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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.  – The University of West Florida volleyball team will take on North Alabama in the first round of the NCAA South Regional on Thursday at 5:00 p.m. ET. The game will be from Ruben Arena on the campus of Palm Beach Atlantic University.
 
WELL, WELL, WELL - WE MEET AGAIN
- UWF will play conference rival North Alabama for the fourth time this season. It is the second time ever that UWF will play UNA four times in one season, with the previous occasion happening in 2010. UWF went 3-1 against the Lions that year.
- UWF and UNA will square off just 11 days after a five-set battle in the GSC Championship, which UNA claimed for its 18th title in program history. The loss for UWF snapped an 11-match winning streak at home.
 
AGAINST THE LIONS IN 2016
- West Florida took both decisions during the regular season before falling to the Lions in the postseason.
- UWF has won eight of a possible 12 sets, including a sweep of then-No. 21 UNA on Oct. 8.
- In head-to-head contests, UWF leads UNA in nearly every statistical categoriy, including hitting percentage (.308-.233), kills per set (14.83-13.58) assists per set (14.08-12.50) and blocks per set (2.46-1.42). Digs per set are exactly even at 13.67-13.67.
- Corisha Smith leads the team with an astounding 4.75 kills per set against the Lions this year, which goes along with a .393 attack percentage.
- Rachel Neblett leads the team with a .431 hitting percetage against UNA.
- Monique StCyr is averaging 12.42 assists per set, while Tori Martella is recording 3.58 digs per set against UNA.
- Kathryn Torre leads UWF's blocking game, averagine 1.42 blocks per set against UNA this year.
- West Florida has limited all players with at least two attack attempts per set to hitting percentages under .300.
- UWF has limited 2016 GSC Player of the Year Natasha Fomina to a .218 hitting percentage and 2016 GSC Tournament Most Outstanding Player Peyton Lang to a .295 success rate.
 
NCAA TOURNAMENT HISTORY
- West Florida will be making its 11th consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance, which is a streak that stands as the ninth longest active streak in Division II.
- UWF has an 8-10 all-time record in the NCAA Tournament, and is looking to snap a three-game losing skid in regional action.
 
GSC TOURNAMENT RECAP
- West Florida went 1-1 in its 14th consecutive GSC Tournament appearance, topping Christian Brothers in three sets in the semifinal before falling to UNA in five sets in the championship match.
- West Florida, the 2016 GSC Regular Season Champions for the second concecutive year and seventh time overall, had Tori Martella and Corisha Smith named to the 2016 GSC All-Tournament team.
- In UWF's five-set setback against UNA, the Argonauts topped the Lions in hitting percentage (.268-.247), in total kills (61-59), in attack errors (20-22), service aces (8-6), assists (57-54), blocks (11-9) and digs (56-55).
- UWF reached its ninth GSC Championship match in the last 10 years after topping Christian Brothers in three sets. UWF held CBU to a .047 attack percentage and hit at a .297 clip.
 
AGAINST THE FIELD
- UWF is 42-46 all-time against teams competing in this year's regional, but holds all-time winning records against Saint Leo, North Alabama and Lynn. The only team in this year's regional UWF has never faced is Kentucky State.
- The South Region has produced six national champions or national runner ups since 2001.
- Across the nation, UWF has played seven teams appearing in the 2016 NCAA Tournament. Those seven teams feature a one seed, three two seeds, a three seed, a four seed and a five seed.
 
RECAPPING NOVEMBER
- Until the setback against UNA in the GSC Championship, UWF was a perfect  6-0 and had won 18 of 19 sets against their opponents in November.
- UWF had several offensive standouts during the month of November, including Kathryn Torre who led the team with a .390 hitting percentage. Torre also contributed a team-high 1.50 blocks per set during the month of November. 
- Rachel Neblett (.383), Jordyn Poppen (.333) and Corisha Smith (.332) all had hitting percentages north of .300, while Smith led the team with 3.92 kills per set last month.
- UWF hit .314 as a team in November, and held its opponents to a .135 hitting percentage over seven matches.
- Neblett recorded 14 service aces over the month, while only posting four service errors. Neblett also is second on the team with 1.12 blocks per set during November.
 
BACK TO CAMPUS
- Graduate assistant coach Becca Acevedo will return to her alma mater Palm Beach Atlantic, as PBA serves as the 2016 NCAA South Regional host.
- Acevedo was a four-year standout for the Sailfish, and was a three-time AVCA All-American and three-time AVCA All-South Region selection.
- The Miami native accumulated 5,194 assists in her role as PBA's starting setter from 2011-2014.
- Acevedo led PBA to a 124-17 record during her career, which included three NCAA Regional appearances and a pair of regional final appearances.
 
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.
 
POSTSEASON AWARDS
- 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.
- UWF also had a region-high three all-region award winners, including StCyr, Torre and Smith. Torre and Smith were named to the D2CCA's South Region first team, while StCyr was one of three players that earned the honor in 2015 to earn it again in 2016.
- With Torre and Smith earning first-team honors, both players will be eligible for All-American consideration. The D2CCA All-American teams will be released on Dec. 6.
 
KATHRYN TORRE
- Torre currently ranks second in the South Region with a .360 hitting percentage, which is also good for 28th best in the nation. She also ranks fourth in the region with 117 total blocks, and her current .346 career hitting percentage is well on track to break the program's all-time record. Torre earned 2016 All-GSC First Team honors earlier this month and is one of 19 players in program history to have earned All-GSC recognition twice.
 
CORISHA SMITH
- Smith is the only player in the South Region to have a hitting percentage over .300 (.303) while averaging over three kills per set (3.04). The 2016 All-GSC First Team honoree also earned a 2016 GSC All-Tournament nod, and was recognized for her dominant effort at the South Region Crossover with All-Tournament recognition. She is just 12 kills away 1,000 in her career, and would be the sixth player in program history to join the 1,000-kills club.
 
MONIQUE STCYR
- StCyr, who became the program's assist leader with now 3,248 in her three-year career, is one of three players in the region to earn back-to-back all-region selections in 2015 and 2016. Her 1,251 assists this year is the third most ever in a single season at UWF, and broke her previous career high of 1,179 which she did last year as a sophomore. She has quarterbacked the UWF offense to a .262 hitting percentage, which is the second best mark in program history and the best since the 2003 team converted at a .264 clip. StCyr became the fourth-ever volleyball player at UWF to earn All-GSC selections three times.
 
 TORI MARTELLA
- Martella, the only player in the conference to win GSC Defensive Player of the Week three times this season, is second in the GSC with 4.82 digs per set. In a 14-dig performance against Alabama Huntsville on Nov. 12, Martella set a new single-season record at UWF with her 573rd dig of the season. Against UNA in the GSC Championship, she became the first player to ever record 600 digs in a single season. Earlier this year Martella became UWF's career digs leader, and has tallied 1,861 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.
 
RACHEL NEBLETT
-Neblett currently stands as the GSC's blocks leader at 1.07 blocks per set and is fourth in the league with a .355 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.
 
HOW SWEEP IT IS
- Nine of UWF's last 10 victories have come in three sets. UWF is 16-2 in three-set matches this year.
- 16 of UWF's 25 wins have come in sweeping fashion this year, accounting for 64% of wins this year.
 
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
1,861- 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.
- She recorded her 600th dig of the season against UNA in the GSC Championship, becoming the first-ever player to record 600 digs in a season at UWF.
- 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 1,251 this season is the third 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)
 
ANOTHER CAREER RECORD
-Kathryn Torre stands as UWF's all-time hitting percentage leader, and to recognize how secure she will have the record at the end of this season, the following scenarios would need to happen for Torre to not finish her career as the program's leader.
            1.  Torre would finish as the program's hitting percentage leader even if each of her next 28 swings were errors.
            2. She would also still be the program's leader even if she did not record a kill or error on any of her next 112 attacks.
 
ATTACK PERCENTANGE (Minimum 2 yrs & 1,000 attacks)
.346 - Kathryn Torre (2014-2016)
.316 - Kristy Krause (2000-2003)
.312 - Patricia Gandolfo (2008-2009)
 
STARTING HOT
- The Argonauts have won the first set of a match 31 times this season out of a possible 34 matches.
- UWF has outscored its opponents 830-625 in the first set, good for a 6.03-point average margin of victory in the first set.
 
SCOUTING PBA
-Palm Beach Atlantic finished the 2016 season 28-3, with a most recent 3-1 win against Saint Leo University. PBA currently rides a 28-match win streak, and is ranked No. 10 in the AVCA's national rankings.
-Ally Rhon, Molly Burkhardt, Emma Ballantyne, Sarah Ragland, and Susie Forbes lead Palm Beach, with 13.49 kills per set.
-Ally Rhon leads the Sailfish with four 20-kill matches this season.
-This is PBA's fifth consecutive year participating in the South Region Tournament and the school's second year hosting the tournament.
 
SCOUTING SAINT LEO
-Saint Leo finished the regular season 20-11 and 12-4 in the SSC.
-Hope Lemon leads the Lions with a 3.31 kills per set percentage and a .199 hitting percentage.
-Saint Leo's head coach Sam Cibrone was named the Sunshine State Conference Coach of the Year for the second year in a row.
- UWF swept Saint Leo earlier this season at the South Region Crossover in Orlando. Last year the two teams faced off in the No. 4-No. 5 matchup
 
SCOUTING TAMPA
-The Spartans finished the 2016 season 22-8 and 12-4 in the conference, most recently recording a 3-1 win against Nova Southeastern.
-Tampa is led by senior Allee Stelogeannis who has 4.08 kills per set and a .237 hitting percentage and was also named SSC Player of the Year.
 
SCOUTING UNA
-The University of North Alabama finished the 2016 season 29-5 with a most recent 3-2 win against West Florida.
-Natasha Fomina leads the Lions with an average 3.49 kills per set and a .288 hitting percentage.
-North Alabama won the GSC Championship for the second year in a row and is presently ranked No. 25 in the nation by the AVCA.
 
SCOUTING LYNN
-Lynn finished the 2016 season 20-10 and 11-5 in the  SSC.
-Senior Cleuza Porto leads the Fighting Knights with an averaged 3.56 kills per sets and a .226 hitting percentage.
-Senior Marissa Tandron was picked for the All-SSC First Team while seniors Lydia West and Cleuza Porto both awarded on the All-SSC Second Team this year.
 
SCOUTING FLORIDA SOUTHERN
-Florida Southern ended this season with 20-10 and 11-5 in conference, with a most recent 3-2 win against Western Oregon.
-Anna Tovo leads Florida Southern and is first in the conference and 12th nationally in kills, with an average 4.29 kills per set and a .217 hitting percentage.
 
SCOUTING KENTUCKY STATE
-Kentucky State University finished the regular season 21-17 and 10-3 in conference, the team won the SIAC Championship against Claflin 3-1.
-Tahje Ochs leads Kentucky State with 2.42 kills per set and a .192 hitting percentage.
-The Thorobreds have won three Southern Intercollegiate Conference Championships in the past four years.