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Metro State will open the 2014 season at the Seaside Invitational at Point Loma in California. The Roadrunners will play a total of four matches on Friday and Saturday.

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Notes:
•    Metro State 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.

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

•    Metro State 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 Metro State since 2008 (Darcy Schwartzman) and the first to start since 2006 (Stephanie Levi).

•    Metro State 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 Metro State 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).

Metro State successful in preseason 
tournaments:
•    Metro is 62-47 (.569) 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 (2010 and 2012).

•    Metro has posted a 26-10 (.722) record in preseason tournaments over the past five seasons, including 2013.