The University of Regina's volleyball teams close out their 2015-16 home schedules this weekend with matches on Friday night and Saturday night against the University of Alberta at the Centre for Kinesiology, Health & Sport.
Match times are scheduled for 6 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Friday and for 5 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. on Saturday. The women's match will be played first on both nights.
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For four fifth-year seniors this weekend, it'll be their final two matches at the CKHS – one from the women's team and three from the men's team, and all four have made significant contributions to their respective programs over their five seasons.
The only fifth-year player on the women's team,
Tori Glynn graduated from St. Mary High School in Prince Albert back in 2011 and has been a four-year starter for the Cougars at outside hitter. She's only two kills away from 700 for her career, and when she hits that mark she'll become one of just two Cougars – former teammate Meagan Onstad is the other – to have 700 career kills and 700 career digs since the rally point was established. Her career total of 720 digs is second in U of R history, and she's also fifth in school history with 83 service aces.
Known for his powerful jump serve,
Andre Borgeaud is one of the three fifth-year players on the men's side. That serve has given Borgeaud a school-record total of 53 aces over his career, and he also ranks second in U of R history with 338 sets played, third with 502 digs, and seventh with 549 kills.
Andre's younger brother
Jacques Borgeaud has been one of his teammates on the Cougars since they both came to the U of R prior to the 2011-12 season. And he's consistently been one of the best liberos in the conference, as he holds the school record with 896 career digs – over 350 more than second place on that list, Christopher Knoop. Jacques is also the school's record holder with 339 sets played, one more than Andre.
The U of R's final fifth-year player is
Matthew Lueck, who joined the Cougars for a redshirt season in 2010-11 after graduating from Michael A. Riffel High School in Regina. Lueck didn't play much the following season, but was thrust into a starting role in 2012-13 and has been one of the team's go-to hitters since. Lueck is second in school history behind
Andre Borgeaud with 46 career service aces and is also ranked in the U of R's top ten in career kills (476) and career digs (303).
After this weekend, both teams will close out their 2015-16 campaigns with matches at MacEwan on Feb. 5 and Feb. 6 and at Saskatchewan on Feb. 19 and Feb. 20.
