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This Week 
    This week the Jennies will take on Missouri S&T in Rolla for their third road match of the season. Later in the week the Jennies will travel back to Warrensburg for two conference matches against Central Oklahoma and Pittsburg State. Central Oklahoma is currently 3-2 in conference play, and 11-3 overall, ranking in at No. 4 in the MIAA. Pittsburg State is 1-2 in conference play, with an overall record of 4-7 landing them at No. 8 in the MIAA.
 
Last Week
      The Jennies improved to 14-0, 4-0 in the MIAA, after one non-conference and one MIAA match. The Jennies had their first five-set-match against No. 18 Truman last Wednesday. The Jennies lost the first two sets, 12-25 and 10-25, but won the next two sets, 25-17 and 25-22, to force a fifth set. Central Missouri won the fifth set of the match 20-18, maintaining their undefeated record. Through the match the Jennies had 50 kills, 63 digs, six serving aces, and eight blocks.
        Friday evening Central Missouri beat Missouri Western in three straight sets. The Jennies had 45 total kills, and a .321 hitting percentage. The team also had 52 digs and 15 total blocks in the match.
 
Jennies in the Polls
        The Central Missouri Jennies volleyball continued to climb in this week's American Volleyball Coaches Association poll. Central Missouri began the season in the No. 8 spot, and have risen to No. 4 through three weeks of play.
        The Jennies tallied 1055 points and three first place votes in the latest AVCA poll. They remain one spot ahead of fellow MIAA squad, Nebraska-Kearney. Minnesota-Duluth fell to No. 2 after two straight weeks on top, Concordia-St. Paul is now ranked No.1.
        The only other MIAA school in the rankings is Washburn, who fell two spots to No. 15.

NCAA Rankings
       The Jennies crack the top 20 teams in the four of six NCAA statistical categories. Central Missouri is the only MIAA team with an ace per set average in the top 50 teams of the NCAA. The Jennies lead the MIAA in aces per set, with an average of 2.13, and are ranked at No. 20 in the NCAA. Nebraska-Kearney is the only MIAA school to rank ahead of Central Missouri in assists, the Jennies are currently ranked No. 16 with 13.04 assists per set. Central Missouri leads the MIAA in kills per set, and have the highest hitting percentage of the MIAA. Compared to the entire NCAA the Jennies are fifth in kills per set, averaging 14.67 kills per set, and have the third highest hitting percentage at .307.
 
MIAA Specialist of the Week
        Annie Reilly, sophomore libero, was named the MIAA Specialist of the Week this week. Reilly leads the MIAA in serving aces, with 30 total aces, and .65 aces per set. That average also ranks her in at No. 16 in the NCAA. Reilly is also third in the MIAA in digs per set, this season she has totaled 228 digs and 4.96 digs per set.
       Reilly averaged 5.00 digs per set as the Jennies stayed unbeaten with two wins last week. In the five set win over No. 18 Truman, Reilly had 25 digs, seven assists as well as a service ace and a kill. She followed that up with 15 digs and three service aces in the straight sets win over Missouri Western. Reilly is a native of Overland Park, Kan. where she competed at St. James Academy.
       Reilly is the third member of the Central Missouri squad to receive a player of the week nod, Julia Bates and Taylor Goodness were also honored in the first and second week of the season.
      
Returning Starters
        In last week's matches Goodness was the only member of the Jennies squad to post double digit kills in both matches. In Wednesday's match against Truman Goodness had 14 kills, and ten kills later in the week against Missouri Western. Goodness also had two solo blocks and a block assist against Missouri Western. She is currently fourth in the MIAA and No. 43 in the NCAA in kills per set, averaging 3.71. Goodess also has the ninth highest hitting percentage in the MIAA at .317.
       Senior setter Julia Bates is 24 assists out of fifth place in the Jennies All-Time Assists Leaders. Bates has already moved up from the No. 10 spot at the start of the season. Last week in the match against Truman Bates had four serving aces, five kills and 36 assists. Later in the week, Bates tallied 31 assists against Missouri Western, with three kills. She is currently ranked second in the MIAA and 25th in the NCAA in assists per set, with 491 total this season and 10.67 on average per set. Bates is also ranked second in the MIAA and 19th in the NCAA in serving aces, with 28 total, and .61 per set.
       Carly Sojka, sophomore outside hitter, is currently third in three statistical categories for the Jennies. Sojka averages 2.39 kills per set, 2.24 digs per set, and .26 serving aces per set.  Last week Sojka had five kills and a block assist in both the match against Truman and Missouri Western. Sojka is the only member of the Jennies squad to post two double-doubles this season.
       
Fresh Faces
        Red shirt freshman and middle hitter, Haley Thompson had double digit kills against Missouri Western last week, finishing the set with ten kills, and four block assists. In the match against Truman, Thompson tallied seven kills and three block assists. Thompson has the second highest hitting percentage in the MIAA and the twelfth highest in the NCAA, at .397. She is also sixth in the MIAA in blocks, with 48 total blocks this season, and 1.04 per set.
       Maddie Jones, a true freshman and middle hitter, currently has the seventh highest hitting percentage in the MIAA, at .319.  Jones has 95 kills this season and averages 2.07 kills per set. Against Truman Jones posted eight kills and a block assists. Later in the week, Jones had ten kills and two block assists against Missouri Western.  
       Becca Blaise, right side hitter and true freshman, rounds out the Jennies starting line-up. Blaise has the second highest dig per set average on the team, 2.83, fourth in kills per set, 2.24, and is tied for fourth in with 22 total blocks this season. Blaise had six kills and three blocks in both matches last week. In the match against Truman, Blaise also had 10 total digs. 
 
Opponent Preview       
   Missouri S&T is 6-6 overall, 2-2 in the GLVC. The Lady Miners began their season at the University of West Florida tournament, where they would face the No. 4 Minnesota Duluth and No. 19 West Florida and lose. The Lady Miners did win two matches against Arkansas-Monticello and Northern Michigan to finish the weekend 2-2. The next weekend Missouri S&T traveled to Florence, Ala. for the University of North Alabama Tournament, where they again went 2-2. The Lady Miners have since played in four conference matches, winning two in a row against the University of Indianapolis and Saint Joseph's College, before losing two straight to the University of Southern Indiana and Bellarmine University.
   Sophomore middle hitter, Krista Haslag, leads the Lady Miners in kills, blocks, and also has the highest hitting percentage on the team. Haslag has 112 total kills this season, averaging 2.73 per set, and a hitting percentage of .298. Haslag also had ten solo blocks and 42 block assists, with 1.27 blocks per set. In the Lady Miners last match against Bellarmine, Haslag had a team high ten kills, and two block assists.
   Outside hitter, Hayley Wright, leads the squad in serving aces, and is second in kills. The senior has served 12 aces this season, and has 106 kills, averaging 2.59 kills per set. Cydney Denning is a freshman libero, leading the Lady Miners in digs per set, with an average of 4.36. Denning has also had four serving aces so far this season. Freshman setter, Allie Plunk, averages 8.61 assists per set and has 46 total kills this season.