K-State Set for Senior Night vs. WVU Wednesday

MANHATTAN, Kan. – The K-State volleyball team will wrap up its regular season and honor its senior class Wednesday night at 7 p.m., against West Virginia at Ahearn Field House.

Following K-State's (10-18, 3-12 Big 12) match with West Virginia (16-12, 4-10 Big 12), there will be a post-match ceremony to celebrate the Wildcats' lone senior on the roster, opposite Bryna Vogel, as well as graduate manager Carla Bernardes.

The Cats are fresh off a three-set victory over Oklahoma, which snapped a season-long nine-match losing skid. In the victory, K-State turned in 12.0 team blocks – a season high in a three-set match - led by junior Macy Flowers and her seven stuffs. The effort helped Flowers earn Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week on Monday.

Wednesday's match will air on COX Chanel Kansas and stream live and free on K-StateHD.TV. Fans can also listen to Rob Voelker call the action on KMAN 1350 AM, 93.3 FM and at k-statesports.com.

Tickets for the match between the Wildcats and Mountaineers are available for as little as $3 with a canned food item and can be purchased by calling 1.800.221.CATS, visiting the K-State Athletics Ticket Office or by clicking here.

AT A GLANCE

K-State (10-18, 3-12 Big 12) snapped a season-long nine-match losing skid with a sweep of Oklahoma Saturday at Ahearn Field House.
The Wildcats hit .302 against the Sooners, their highest offensive efficiency in their last 19 matches.
It marked the fifth time the Cats have eclipsed the .300 mark this season.
The victory was the third straight-set win for K-State this season and first since defeating Xavier on Sept. 8.
The defense collected 12.0 team blocks in holding OU to a .085 team hitting percentage.
The Cats equaled their season high with eight service aces, as four players tallied a pair.
The 12.0 blocks and eight service aces were season highs in a three-set match for the Cats.
Junior Macy Flowers led the way with seven blocks, her sixth straight match leading or tied for the team lead in blocks.
Peyton Williams led the team with a .467 efficiency (7k-0e-15ta) while Elle Sandbothe and Kylee Zumach were tops with eight kills apiece.
K-Stat's nine-match losing streak was the second-longest under head coach Suzie Fritz.

SCOUTING THE MOUNTAINEERS

West Virginia (16-12, 4-10 Big 12) currently sits in a tie for fifth place in the Big 12 standings.
WVU lost its last time out against No. 19 Baylor in four sets and have lost three of its last four matches.
The Mountaineers are 2-5 in their last seven.
In conference-only matches, sophomore outside hitter Payton Caffrey is fifth-best in the league with her 3.58 kills per set while also ranking first in aces per set at 0.40.
Middle blocker Mia Swanegan is second in the Big 12 with 1.25 blocks a set in overall matches.
WVU ranks ninth in team digs per set and eighth in kills per set in conference matches.

INSIDE THE SERIES

K-State leads the all-time series, 8-3, dating back to 2012 when West Virginia joined the Big 12.
West Virginia claimed the season's first matchup in five sets in Morgantown and seek its first season sweep of K-State in the series' history.
The Wildcats have never dropped back-to-back matches to the Mountaineers.
K-State is 4-1 at home against WVU.
The last three meetings in the series have gone to five sets.
The Cats had won the last four in the series until their five-set road loss on Oct. 21.
Head coach Suzie Fritz is 8-3 against WVU in her career.

SENIOR NIGHT

Bryna Vogel, the squad's lone senior, will be honored in a post-match ceremony Wednesday night.
The Clearwater product's season was cut short with a knee injury she sustained at KU on Nov. 8.
Vogel was 30 digs shy of reaching 1,000 in her career, as she eclipsed 300 digs each of the past three seasons.
Vogel has collected numerous honors in her career, including Second Team All-Big 12, Preseason All-Big 12 and is a three-time First Team Academic All-Big 12 selection.

MS. 1,000

On Nov. 8 at Kansas, Kylee Zumach became just the fifth Wildcat to play her entire career in the rally-scoring era (since 2001) to join the 1,000-kill club.
She is the 18th player in program history to reach the plateau and her total places her seventh in program history during the rally-scoring era.
A redshirt junior, Zumach reached the 1,000-kill milestone in just three seasons.
She joins former outside hitter Brooke Sassin (2014-16) as the only Wildcats to reach 1,000 kills in three seasons in the rally-scoring era.
Her career total of 1,044 puts her 11 kills away from passing Sassin for sixth on K-State's all-time list (rally scoring).

FLOWER POWER

Junior middle blocker Macy Flowers has been a force at the net this season, as she led or tied for the team lead in blocks in K-State's last six matches - and seven of its last eight overall.
Her hot streak garnered her Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week honors, the first defensive accolade of her career and second weekly award (co-rookie in 2015).
The six straight matches equal the longest such streak of her career (2016).
In the last six matches, she has recorded at least seven blocks four times, including a career-high 13 at Texas Tech on Oct. 28.
Flowers has tallied 43 total blocks over the Cats' last six matches, accounting for more than half of the team's 67 over that time (Peyton Williams is second with 20 total blocks).
Her 1.65 blocks per set in the last six matches is tops on the team as she has helped the Wildcats average 2.58 blocks a set as a team.
Flowers ranks second in the Big 12 in league matches with her 1.37 blocks per set average.

GOING THE DISTANCE

K-State's 10 five-set matches this season is a new single-season program record.
The Wildcats are 3-7 in five-setters, as the seven losses are the most in a season since 2006 (0-7).
Eight of K-State's last 16 matches have gone to a fifth set.
The next highest five-set total in the conference is Kansas' six matches (4-2).

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Players Mentioned

Macy Flowers

Elle Sandbothe

Bryna Vogel

Peyton Williams

Kylee Zumach

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