Women's Volleyball | October 30

DeKALB, Ill – After spending a majority of the month of October at home, the Northern Illinois University Huskies volleyball team (3-18,1-10 MAC) heads to the University at Buffalo for a two-game series against the Bulls (12-13, 8-4 MAC).
 
The Huskies and Bull will have first serve on November 1 at 5 p.m. CT before concluding the series on November 2 at 3 p.m. CT.
 
The Huskies last visited Buffalo in the 2022 season, splitting action with the Bulls. NIU has claimed three of the last five meetings, although they've dropped the last two meetings.
 
Previewing the Bulls
 
The Bulls won seven of their ten MAC games in the month of October, including five straight games to start the month of October.
 
Katrin Trebichavska leads the team and the MAC in kills per set, averaging 3.97. Trebichavska has 294 kills this season and surpassed the 1,000-career kill mark earlier this season. Trebichavska leads the conference in aces per set with .54 and total aces with 40 this season.
 
Manoela Forlin is second on the team with 3.20 kills per set while Abby Leigh rounds out the top-3 with 2.31 kills per set. Leigh is third in the conference in hitting percentage while Forlin is eighth in kills per set.
 
Mandy Leigh is second in the league in assists with 9.10 per set while Maria Futey is fifth in digs per set at 3.99. 
 
Tracking the Milestones
 
Inching ever closer to a milestone, Charli Atiemo (Milford, Mich./Farmington Hills Mercy) is 21 kills away from passing the 1,000-career kill mark.
 
With 13 double-digit kill games this season, Atiemo is on track to reach the 1,000-career kill mark. If Atiemo surpasses the 1,000 mark this season, she would become the 23rd Huskie to reach that milestone.
 
Ella Strausberger (Plainfield, Ill./Plainfield North) is just 13 assists away from passing the 500-assists mark in her debut season. Strausberger sits at 487 assists, seeing action in all NIU's games this season.
 
Huskie Stat Leaders
                             
Atiemo is tenth in the conference in terms of hitting percentage, sitting at .306 while Strausberger is No. 10 in the league for assists per set, sitting at 6.24.
 
Ava Grevengoed (Shorewood, Ill./Joliet West) is fifth in the MAC for aces per set at .38 and sixth for total aces with 30. Grevengoed leads the Huskies with 223 kills while Nazli Güvener (Ankara, Turkey/Elvankent Sinar) leads the Huskies with 3.01 kills per set.

Crew Hoffmeier (Louisville, Ky./Assumption) leads the Huskies and the MAC with 4.90 digs per set. Hoffmeier is second in the conference standings with 397 total digs this season.