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SWOSU (8-17) at Cameron (13-14) Tuesday, November 11, 7:00 pm Lawton, Okla. (Aggie Gym) Live Stats  |  Watch Live 2014 Great American Conference Tournament (8) SWOSU vs. (1) Arkansas Tech Thursday, November 13, 5:00 pm Live Stats  |  Watch Live  SWOSU Weekly Notes (pdf)

Setting the Scene
- SWOSU Volleyball has one regular season game remaining before they head to Hot Springs, Ark., for the Great American Conference Tournament
- The Bulldogs will complete a home-and-home season series with Cameron on Tuesday evening as they head to Lawton to face the Aggies at 7:00 pm
- SWOSU then enters the GAC Tournament as the No. 8 seed and they will face top-seeded Arkansas Tech in the tournament quarterfinals on Thursday at 5:00 pm
- The Bulldogs finished the season tied for 8th in the GAC standings with Arkansas-Monticello at 5-9 but UAM earns the tiebreaker for conference seeding due to head-to-head results
- The No. 8 seed the Bulldogs take into the GAC Tournament is their lowest as a member of the conference
 
The Opponents
Cameron
- Enter the week 13-14 overall but winners of three of their last four matches, including a four-set victory over the Bulldogs on October 28
- Earned the No. 6 seed in the upcoming Lone Star Conference Tournament with a 5-11 LSC record
- Have a split record of 5-5 on their home court this season
- Kat Evans and Rebecca Green both lead the team with more than 250 kills on the year while Green also has a team-best 62 kills to her credit
- Two setters, Ingrid Boatman and Kayla Hebert, have both tallied more than 450 assists for the year
 
Arkansas Tech
- Champions of the Great American Conference for the second time in the past four seasons after finishing 13-1 in GAC play, two games clear of Southern Nazarene
- Searching for their second consecutive GAC Tournament title and third in the past four years along with a return trip to the NCAA II Tournament
- Winners of 18 consecutive matches and they have a record of 4-1 in neutral site games this season
- Top offensive team in the GAC, leading the conference in hitting percentage (.238), assists (13.23/set) and kills (14.06/set) in the regular season
- Emily Todd and Kaylee Konsella are the top offensive threats, both averaging more than 3.0 kills per set on the year
- Setter Sierra Nighswonger leads the GAC in assists with an average of 10.33 per set and she's a four-time conference setter of the week this season
- Ranked at the bottom of the conference in blocking with 174 (1.53/set) for the year
 
The Coaches
SWOSU: Josh Collins (34-58, 3rd season)
- Named second head volleyball coach in SWOSU history on January 1, 2012
- Enters his third season with a 26-41 record with back-to-back 13-win seasons
- Has coached five All-GAC selections and one GAC Freshman of the Year
- SWOSU finished fourth in the GAC in each of his first two seasons before an eighth-place finish this year
 
Cameron: Qi Wang (13-14, 1st season)
- In his first season as the head coach at Cameron after serving as an assistant coach at Angelo State for the previous four years
- Has had past stints as a head coach at Truman State, Northern Michigan and Florida Tech where he had a combined winning percentage of .728 with more than 200 career victories
- Only once has his team not finished with a winning record and he led his teams to six 20-win seasons
 
Arkansas Tech: Kristy Bayer (279-112, 11th season)
- All-time winningest coach in Arkansas Tech volleyball history
- Two-time conference coach of the year, including the inaugural GAC Coach of the Year in 2011
- Led the Golden Suns to the NCAA II Tournament last season for the third time in program history
 
Last Time Out
- SWOSU went 0-2 last week, dropping a four-set match to Midwestern State on Senior Night last Monday
- The Bulldogs then went to rival NWOSU to conclude conference play and led 2-1 after three sets before the Rangers rallied for the five-set victory
 
Checking the Standings
- SWOSU clinched their spot in the GAC Tournament with a victory over East Central On October 21
- The Bulldogs tied with Arkansas-Monticello for eighth in the standings with a 5-9 record
- SWOSU and UAM finished two games behind Ouachita Baptist and Southern Arkansas for sixth
- Arkansas Tech won the conference by two games, finishing 13-1
 
SWOSU Notes
- Joey Collins has upped her career kills total to 981, leaving her 19 shy of becoming just the second player in SWOSU history to reach the 1,000-kill plateau
- Collins has already reached the top of the career list in attack attempts (3,288) and she ranks eighth in blocks and tenth in digs
- Kiley Brennfoerder has become SWOSU's all-time leader in block assists with 223 and she ranks third in total blocks with 280
- Brennfoerder ranks second in the GAC with 110 blocks (1.12/set) and she is just the third player in SWOSU Volleyball history to record 100 blocks in multiple seasons
- SWOSU ranks second in the GAC in blocking and their current average of 2.09 blocks per set would set a new single-season school record
- Kaila Lancaster currently has 461 digs on the year, needing 473 to surpass her season total from 2013. Earlier this season, Lancaster became SWOSU's all-time leader in digs and her current record stands at 1,266
- Carly Zak needs just nine more kills to reach 700 for her career and become the fifth player in school history to reach that milestone. With 10 more kills, Zak will move past Tennessee Brown (700, 2005-07) and into fourth
- Shayne Haley tied her career high with 13 kills against NWOSU while also notching her second double-double of the season with 11 digs
- Haley has moved into the top ten list for career blocks at SWOSU, currently sitting ninth on the list with 91 (2 solo, 89 assist)
- With 717 assists this season, Brandy Mader now has surpassed the 1,000-assist total for her career and she sits sixth in SWOSU history with 1,012
- Kenya Williams is also on two top-ten lists at SWOSU, ranking sixth with 67 service aces and  eighth with 694 digs