Wichita State outside hitter Lindsey Eckenrode, a junior from The Woodlands, Texas, leads the team with 14 service aces and her average of 2.59 kills a set is second.
Q: You’re in the starting lineup and you have your mini-volleyball ready to throw during introductions – how do you decide where in the arena you are going to aim?
A: If I have family there, they’re first choice. After that, whoever I see that I know first, I try to throw it over there. It usually doesn’t make it.
Q: Guess the crowd for Friday’s match against Missouri State at Koch Arena.
A: I’m going to go with 4,500. Hopefully, it will be more.
Q: Which is the best match played by WSU this season?
A: That’s hard. Cal Poly (a 3-2 victory in August). We never gave up and we had to play hard through that entire thing.
Q: What’s the best thing about being ranked No. 16 in the nation?
A: It being school history, in the record books.
- WSU says about 500 advance tickets have been sold for Friday’s match against Missouri State. A large walk-up crowd is expected. The first 1,000 fans receive a free WSU volleyball T-shirt. WSU set a school record with a crowd of 6,122 against MSU last season.