In the middle of a stretch of the Canada West schedule which sees the Cougars at home for six out of eight matches in January, the University of Regina's women's volleyball team hosts Thompson Rivers this weekend at the Centre for Kinesiology, Health & Sport.
Match times are scheduled for 6 p.m. on Friday and 5 p.m. on Saturday.
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Tori Glynn is playing in her second last home weekend for the Cougars, and she's certainly made her mark on the program. Glynn needs just four more kills to join Meagan Onstad as the only U of R players in rally-point era history to surpass the 700 mark in both kills and digs. She trails only Kelly Cowan on the school digs list with 716 and enters the weekend in sixth place with 696 career kills – and only 24 behind Onstad for fifth.
While head coach
Melanie Sanford has largely settled on a lineup which includes Glynn,
Erika Burns,
Jenna Krahn,
Kyla Payette,
Ashlee Sandiford, and
Molly Wade-Cummings with
Taylor Ungar at libero, she's also gone to the bench often over the past few matches.
Dominika Janowczyk,
Diana Lumbala,
Brooke Mothe, and
Haley Wagar all played in both matches last weekend at Winnipeg, with Lumbala tallying a career-high nine kills in Saturday's match.
The Cougars will take on a Thompson Rivers team that has put together a respectable 7-9 record in Canada West play and enters the weekend in a three-way knot with Brandon and Saskatchewan for fifth in the conference standings. And there'll be a sense of urgency for TRU this weekend and next, as the WolfPack's final four matches are difficult ones against Canada West-leading Trinity Western (15-1) and fourth-place UBC (11-3).
TRU's player to watch is Iuliia Pakhomenko, the conference's runaway leader in kills (306), kills per set (4.86), attacks (715), and service aces (29).
After this weekend's set against TRU, the Cougars will close out their home schedule with two matches against Alberta on Jan. 29 and Jan. 30 before finishing the conference schedule with four straight on the road.
