ARLINGTON --- Alli Wells will look to break the program's all-time digs record on Saturday as the UT Arlington volleyball team (18-8, 7-6 WAC) hosts Seattle U (7-17, 2-11 WAC) inside the College Park Center at noon.
 
It will be the team's final home tilt of the season, and seven people will be honored prior to the match as part of senior day festivities including Wells, Brianna Ford, Kortney Puckett, Alyssa Duran, Mollie Blank and Briana Brown on the player side while Kylee Kapp will also be recognized after dedicating the past six years to the program - four as a player and the past two as a graduate assistant.
 

UT ARLINGTON VOLLEYBALL INFORMATION
Match 27	UT Arlington (18-8, 7-6 WAC) vs. Seattle U (7-17, 2-11 WAC)
Date | Time	Saturday, Nov. 4 | 12 p.m.
Location	College Park Center (CPC) | Arlington, Texas
Live Stats	Stat Broadcast
Streaming	ESPN+ ($)
Tickets	UTAtickets.com
Game Notes	UT Arlington (PDF)

WELLS ON VERGE OF HISTORY
Alli Wells looks to break UTA's all-time digs record on Saturday as she sits just nine shy of breaking Alicia Shaffer's (2,033, 2008-11) record. After recording a team-best 19 digs on Saturday, she has 2,025. On top of that, she now has 100 career matches with double-digit digs, as well as 70 outings with 15-or-more.

BLANK WINS WAC HONOR, CONTINUES STRONG PLAY
For the second time this season, Mollie Blank was named the WAC Setter of the Week on Wednesday. It was also her third career weekly award along with her WAC Defensive Player of the Week selection on Nov. 14 last season.
 
Blank opened the week with 49 assists and four digs in the team's four-set win over UTRGV, helping the Mavs avenge an earlier loss to the Vaqueros. She followed that up with her fourth double-double of the season, which included 39 assists, a season-best 14 digs, a season-high-tying three kills, two blocks and an ace in a four-set loss to Stephen F. Austin.
 
The Mansfield native has now recorded at least 33 assists in each of her past eight matches, including at least 40 in five of those. She recently became the 10th player in program history to eclipse 2,000 assists. This year alone, her 9.08 assists per set easily surpasses her previous career-best of 5.84.
 

Date	Opponent	Assists	Digs	Kills	Blocks
10/7/23	CBU	41	5	2	0
10/12/23	ACU	44	4	1	4
10/14/23	Tarleton	33	8	2	0
10/19/23	Southern Utah	41	6	1	0
10/21/23	Utah Tech	50	7	1	2
10/28/23	UTRGV	49	4	1	1
10/30/23	SFA	39	14	3	21
11/2/23	Utah Valley	37	12	3	1

THE TERMINATOR
After having her streak of consecutive double-doubles snapped at six against UTRGV, senior outside hitter Brianna Ford started a new streak against SFA and has now produced eight over the team's past nine matches, a stretch in which she has averaged 18 kills, 13.6 digs, 4.3 blocks, 1.4 aces and 1.2 assists per outing.
 
With her latest double-double, Ford pushed her career total to 40, which allowed her to move past Chris Rudiger (1986-89) for 15th most in program history. She also increased her career termination total to 1,185, which places her 13th on the program's all-time list, trailing Fannie Burton (1,245, 1991-94).
 

Date	Opponent	Kills	Pct.	Digs	Blocks	Assists	Aces
10/5/23	GCU	15	.297	11	4	1	1
10/7/23	CBU	25	.561	11	3	-	2
10/12/23	ACU	23	.347	11	5	3	3
10/14/23	Tarleton	19	.196	21	4	3	-
10/19/23	Southern Utah	17	.200	11	6	-	2
10/21/23	Utah Tech	17	.132	13	4	1	2
10/28/23	UTRGV	18	.333	8	5	1	-
10/30/23	SFA	17	.324	19	2	1	2
11/2/23	Utah Valley	11	.049	17	6	1	1

 
AMONG THE BEST
As a team, UT Arlington ranks 10th nationally in both total assists (1,224) and total kills (1,325). They are also among the top 50 in kills per set (38th, 13.52) and assists per set (47th, 12.49). Individually, Brianna Ford checks in 13th in total points (440.5), 19th in total kills (370), 31st in points per set (4.69) and 44th in kills per set (3.94). Mollie Blank ranks 53rd in total assists (844) and 111th in assists per set (9.08). Paige Reagor ranks 50th in hitting percentage (.374) and 69th in blocks per set (1.18). Alli Wells is 67th in total digs (393).

SERIES HISTORY
The Mavs are 3-1 all-time against Seattle U, although this will be the first meeting in Arlington between the two programs since UTA produced a sweep of the Redhawks on Oct. 13, 2012. The Mavs defeated Seattle U in four sets on Sept. 28 of this year and will be looking for a season sweep of the Redhawks on Saturday.
 
BEAST IN THE MIDDLE
After missing most of non-conference play due to an injury, senior middle blocker Paige Reagor is rounding into form, averaging 14.3 kills and 5.7 blocks over the past seven matches with a .415 hitting percentage. She has double-digit terminations in each of those outings, recorded a season-best 22 kills against Southern Utah, and has produced an incredible 41 kills with just four errors over 64 attempts over the past three matches for a .578 hitting percentage.

On Oct. 14 against Tarleton, Reagor became the first UTA volleyball player to record a double-double in kills and blocks since Briana Sharatt totaled 10 kills and 11 blocks against Texas Southern on Sept. 12, 2014. In fact, Reagor produced just the 20th kill-block double-double in the program's history since 1987, and she's just the 12th player since then to record at least one.
 

Date	Opponent	Kills	Errors	Attempts	Pct.	Blocks
10/12/23	ACU	14	3	24	.458	5
10/14/23	Tarleton	13	6	32	.219	10
10/19/23	Southern Utah	22	4	45	.400	7
10/21/23	Utah Tech	10	5	23	.217	8
10/28/23	UTRGV	13	0	19	.684	2
10/30/23	SFA	12	2	21	.476	2
11/2/23	Utah Valley	16	2	24	.583	6

A PAIR OF ACES
Alyssa Duran produced a UTA season-best five aces against UTRGV this past Saturday, becoming the first Mav since Alli Wells on Sept. 9, 2022 against South Florida to produce that many in a match. She also has nine matches with double-digit digs this year, including three of the past seven and five of the past 11.
 
Meanwhile, freshman Evyn Snook produced a season-best four aces on Monday against SFA and added two more against Utah Valley. She has accumulated eight over the past four outings after tallying six total prior to that this season.
 
SHE'S BACK
After missing six matches, senior outside hitter Briana Brown returned to the court on Monday against SFA, producing six kills and two digs over a pair of sets. She added three kills and two blocks on Thursday against Utah Valley while also pushing her career termination total to 843, which ties her with Jinni Touchstone (1995-98) for 27th place on the program's all-time list.
 
RARE DEFEAT
On Monday, UTA handed SFA just its fifth set loss of the season as the Lumberjacks are 13-0 in conference play with eight sweeps.
   
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