WKU Travels to Lynchburg For Closing CUSA Matches

• Location: Liberty Arena 
• WKU vs. Liberty 
  

 
ABOUT THE TOPS  

• WKU goes into the final week of the common season tied for first in Conference USA with UTEP. 
• Multiple Hilltoppers completed in double-digit kills in opposition to Delaware. Kaira Knox completed the match on Friday with 20 kills, whereas Alivia Skidmore and Izzy Van De Wiele completed with 14 and 15 kills respectively. On Saturday, Van De Wiele posted her second straight match with double-digit kills, ending with 13. 
• WKU continued to rake within the CUSA Player of the Week accolades with Izzy Van De Wiele incomes Defensive Player of the Week for the second time this season. She had arguably the perfect two-match efficiency of the season within the seven-set sweep of the Blue Hens, ending with 15 whole blocks together with 4 solo stuffs. The Iowa native posted a mean of two.14 blocks per set and was answerable for virtually 70% of WKU’s whole blocks in opposition to Delaware. Putting collectively an all-around efficiency, she additionally completed with the second most kills on the weekend, 28, with a staggering .480 hitting proportion and an unbelievable 4.00 kills per set. Van De Wiele’s 28 kills additionally accounted for nearly 27% of WKU’s whole kills over the weekend whereas solely committing 4 hitting errors on 50 whole assaults.  
• WKU is all around the Top 10 in CUSA statistical classes, main in factors (18.37/set), hitting proportion (.305), assists (13.53/set), kills (14.48/set), opponent service aces (1.01/set), and is second in opponent blocks (1.69/set). 
• On the nationwide stage, WKU is ranked in kills per set (sixth, 14.46), assists per set (fifth, 13.52), hitting proportion (fifth, .305), opponent hitting proportion (twenty second, 0.169). Individually, Faith Young is ranked thirty fifth in hitting proportion (.388), Callie Bauer is ranked fortieth in assists per set (10.07), and Izzy Van De Wiele is forty eighth in blocks per set (1.28). 

  
SERIES INFORMATION  

• The Hilltoppers are 5-0 all-time in opposition to Liberty. WKU can be 2-0 in opposition to the Flames when enjoying in Lynchburg, Va. 

 
SCOUTING THE FLAMES 

• Liberty is presently 20-7 general and is 8-6 in convention play. The Flames began their season 12-1 together with a win over Power Five opponent, Houston. 
• Jenna Otts leads the group with 361 kills and a mean of three.50 factors per set. 
• Paige Overcash was named CUSA’s Offensive Player of the Week three weeks straight to open the 2025 season. She presently has 351 kills and a .261 hitting proportion. Over these three weeks, she posted a .422 hitting proportion with a complete of 137 kills. Overcash can be ranked ninth in hitting proportion (.305) and ninth in kills per set (3.28/set).  
• At the online, Lainey Daniell leads Liberty with a complete of 0.83 blocks per set including to a complete of 84 blocks general.  
• Anchoring the again row is Carly O’Brien with a complete of 326 digs and averaging 2.99 digs per set.  
• Alison Bierwagen, Liberty’s beginning setter, is fifth in assists per set (7.15) and third in service aces per set (0.43).