Volleyball Travels to Marshall for Last Common Season Street Journey

BOONE, N.C. – The App State volleyball crew (13-10, 4-8 SBC) will journey to Huntington, WVa. to tackle Marshall for a pair of weekday matinee matches within the penultimate week of standard season play. Thursday’s match is ready for 1 p.m. and Friday’s match is scheduled for 4 p.m. Both matches might be obtainable to stream on ESPN+. 
 
Last Time Out 
App State fell brief to Georgia State final week within the Holmes Center. In the Mountaineers’ five-set battle with the Panthers on Oct. 31, 4 Mountaineers made double-figure kills, led by senior Ali Morris, who made 18 kills and 11 digs for her eighth double-double of the season (thirty seventh of her profession). Sophomore Bella Hutchens chalked up her first profession double-double with 16 kills and 14 digs, whereas senior Maya Winterhoff slammed down 16 kills of her personal on a mark of .378. Redshirt senior Addison Heidemann dished out 64 of App State’s 72 assists, serving to the crew to a hitting proportion of .227. Davis made a crew excessive 22 digs on the evening.
 
The Mountaineers fell brief to the Panthers in 4 units on Saturday. Davis’ 1,000th profession dig highlighted the day, as she led the Mountaineers with 20 digs on the afternoon. Morris led the Mountaineers with 13 kills, adopted intently by Winterhoff, who made 12 kills on a mark of .400. With 38 of App State’s 49 assists, Heidemann led the Black and Gold within the assists class. 
 
Mountaineer Leaders 
Winterhoff stays the Sun Belt’s chief in hitting proportion and rose to thirty first within the NCAA with a mark of .391. Additionally, she ranks third within the league and twenty third nationally in blocks, tallying 114 this season (20 solo, 94 assists), and stands third within the league in factors (359.0). Winterhoff is the Mountaineers’ high attacker with 269 kills (2.74 okay/s) and is adopted intently by Morris, who has 257 kills on the season (2.62 okay/s). Morris is on tempo to surpass her second profession milestone this 12 months, getting into the week’s matches with 985 profession kills. She beforehand surpassed 1,000 profession digs on Oct. 17 in opposition to Georgia Southern. Morris, who has served up 25 aces over the course of the 2025 marketing campaign, can also be App State’s high server.
 
Heidemann leads the Mountaineers, stands second within the Sun Belt, and rounds out the NCAA’s high 75 in assists (790). She additionally ranks fourth within the league in assists per set (8.06). In the digs class, Davis leads the Mountaineers, ranks fourth within the convention, and rounds out the NCAA’s high 55 with 390 digs this fall, averaging 3.98 digs per set. 
 
App State ranks thirtieth nationally and second within the Sun Belt in kills, tallying 1,253 this fall and averaging 12.79 per set. The Mountaineers additionally stand second within the convention and forty fourth within the NCAA in assists (1,140, averaging 11.63 per set). Additionally, the Black and Gold ranks fourth within the league in aces (140). 
 
Series History vs. Marshall
App State leads its sequence with Marshall, 28-13, and gained its final two matches in opposition to the Herd. On Nov. 8, 2024, the Mountaineers secured the Sun Belt East Division title with a sweep in opposition to Marshall in entrance of a packed crowd within the Holmes Center. Hutchens led the Mountaineers with 13 kills on a clip of .407. Winterhoff went up for 5 blocks (two solo, three assists), whereas Heidemann dished out 38 of App State’s 42 assists. App State outpaced Marshall in kills (49-32), aces (5-2), blocks (7-3), assists (46-26), and digs (54-49). 
 
The Mountaineers capped play within the Holmes Center with a five-set thriller on Nov. 9, 2024. Five Mountaineers made double-figure kills, led by Ava Leahy, who slammed down 22 on a mark of .459. Winterhoff contributed 13 kills on a clip of .407. Heidemann made 61 of App State’s 64 assists and guided the Mountaineers to a .251 crew hitting proportion, whereas Elise Marchal made a crew excessive 17 digs. The Mountaineers served up eight aces to Marshall’s three and tallied 71 kills to the Herd’s 55. 
 
Scouting Marshall
Marshall (14-11, 6-6 SBC) enters this week’s contests recent off a pair of sweeps in opposition to Old Dominion. The Herd have gained 5 of their final six matches courting again to Oct. 16, posting a pair of sweeps in opposition to ULM (Oct. 16 and 17), and splitting its matches with Georgia State (Oct. 24 and 25) along with their sweeps of ODU (Oct. 31 and Nov. 1). In convention play, the Herd dropped contests to James Madison and Coastal Carolina, and break up with Georgia Southern. 
 
The Herd’s high attacker is freshman Emma Barnett, who has 268 kills on the season and averages 3.05 kills per set. She is also Marshall’s high server with 27 aces this fall. In the assists class, senior Bella Thompson leads the crew with 629 assists (6.99 a/s). Sophomore Emma Sayer leads the crew in digs with 262 and ranks seventh within the Sun Belt for digs per set (3.97). Senior Beatrice Ciccarelli leads the crew and ranks seventh within the Sun Belt within the blocks class, totaling 88 (20 solo, 68 assists) this 12 months. 

On the Horizon

The Mountaineers will return to Boone to host Troy on Nov. 14 and 15 for his or her last common season weekend. During Friday’s 6 p.m. match, the Mountaineers will honor their graduating seniors: Addison Heidemann, Keionna Mackey, Ali Morris, and Maya Winterhoff. Saturday’s match is scheduled for two p.m. and can acknowledge the Mountaineers’ milestones from this fall.