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PENSACOLA, Fla.   –  The University of West Florida volleyball team awaits a Gulf South Conference Tournament semifinal matchup against Christian Brothers, slated for a 1:00 p.m. start on Saturday. The other semifinal matchup between North Alabama and Shorter is scheduled for 3:30, and the two semifinal winners will move on and play for the GSC Championship on Sunday at 1:00 p.m.
 
GSC TOURNAMENT HISTORY
- West Florida will appear in its 14th consecutive GSC Tournament, which stands as the second longest streak with North Alabama making its 35th-straight showing in 2016.
- UWF finished the regular season in first place and are hosting the tournament for the seventh time ever. With an identical 17-3 record, UWF and Shorter were named Co-Regular Season Champions.
- UWF is aiming for its seventh GSC Championship, and first since 2013. West Florida collected six consecutive titles from 2008-2013.
- West Florida is 19-7 all-time in the GSC Tournament, owning a .731 winning percentage.
- UWF's .731 winning percentage and 19 total wins are second most in conference history, trailing only UNA (74-24 all-time, .755 winning percentage).
- Kathryn Torre and Monique StCyr are returning GSC All-Tournament selections from last year's tournament.
 
AGAINST THE FIELD
- In six matches against the three other semifinalists, UWF went 5-1 and won 17 of a possible 22 sets.
- UWF held those teams to a .154 hitting percentage while converting at a .278 clip offensively.
- Corisha Smith is averaging a team-high 3.78 kills per set with a strong .368 hitting percentage against GSC semifinalists.
- Monique StCyr is averaging 11.62 assists per set, while Tori Martella is posting 4.62 digs per set against UNA, SU and CBU.
- Kathryn Torre and Rachel Neblett are each averaging over a block per set, while contributing hitting percentages over .400. Torre owns a 1.08 blocks per set average with a .400 hitting percentage, while Neblett is posting  a block per set with a .464 hitting percentage against GSC semifinalists.
 
ANOTHER ONE
- With an undefeated record at home against conference opponents, UWF has posted its seventh consecutive regular season without a loss to a conference opponent at the UWF Field House.
- UWF currently rides a 61-match winning streak at home against conference opponents in the regular season, dating back to its last home GSC loss on Oct. 24, 2009 against North Alabama.
 
ALL-GSC HONOREES
- UWF had a league-most five All-GSC selections with Kathryn Torre, Corisha Smith and Monique StCyr earning First Team honors and Tori Martella and Rachel Neblett earning Second Team nods.
- Torre, a middle blocker from Highland, Illinois, is second in the conference with a .358 hitting percentage. She has recorded seven games with 15 kills or more, and eight games with a hitting percentage of .500 or better. Should Torre keep up her current pace, her hitting percentage would be the second highest single-season mark, while her career attack percentage of .344 is set to shatter the program's career record, which currently stands at .316. The senior is also seventh in the GSC with 0.91 blocks per set and second with 107 total blocks. Her 226 career blocks currently stands as the 10th most in program history.
-Smith currently stands eighth in the conference in both hitting percentage (.313) and kills per set (3.04), being the only player in the conference to sit inside the league's top 10 in both statistics. Smith earned GSC Offensive Player of the Week honors on Oct. 18 after recording 41 kills with a 3.42 kills per set average at the South Region Crossover. The senior posted a career-high 22 kills in a pivotal match against North Alabama this past weekend, and her 963 career kills is the sixth most in UWF's history.
- StCyr was the lone setter featured on the GSC's First Team, and is second in the conference with 10.15 assists per set this year. The junior recorded 98 assists in seven sets this past weekend, good for a 14 assists per set average. She has recorded 1.20 points per set this year, and has set up UWF to a .261 team hitting percentage – its best since the 2003 team recorded a .264 hitting percentage. Earlier this year, StCyr set the program's career assist record and has 3,164 total in her career. Her 1,167 total assists this year is the fifth most in a single season at UWF.
-Martella, the only player in the conference to win GSC Defensive Player of the Week three times this season, is the conference's digs leader with 4.90 digs per set as teams prepare for postseason play. In a 14-dig performance against Alabama Huntsville on Saturday, Martella set a new single-season record at UWF with her 573rd dig of the season. Earlier this year Martella became UWF's career digs leader, and has tallied 1,832 so far in her career. She is just the second player in UWF history to have five GSC Defensive Player of the Week awards, and the fifth player in the program to have five Player of the Week awards overall. The Jacksonville native has two 30-dig games on the season, a feat that has only been done seven times at West Florida, which includes a 35-dig performance against Central Missouri – good for the second most in any match at UWF.
-Neblett currently stands as the GSC's blocks leader at 1.08 blocks per set and is third in the league with a .356 hitting percentage. Neblett earned her first career GSC Offensive Player of the Week honor on Oct. 11, recording a .513 hitting percentage, 24 total kills and a 4.0 kills per set average over two home matches against Alabama Huntsville and then-No. 21 North Alabama. Her career .264 hitting percentage is eighth best in the program's history, and she has recorded 12 games with a double-digit kill total. The Austin, Texas native has also posted nine games this year with at least eight kills to go along with a .500 hitting percentage. She recorded a new career-high with 10 blocks against Lee on Oct. 29, tied for the fifth most in a single match in UWF history.
 
REGIONAL RANKINGS
- West Florida jumped up two spots to No. 4 in the NCAA South Region rankings on two weeks ago, and maintained that record when the new rankings were released on Wednesday. UWF is currently the highest ranked GSC club.
- The ranking for UWF is its highest since entering the 2012 tournament as the South Region's No. 2 seed.
-  Palm Beach Atlantic, Saint Leo and Tampa take up the top three spots. North Alabama and Shorter are other GSC clubs appearing the rankings, at No. 6 and No. 9, respectively.
 
HOW SWEEP IT IS
- Eight of UWF's last nine victories have come in three sets. UWF is 15-2 in three-set matches this year.
- 15 of UWF's 24 wins have come in sweeping fashion this year, accounting for 62.5% of wins this year.
- UWF has outscored its opponents 782-589 in the first set, good for a 6.02-point average margin of victory in the first set.
 
CAN YOU DIG IT?
- Senior Tori Martella claimed the UWF all-time digs record against Shorter on Oct. 28, recording 30 digs. Those 30 were the second-most the Jacksonville native has posted this season, and it was just the seventh 30-dig performance in program history.
 
UWF CAREER DIGS RECORD
1,832- Tori Martella (2013-present)
1,706 - Jerica Carter (2005-2008)
1,519 - Autumn Duyn (2011-2015)
 
ANOTHER RECORD? SURE, WHY NOT?
- Martella set another record in UWF's 3-0 sweep over Alabama Huntsville, as her 14 digs propelled her to 573 on the year -- the most in a single season ever at West Florida.
- Martella broke her own record of 572 digs, which she set last year.
- The senior became first-ever player to record two 500+ dig seasons in a career, and just the third player to ever post two 415-dig seasons in a career.
 
MONIQUE STCYR SET A RECORD
- Just a day after Martella set the digs record, junior Monique StCyr helped her way to the UWF all-time assists record by surpassing Madeline Gonzalez's (2007-2008) 2,926 assists. StCyr's 1,179 assists in 2015 were the fourth most in a single season by a UWF player, and her 1,167 this season is already the fifth most in a single season at UWF. Including this year, StCyr has posted three of the top 11 assists marks in single-season UWF history. StCyr set the all-time mark on her 16th assist against Lee on Oct. 29.
 
UWF CAREER ASSISTS RECORD
3,164 - Monique StCyr (2014-present)
2,926 - Madeline Gonzalez (2007-2008)
2,601 - Tricia Tirabassi (2009-2011)
2,577 - Melina Pereira (2003, 2005-2006)
 
STARTING HOT
- The Argonauts have won the first set of a match 29 times this season out of a possible 32 matches.
- UWF has outscored its opponents 782-589 in the first set, good for a 6.02-point average margin of victory in the first set.
 
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