Complete Notes (PDF)

No. 23 MSU Denver will play at Regis University on Friday and at UCCS on Saturday.

Notes:
•    MSU Denver started RMAC play with a 6-0 mark, the best start in conference play since 2002 when the Roadrunners won their first 14 RMAC matches.

•    The seven-match winning streak (Sept. 13 - Oct. 2) was the longest since a 14-match winning streak in 2010.

•    Savannah Garcia (Platteville, Colo./Valley H.S.) was named RMAC defensive player of the week on Oct. 13 after averaging 7.14 digs and finishing a perfect 31-for-31 in serve-receive vs. Chadron State and Black Hills State.

•    Lauren Quijano (Wildomar, Calif./Elsinore H.S.) was named RMAC offensive player of the week for the second week in a row on Sept. 29 after averaging 4.17 kills and hitting .398 in three wins.

•    Quijano was named RMAC offensive player of the week on Sept. 22 after averaging 5.27 kills and hitting .439 in three road wins.

•    Quijano had set a career high with 23 kills on Sept. 19 in a 3-1 win at CSU-Pueblo, then topped that with 27 kills in a 3-2 win at Adams State on Sept. 20.

•    Brandi Torr (Albuquerque, N.M./La Cueva H.S.) was named RMAC setter of the week on Sept. 22 after averaging 12.82 assists and helping the team hit .293 in three road wins.

•    MSU Denver opened the season with four wins for the ninth time in the school's 47-year history of volleyball (1978, 1981, 1983, 1989, 1990, 1993, 2009, 2011, 2014).

•    MSU Denver swept No. 5 Central Missouri on Sept. 13, the first time the Roadrunners have swept a top-five opponent since No. 3 Truman State in 2003.

•    Quijano was named to the Colorado Premier Challenge all-tournament team after averaging 4.29 kills and hitting .387, finishing second and fifth, respectively, among players at the tournament.

•    Torr was second among setters in assists at the Colorado Premier Challenge, averaging 12.43 assists to go with 2.50 digs, while helping the team hit .242.

•    Garcia was fifth in digs per set at the Colorado Premier Challenge (4.00).

•    In a 3-1 win over Cal State Monterey Bay on Sept. 6, MSU Denver won the third set 25-8 for the second-most lopsided win in history (30-5 vs. Colorado Christian, 9/13/05 is the most lopsided set victory).

•    MSU Denver was picked fourth in the RMAC preseason coaches' poll behind Colorado Mines, Colorado Mesa and Regis.

•    Quijano was named preseason all-RMAC.

•    MSU Denver's 14 consecutive NCAA tournament appearances is the fourth-longest active streak in Division II.

•    MSU Denver went 7-2 over its final nine matches last season, it's best stretch of the season.

•    The five-match winning streak entering the NCAA tournament in 2013 was the longest winning streak since 2011.

•    In 2013, Torr was the first freshman setter to play in a season-opening match for MSU Denver since 2008 (Darcy Schwartzman) and the first to start since 2006 (Stephanie Levi).

•    The 20-18 fifth-set win at Colorado Mesa on Oct. 26, 2013, was the second-longest fifth set in school history (longest is also NCAA record at 26-24 on Oct. 8, 2011, when Colorado Mines defeated MSU).

MSU Denver successful in preseason 
tournaments:
•    MSU Denver is 68-49 (.581) in preseason tournaments since Debbie Hendricks became head coach in 2000.

•    A 7-1 record is the best the Roadrunners have done in preseason tournaments, doing so twice (2009 and 2011).

•    MSU Denver has posted a 22-10 (.688) record in preseason tournaments over the past four seasons including 2014.

•    MSU Denver is 37-39 all-time at the Colorado Premier Challenge and has won the tournament once (2003).