DENTON, Texas (October 16, 2021) – Lubbock Christian University completes a three-game Lone Star Conference road trip Saturday in Denton facing Texas Woman's University with a 2 p.m. opening serve.
 

Lone Star Conference - LCU vs TWU
OPPONENT	LOCATION	DAY	TIME (CT)	WATCH	STATS
Texas Woman's	Denton, Texas	Sat, Oct. 16	2 p.m.	Video	Stats

Texas Woman's | Saturday, Oct. 16 | 2 p.m. | 
- TWU owns a 5-3 all-time series advantage. The two teams split a 2019 series, as LCU won the opener 3-2 on Nov. 1, 2019, but fell 3-0 to TWU in the Lone Star Conference Championships (Opening Round match) on Nov. 19, 2019. Both matches were at Rip Griffin Center. The four previous meetings have been the only on-campus meetings involving the two schools. The first four meetings were neutral site meetings and played between 1979 and 1988. LCU won the only prior meeting in Denton 3-1 on Sept. 3, 2016.
- TWU was preseason picked to finish ninth in the Lone Star Conference. They went 3-9 overall last season (overall and in conference). They are 7-12 this season and in 12^th place in the LSC with a 3-6 record in conference play this season. The Pioneers are 5-5 at home this season after a 3-1 loss Friday to No.3 Angelo State.
- The Pioneers rank second in the LSC in serving aces with 110 on the season, and had 11 against ASU (ASU entered the match leading the LSC with 29 aces allowed on the season). Lizzy Reed is tied for third in the LSC with 22 perfect serves. Bailey Wozniak averages 0.7 aces per set in conference matches, which leads the LSC (21 total aces in LSC play).
- Sydney Stroh averages 4.3 digs per set, which is 10th in the LSC.

LADY CHAP NOTES
- LCU opened conference play with their best conference start since 2018 (6-0 start) and enter Saturday's play 11-5 overall and 7-1 in conference, which has them tied third in the LSC (with West Texas A&M).
- The Lady Chaps have provided balance in conference play, as Aaliyah Gray (61), Jenna Lyons (55), Hannah Froeschl (55) and Sage Chain (50) each have over 50 kills in LSC play. Zoe Parker has 11 aces, Kendall Mahaney has 4.04 digs per set, Froeschl has 1.35 blocks per set and Jalee Sims has provided 8.8 assists per set in LSC contests.
-Lubbock Christian is 6-1 in road matches this season, hitting .222 and holding the home teams to a .181 mark in attack percentage. Hannah Froeschl is hitting .324 with 2.56 kills per set on the road. Aaliyah Gray leads the team with 65 road kills (Froeschl has 64), putting her with a per-set rate of 2.6. LCU has a 26-15 advantage in serving aces on the road. Froeschl leads LCU on the road with 1.12 blocks per set and has 28 total blocks (Sage Chain is second with 23 blocks).
-LCU went 0-13 in the second set of matches played last season. This season, LCU has won the second set in 13 of their 16 matches (LCU is 10-3 when winning the second set). LCU is 10-0 this season when winning the third set and 9-0 when winning the opening set.  
-Last season, LCU had an attack percentage of .080, which ranked 16^th in the LSC. This season, LCU is hitting .231 and ranks fourth in the LSC and 48^th nationally. Hannah Froeschl leads LCU in hitting, ranking eighth in the LSC hitting .304. 
- The Lady Chaps also rank fourth in conference matches, hitting .222 in LSC play. Froeschl leads LCU in conference play (in hitting percentage) with a hitting percentage of .270 in LSC play.
- Jalee Sims has eight double-doubles over the past 10 matches, which has her with 20 in her LCU career. She ranks fourth in the LSC in assists (452) and is sixth in assists per set (8.1).
-With the combination of setter-play by Sims and Kayton Genenbacher, LCU ranks eighth in assists per set (11.6). LCU's hitting percentage of .231 ranks 48^th nationally, which is their highest national ranking in an offensive category.
-The Lady Chaps rank second in the LSC in conference play in holding opponents to a hitting percentage of .127. LCU has held the opposition to a sub-.100 hitting percentage in four of their eight LSC matches.
- True freshman Kendall Mahaney ranks tied for 10th in the LSC in digs per set (4.25) and 11th in total digs (238). She has four matches with at least 20 digs on the season and her season and career-high mark is a 23-dig performance at Cameron.
- LCU has limited their opponents to 51 aces this season, which plays out to 0.91 per set and ranks as the second-best mark in the LSC (behind Angelo State at 0.71). They have a mark of 0.81 (aces per set allowed by their opponents) in LSC matches, which co-leads the conference.
- While LCU has served up 64 aces on the season, with aces from 10 different Lady Chaps. Zoe Parker leads LCU with 12 serving aces (Kendall Mahaney and Chloe Menard each have 11). On the error side, LCU opponents have served 87 errors (1.6 per set), while LCU has produced 46 serving errors.
- Aaliyah Gray leads LCU in kills with 147 kills (16th in the LSC) and was the first Lady Chap to hit the 100-mark on the season. She has 2.83 per set, which has her 15^th in the LSC.