PHILADELPHIA – Coming off a trip to Chicago and the DePaul Invitational, the University of Pennsylvania volleyball team is right back on the road. This time it's a midweek trip to Lehigh for a single match, the Quakers and the Mountain Hawks meeting Tuesday night at 7 p.m. The match will take place at Leeman-Turner Arena at Grace Hall on Lehigh's campus.
 
MATCH 7 – Penn vs. Lehigh
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About Lehigh
The Mountain Hawks are 2-7 so far this season, both of the wins coming at its Lehigh Steel Tournament the weekend of September 3-4 against St. Francis Brooklyn (3-1) and Binghamton (3-0). Last weekend, Lehigh was at Towson's Tiger Invitational and fell to the hosts (3-0) as well as Florida Atlantic (3-1) and Temple (3-0). Lehigh has faced an Ivy opponent already this season, dropping a 3-2 decision to Dartmouth on September 3.
 
Quaker Notemeal
*After sweeping through the Sheraton University City Invitational to open the 2021 season, Penn (3-3) was winless at the DePaul Invitational on Friday and Saturday. The Quakers won the first set against Akron on Friday and the host Blue Demons on Saturday, but their opponents came back to win the next three sets. In between the Red and Blue was beaten 3-0 by Oakland (Mich.).
 
*The trip to Chicago represented a homecoming for four members of Penn's team who hail from the Chicagoland area: senior Kylie Kulinski (New Lenox/Lincoln-Way Central) and Margaret Planek (Oak Park/Fenwick) and juniors Elizabeth Ford (Evanston/Loyola Academy) and Madeline McGregor (Chicago/New Trier HS).
 
*Junior captain Autumn Leak earned her second all-tournament honor in as many weeks at DePaul, after she posted 49 kills and a .284 hitting percentage along with 15 digs, four block assists, an assist and a service ace.
 
*Leak's career high for kills in a match was 15 entering the season. She has already surpassed that number four times in 2021, including twice this weekend (17 vs. Akron, 20 vs. DePaul).
 
*Planek had 23 kills on the weekend and was particularly effective in the finale against DePaul, compiling 10 kills (with just one error) and coming up with four block assists.
 
*Sophomore Emerson Flornes had 15 kills on the weekend in Chicago and also led Penn with 12 block assists (six of them coming against the Blue Demons).
 
*Senior Daniela Fornaciari also had 15 kills on the weekend (hitting .324 in the process) and came up with one block solo and nine block assists.
 
*Freshman Sydney Ormiston and Kulinski have shared the setter spot most of the early season, with Ormiston collecting a team-high 146 assists and Kulinski setting 58 assists. Ormiston also leads Penn with seven service aces.
 
*Junior Caroline Douglas—who has stepped into the libero spot in place of injured senior captain Carmina Raquel—leads Penn with 91 digs so far, while sophomore Madison Risch is second with 49.
 
*Penn announced its captains for the 2021 season ahead of the opener; Leak, Planek and Raquel will lead the Quakers this fall.
 
*Three of the five players who registered at least 100 kills in the 2019 season are back for 2021: Leak (200), Planek (187), and Fornaciari (135).
 
*Fornaciari also led Penn with eight block solos and 61 block assists in 2019, while Planek had 44 block assists and Leak had 29 block assists.
 
*Raquel was Penn's libero in 2019 and led the Quakers with 356 digs, more than twice as many as any of her teammates. Planek (146) and Douglas (144) were third and fourth, respectively, in that category.
 
*Raquel also led the Red and Blue with 21 service aces in 2019, followed closely by Planek (20) and Douglas (18). Fornaciari had 12 aces that season.
 
*Penn has a perfect balance across its four classes, with each of them boasting five members.