Sunday, November 17
Dallas, Texas
1 p.m.
SMU
vs
Houston
Photo by: Sharon Ellman
Division Leader SMU Hosts T-2 Tulane and Houston Friday and Sunday
Nov 14 | Volleyball
SMU hosts Tulane Friday at 7 p.m. and Houston Sunday at 1 p.m. in the final two matches of the American Athletic Conference regular season. The Mustangs lead the west division with a 10-4 conference record, while both Houston and Tulane are both one match behind with 9-5 records in league play.
SMU IN 2019
• SMU is 17-7 overall, 10-4 in The American, with wins in 10 of its last 12 matches. The Mustangs are 5-1 at home in conference matches this season and 8-2 in Moody Colisuem overall. Hannah Jacobs leads the team with 3.40 kills per set, and Lily Heim is guiding the Mustangs to a .236 attack percentage with 11.77 assists per set.
ANOTHER MILESTONE
• Head coach Lisa Seifert earned her 400th win at SMU when the Mustangs defeated Oral Roberts, 3-2, on Sept. 5, 2019. She is just the third SMU head coach to amass 400 wins on the Hilltop, following long-time women's basketball head coach Rhonda Rompola and men's tennis head coach Carl Neufeld, both of whom have since retired.
GAINING MOMENTUM
• In the past 10 seasons, Seifert's teams have won 204 matches, including the program's first NCAA Tournament victory with a 3-0 win against Texas A&M in 2016. The decade includes six 20-win seasons, including a program-record 27 wins in 2015. SMU won back-to-back conference championships in 2015 and 2016, and made three straight postseason appearances.
NATIONALLY RANKED
• Lily Heim is third in the NCAA with 11.77 assists per set. The sophomore trails Cincinnati's Armania Heckenmueller, 11.95, and Kennesaw State's Lexi Broadwater, 11.86. Heim is 12th in the nation with 1,071 total assists. SMU is 13th in the country with 14.35 assists per set.
• The Mustangs are 20th in the NCAA with 17.52 digs per set, led by Montana Watts, 4.73, 57th.
TOP OF THE CLASS
• Since the inception of the American Athletic Conference, SMU has more wins than any other program in the leage, 98.
• SMU is 98-32 in in seven seasons of the American, posting a conference best .754 win percentage.
• Of the 12 current members, SMU is the only program without a losing record in league matches during at least one season.
• 10 programs have had multiple seasons with conference records less than .500, while UCF is the only other program with less than two losing seasons in The American.
• The Mustangs and the Knights are also the only two programs with multiple conference titles. (SMU-2015, 2016; UCF-2014, 2018)
RECOGNITIONS
• Montana Watts has been named to the American Athletic Conference Weekly Honor Roll three times this season.
• Lily Heim has been named to the AAC Weekly Honor Roll three times this season. Most recently, she earned a mention after averaging 12.00 assists in home sweeps against Temple and UConn. She guided the Mustangs to a .318 attack percentage in the wins.
• Freshman Alex Glover was named to the league's Weekly Honor Roll on Oct. 14 after scoring 23 kills with seven blocks in two home conference wins.
HANNAH JACOBS | SOPHOMORE
Hannah Jacobs leads the team and is fifth in The American with 3.40 kills per set. She has scored at least 10 kills in 20 of 24 matches this season, with a season-high 19 in a five-set win against Tulsa. In a four-set win at ECU, Jacobs scored 18 kills. She finished with 16 in three sets against Bradley, and also had 16 against Stephen F. Austin and at Missouri State. She is hitting .197 with 306 kills. She hit a career-high .600 with 16 kills and only one error in 25 attempts during a 3-0 win at Missouri State. Jacobs was named to the American Athletic Conference All-Preseason team prior to the season.
RACHEL WOULFE | SOPHOMORE
Rachel Woulfe is third on the team with 3.06 kills per set. She is third on the team with a .295 attack percentage, leading all pin hitters. She has scored at least 10 kills 14 times this season, including seven of the last 10 matches. Woulfe scored a career-high 22 kills in four sets at Wichita State, and had 18 against Stephen F. Austin and in four sets against Memphis. Woulfe hit .500 with 15 kills in a 3-0 win against Dayton, receiving votes at the time. She also has 45 blocks, recording five in a 3-0 win against UTSA. She missed the Oklahoma match due to injury.
MONTANA WATTS | SENIOR
Montana Watts is fourth in The American and 57th in the NCAA with 4.73 digs per set. She recorded a career-high 34 digs at Memphis, tied for ninth in a match at SMU, eclipsing 30 for the sixth time in her career. She previously tallied a season-high 31 digs against Stephen F. Austin. She had 20 in three sets against Bradley, and 19 in a three-set win against [RV] Dayton. She had 23 digs at Houston. Watts has been named to the conference Weekly Honor Roll twice this season, and was honored as the Best Libero at the SMU DoubleTree Invitational after leading the field with 5.36 digs per set. She has at least 10 digs in each of the last 16 matches, and is averaging 4.19 per set in AAC matches.
MAKING HISTORY
Montana Watts finished with 604 digs last season, joining all-time record holder Morgan Heise as the only two players in program history with more that 600 digs in multiple seasons. Heise set the single-season record with 721 in 2015, and holds the top three spots with 626 in 2014 and again in 2016. In four seasons, Heise recorded 2,379 digs. Watts has 1,784 digs through three-plus seasons, ranking third at SMU.
LILY HEIM | SOPHOMORE
Lily Heim is second in the conference and third in the NCAA with 11.77 assists per set. After running a 6-2 during her freshman campaign, Heim is guiding the Mustangs to a .236 hitting percentage, 65th in the country, in the 5-1 offense. She recorded a career-high 63 assists in four set at Wichita State, and has eclipsed 50 nine times this season. She has recorded at least 40 10 times, including four three-set wins. Heim has 16 double-doubles, 10 in the last 15 matches, averaging 3.05 digs per set. She has been named to the American Athletic Conference Weekly Honor Roll three times this season.
MEKENZI HECKMANN | FRESHMAN
Mekenzi Heckmann is second on the team and 10th in The American with 3.11 kills per set. She scored a season-high 22 kills at Houston and finished with 20 at Tulane. Heckmann scored 18 kills in three sets against Incarnate Word, and finished with 19 at Oral Roberts. She has scored at least 10 eight times. Against TCU, she served three aces and finished with eight kills, and scored a team-best 17 kills at Oklahoma.
MERYN KENNEDY | JUNIOR
Meryn Kennedy has a team-high 99 blocks, including eight in three sets against UTSA, and again in a sweep against Wichita State. She had five blocks against Stephen F. Austin and again vs Dayton. She scored a season-high 10 kills against Oklahoma, hitting .588, and posted a .583 attack percentage with seven kills and no errors against Incarnate Word. She has three matches with nine kills, and has hit at least .400 eight times. She is also tied for the team high with 20 service aces and has 62 digs. On the attack, Kennedy is hitting .311 with just under two kills per set.
MAKAYLA MILLER | FRESHMAN
Makayla Miller leads the team and ranks second in The American with 0.24 service aces per set, scoring 20 this season. She has 189 digs, with a season-high 15 in four sets against Memphis. She also recorded 14 in three sets against Bradley and again against Stephen F. Austin. Miller had two of her 13 kills against UTSA, and also has 19 assists.
KENDALL PATTERSON | SENIOR
Kendall Patterson is serving as a team captain in her final season on the Hilltop. Named conference Freshman of the Year in 2016 after leading SMU to the league championship, Patterson has been one of the league's top setters since arriving at SMU. After splitting time with Lily Heim last season, the Mustangs have transitioned back to a 5-1 offense. However, Patterson is still a key piece to the gameplan. She has at least 10 digs in nine matches, including a team-high 15 in a sweep against TCU. She posted 18 digs in four sets at ECU. She has 221 digs, averaging 2.43 per set. She also gives SMU a dynamic setting option when Heim is targeted in serve receive or on the attack.
KAYLYN WINKLER | SOPHOMORE
Kaylyn Winkler has has started 14 of 17 matches played this season after transferring from Northeastern. She has 47 blocks, including a season-high five at Oral Roberts and again against Incarnate Word. She had two solo blocks against [RV] Dayton. She has 112 kills, including a career-high 19 at Memphis. Winkler posted 12 kills at Oral Roberts, and is hitting .333. She eclipsed a .500 attack percentage in five matches this season. She also has 11 digs and two assists.
ALEX GLOVER | FRESHMAN
Alex Glover started 12 straight matches, scoring a season-high 16 kills with a .500 attack percentage against Tulsa. She finished with 14 kills against Memphis, hitting .591 with one error. She scored six kills with six blocks as SMU swept TCU. She also scored four kills with five blocks at Oklahoma. The daughter of former NFL tight end Andrew Glover, Alex has 88 kills, scoring 59 in the last 10 matches. She also has 44 blocks and 13 digs on the season.
JADYN BAUSS | FRESHMAN
Jadyn Bauss has 93 kills in 60 sets played this season. She scored 15 kills in two matches at home before breaking out with a season-high 13 to lead the Mustangs at USF. She had 10 at ECU and at Cincinnati. Bauss hit .400 against Weber State and .500 as SMU upset [RV] Dayton. She finished with a .385 hitting percentage at USF with only three errors in 26 attempts. Bauss has 85 digs, including a season-high 19 at USF. She also has seven assists, nine aces and nine blocks.
SMU IN 2019
• SMU is 17-7 overall, 10-4 in The American, with wins in 10 of its last 12 matches. The Mustangs are 5-1 at home in conference matches this season and 8-2 in Moody Colisuem overall. Hannah Jacobs leads the team with 3.40 kills per set, and Lily Heim is guiding the Mustangs to a .236 attack percentage with 11.77 assists per set.
ANOTHER MILESTONE
• Head coach Lisa Seifert earned her 400th win at SMU when the Mustangs defeated Oral Roberts, 3-2, on Sept. 5, 2019. She is just the third SMU head coach to amass 400 wins on the Hilltop, following long-time women's basketball head coach Rhonda Rompola and men's tennis head coach Carl Neufeld, both of whom have since retired.
GAINING MOMENTUM
• In the past 10 seasons, Seifert's teams have won 204 matches, including the program's first NCAA Tournament victory with a 3-0 win against Texas A&M in 2016. The decade includes six 20-win seasons, including a program-record 27 wins in 2015. SMU won back-to-back conference championships in 2015 and 2016, and made three straight postseason appearances.
NATIONALLY RANKED
• Lily Heim is third in the NCAA with 11.77 assists per set. The sophomore trails Cincinnati's Armania Heckenmueller, 11.95, and Kennesaw State's Lexi Broadwater, 11.86. Heim is 12th in the nation with 1,071 total assists. SMU is 13th in the country with 14.35 assists per set.
• The Mustangs are 20th in the NCAA with 17.52 digs per set, led by Montana Watts, 4.73, 57th.
TOP OF THE CLASS
• Since the inception of the American Athletic Conference, SMU has more wins than any other program in the leage, 98.
• SMU is 98-32 in in seven seasons of the American, posting a conference best .754 win percentage.
• Of the 12 current members, SMU is the only program without a losing record in league matches during at least one season.
• 10 programs have had multiple seasons with conference records less than .500, while UCF is the only other program with less than two losing seasons in The American.
• The Mustangs and the Knights are also the only two programs with multiple conference titles. (SMU-2015, 2016; UCF-2014, 2018)
RECOGNITIONS
• Montana Watts has been named to the American Athletic Conference Weekly Honor Roll three times this season.
• Lily Heim has been named to the AAC Weekly Honor Roll three times this season. Most recently, she earned a mention after averaging 12.00 assists in home sweeps against Temple and UConn. She guided the Mustangs to a .318 attack percentage in the wins.
• Freshman Alex Glover was named to the league's Weekly Honor Roll on Oct. 14 after scoring 23 kills with seven blocks in two home conference wins.
HANNAH JACOBS | SOPHOMORE
Hannah Jacobs leads the team and is fifth in The American with 3.40 kills per set. She has scored at least 10 kills in 20 of 24 matches this season, with a season-high 19 in a five-set win against Tulsa. In a four-set win at ECU, Jacobs scored 18 kills. She finished with 16 in three sets against Bradley, and also had 16 against Stephen F. Austin and at Missouri State. She is hitting .197 with 306 kills. She hit a career-high .600 with 16 kills and only one error in 25 attempts during a 3-0 win at Missouri State. Jacobs was named to the American Athletic Conference All-Preseason team prior to the season.
RACHEL WOULFE | SOPHOMORE
Rachel Woulfe is third on the team with 3.06 kills per set. She is third on the team with a .295 attack percentage, leading all pin hitters. She has scored at least 10 kills 14 times this season, including seven of the last 10 matches. Woulfe scored a career-high 22 kills in four sets at Wichita State, and had 18 against Stephen F. Austin and in four sets against Memphis. Woulfe hit .500 with 15 kills in a 3-0 win against Dayton, receiving votes at the time. She also has 45 blocks, recording five in a 3-0 win against UTSA. She missed the Oklahoma match due to injury.
MONTANA WATTS | SENIOR
Montana Watts is fourth in The American and 57th in the NCAA with 4.73 digs per set. She recorded a career-high 34 digs at Memphis, tied for ninth in a match at SMU, eclipsing 30 for the sixth time in her career. She previously tallied a season-high 31 digs against Stephen F. Austin. She had 20 in three sets against Bradley, and 19 in a three-set win against [RV] Dayton. She had 23 digs at Houston. Watts has been named to the conference Weekly Honor Roll twice this season, and was honored as the Best Libero at the SMU DoubleTree Invitational after leading the field with 5.36 digs per set. She has at least 10 digs in each of the last 16 matches, and is averaging 4.19 per set in AAC matches.
MAKING HISTORY
Montana Watts finished with 604 digs last season, joining all-time record holder Morgan Heise as the only two players in program history with more that 600 digs in multiple seasons. Heise set the single-season record with 721 in 2015, and holds the top three spots with 626 in 2014 and again in 2016. In four seasons, Heise recorded 2,379 digs. Watts has 1,784 digs through three-plus seasons, ranking third at SMU.
LILY HEIM | SOPHOMORE
Lily Heim is second in the conference and third in the NCAA with 11.77 assists per set. After running a 6-2 during her freshman campaign, Heim is guiding the Mustangs to a .236 hitting percentage, 65th in the country, in the 5-1 offense. She recorded a career-high 63 assists in four set at Wichita State, and has eclipsed 50 nine times this season. She has recorded at least 40 10 times, including four three-set wins. Heim has 16 double-doubles, 10 in the last 15 matches, averaging 3.05 digs per set. She has been named to the American Athletic Conference Weekly Honor Roll three times this season.
MEKENZI HECKMANN | FRESHMAN
Mekenzi Heckmann is second on the team and 10th in The American with 3.11 kills per set. She scored a season-high 22 kills at Houston and finished with 20 at Tulane. Heckmann scored 18 kills in three sets against Incarnate Word, and finished with 19 at Oral Roberts. She has scored at least 10 eight times. Against TCU, she served three aces and finished with eight kills, and scored a team-best 17 kills at Oklahoma.
MERYN KENNEDY | JUNIOR
Meryn Kennedy has a team-high 99 blocks, including eight in three sets against UTSA, and again in a sweep against Wichita State. She had five blocks against Stephen F. Austin and again vs Dayton. She scored a season-high 10 kills against Oklahoma, hitting .588, and posted a .583 attack percentage with seven kills and no errors against Incarnate Word. She has three matches with nine kills, and has hit at least .400 eight times. She is also tied for the team high with 20 service aces and has 62 digs. On the attack, Kennedy is hitting .311 with just under two kills per set.
MAKAYLA MILLER | FRESHMAN
Makayla Miller leads the team and ranks second in The American with 0.24 service aces per set, scoring 20 this season. She has 189 digs, with a season-high 15 in four sets against Memphis. She also recorded 14 in three sets against Bradley and again against Stephen F. Austin. Miller had two of her 13 kills against UTSA, and also has 19 assists.
KENDALL PATTERSON | SENIOR
Kendall Patterson is serving as a team captain in her final season on the Hilltop. Named conference Freshman of the Year in 2016 after leading SMU to the league championship, Patterson has been one of the league's top setters since arriving at SMU. After splitting time with Lily Heim last season, the Mustangs have transitioned back to a 5-1 offense. However, Patterson is still a key piece to the gameplan. She has at least 10 digs in nine matches, including a team-high 15 in a sweep against TCU. She posted 18 digs in four sets at ECU. She has 221 digs, averaging 2.43 per set. She also gives SMU a dynamic setting option when Heim is targeted in serve receive or on the attack.
KAYLYN WINKLER | SOPHOMORE
Kaylyn Winkler has has started 14 of 17 matches played this season after transferring from Northeastern. She has 47 blocks, including a season-high five at Oral Roberts and again against Incarnate Word. She had two solo blocks against [RV] Dayton. She has 112 kills, including a career-high 19 at Memphis. Winkler posted 12 kills at Oral Roberts, and is hitting .333. She eclipsed a .500 attack percentage in five matches this season. She also has 11 digs and two assists.
ALEX GLOVER | FRESHMAN
Alex Glover started 12 straight matches, scoring a season-high 16 kills with a .500 attack percentage against Tulsa. She finished with 14 kills against Memphis, hitting .591 with one error. She scored six kills with six blocks as SMU swept TCU. She also scored four kills with five blocks at Oklahoma. The daughter of former NFL tight end Andrew Glover, Alex has 88 kills, scoring 59 in the last 10 matches. She also has 44 blocks and 13 digs on the season.
JADYN BAUSS | FRESHMAN
Jadyn Bauss has 93 kills in 60 sets played this season. She scored 15 kills in two matches at home before breaking out with a season-high 13 to lead the Mustangs at USF. She had 10 at ECU and at Cincinnati. Bauss hit .400 against Weber State and .500 as SMU upset [RV] Dayton. She finished with a .385 hitting percentage at USF with only three errors in 26 attempts. Bauss has 85 digs, including a season-high 19 at USF. She also has seven assists, nine aces and nine blocks.
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