Madison, Wisconsin – Volleyball team No. 8 of Wisconsin beat n ° 14 of Kansas in a five-set thriller (25-16, 18-25, 25-18, 26-28, 15-10) when Spike Classic, organized at the Kohl Center.
The badgers achieved a strong performance on both the offensive and defensive side, directed by double-double of Sophomore Redshot Una necessarysecond -year student Charlie Fuerbringerfirst year Christian Simon and senior Mimi Colyer.
Vajagic began his first college match bearing red and white after being sidelined due to an injury last year, totaling 13 striking attacks and 14 excavations to punctuate the Wisconsin.
Fuerbringer, fresh out of its All-American prize from the third AVCA team for the 2024 season, resumed where it had stopped as a table set for badgers. The native of Hermosa beach in California obtained a summit of 45 assists, while contributing to 20 excavations in the process.
Also in his first college match, recruit Christian Simon provided a strong performance of the rear rank defensively – accumulating 23 excavations and 10 assists.
While it was equal to 1-1, a sequence of 11-2 in the third set turned out to be the difference to give the badgers an advance, highlighted by consecutive victims of back to back de back Mimi Colyermaking its UW debut. She finished with the most victims of the evening, accumulating 26 while finishing with a punch percentage of 0.339 while contributing 10 excavations.
Average blocker Alicia Andrew provided a similar spark, because the transfer of Baylor has won eight significant attacks out of 14 attempts in total, which reached 0.571 in the night. The senior Redshirt has also finished with a summit in a career in blocks, leading the Wisconsin with 10, its highest total since 2023.
Senior Housing Uw’s artists with eight striking attacks and four blocks. The combination of Booth and Andrew in the middle, in addition to others, provided 15 blocks to launch the regular season of 2025.
The badgers finished the match on a 5-1 race in the fifth set, led by a Kill each from Andrew and Redshirt Sophomore Grace Egan.
Directly from the court:
Head coach Kelly Sheffield (on UW’s resilience): “We have a lot of our players that their trend is to penetrate in themselves when they make a mistake or things become difficult. And I thought we have done a very good work of connection, communication and passage to the next game and you must have these things.”
Senior intermediate blocker Housing (on obtaining group game experience): “I think that we are a group that never wants the easy solution, even if it is an option. I do not want us to have won this more easily, because it would be the gold of the madman. This tournament, at the start of the season, is supposed to tell us exactly where we are. So, we do not do this if we do not do that we do not do it.
The senior intermediate blocker Redsirt Allie Andrew (on players up to bottom of the programming entering the match): “I think it talks about the depth that we have in our team, we have seen a lot of parts moved in and out of the game. I think we have a lot of players, especially young players, who can simply tear it, so I was really impressed by them. I think that I could go to five sets, fight, then see them enter and steal the show was incredible.”
Notes:
- Outdoor Una necessary started his first college match and won career heights in eliminations (13) and excavations (14). It is also Vajagic’s first double-double.
- Senior Mimi Colyer counted his 20th match 20 and over. Colyer totaled a better match of the 26 striking attacks. With 26 striking attacks and 10 excavations, Colyer now has 37 double career doubles. She was only 13 years old reaching 1,500 career killed.
- Senior Redshirt Alicia Andrew recorded a record of 10 career blocks, exceeding its previous total (7) SET on September 30, 2023 in Iowa St.
- Setter Charlie Fuerbringer She earned her 11th double-double in her career with 45 assists and 20 excavations.
- Freshman Christian Simon If his first college started in Libero and recorded a record of 23 best divorms and collected 10 assists for his first double-double.
- First -year students Addy Horner,, Madison Quest,, Natalie Wardlow And Anaaya Warren All have seen time on the ground.
Following: The badgers wind their hectic weekends with a battle against Texas n ° 5 on Sunday August 31 on the second day of the first Spike Classic at the Kohl Center. The match should start at 1:00 p.m. and will be a television on Big Ten Network.
