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Trojans Head North to Meet Beavers and Ducks
October 15, 2019 | Women's Volleyball, Features
The Women of Troy earned a pair of 3-0 sweeps in Oregon in 2018
LOS ANGELES – USC women's volleyball (9-7, 3-3 Pac-12) continues a four-match stretch of road matches this week with a visit to the Beaver State to face Oregon State (8-9, 2-4) and Oregon (5-10, 1-5). The Women of Troy have split matches in each of the last four weeks but look to secure their first 2-0 weekend in league play as the first half of the conference schedule nears a close. The Trojans are 53-11 all-time in the state of Oregon and swept the trip in six sets in 2018.
MATCH #17 • Friday, Oct. 18 • 7 p.m. PT
USC (9-7, 3-3) at Oregon State (8-9, 2-4)
Gill Coliseum • Corvallis, Ore.
SERIES RECORD: USC leads, 55-9 (.859) • LAST 10: 9-1
LAST MEETING: W, 3-0 (Nov. 4, 2018 • Corvallis, Ore.)
WATCH: Pac-12 Networks (Elise Woodward)
OPPONENT WEBSITE: OSUBeavers.com
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MATCH #18 • Sunday, Oct. 20 • 12 p.m. PT
USC (9-7, 3-3) at Oregon (5-10, 1-5)
Matthew Knight Arena • Eugene, Ore.
SERIES RECORD: USC leads, 54-13 (.806) • LAST 10: 6-4
LAST MEETING: W, 3-0 (Nov. 2, 2018 • Eugene, Ore.)
WATCH: Pac-12 LA/O (Rich Burk & Jordan Brenner)
OPPONENT WEBSITE: GoDucks.com
FIRST SERVE
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BUT FIRST, LET ME TAKE A #SELFIE: Get social with the Women of Troy! Fans can follow and interact with the USC women's volleyball team on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram by searching for @USCWomensVolley.
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TROJAN BRIEF CASE: USC is loaded at the pins and returns a pair of All-American outside hitters in Khalia Lanier (4.29 kps) and Brooke Botkin (2.90 kps). They receive sets from the 2018 Pac-12 Freshman of the Year Raquel Lázaro (10.70 aps). All four of USC's top attackers return from last season. In the middle, senior Jasmine Gross (2.08 kps, .416) returns. Among newcomers, USC welcomes MB Madison Horin (0.79 kps, 0.86 bps), OH Kalen Owes (2.10 kps), and OPP Emilia Weske (2.12 kps) as part of a heralded freshman class. Defensively, the Trojans have employed several different liberi this season including Jenna Adams (3.16 dps) who returns this season after sitting out 2018 due to injury and Raegan LeGrand (1.87 dps) who has started five matches this season.
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LAST TIME OUT: The Women of Troy split matches for the fourth straight week. In the first of back-to-back road weekends, USC closed down Colorado with a 3-1 victory but couldn't stop a Utah comeback after jumping out to a 2-0 lead in the match and fell, 3-2, to the Utes. Sr. OH Khalia Lanier scored 21 and 26 kills in the two matches and So. setter Raquel Lázaro picked up her ninth and 10th double-doubles of the season (21st and 22nd of her career). Lanier moved up another spot and now sits in sixth place at USC for career kills (1,669). The five-set loss to Utah dropped the Trojans to 1-4 in five-setters this season and gave the Utes their first back-to-back wins over USC in the 23-match series history. The win over the Buffaloes was the Trojans' 17th in 18 all-time meetings.
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TOUGH SLEDDING: The Trojans played one of the toughest non-conference slates in the country in 2019. USC was one of 10 teams that began the season with back-to-back contests against teams that finished in the top 25 of the NCAA's final 2018 ratings percentage index (RPI). The Trojans were one of only three programs that tackled five straight teams that finished 2018 in the top 25. The other two programs were Texas and Creighton. Among the ranked opponents, USC met No. 3 Texas and No. 22 Texas State on opening weekend and then have No. 8 Kentucky, No. 13 Creighton, No. 16 Northern Iowa this week. USC itself was No. 9 in the final published RPI.
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AVCA POLL POSITION: The Trojans opened 2019 ranked No. 14, but fell out of the poll on Sept. 30. It was USC's first time unranked in the poll since the 2017 preseason poll. That year, USC finished at No. 7 following a run to the NCAA's regional championship match. Overall, the Trojans have appeared in the poll 517 times, which ranks third all-time. USC has held a spot among the poll's top 10 teams 316 times, which ranks eighth all-time. The Trojans have also held the No. 1 ranking 47 times previously, which is sixth all-time.
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PAC-12 POW(ER)S: USC players have received Pac-12 Player of the Week honors 76 times (third most among league teams). Since 2011, when the Pac-12 began honoring separate offensive and defensive players of the week and named a freshman of the week, Trojans have earned 19 offensive awards, 11 defensive awards, and taken home 19 freshman honors. On Sept. 16, Sr. MB Jasmine Gross was named Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week for the first time in her career and OH Kalen Owes was chosen for Freshman of the Week honors.
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DOUBLE DOWN: Six Women of Troy on this year's squad have recorded career double-doubles. Senior OH Khalia Lanier leads all players with 36-career double-doubles. Junior OH Brooke Botkin has 17-career double-double matches. Sophomore setter Raquel Lázaro has logged 22 double-doubles and is the owner of the first and only USC triple-double in the rally scoring era (36 assists, 16 digs, 11 blocks at Northern Iowa). Senior OPP Emily Baptista has three as a Trojan and 11-career double-doubles. Senior MB Jasmine Gross has had four. Freshman OH Kalen Owes posted her first-career double-double (18 kills, 15 digs) against Creighton on Sept. 7, and is already up to three-career double-doubles.
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CROUCHING TIGER: Second-year USC head coach Brent Crouch previously led Portland to its first-ever wins over ranked opponents including the very first ever; a victory against San Diego (Nov. 14, 2015). By the second week of 2018 at USC, Crouch had already led the Trojans to a win over No. 5 Kentucky and an upset of No. 4 Florida. Crouch registered his first-career 20-win season on USC's 3-2 victory over Arizona on Nov. 16, 2018, in Tucson, Ariz.
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LONG DISTANCE: In 16 matches, the Trojans have played five sets five times this season and have gone 1-4 in those contests. Three of the four losses occurred on the road and the lone win was over Yale at Galen Center (Sept. 13). The most five-set matches USC has played in a single season is nine and happened three times (1980, 2007, 2010). In each of those seasons, USC went 8-1. Four other times, USC has played eight five-set matches (1993, 1995, 2017, 2018). The Trojans went 5-3 in 1993 and 1995 and were 6-2 both times in 2017 and 2018. The Women of Troy are 137-87 all-time in five-set matches: 55-29 at home; 59-45 on the road; and 23-13 in neutral locations.
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TERMINAL 3: USC returns some major firepower at the pins. In 2018, OH Brooke Botkin (4.39 kps) and OH Khalia Lanier (4.27 kps) ranked third and fourth respectively in the Pac-12. OPP Emily Baptista (2.95 kps) ranked 20th. Together, the three Women of Troy accounted for 11.61 kills per set and are back together for 2019.
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KILLER K: Senior OH Khalia Lanier is the first Trojan to reach the 1K mark in just her freshman and sophomore seasons. Only one other Trojan collected more than 1,000 kills in her first two seasons with the program. All-American OH Asia Kaczor did so but transferred to Troy and reached the milestone as a junior and senior. Lanier now has 1,669 (sixth place) career kills and needs 12 to climb into fifth place on USC's career ladder (1,680; Tracy Clark, 1982-85); and 31 to move into fourth place all-time (1,699; Jasmina Marinkovic, 1995-98). In terms of points, Lanier already ranks third (1,867.5) in USC history.
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HELPING HAND: Sophomore setter Raquel Lázaro dished out 55 assists in her collegiate debut. It was the highest single-match total by a Trojan setter since 2012 (Hayley Crone). The 2018 Pac-12 Freshman of the Year got it done and ranked third in the conference in 2018 with 11.22 assists per set. She leads the Trojans with 10.70 aps in 2019.
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MATCH #17 • Friday, Oct. 18 • 7 p.m. PT
USC (9-7, 3-3) at Oregon State (8-9, 2-4)
Gill Coliseum • Corvallis, Ore.
SERIES RECORD: USC leads, 55-9 (.859) • LAST 10: 9-1
LAST MEETING: W, 3-0 (Nov. 4, 2018 • Corvallis, Ore.)
WATCH: Pac-12 Networks (Elise Woodward)
OPPONENT WEBSITE: OSUBeavers.com
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MATCH #18 • Sunday, Oct. 20 • 12 p.m. PT
USC (9-7, 3-3) at Oregon (5-10, 1-5)
Matthew Knight Arena • Eugene, Ore.
SERIES RECORD: USC leads, 54-13 (.806) • LAST 10: 6-4
LAST MEETING: W, 3-0 (Nov. 2, 2018 • Eugene, Ore.)
WATCH: Pac-12 LA/O (Rich Burk & Jordan Brenner)
OPPONENT WEBSITE: GoDucks.com
FIRST SERVE
- Second-year USC head coach Brent Crouch is 31-18 at Troy (86-84 career).
- The Trojans are 53-11 all-time in the state of Oregon (27-5 against the Ducks and 26-6 against the Beavers).
- USC is halfway through four straight matches on the road. The Trojans are 3-4 in seven road contests this season but three of the four losses were five-set matches. The other was a four-set loss at No. 4-ranked Texas.
- Fr. MB Chandlar Duff spent her redshirt freshman season (2018) with Oregon before transferring to join the Women of Troy.
- USC returns two AVCA All-America outside hitters. Sr. Khalia Lanier was a first-team choice in 2017 and Jr. Brooke Botkin was second team in 2018.
- USC's sophomore setter Raquel Lázaro was the 2018 Pac-12 Freshman of the Year and earned AVCA All-America honorable mention.
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BUT FIRST, LET ME TAKE A #SELFIE: Get social with the Women of Troy! Fans can follow and interact with the USC women's volleyball team on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram by searching for @USCWomensVolley.
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TROJAN BRIEF CASE: USC is loaded at the pins and returns a pair of All-American outside hitters in Khalia Lanier (4.29 kps) and Brooke Botkin (2.90 kps). They receive sets from the 2018 Pac-12 Freshman of the Year Raquel Lázaro (10.70 aps). All four of USC's top attackers return from last season. In the middle, senior Jasmine Gross (2.08 kps, .416) returns. Among newcomers, USC welcomes MB Madison Horin (0.79 kps, 0.86 bps), OH Kalen Owes (2.10 kps), and OPP Emilia Weske (2.12 kps) as part of a heralded freshman class. Defensively, the Trojans have employed several different liberi this season including Jenna Adams (3.16 dps) who returns this season after sitting out 2018 due to injury and Raegan LeGrand (1.87 dps) who has started five matches this season.
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LAST TIME OUT: The Women of Troy split matches for the fourth straight week. In the first of back-to-back road weekends, USC closed down Colorado with a 3-1 victory but couldn't stop a Utah comeback after jumping out to a 2-0 lead in the match and fell, 3-2, to the Utes. Sr. OH Khalia Lanier scored 21 and 26 kills in the two matches and So. setter Raquel Lázaro picked up her ninth and 10th double-doubles of the season (21st and 22nd of her career). Lanier moved up another spot and now sits in sixth place at USC for career kills (1,669). The five-set loss to Utah dropped the Trojans to 1-4 in five-setters this season and gave the Utes their first back-to-back wins over USC in the 23-match series history. The win over the Buffaloes was the Trojans' 17th in 18 all-time meetings.
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TOUGH SLEDDING: The Trojans played one of the toughest non-conference slates in the country in 2019. USC was one of 10 teams that began the season with back-to-back contests against teams that finished in the top 25 of the NCAA's final 2018 ratings percentage index (RPI). The Trojans were one of only three programs that tackled five straight teams that finished 2018 in the top 25. The other two programs were Texas and Creighton. Among the ranked opponents, USC met No. 3 Texas and No. 22 Texas State on opening weekend and then have No. 8 Kentucky, No. 13 Creighton, No. 16 Northern Iowa this week. USC itself was No. 9 in the final published RPI.
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AVCA POLL POSITION: The Trojans opened 2019 ranked No. 14, but fell out of the poll on Sept. 30. It was USC's first time unranked in the poll since the 2017 preseason poll. That year, USC finished at No. 7 following a run to the NCAA's regional championship match. Overall, the Trojans have appeared in the poll 517 times, which ranks third all-time. USC has held a spot among the poll's top 10 teams 316 times, which ranks eighth all-time. The Trojans have also held the No. 1 ranking 47 times previously, which is sixth all-time.
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PAC-12 POW(ER)S: USC players have received Pac-12 Player of the Week honors 76 times (third most among league teams). Since 2011, when the Pac-12 began honoring separate offensive and defensive players of the week and named a freshman of the week, Trojans have earned 19 offensive awards, 11 defensive awards, and taken home 19 freshman honors. On Sept. 16, Sr. MB Jasmine Gross was named Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week for the first time in her career and OH Kalen Owes was chosen for Freshman of the Week honors.
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DOUBLE DOWN: Six Women of Troy on this year's squad have recorded career double-doubles. Senior OH Khalia Lanier leads all players with 36-career double-doubles. Junior OH Brooke Botkin has 17-career double-double matches. Sophomore setter Raquel Lázaro has logged 22 double-doubles and is the owner of the first and only USC triple-double in the rally scoring era (36 assists, 16 digs, 11 blocks at Northern Iowa). Senior OPP Emily Baptista has three as a Trojan and 11-career double-doubles. Senior MB Jasmine Gross has had four. Freshman OH Kalen Owes posted her first-career double-double (18 kills, 15 digs) against Creighton on Sept. 7, and is already up to three-career double-doubles.
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CROUCHING TIGER: Second-year USC head coach Brent Crouch previously led Portland to its first-ever wins over ranked opponents including the very first ever; a victory against San Diego (Nov. 14, 2015). By the second week of 2018 at USC, Crouch had already led the Trojans to a win over No. 5 Kentucky and an upset of No. 4 Florida. Crouch registered his first-career 20-win season on USC's 3-2 victory over Arizona on Nov. 16, 2018, in Tucson, Ariz.
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LONG DISTANCE: In 16 matches, the Trojans have played five sets five times this season and have gone 1-4 in those contests. Three of the four losses occurred on the road and the lone win was over Yale at Galen Center (Sept. 13). The most five-set matches USC has played in a single season is nine and happened three times (1980, 2007, 2010). In each of those seasons, USC went 8-1. Four other times, USC has played eight five-set matches (1993, 1995, 2017, 2018). The Trojans went 5-3 in 1993 and 1995 and were 6-2 both times in 2017 and 2018. The Women of Troy are 137-87 all-time in five-set matches: 55-29 at home; 59-45 on the road; and 23-13 in neutral locations.
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TERMINAL 3: USC returns some major firepower at the pins. In 2018, OH Brooke Botkin (4.39 kps) and OH Khalia Lanier (4.27 kps) ranked third and fourth respectively in the Pac-12. OPP Emily Baptista (2.95 kps) ranked 20th. Together, the three Women of Troy accounted for 11.61 kills per set and are back together for 2019.
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KILLER K: Senior OH Khalia Lanier is the first Trojan to reach the 1K mark in just her freshman and sophomore seasons. Only one other Trojan collected more than 1,000 kills in her first two seasons with the program. All-American OH Asia Kaczor did so but transferred to Troy and reached the milestone as a junior and senior. Lanier now has 1,669 (sixth place) career kills and needs 12 to climb into fifth place on USC's career ladder (1,680; Tracy Clark, 1982-85); and 31 to move into fourth place all-time (1,699; Jasmina Marinkovic, 1995-98). In terms of points, Lanier already ranks third (1,867.5) in USC history.
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HELPING HAND: Sophomore setter Raquel Lázaro dished out 55 assists in her collegiate debut. It was the highest single-match total by a Trojan setter since 2012 (Hayley Crone). The 2018 Pac-12 Freshman of the Year got it done and ranked third in the conference in 2018 with 11.22 assists per set. She leads the Trojans with 10.70 aps in 2019.
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