Vanderbilt (2-5, 0-0 SEC) at RV Western Kentucky (6-2, 0-0 CUSA)
Tuesday, Sept. 16 • 6 p.m. • ESPN+
Diddle Arena • Bowling Green, Ky.
Live Stats • Match Notes
NEXT UP
• Vanderbilt volleyball’s nonconference slate continues Tuesday as the team travels to Diddle Arena in Bowling Green, Kentucky, to take on RV Western Kentucky at 6 p.m.
THE LAST TIME OUT
• Vanderbilt volleyball fell 3-1 (25-17, 25-16, 20-25, 25-21) at RV UC Santa Barbara Friday night
• Setter Isabella Bareford registered a double-double for the second straight contest, recording 36 assists and 11 digs
• Hailee Mack extended her double-digit dig streak to seven matches with 15 vs. the Gauchos
• Vanderbilt was paced offensively by Kamryn Chaney and Jackie Moore who each produced 13 kills
• Chaney was one dig shy of a double-double, recording nine, a season high
• Kayla Dunlap recorded 10 kills, her second straight match in double figures
• Dunlap posted a hitting percentage of .450 and a .500 kill percentage, registering season-highs in both categories
SCOUTING THE HILLTOPPERS
• Western Kentucky is coming off a 3-0 sweep of VCU at the Buccaneer Classic Saturday and is 6-2 to start the season
• The Hilltoppers are led by longtime head coach Travis Hudson
• Hudson has led WKU to 17 NCAA tournament berths, including a Sweet Sixteen appearance in 2021
• WKU has been ranked in the AVCA top 25 for 13 of the past 15 seasons and received votes for 16 consecutive campaigns
• Three Hilltoppers, Callie Bauer, Alivia Skidmore and Izzy Van De Wiele, were selected to the preseason All-Conference USA Team
• Bauer recorded the team’s first double-double of the season vs. VCU, tallying 35 assists and 10 digs
• Earlier this season, WKU swept No. 25 Dayton at the Marquette Invitational, earning the Hilltoppers’ first win over the Flyers since 2017 and first sweep since 1984
TIES TO THE HILLTOPPERS
• As an assistant/associate head coach at Kentucky, Vanderbilt head coach Anders Nelson is 4-0 vs. WKU, including a sweep during the 2021 Sweet Sixteen when the Wildcats went on the win the NCAA Championship
• Assistant coach Kyle Coahn and Kati Berezowitz have ties to the Milwaukee Sting Volleyball Club in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
MORE OF MOORE AND BAREFORD
• So far this season, Moore has tallied 68 kills on 134 sets from Bareford for a .507 kill percentage
• Vs. Kansas, Moore registered a career-high 17 kills with 15 of those coming off 25 sets from Bareford for a .44 kill percentage
• At Cal, Moore produced 10 kills off 20 sets from Bareford for a kill percentage of .500
• Bareford and Moore transferred to Vanderbilt from Loyola Marymount where the duo earned All-West Coast Conference first team honors during multiple seasons and Moore led the NCAA in hitting percentage (.454) in 2023
LOCAL TALENT
• Dunlap is the program’s first recruit from Middle Tennessee
• She made her first career start at Cal where she posted a season-high 11 blocks and 5 blocks
• The freshman registered 10 kills at UC Santa Barbara, recording season-bests in hitting percentage (.450) and kill percentage (.500)
• Dunlap ranks first among freshmen, sixth overall in the SEC with a .412 hitting percentage so far this season
LEADING THE ATTACK
• Chaney has led Vandy in kills for six straight matches with 20-point appearances vs. Belmont (20), at Lipscomb (21) and at Cal (22)
• The junior set season-highs in kill percentage (.600), hitting percentage (.400), points (26) and aces (4) at Lipscomb
• Chaney ranks eighth in the SEC in points per set (4.50) and ninth in the conference with 3.86 kills per set
• Chaney transferred to Vanderbilt in January 2025 after being named the Ivy League Player of the Year while playing at Princeton in 2024
MACK ATTACK
• Mack is the top-ranked freshman, fourth overall in the conference averaging 4.31 digs per set
• She posted a season-best 28 digs in her collegiate debut vs. Kansas
• Mack tallied 26 digs at California, her second match this season with 20-plus digs
• Mack’s two 20-dig matches are the top two performances by an SEC player this season
• The sophomore has recorded 10-plus digs in every match this season
• Mack was also the program’s first-ever commit in 2023
