetings before falling to the Bears for the first time in 1984. Cornell owns a 40-26 record in the all-time series, winning 20 of the last 33 meetings.

SCOUTING THE BEARS: Brown has lost three Ivy League games in a row to slip to 5-9 overall (0-3 Ivy).  The Bears have a balanced attack with four players averaging more than 2.00 kills per set, led by junior outside hitter Sabrina Stillwell (2.63). Stillwell also leads the team and ranks ninth in the Ivy League with a .299 hitting percentage. Defensively, sophomore middle Jacqueline Jacobs ranks second in the Ivy League in blocks per set (1.15), while senior libero Melissa Cairo is fourth overall with 3.67 digs per set.
 
THE SERIES VS. YALE: Cornell and Yale first met in 1976, a 2-0 Bulldog victory. Yale went on to win the next four contests before the Big Red earned its first win in the series during the 1981 campaign. The Bulldogs have won the past 18 meetings, taking the lead in the all-time series, 42-25.
 
SCOUTING THE BULLDOGS: Yale had a four match winning streak ended last weekend by Ivy League leader Princeton to slip to 8-4 overall (2-1 Ivy League). The Bulldogs rank in the top half of the conference in each statistical category, sitting in third in hitting percentage, opponent hitting percentage, kills, assists, and blocks, while ranking fourth overall in service aces and digs. Yale is led by Kelly Wirth's 3.50 kills per set and Izzy Simqu's .350 hitting percentage, good for second and sixth, respectively, in the Ivy League. Sophomore Franny Arnautou and senior Kelsey Crawford split the setting duties with Arnautou's 6.60 assists per set good for sixth in the conference. Defensively, Simqu is a solid presence at the net, ranking sixth in the Ivy League with 1.03 blocks per set, while junior libero Kate Swanson is third overall with 3.75 digs per set.
 
THE HEAD COACH: Trudy Vande Berg is in her third season as The Wendy Schaenen '79 Head Coach Of Volleyball at Cornell (23-37, .383) ... 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.
 
PLAYER OF THE WEEK: After leading the Big Red to a thrilling 3-1 victory over Columbia on Sept. 23, senior Emily Wemhoff was named the Ivy League Player of the Week. The honor was the first of Wemhoff's career and the first for the Big Red this season. Wemhoff recorded a career-high 23 kills as the only Cornell player to reach double-digits.  The 23 kills are the most in the Ivy League so far this season and also rank 17th in the Cornell history for kills in a four-set match. Wemhoff finished the match with a .405 hitting percentage (23-6-42), the best single-game performance of her career, to go along with four digs, two assists and one block.
 
MOVING UP: The following Big Red are moving up the Cornell rankings …
Emily Wemhoff
* 10th – Kills (737)
* 18th – Points (805.0)
Kit McCarty
* 14th – Kills (677)
Chelsea Sincox
* 17th – Assists (340)
Lauren Donnelly
* 18th – Kills (277)
Kiley McPeek
* 18th – Digs (759)
 
NCAA TEAM RANKINGS: As a team, Cornell entered the week ranked …
* 3rd – Attacks per Set (40.56)
* 50th – Digs per Set (16.33)
* 52nd – Assists per Set (12.89)
* 64th – Kills per Set (13.62)
* 91st – Blocks per Set (2.27)
 
NCAA INDIVIDUAL RANKINGS: Big Red players entered the week ranked …
* 56th – Digs per Set (Kiley McPeek – 4.73)
* 31st – Aces per Set (Jenna Phelps – 0.46)
* 70th – Aces per Set (Kiley McPeek – 0.40)
* 38th – Blocks per Set (Jenna Phelps – 1.34)
* 89th – Attacks per Set (Emily Wemhoff – 10.40)
* 149th – Kills per Set (Emily Wemhoff – 3.44)
* 204th – Blocks per Set (Jada Stackhouse – 1.00)
 
IVY RANKINGS: The Big Red ranks in the top half of the Ivy League in …
* Kills – 2nd (13.62)
* Assists – 2nd (12.89)
* Digs – 1st (16.33)
* Blocks – 4th (2.27)
 
INDIVIDUAL IVY RANKINGS: Big Red players rank in the Ivy League in …
* Hitting Percentage – Jenna Phelps (7th – .312)
* Kills per Set – Emily Wemhoff (3rd – 3.44); Kit McCarty (7th – 2.73); Samanta Arenas (10th – 2.62)
* Assists per Set – Zoe Chamness (8th – 5.71); Chelsea Sincox (9th – 5.02)
* Service Aces per Set – Jenna Phelps (2nd – 0.46);  Kiley McPeek (3rd – 0.40)
* Blocks per Set – Jenna Phelps (1st – 1.34); Jada Stackhouse (8th – 1.00)
* Digs per Set – Kiley McPeek (1st – 4.73); Samanta Arenas (8th – 2.89)
* Points per Set – Emily Wemhoff (5th – 3.63); Kit McCarty (9th – 3.07)
 
DIGS A LOT: Kiley McPeek leads the conference with 4.73 digs per set. That mark is the highest by a Cornell player since Natasha Rowland averaged 5.67 digs during the 2014 season.
 
BIG HITTER: Emily Wemhoff currently leads the Big Red with 3.44 kills per set, the most by a Cornell player since Katie Marshall averaged 3.5 kills per set during the 2007 season.
 
THE SWITCH: Two of Cornell's biggest contributors this season – Kiley McPeek and Chelsa Sincox – are playing positions that are significantly different than when they arrived on East Hill. McPeek joined the Big Red as an outside hitter and moved into the Libero role midway through the 2016 season. Sincox has spent the past three seasons as one of the team's top defensive specialists, before becoming one of the team's primary setters in the 2017 campaign.
 
GRINDING OUT A WIN: The Big Red is 4-3 in matches that go more than three sets. Cornell is just 1-3 in three-set matches.
 
DID YOU KNOW?:
* 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 … During the summer of 2016, she did an internship in Istanbul, Turkey and was in the country during an 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 graduated from 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.
 
ALL TOURNAMENT TEAM:
* Through the first two tournaments of the season, Kiley McPeek picked up a pair of all-tournament selections (JMU's Tropical Smoothie Invitational; Big Red Invitational).
* Emily Wemhoff was named to the Big Red Invitational All-Tournament team. 
* Kit McCarty and Kara Rogers were named to the Colgate Invitational All-Tournament Team.
 
BIG RED INVITATIONAL: Cornell came out of the Big Red Invitational with two wins for the first time since 2007, and just missed out on earning its first tournament title since 2005, as St. John's took the crown by tiebreaker (set winning percentage). 
 
RECAPPING 2016: Coming off its best performance since 2008, Cornell finished the 2016 season with a 12-12 record overall, posting six more victories than it did the year prior, the best single-season turnaround since the 2003 team went 21-4 following a 14-12 performance in 2002. With its record of 6-8 in the Ivy League, the Big Red finished fifth in the conference standings for its highest finish since the 2008 team placed third.
 
UP NEXT: The Big Red hosts to its first full slate of Ivy League games when it welcomes Princeton and Penn to Newman Arena on Oct. 13 and 14, respectively. The Tigers won both meetings last season to improve its commanding lead to 55-18. The Quakers dominated the series with Cornell throughout the 1970s and '80s, accounting for its 43-27 all-time lead, but since 2000 the series has been much more competitive with Penn owning the slim 16-13 advantage after the Big Red swept last season.