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No. 7 Women's Volleyball Hosts No. 4 Louisville Tuesday Night

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Author Matt Jackson

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.- No. 7 Penn State Women's Volleyball is ready for a top-10 matchup at Rec Hall as the Nittany Lions host No. 4 Louisville in the team's 2024 home opener Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. The match will air live on B1G Network.

PROMOS
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• First 500 Penn State students get free t-shirt

HOW TO FOLLOW
Tuesday, Sept. 3 – 7:30 p.m. ET
#4 Louisville (2-0, 0-0 ACC) at #7 Penn State (2-0, 0-0 B1G) | Live Stats | B1G Network

OPENING NOTES
• The Nittany Lions are 45-3 all-time in home openers. They are 2-0 under head coach Katie Schumacher-Cawley with a 3-0 win over UConn in 2022 and a 3-1 win over No. 22 Western Kentucky last season.
• Penn State will play a nationally-ranked opponent in its home opener for the second-straight season, but just the fifth time in program history. The Nittany Lions lost to No. 12 UC Santa Barbara in 1986 and posted wins over No. 4 Texas in 2007, No. 9, Stanford in 2012, and No. 22 Western Kentucky in 2023.
• The Nittany Lions have won 12 straight home openers, with the last loss coming to Oregon in 2011.
  
SERIES HISTORY
• Penn State is 7-2 in the all-time series with Louisville. The teams first played in 1982.
• The Nittany Lions have won six of the past seven matches against the Cardinals, but lost the most recent in a road match last season.
• Penn State is 3-0 against Louisville at Rec Hall, winning in 1986, 1998 and 2013.

SCOUTING LOUISVILLE
• Louisville is ranked fourth in the nation after a 2-0 start with wins over then-No.3 Wisconsin and then-No. 15 Tennessee.
• The Cardinals were picked third in the ACC Preseason Poll but did pick up two first-place votes. Redshirt junior middle blocker Cara Cresse, graduate student outside hitter Anna DeBeer, senior outside hitter Charitie Luper, and senior libero Elena Scott were named to the Preseason All-ACC Team.
• DeBeer, Scott and Cress were all second-team All-Americans last season.

STREAKS TO WATCH
Gillian Grimes
· 2 straight matches with multiple aces
Team
· 6 straight wins against non-conference opponents (including postseason) dating back to last season

MILESTONES
• Jess Mruzik recorded her 1,000th career kill during the first set of a 3-0 home win over Colgate on Sept. 2, 2023. She enters the match with 1,489 career kills and 887 digs.
• Camryn Hannah recorded her 1,000th career kill during the first set of a 3-0 home win over UMBC on Sept. 15, 2023. She enters the match with 1,308 career kills.
• Taylor Trammell enters the match with 456 career blocks, needing just 44 to reach 500.

REC HALL SUCCESS
•  Penn State is 709-55 (.928) all-time at Rec Hall.
•  The Lions are 333-37 (.900) against Big Ten opponents at Rec Hall and 376-18 (.954) against non-conference opponents.

UP NEXT
• Up next for Penn State is the Kentucky Invitational, where the Nittany Lions will play the host Wildcats on Friday and Ball State on Saturday.
• Kentucky is ranked ninth in the latest AVCA National Poll. The Wildcats are 3-1 following three straight wins over Northern Kentucky, Western Kentucky, and Morehead State.
• Ball State is 2-1 following a 3-0 loss to FAU in its most recent match.