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MSU Denver will host No. 20 Colorado Mesa on Thursday, Fort Lewis on Friday and Western New Mexico on Saturday. Thursday and Friday's matches begin at 7 p.m., with Saturday's first serve scheduled for 4 p.m.

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•    Lauren Quijano (Wildomar, Calif./Elsinore H.S.) 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.

•    Brandi Torr (Albuquerque, N.M./La Cueva H.S.) 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.

•    Savannah Garcia (Platteville, Colo./Valley H.S.) 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).

•    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).