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Upcoming in Gray Wolves Volleyball: Lourdes begins defense of its back-to-back Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference tournament titles on Wednesday evening, as the Gray Wolves host Aquinas in the quarterfinal round.  The Gray Wolves enter the tournament as the fourth seed while Aquinas is seeded fifth.

On the Air: Wednesday's match against Aquinas will be broadcast tape-delayed on BCSN2 as part of Buckeye Broadband.  The match will air Wednesday evening at 11:30 p.m. as well as Friday at 1:30 a.m. and Saturday morning at 3 a.m.  In addition, BCSN will show the match Thursday at noon and Friday at 5 p.m. and Saturday morning at 9 a.m.

Head Coach Greg Reitz: In his eighth season on the Lourdes bench, Greg Reitz has a 164-104 (.612) record at the helm of the Gray Wolves.  In his ninth season overall as a women's head coach, Reitz has a 184-139 (.570) career mark.  He is the only head coach in Lourdes program's history and was named WHAC Coach of the Year in 2015.

Series Notes:  Aquinas holds a 6-5 all-time series advantage against Lourdes dating back to Oct. 7, 2011.  The two schools split their two regular season meetings against one another.  The Gray Wolves were victors in four sets at home in the Ebeid Rec Center back on Sept. 27 before the Saints snapped Lourdes' five-match winning streak in the series with a four-set triumph in Grand Rapids, Mich. on Oct. 28.  Lourdes is 2-0 against Aquinas inside the Ebeid Rec Center, and 3-3 all-time against the Saints in home matches.  This will be the teams first meeting ever in the WHAC tournament.

Wrapping Up Last Week: Lourdes celebrated Senior Night last Wednesday (Nov. 1) with a 25-16, 25-14, 20-25, 25-18 victory over Rochester (Mich.) inside the Ebeid Rec Center to close the regular season.  The Gray Wolves hit .226 as a team, led by Genessee Tate, who had 18 kills and hit .261.  Tylar Roberson added 13 kills and 19 digs for a double-double while Angelica Dippold tallied a match-high 20 digs defensively.

Scouting Aquinas: The Saints enter the quarterfinal match at Lourdes having won four straight contests.  Aquinas was a four-set winner (19-25, 25-23, 25-20, 25-13) at home against Indiana Tech on Saturday afternoon in the first round of the WHAC tournament.  Kristin Danielson leads Aquinas offensively with 299 kills and 37 service aces while Kylie Christensen is hitting at a .307 clip.  Stephanie Chenlo has handed out 965 assists on the year.  Defensively, Marisa Spetoskey has registered 637 digs while Christensen has recorded a team-high 79 blocks for the Saints.

Lourdes In the WHAC Tournament: Lourdes enters the WHAC tournament 9-5 all-time since joining the conference prior to the 2011 season.  The Gray Wolves have won each of the last two WHAC tournaments in 2015 and 2016, dropping just one set in the process.  Lourdes also finished runner-up on 2013.  The Gray Wolves are 6-0 all-time in WHAC tournament matches played at home, including 2-0 in postseason play inside the Ebeid Rec Center.

Playing for Automatic Bids: This year the Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference changed the way it allocates its two automatic bids to the NAIA National Championships.  In the past, the regular season champion and the tournament champion earned the two bids, unless it was the same team, in which case the tournament runner-up got the second bid.  This season, the two tournament finalists will receive the automatic bids.

Dippold Ranks Second All-Time in Digs, Nearing 1,000 Digs: Angelica Dippold has moved into second place on Lourdes' career digs list with 922, passing Molly Shonk (2016-2017).  The sophomore is just 78 digs shy of 1,000 for her career, but trails the school record holder, Michi Jimenez (2012-2015) by 1,221 digs for the top spot.  Jimenez ended her four-year career with 2,143 career digs.

Tate Moves Into the Top-10: Genessee Tate has moved into the top-10 all-time at Lourdes with 441 career kills.  She is 68 kills shy of Angie Pagan-Perez, who ranks ninth.  Tate also ranks eighth all-time in attack percentage at .221 and is sixth with 104 career blocks.

Arnold Sets School Blocks Record: Emily Arnold has set the school's single season blocks record with 122 already in 2017, surpassing Ave Stout's 2016 mark of 106.  Arnold had previously set a school single-match record for blocks with nine rejections against Siena Heights back on Oct. 11.  In just one season, she ranks fifth on the Gray Wolves' career blocks list as well.

Moving Up the Single Season Charts: Emily Arnold currently ranks seventh on the single season attack percentage list, hitting .280.  Jami Markus' 631 assists are seventh as well while Angelica Dippold ranks fourth with 471 assists this year.  Cierra Martinez has cracked the top-10 with 66 blocks.

Among the Nation's Leaders: Emily Arnold is 13th among all NAIA players averaging 1.21 blocks per set and is also 23rd with 122 total blocks on the year.  Angelica Dippold ranks 24th nationally tallying 5.41 digs per set.  As a team, Lourdes is 19th in the country averaging 18.36 digs per set and 48th registering 11.79 assists per stanza.  In addition, the Gray Wolves rank 50th posting 2.01 blocks per set.

This and That: Emily Arnold is the only Gray Wolf to appear in all 101 sets this season ... Tylar Roberson had her eighth double-double of the year against Rochester (Mich.) with 13 kills and 19 digs ... Kristin Murrell leads the Gray Wolves with 12 double-doubles ... Genessee Tate matched a season-high with 18 kills against Rochester ... Lourdes is 19-2 on the season when winning the opening set and 0-8 when falling in set one ... the Gray Wolves have played just one five-set match all season (a loss to Saint Francis [Ill.] on Sept. 1).