CONWAY, S.C. – The Coastal Carolina women's volleyball team (14-4, 8-0 SBC) will kick-off a four-match road Sun Belt Conference road swing this weekend in the Lone Star State, as the Chanticleers will face off with Texas State (10-11, 6-2 SBC) on Friday, Oct. 22, and then UT Arlington (5-12, 3-5 SBC) on Saturday, Oct. 23. Both matches are scheduled for 7 p.m. ET start times.

Saturday night's match at UTA will be video streamed live on ESPN+.

WEEKEND SCHEDULE
at Texas State, Friday, Oct. 22 – 7 p.m. ET
at UTA, Saturday, Oct. 23 – 7 p.m. ET (ESPN+)
 
SERIES HISTORY VERSUS TEXAS STATE & UTA
The Chanticleers are 3-5 all-time versus Texas State, having lost four straight matches in the overall series heading into Friday night's contest.
 
Coastal is 3-2 all-time versus the UTA Mavericks, including having won each of the last two meetings between the two teams.
 
LAST TIME OUT
The Chanticleers improved to 14-4 overall this season, 8-0 in SBC play, and took control of first place in the Sun Belt East Division with victories over ULM (Oct. 15) and South Alabama (Oct. 17) at the HTC Center last weekend.
 
CCU IS PERFECT
Since the start of the 2020 season, the Chanticleers own a perfect record in regular-season Sun Belt Conference matches (24-0). Coastal went 16-0 in SBC play in 2020 and is off to an 8-0 start in conference play this season.
 
SUN BELT STREAK
The Chants' current Sun Belt Conference winning streak sits at 28-straight wins dating all the way back to the 2019 season. The last time CCU lost in the conference regular season was on Nov. 2, 2019, at Troy.
 
CHASING 200
Coastal Carolina head coach Jozsef Forman is on the brink of his 200th career win as the leader of the Chanticleer volleyball program. In his 10th season at CCU, Forman is 199-75 overall at CCU and has posted a 257-114 overall record in 13 seasons as a head coach.
 
NEW FACE IN ALYSSA ESKE
Junior defensive specialist Alyssa Eske joined the indoor volleyball team just two weeks ago, as she is a member of the beach volleyball team.
 
Eske is a transfer from Illinois, where she played 16 matches in 2020-21 as a sophomore and in seven matches as a freshman in 2019.
 
The Wisconsin native originally joined the Coastal Carolina beach volleyball team to play alongside her sister Katlin Eske.
 
THIRD TIME IS THE CHARM
Each of Coastal Carolina's last two losses has come to the Texas State Bobcats, with both defeats coming in the finals of the Sun Belt Championship Volleyball Tournament in each of the last two years.
 
Coastal dropped just one match last year in an abbreviated 2020 fall season, falling to the Bobcats in the championship title match 3-2 (25-20, 18-25, 25-23, 19-25, 6-15).
 
Prior to the 2020 fall campaign, the Chants' last loss was the very last match in 2019, a 3-1 (24-26, 25-19, 21-25, 18-25) defeat in the 2019 championship title match versus the Bobcats.
 
QUICK WORK
Coastal has made quick work of most of its opponents this season, as exactly half of their matches this season (9-of-18) have lasted just three sets.
 
Record by Match Sets
Sets                Record
3 sets              6-3     
4 sets              6-0     
5 sets              2-1     
 
PETRENKO = ACE
Junior setter Brigitta Petrenko has been on point behind the service line again this season, as she leads the conference in both service aces (33) and services aces per set (0.50).
 
TOPS IN SBC
The Chanticleers come into the weekend as the best serving team and blocking team in the Sun Belt Conference. CCU leads the SBC and ranks 25th nationally in service aces per set at 1.82 and also leads the league and ranks 40th overall in all of NCAA D1 volleyball with a blocks per set average of 2.51 on the season.
 
CCU also ranks second in the Sun Belt in hitting percentage on the season at .240 on the year.
 
CCU CAREER-HIGH FOR CHEYENNE
First-year Chant Cheyenne Jones posted a CCU career-high with 18 kills in the Sunday afternoon five-set win over Louisiana (Oct. 17).
 
Her overall career-high in kills in a match is 25, set against Southern Miss while a member of the UTEP Miners volleyball team in 2019.
 
MOVING UP THE ALL-TIME LIST
Brigitta Petrenko passed Sam Skyrd ('14) and Nevada Blondstien ('00) earlier this season for seventh all-time in school history in career assists. Petrenko enters the weekend with 2,216 career assists.
 
999 .... 1000
With a Coastal career-high 21 kills on Sept. 26 versus Arkansas State, Doris Carter surpassed the 1,000-career kill mark, which also includes her time at South Florida and Alabama.
 
Junior Lina Perugini picked up her 1,000th career dig in the five-set victory over Georgia State (Oct. 2) where she had a match-high 23 digs. With her 1,071 career digs, the third-year libero is closing in on CCU's top-10 list.
 
CLOSING IN
The Chants have two student-athletes closing in on the 1,000-career kill mark this season in Ani Bozdeva and Cheyenne Jones.
 
With her 291 kills in 2017 at Eastern Arizona College and her 693 kills at CCU, Bozdeva enters the weekend with 984 career kills.
 
Jones has picked up 139 kills this season at CCU and combined with her 774 total kills at UTEP from 2017-21, she has 913 career kills over her collegiate career.

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