The women’s volleyball team closed the regular season last weekend with a home sweep of two matches against Le Moyne and will begin competition at the NEC Championship Tournament on Friday against FDU. The Flash enter the tournament, which will be hosted by LIU, as the No. 2 seed.
LIU is seeded first and FDU and Mercyhurst are the third and fourth seeds.
Head coach Sara Spielvogel’s team enters the postseason with a 19-8 record. The Flash posted a 14-2 NEC regular-season mark and have won their last four matches and six of the last seven.
During the regular season, SFU and FDU split a pair of matches. The Flash beat the Knights, 3-2, on Oct. 24 before FDU defeated SFU, 3-0, a day later.
Earlier this week, senior outside hitter Korrin Burns earned her eighth NEC Player-of-the-Week award. Her eight POW awards this season are the most of any player in the league. She has earned 12 Player-of-the-Week awards in her career, which ranks third in NEC history.
Burns’ 542 kills this season are the most kills in a single season in SFU history. The native of Clarion, Pennsylvania is 20 kills away from the school’s career record. She has 1,407 entering Friday’s NEC Tournament match. The SFU record is 1,427 by Kristin Butler from 2005-08.
Burns leads the NEC in kills, kills-per-set, points and points-per-set and she ranks among the top-five in NCAA Division I in each of these categories.
Against Le Moyne last Saturday in SFU’s 3-0 win over the Dolphins, she hit .750. This was the best mark by any Division I player with 20-or-more attempts in a match last week.
She delivered 16 kills in the straight-sets victory to close out the regular season and recorded 37 kills across the two matches last weekend against the Dolphins.
All of the matches at this week’s NEC Tournament will be streamed on ESPN+. The Flash and the Knights open the tournament at 2 p.m. on Friday.
