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MSU Denver will co-host the Colorado Premier Challenge on Friday and Saturday with Regis University. The Roadrunners will face three top-10 teams in NCAA Division II in four matches.

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Notes:
•    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 has gone 5-0 to start the season all eight previous times, 6-0 five times (1978, 1981, 1989, 1993, 2011), 7-0 four times (1978, 1981, 1989, 1993) and 8-0 just once (1978).

•    The best start in school history was 1978 when the Roadrunners won their first 36 matches.

•    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 is 35-37 all-time at the Colorado Premier Challenge and has won the tournament once (2003).

•    The Roadrunners have finished third at the Colorado Premier twice (2005, 2011) and fourth once (1998) and have had 17 all-tournament players.

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

•    Lauren Quijano (Wildomar, Calif./Elsinore H.S.) 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 was the longest winning streak since 2011.

•    Kylie Haun (Simpsonville, S.C./Hillcrest H.S.) was named RMAC tournament most valuable player, averaging a team-high 4.18 kills and 2.91 digs.

•    Brandi Torr (Albuquerque, N.M./La Cueva H.S.) (14.00 assists/set) and Kylee Hoagland (Mead, Colo./Skyline H.S.) (2.73 kills/set, .458 hitting pct.) were also named to RMAC all-tournament team.

•    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).

•    MSU Denver went 9-5 in matches in 2013 that went to five sets, breaking the record of seven five-set wins from 2006 and 2009.

•    Head coach Debbie Hendricks reached 300 wins at MSU Denver on Oct. 17 last season in a 3-2 victory over CSU-Pueblo.

•    Hendricks earned her 500th career win on Nov. 2 last season in a 3-1 victory over UC-Colorado Springs.

•    Hendricks became the 15th active NCAA Division II head coach with 500 career wins and the 29th in Division II history.

•    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:
•    Metro is 66-47 (.584) 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).

•    Metro has posted a 20-8 (.714) record in preseason tournaments over the past four seasons including 2014.