2022 north florida ospreys volleyball 6 ALL-AMERICANS • 4 UNF HALL OF FAMERS • OVER 500 PROGRAM WINS MATCH NOTES DATE
OPPONENT
August (1-2) 8.26 No. 15 Florida! 8.27 Virginia! 8.27 ETSU! September (2-9) 9.2 Kansas State@ 9.3 Syracuse@ 9.9 Troy# 9.10 UAB# 9.11 Auburn# 9.16 UNI$ 9.16 Iowa$ 9.17 SDSU$ 9.23 FGCU*^ 9.24 Stetson*^ 9.28 FAMU 9.30 Lipscomb* October (3-2) 10.1 Austin Peay* 10.7 Central Arkansas* 10.9 North Alabama* 10.14 Queens* 10.16 Liberty* 10.21 Jacksonville State*^ 10.22 Kennesaw State*^ 10.28 Eastern Kentucky* 10.29 Bellarmine* 10.30 FIU November 11.4 11.6 11.11 11.13 11.17-20
Jacksonvile* Jacksonville* Stetson* FGCU ASUN Championship
MATCH NO. 20-21 | Jacksonville, Fla. (at JU) NORTH FLORIDA OSPREYS (6-13, 4-4 ASUN)
TIME
L, 1-3 L, 0-3 W, 3-0 L, 0-3 L, 0-3 L, 1-3 L, 0-3 L, 0-3 L, 0-3 L, 0-3 W, 3-2 W, 3-2 L, 1-3
Head Coach: Kristen Wright Record at UNF 67-71, 5th Season 2021 Record: 25-8, 12-4 ASUN
V O LL EYBA L L
Head Coach: Todd Garvey Record at JSU 97-36, 5th Season 2021 Record: 25-7, 13-3 ASUN
TEAM STATS HITTING % OPP. HITTING % KILLS/SET ASSISTS/SET ACES/SET DIGS/SET BLOCKS/SET
JSU GAMECOCKS (18-3, 6-2 ASUN)
UNF .219 .316 12.10 11.07 1.06 13.46 2.05
TEAM STATS
ASUN RANK 6th 12th 10th 10th 11th 10th 5th
NCAA 124th 263rd 209th 216th 315th 230rd 174th
HITTING % OPP. HITTING % KILLS/SET ASSISTS/SET ACES/SET DIGS/SET BLOCKS/SET
JSU .282 .171 13.24 12.26 1.62 14.04 1.97
ASUN RANK 1st 2nd 4th 5th 6th 8th 8th
NCAA 14th 36th 73rd 73rd 89th 181st 203rd
Postponed
L, 0-3
KENNESAW STATE OWLS (14-4, 7-1 ASUN) W, 3-1 L, 3-2 W, 3-2 W, 3-0 L, 2-3 12 p.m. 8 p.m. 6 p.m. 1 p.m. 4 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 2 p.m.
Bold | Home matches at UNF Italics | Neutral site matches * Indicates ASUN match ! Indicates Gators Invitational @ UCF Challenge # UAB Invitational $ Hawkeye Invitational ^ Match played at JU All Times EST
Head Coach: Keith Schunzel Record at KSU 172-93, 10th Season 2021 Record: 20-9, 13-3 ASUN
TEAM STATS HITTING % OPP. HITTING % KILLS/SET ASSISTS/SET ACES/SET DIGS/SET BLOCKS/SET
KSU .252 .187 13.85 12.43 1.88 14.77 2.17
1. Series History
RECORD
6-13
ASUN NON-CONFERENCE HOME AWAY NEUTRAL
4-4 2-9 0-0 2-5 4-8
SCHEDULE TAKEAWAYS
-UNF plays opponents from 10 difierent conferences including the SEC, ACC, Sun Belt, Big 12, C-USA, MVC, Big 10, Summit League, ASUN and MEAC. -North Florida plays 17 matches in the Sunshine State. -UNF plays six matches against Power Five Teams. -Five contests are against NCAA Championship teams from last year.
ASUN RANK 2nd 6th 1st 2nd 1st 6th 3rd
Jacksonville State: UNF and Jacksonville State are meeting for the third time in the series’ history ... this will be the second meeting between the two teams as ASUN foes ... North Florida and JSU went down to the wire last year, with the Ospreys clipping the Gamecocks, 3-2 ... Solimar Cestero had 16 kills while Maddie Boyd provided eight kills and five blocks in that win a year ago ... the first-ever meeting between the two teams was Sept. 24 of 1993 ... North Florida is 2-0 against JSU ... this will be the second neutral site meeting between the two teams. Kennesaw State: UNF is continuing a long-standing rivalry that has already featured 27 matches ... all 27 matches have come during UNF’s DI era as the two teams have only faced off as ASUN foes ... KSU leads the all-time series, 18-8 ... North Florida and KSU are playing just their first neutral site match in series history ... the Owls won both of last year’s meetings ...
NCAA 46th 92nd 26th 55th 20th 119th 127th
the two teams didn’t play against one another during the altered Spring 2021 campaign ... North Florida went for a 3-1 win against KSU Oct. 27, 2019 ... the Owls went on to win the the ASUN Championship that season ... Cestero and Rocio Moro are the lone remaining Ospreys that earned time in that match ... Cestero posted 15 kills while Moro had 15 digs and 2 aces ... this is the 26th ASUN meeting between UNF and Kennesaw State.
2. Scouting Report Jacksonville State: After a stellar inaugural year in the ASUN last season, Jacksonville State has picked up right where it left off, going 6-2 over the first half of ASUN play, while tallying an 18-3 overall mark ... the Gamecocks are undefeated in neutral site affairs and riding a two-match winning streak ... Jacksonville State earned Power Five wins
against Indiana and Clemson this season, while coming up just short against Auburn Sept. 17 ... Jacksonville State’s lone ASUN losses have come at the hands of Kennesaw State ... KSU dispatched JSU with a pair of sweeps. Kennesaw State: The Owls are led by Keith Schunzel in his 10th year at KSU ... KSU holds a one-game lead over four teams for the top spot in the conference ... Dani Ballou was named player of the week this past Monday, while versatile setter McKinley Ferguson was tabbed setter of the week, her third such honor ... KSU is hitting .252 as a squad, while holding teams to .187 hitting ... libero Shelby Dennis has put up 260 digs at 4.33 digs/frame this season ... KSU’s lone ASUN loss was a 3-0 defeat against Liberty.
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