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CANYON, Texas – West Texas A&M returns to the friendly confines of the WTAMU Fieldhouse "The Box" on Tuesday night as they host the rival Greyhounds of Eastern New Mexico in Lone Star Conference action to begin Homecoming Week with first serve set for 6 p.m. in Canyon.
 
EASTERN NEW MEXICO
Katie Burnett enters her fifth 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 2-10 with an 0-4 mark in LSC action following road losses to St. Mary's and St. Edward's this past weekend to run their losing streak to five matches. The Lady Buffs lead the all-time series against the Hounds, 67-15 as the teams split a pair of meetings last season. ENMU is 2-36 all-time inside of the WTAMU Fieldhouse as they have dropped their last 13 trips to Canyon.
 
Eastern New Mexico is led offensively by Jasmine Gannon who has registered 1-3 kills on 332 swings with 40 attack errors to hit .190 so far this season while averaging 2.58 kills per set, Rae Sapiga paces the Hounds offense with 165 assists to average 4.46 per frame while Gannon leads the way defensively with 106 digs to go aloing with 11 blocks on the season.
 
STATISTICALLY SPEAKING
The Lady Buffs currently lead the Lone Star Conference in assists per frame (12.84) while sitting second in attack percentage (.272) and third in kills per set (13.58). Freshman Torrey Miller leads the league in kills per set (4.19) and points per frame (4.69) while junior Chandler Vogel sits second in the LSC in digs per set (5.42).
 
AVCA DIVISION II TOP-25 POLL (SEPT. 23)
Cal State San Bernardino picked up 40 of the possible 45 first place votes to remain atop of this week's AVCA Division II Top-25 Poll followed by Western Washington (five first place, 1102), Nebraska-Kearney (1010), Minnesota Duluth (978), Washburn (913), Lewis (898), Concordia-St. Paul (885), Northern State (849), Southwest Minnesota State (788) and Tarleton (657) to round out the top ten. The Lone Star Conference was represented by Tarleton (10th), Texas A&M-Commerce (20th) and Angelo 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 483-80 at The Box since the 1980 season for an incredible winning percentage of 85.9%.
 
LONE STAR CONFERENCE PRESEASON POLL
Reigning South Central Regional Champion Tarleton picked up 39 of the possible 45 first place votes for a total of 802 points to sit atop of the poll followed by Texas A&M-Commerce (two first place, 755), Angelo State (two first place, 717), West Texas A&M (628) and Arkansas-Fort Smith (one first place, 586) to round out the top five.
 
Lubbock Christian (550) was tabbed sixth followed by Texas Woman's (526), Texas A&M-Kingsville (479), St. Mary's (426), St. Edward's (410), UT Permian Basin (one first place, 363), Eastern New Mexico (307), Dallas Baptist (295), UT Tyler (239), Western New Mexico (205), Midwestern State (201), Texas A&M International (105) and Cameron (101).
 
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 1,456 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 293 sets for the Lady Buffs over the last three seasons in Canyon as she has started 80 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.