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CANYON, Texas – The Lady Buffs of West Texas A&M continue their Lone Star Conference road swing on Tuesday night as they make the short drive to Portales, New Mexico for divisional action against the rival Greyhounds of Eastern New Mexico with first serve set for 7 p.m. CT at Greyhound Arena.
 
EASTERN NEW MEXICO
Katie Burnett enters her 10th match at the helm of the Greyhound as the interim head coach following the indefinite leave-of-absence by sixth year head coach Sia Poyer announced back on Sept. 19th due to personal health concerns. Burnett is in her first season in Portales following two seasons as a Graduate Assistant at Cameron following a standout playing career at Colorado State-Pueblo.
 
The Greyhounds enter the week with an overall record of 3-14 with a 1-8 mark in LSC action following road losses to #21 Angelo State and Lubbocl Christian this past weekend. The Lady Buffs lead the all-time series against the Hounds, 68-15 as WT took the first meeting of the season back on Oct. 1 in straight sets at The Box.
 
Eastern New Mexico is led offensively by Jasmine Gannon who has registered 138 kills on 448 swings with 56 attack errors to hit .183 so far this season while averaging 2.38 kills per set, Rae Sapiga paces the Hounds offense with 188 assists to average 4.27 per frame while Gannon leads the way defensively with 149 digs to go aloing with 19 blocks on the season.
 
LAST MEETING
The Lady Buffs used a balanced attack as nine different players registered a kill in a sweep of Eastern New Mexico back on October 1st in Canyon. Torrey Miller led the way offensively for the Lady Buffs with 14 kills on 24 swings with four attack errors to hit .427 followed by Lindsey Smith with 10 kills, Sadie Snay registered a double-double with 40 assists and 12 digs while Chandler Vogel led all players with 21 digs. WT finished the night with 49 kills on 97 swings with 10 attack errors to hit .402 with 48 assists, three aces, 54 digs and four blocks in the win.
 
STATISTICALLY SPEAKING
The Lady Buffs currently lead the Lone Star Conference in assists per set (12.81) while ranking third in attack percentage (.253). Freshman Torrey Miller leads the league in kills (249), kills per set (4.22), total points (280.5) and points per set (4.75) while Chandler Vogel ranks second in digs per frame (5.56) and third in total digs (328).
 
AVCA DIVISION II TOP-25 POLL (OCT. 7)
Cal State San Bernardino picked up 42 of the possible 46 first place votes to remain atop of this week's AVCA Division II Top-25 Poll followed by Western Washington (three first place, 1,098), Nebraska-Kearney (1,-37), Minnesota Duluth (one first place, 1,024), Washburn (946), Lewis (889), Concordia-St. Paul (868), Northern State (825), Southwest Minnesota State (737) and Northwest Missouri State (691) to wrap out the top ten. The South Central Region was represented by Regis (16th), Angelo State (21st), Tarleton (22nd), Texas A&M-Commerce (RV), MSU Denver (RV), Colorado School of Mines (RV) and Arkansas-Fort Smith (RV).
 
The South Central Region was represented by Tarleton (14th), Regis (17th), Texas A&M-Commerce (21st), Colorado School of Mines (T-23rd), Angelo State (RV) and Metro State (RV).
 
WELCOME TO THE BOX
West Texas A&M is fortunate to have one of the best home environments in all of NCAA Volleyball. The WTAMU Fieldhouse is more affectionately known as "The Box," is home to 19 Lone Star Conference Championships, 13 Regional Titles and three NCAA Division II National Championships. 
 
The Box boasts one of the best home winning records in the NCAA on any level of competition. The Lady Buffs are 485-81 at The Box since the 1980 season for an incredible winning percentage of 85.8%.
 
A NEW ERA BEGINS
For the first time since the 2009 season, the Lady Buffs are under the guidance of a new head coach as former WT All-American Kendra Potts was introduced as the 15th head coach in program history back on December 10th.
 
Potts spent four seasons as an assistant in Canyon from 2005-2008 where the Lady Buffs went 131-27 during that span with a pair of appearances in the NCAA Division II National Semifinals. WT went an incredible 43-2 in league action during her four seasons on the sideline with three undefeated Lone Star Conference Championships and three LSC Tournament titles. The Amarillo High product registered a standout collegiate career for the Lady Buffs, becoming a three time All-American and the LSC's all-time assists leader with 6,087.
 
STAPLE IN THE BACK ROW
Reigning Lone Star Conference Libero of the Year Chandler Vogel has registered 1,551 career digs as the Hereford High School product is on pace to challenge Lauren Beville's (2009-12) all-time career mark of 2,423. Vogel has seen time in 309 sets for the Lady Buffs over the last three seasons in Canyon as she has started 85 matches in the back row over that span.
 
NEW LOOK LSC
The Lone Star Conference expanded to 18 volleyball playing institutions back on July 1st as the league welcomed Arkansas-Fort Smith, Dallas Baptist, Lubbock Christian, St. Edward's, St. Mary's, Texas A&M International and UT Tyler. The LSC is utilizing a divisional scheduling model, in which each team will play one match home and away against each of the other teams within their six-team division, and a single game versus eight other conference teams.
 
The LSC divisional champions will be determined by regular season games within the division, while the postseason tournament winner is designated as LSC Champion and earns the conference's automatic bid into the NCAA Postseason. Twelve teams will qualify for the LSC Championship with the opening round on campus Tuesday, Nov. 19, and the final eight teams at the No. 1 seed on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, November 21-22-23.