COUGARS VOLLEYBALL PLAY BACK-TO-BACK IN THE BAY
The Washington State University volleyball team, 13-5 overall record and 2-4 in Pac-12, wraps up the first half of the conference season this weekend in the San Francisco Bay area for back-to-back conference matches...Cougars take on California (11-8, 2-6) Fri., Oct. 20 at 7 p.m. in Haas Pavilion in Berkeley...WSU plays at No. 2 Stanford (15-2, 8-0 pending 10/19 vs. No. 14 UW) Sat., Oct. 21 at 7 p.m. in Maples Pavilion...WSU at Cal will be televised on the Pac-12 Networks...play-by-play by announcer Anne Marie Anderson with analyst Holly McPeak...links to Live Stats and Pac-12 Network online are at the volleyball schedule page at wsucougars.com.

WSU COACHING STAFF
Jen Stinson Greeny is in her seventh season as WSU's head coach (104-111 at WSU, 7 years; 216-135 in career, 11 years)...2016 Pac-12 Coach of the Year...Greeny bio on page 5...staff includes associate head coach Burdette Greeny (seventh year) and assistant coach Shannon Hunt (fifth year)...all coaches are former WSU student-athletes...technical operations Grant Schoenlein (first year), volunteer coach James Dorr (second year) and student coach Kyra Holt...Kaysie Shebenick is coordinator of operations (first year).

COUGARS ON THE NATIONAL STAGE
In national NCAA DI rankings/polls for Oct 16, WSU is 39th in the NCAA RPI (9th in Pac-12)...in other national rankings WSU is: PrepVolleyball.com - 31st; Massey Ratings - 37th; Pablo Rankings - 38th; RKPI - 40th; and not listed in the AVCA Coaches Top 25, Rich Kern, or VolleyMob.com polls...WSU will play eight teams this season that are ranked or have received votes in the AVCA Coaches Preseason Top 25 Poll...complete poll on page 4.

COUGARS IN NCAA RANKINGS (through 10/15/17)
TEAM RANKINGS  (of 329 DI teams)
> WSU is 3rd in Team total blocks at 235.5 
> WSU is 6th in Team blocks per set at 3.10 bps
> WSU is 49th in Team opponent hpct at .170
INDIVIDUALS
> Jocelyn Urias is 5th in total blocks with 116
> Jocelyn Urias is 11th in blocks per set at 1.53 bps
> Ella Lajos is 60th in total blocks at 88
> Taylor Mims is 65th in points with 330.0
> Taylor Mims is 66th in points per set with 4.34 pps
> Taylor Mims is 73rd in total attacks with 802
> Taylor Mims is 75th in attacks per set at 10.55 atkps

SINGING THE '17 SUPERLATIVES
US Collegiate National Team- Europe: Taylor Mims, All-Tournament Team, 
    Gold Medal at 13th Annual Global Challenge
US Collegiate National Team- Thailand: McKenna Woodford
US Collegiate Natl Team- Minneapolis: Casey Schoenlein
Mexican National Team at FIVB Grand Prix: Jocelyn Urias
Cougar Challenge Tournament, Pullman, Wash., WSU 1st place
    All-Tournament Team: Taylor Mims and McKenna Woodford
Missouri St. Dr. Mary Jo Wynn Invitational, Springfield, Mo., WSU 1st place
    All-Tournament: Taylor Mims MVP; McKenna Woodford, Ashley Brown
Third consecutive win vs. Arizona and only sixth win all-time at Arizona
Win over No. 25 Colorado is first win vs. ranked team in 2017 and marks first time with back-to-back wins over Colorado in 14 matches

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