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SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Santa Clara volleyball plays its final home match of the 2015 season Saturday against the Pepperdine Waves at the Leavey Center. The Broncos will honor their three seniors — GiGi Cresto, Lacey Maas and Danielle Rottman — prior to the West Coast Conference matchup.
The Broncos have won seven consecutive home matches and are 10-1 in the Leavey Center this season. They trail co-West Coast Conference leaders BYU and San Diego by one match with four contests remaining. Santa Clara can match a program record for home wins in a single season — set in 1998 — with a victory over the Waves.
SANTA CLARA (20-6, 11-3 WCC) vs. Pepperdine (17-11, 8-7)
Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015 • 1 p.m. PST
Game #27 • Home Game #12 • Santa Clara, Calif.
Live Stats: http://www.santaclara.statbroadcast.com
Video: TheW.tv
Series: Pepperdine Leads 39-29
Previous Meeting: Oct. 15, 2015 in Malibu — Santa Clara won 3-0
Last Season: Oct. 16, 2014 in Malibu — Santa Clara won 3-1
Nov. 15, 2014 in Santa Clara — Pepperdine won 3-1
THE BRONCOS
Santa Clara recorded its 20th win of the season Thursday night by sweeping Loyola Marymount 30-28, 25-22, 25-15 in the Leavey Center. The Broncos have hit the 20-win mark for the third time in the last four seasons and ninth time in Jon Wallace's 17 seasons as head coach. Santa Clara has reached the NCAA Tournament in each of Wallace's other eight seasons with 20 or more wins.
THE SENIORS
GiGi Cresto has played in 75 matches and 212 sets in her three years with Santa Clara volleyball. She has appeared in all 27 matches of the 2015 season. The San Diego, Calif. native has a service ace in seven different matches this year, and led all players with 27 assists in a sweep of Cal State Fullerton on September 5th.
In 2013, Cresto finished second on the team with 121 assists. She was named to the West Coast Conference's All-Academic First Team in 2014. Her match-clinching aces capped off Bronco sweeps of Gonzaga and San Francisco last season.
Lacey Maas has played in 70 matches and 181 sets in four seasons with the Broncos. This season, she is tied for second in the West Coast Conference with 1.3 blocks/set and ranks second on Santa Clara with 89 total blocks.
The Castro Valley, Calif. native has recorded 92 kills, 10 blocks solo and 79 block assists for the Broncos. Maas entered the week hitting .576 with 32 kills and 38 total blocks in her last six matches, while committing only four attack errors in that span. She has started 30 matches for the Broncos in the last two seasons, including 15 straight.
Danielle Rottman has played in 101 matches and 323 sets in four years with the Broncos. She has appeared in all of Santa Clara's 58 matches over the last two years and played in 205 of the team's 208 sets during her junior and senior seasons. Rottman played in her 100th career match November 5th against San Francisco.
The Santa Barbara, Calif. native leads the Broncos and the West Coast Conference with 454 digs and a 4.88 digs/set average in 2015. She recorded 34 digs in an October 31st contest at Portland, the third most in a single match in program history. Her effort also marked the most digs in a single match since 2005.
Rottman's 527 digs and 4.71 digs/set average in 2014 were both the second-best marks in program history for a single season.
THE WAVES
Pepperdine has won four of its last five matches (at Pacific, at Saint Mary's, vs. Gonzaga, at San Francisco), and suffered a five-set defeat against Portland in its final home contest of the season. The Waves rank fifth in the WCC with an 8-7 conference record. Earlier this season, Santa Clara swept Pepperdine to go on a six-match winning streak, its longest since 2007.
Pepperdine Category Leaders in the WCC's Top 10
Hitting Percentage — Tarah Wylie .338 (2nd)
Assists — Becca Strehlow 10.22/s (9th)
Aces — Lara Dykstra 0.29/s (9th)
Blocks — Tarah Wylie 1.08/s (9th)
Digs — Dykstra 4.31/s (3rd)
PARKING
There are a number of athletics events scheduled for Saturday on campus and traffic will be high and spaces limited at various times. There are two venues available for gameday parking and there is no charge. The campus parking structure is located just inside the main campus entrance off El Camino Real. The Leavey Center parking lot also has a limited number of spaces. Click here for a campus map. There are two other options for parking Saturday. The Cowell lot and Casa lot, both located south of Leavey Center and the adjacent Tennis Center, will be available.
GO BRONCOS!
