WEEKEND MATCHES
• Michigan Tech is back on the road for a pair of GLIAC matches this weekend.
• The Huskies play at Lake Superior State on Friday at 7 p.m.
• The weekend wraps up at Saginaw Valley State on Saturday at 4 p.m.
• The teams will meet for a second time in Houghton to wrap up the regular season.
• Tech is 5-6 overall and 2-2 in the GLIAC.

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GLIAC SETTER OF THE WEEK
• Junior Tess Hayes is the GLIAC Setter of the Week after she led Tech to a weekend sweep at the SDC Gym, setting the offense with 74 assists and averaging 10.57 per set.
• Hayes added 16 digs, four aces, three kills, and three block assists in the two matches.
• She tallied 35 assists and eight digs in a sweep of Roosevelt on Friday and 39 assists and eight digs in a 3-1 victory over Parkside on Saturday.
• Hayes ranks eighth in the GLIAC in assists per set (7.74).

SCOUTING LSSU
• Lake Superior State is 0-8 overall and 0-4 in the GLIAC. Friday's match will be the home-opener for the Lakers at Bud Cooper Gym.
• Elisa Rizzoli leads the team with 2.71 kills per set. Vanessa Swerdon sets the attack with 4.59 assists per set. Mia Garcia, Hannah Callaway, and Elisa Rizzoli all average over 2.5 digs per set.
• The Lakers were picked 10th in the GLIAC Preseason Poll after going 7-20 overall and 2-14 in the GLIAC in 2024.
 
SCOUTING SVSU
• Saginaw Valley State is 6-7 overall and 1-3 in the GLIAC. The wins are over Lock Haven, Point Park, West Liberty State, D'Youville, Northwood, and LSSU. The Cardinals are 2-0 at home inside Hamilton Gym.
• Head coach Lana Rybkowski is in her second season leading SVSU.
• Rachel Townsend leads the offense, averaging 2.95 kills per set. Jackie Scheiber sets the offense with 8.79 assists per set. Kendall White averages 4.07 digs per set to lead the defense.
• The Cardinals were selected ninth in the GLIAC Preseason Poll after going 6-21 overall and 3-13 in the GLIAC in 2024.
 
LAST WEEKEND
• Tech opened the home portion of its schedule with a pair of GLIAC wins at the SDC Gym. The Huskies shutout Roosevelt 3-0 on Friday and defeated Parkside 3-1 on Saturday.
• Jacqueline Yancy led the offense with 4.0 kills per set, Tess Hayes set the offense with 10.57 assists per set, and Julia Fledderjohn tallied 4.43 digs per set.
 
GLIAC STATISTICAL RANKING
• Brooke Dzwik is fifth in aces per set (0.44).
• Jacqueline Yancy is sixth in kills per set (3.56).
• Julia Fledderjohn is sixth in digs per set (4.00).
• Tess Hayes is eighth in assists per set (7.74).
• Madelynn Kreider is ninth in assists per set (7.11).
• Paige Wagner is ninth in blocks per set (0.89).
 
UP NORTH ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM
• Tricia Kennedy was named to the Up North All-Tournament Team after she averaged 1.57 kills per set and 1.14 blocks per set in the four matches while hitting .333.
• In the 3-0 sweep of Adelphi on Saturday, Kennedy tallied 11 kills and six blocks (three solo blocks and three block assists) while hitting .550. In the tournament opener at Minnesota Duluth, the junior middle blocker had seven kills and seven blocks. She added three kills on four attempts against No. 17 Barry.
 
McKENDREE ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM
• Brooke Dzwik led the Huskies with 32 kills in the three sets, averaging 3.2 per set. Also led the Black and Gold with seven aces, and 54 receptions while ranking second with 28 digs, averaging 2.8 per set.
• Rachel Zurek led the Huskies with 11 blocks on the weekend and put down 27 kills, averaging 3 per set. She had over eight kills in all three matches.

COACH PINDRAL
• Cindy Pindral was named the eighth Head Coach of the Michigan Tech volleyball program on December 2, 2024.
• Pindral returned to the Huskies after being an Assistant Head Coach, Assistant Coach, and Volunteer Coach with the Huskies for seven seasons from 2016 to 2022.
• During her seven years with the Huskies, the team held a 139-62 overall record. Tech went to four straight NCAA Tournaments from 2017-21 and won a pair of regular-season GLIAC championships in the spring of 2021 and then repeated in the fall of 2021.
• As a freshman student-athlete at the University of Florida, Pindral was the starting setter for the Gators who went to the NCAA Sweet 16, won an SEC Championship, and were ranked as high as No. 10.
• She finished her collegiate career as a three-time starter at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. She was an Academic All-American and All-RMAC selection.
 
PRESEASON GLIAC POLL
1. Grand Valley State, 98 (8)
2. Ferris State, 92 (3)
3. Wayne State, 76
4. Northern Michigan, 68
5. Michigan Tech, 67
6. Parkside, 59
7. Davenport, 42
8. Purdue Northwest, 38
9. Saginaw Valley State, 34
10. Lake Superior State, 18
11. Roosevelt, 13

LAST SEASON
• Tech finished the 2024 season with a 17-12 overall record.
• The Huskies advanced to the GLIAC semifinal for the eighth consecutive time last season, with a 10-7 GLIAC record and a fifth-place finish in the conference.

ALL-GLIAC RETURNERS
• Tess Hayes – 2024 All-GLIAC First Team, 2023 GLIAC Freshman of the Year, 2023 All-GLIAC Second Team
• Rachel Zurek – 2024 All-GLIAC Second Team, 2023 All-GLIAC Honorable Mention
• Paige Wagner – 2024 All-GLIAC Second Team
 
NCAA D1 TRANSFERS ON ROSTER
• Avery Brown – University of Akron
• Alayna Corwin – Marshall University
• Julia Fledderjohn – Charleston Southern University

UPCOMING SCHEDULE
• Tech hosts Northern Michigan in a non-conference match on Oct. 9 at the SDC Gym.
• The first part of the GLIAC schedule wraps up at Purdue Northwest on Oct. 12 before the Midwest Regional Crossover.