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Maroons Selected to NCAA Championship Field For Sixth Consecutive Year

Maroons Selected to NCAA Championship Field For Sixth Consecutive Year
Posted: Nov 09, 2015

From University of Chicago Athletics

For the sixth year consecutive year, the University of Chicago volleyball team was picked to the NCAA Division III Championship field on Monday morning.

The No. 22-ranked Maroons will take on Birmingham-Southern College at 12:30 PM (ET) on Thursday, Nov. 12. Berry College will serve as the host for the eight-team regional.

#22 UChicago vs. Birmingham-Southern College

  • DATE/TIME: Thursday, November 12 at 12:30 PM (ET) – Rome, Ga.
  • LINKS: TBD
  • SEASON RECORDS: UChicago 20-12 overall, 3-4 UAA / Birmingham-Southern 24-5 overall, 11-3 SAA
  • ALL-TIME SERIES: First meeting
  • UCHICAGO RECENT RESULTS: L 3-1 vs. Case Western Reserve University (Nov. 7) / L 3-0 vs. Emory University (Nov. 6)
  • BIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN RECENT RESULTS: L 3-1 at Hendrix College (Nov. 8) / W 3-1 vs. Berry College (Nov. 7)
  • UCHICAGO NOTES: This marks the seventh-straight year in which the Maroons have won 20 matches … Maren Loe (OH, Sr.) ranks sixth in NCAA Division III in kills (544) and seventh in kills/set (4.53) … Ragine Graves (S, Sr.) averages 10.1 assists per set – the 37th best rate in the nation. Her 2,790 career assists ranks sixth in school history … UChicago and Birmingham-Southern have faced one common opponent in Emory University, and Emory has won all three matches … The Maroons have played 10 matches against nationally-ranked opponents this season ... Loe was named CoSIDA Academic All-District last week.
  • BIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN NOTES: Birmingham-Southern, which has won at least 20 matches in each of the last three years, makes its first appearance in the NCAA Division III Championship since the program's inception in 1998 … The Panthers defeated Sewanee and Berry while advancing to the SAA conference final, which they lost to Hendrix … Freshman Jeneva Salter was named SAA Newcomer of the Year; she currently ranks 28th in the nation in kills per set (4.1) … Senior setter Katie McCormack also ranks 28th in the nation in assists per set … Against host Berry, the Panthers won two out of three in the season series.