Lady Chaps Beginning Second Half of Divisional Play
OPPONENT	LOCATION	DAY	TIME (CT)	WATCH	STATS
WT	Canyon, Texas	Tue, Feb. 23	6 p.m.	Video	Stats

CANYON, Texas (February 23, 2021) - The Lubbock Christian University Lady Chaparrals opens their second two-game series with West Texas A&M Tuesday with a 6 p.m. opening serve at West Texas A&M. The Rivalry on the Range match starts the second round of regular season divisional scheduling in the four-team West Division.
 
West Texas A&M | Tuesday, Feb. 23 | 6 p.m. | 
- Tuesday's meeting marks the 46^th all-time matchup between the Lady Chaps and Lady Buffs (fifth as conference foes). WTAMU has had the upper hand in the series with a 31-13-1 all-time series lead. The Lady Buffs swept LCU last season, winning 3-2 in Canyon (Sept. 21, 2019) and 3-0 in Lubbock (Oct. 11, 2019). This season, the series is split, with the home team winning the prior matchups (3-1 LCU at LCU on Jan. 26 and 3-0 WT at WT on Jan. 27). LCU is 7-19-1 away from home against WTAMU.
- WTAMU went 22-7 last season, going 14-4 in LSC play. Their 2019 season ended at the NCAA Division II South Central Regional, where they fell to Angelo State. They are preseason picked fourth this season in the LSC. They went 10-3 last season at home. The Lady Buffs currently sit in third place in the LSC's West Division, sitting a game ahead of LCU (2-4). WT has won their last two matches, coming off a sweep over UT Permian Basin.
- The Lady Buffs, who are 492-82 at "The Box" since the 1980 season (winning percentage of 85.6%), have all three of their wins at home this season and are 3-0 this season at home.
- WT features two-time reigning Lone Star Conference Libero of the Year Chandler Vogel, who enters the week with 1,935 career digs. She sits fifth on WT's career list in digs and is on pace to challenge Lauren Beville's (2009-12) all-time career mark of 2,423. Vogel has seen time in 378 sets for the Lady Buffs and has 104 starts in the back row.
- WT is second in the LSC in digs per set, with an average of 18.8 per set, which is 14^th nationally. Vogel ranks 11^th nationally and is second in the LSC with 5.9 digs per set.
 
LADY CHAP NOTES
- LCU enters the game with a 3-4 record overall and a 2-4 Lone Star Conference record. LCU split two-match series with West Texas A&M and UT Permian Basin prior to being swept by nationally ranked Angelo State.
- The Lady Chaps rank in the top-25 in several national team categories. They enter the week ranking 12^th in team total attacks (997), 17^th team total digs (439) and 25^th in kills (291).
- Jalee Sims, who has six double-doubles out of LCU's seven matches, leads the LSC in total assists (216), which is 11^th nationally. Entering Tuesday, she averages 8.64 per set, which is third in the conference (35^th nationally). On Feb. 2, she posted 35 assists and 30 digs against UT Permian Basin. Going through game-by-game records on file since 2004 (detailed game-by-game statistics are incomplete in archives prior), Sims is the only Lady Chaps member to have at least 30 digs and 30 assists in the same match.  Only two players in Division II completed the task last season and she is the only player with the mark this season in Division II.
- Sims also ranks sixth in the LSC in digs with 106, behind conference leader and teammate Maddie DeGuire, who has 120 digs (third in the LSC) and entered the week ranking 13^th nationally in the category. DeGuire averages 4.80 digs per set to rank third in the conference (ranks 36^th nationally).
- LCU is preseason picked ninth in the Lone Star Conference preseason poll. This season marks LCU's second season as members of the Lone Star Conference. LCU was preseason picked sixth last season and finished tied for third in their division last season (5-5 in division play), taking the No.8 seed into the conference tournament. Prior to last season, LCU had been in the Heartland Conference since 2013.
- Avery Moore (70) is sixth in kills in the LSC, with teammate Jenna Lyons (52) ranking 16th in the conference. Moore ranks eighth in the conference in kills per set with an average of 2.80 per set.
- LCU has a 4-3 record in the opening set of matches on the season, but they are 0-7 in the second set.