BISMARCK, ND - The University of Mary volleyball team will be competing in their first official NCAA game since November of 2019 when the Marauders take on Minot State University on Wednesday, March 10, at 6 pm. This match will be a non-conference game.

ATTENDANCE INFORMATION

All spectators are welcome to attend the Marauders home volleyball match when UMary hosts Minot State on Wednesday, March 10. Game time is 6 pm on Bortke Court.

Admittance is free and limited to the first 100 spectators, including UMary students and faculty & staff.

An additional amount of fans will also be admitted if they are on the Family & Friends list submitted by the Marauders volleyball program or the Visiting Fans list determined by the opposing head coach.

The gates open at 5 pm. Please enter through the Lumen Vitae University Center only. Doors open one hour prior to competition.

HOME COURT

The Marauders will play three of their eight scheduled games at home, starting with the game against the Beavers on March 10. UMary also hosts fellow Northern Sun schools University of Minnesota Crookston on March 19 and Northern State on March 24. 

FOLLOW LIVE

Fans unable to attend the event are encouraged to watch all UMary home games live online and free of charge at www.goumary.com/coverage.

OPPO RESEARCH – MINOT STATE UNIVERSITY

Minot State University has not competed this season thus far. The Beavers went 3-26 in their last full season in 2019, going 2-18 in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference. Dana Cordova-Jacobson was named the MSU head coach in 2017 and has gone 21-67 over her first three seasons. Sophomore Amarrie Whelton returns as the Beavers leading attacker as she had 117 kills in 2019.

RETURNING TO THE MARAUDERS

Returning to the Marauders will be senior Natalie Cruz who played in all 101 sets while leading the team in digs, digs per set, service aces, and service aces per set. Cruz's 3.98 digs per set ranked 14th among the NSIC leaderboard.

Junior Brittany Brusven returns after playing in 12 sets while recording 37 assists and averaging 3.08 assists per set.

Sophomores Baily Harms and Nehkyah Ellis will be returning to UMary. As a true freshmen Ellis played in 54 sets, was 2nd on the team with 1.81 kills per set, had the 2nd highest serve reception percentage of .930), and had 119 digs. Harms was redshirted in 2019, but as a freshman in 2018 she played in 14 matches during her freshman campaign. She recorded 57 kills and 29 blocks. Harms averaged .66 blocks per set which was second on the team.

NEW FACES

Coach Tetzlaff will have eight new freshmen as she and her staff will look to get the young player's valuable experience heading into this season. Those freshmen include Kaia Lill, Laura Petik, Emily Torborg, Megan Kruschke, Kameron Selvig, Reagan Celaya, Olivia Dickerson and Maddie Cooper.

Other new additions include junior Kennedy Drewis who transferred from Iowa Western Community College after previously attending Division I Western Illinois University. Sophomore Kaia Suecker competed in the Cross Country and Track teams at UMary and was a member of the 2019 NSIC Cross Country Championship Team.

UP NEXT

The Marauders play a pair of games in Spearfish, SD, on Sunday, March. After playing host Black Hills State at 12 noon CST/11 am MST, the Marauders face off against Montana State University Billings in a neutral site game at 3 pm CST/2 pm MST.

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