PITTSBURGH – The Duquesne volleyball team travels north to take on the Rhode Island Rams Friday and Saturday at 7:00 P.M. ET both nights.

Neither match will be streamed, but you can follow along with live stats.

SERIES BREAKDOWN VS. RHODE ISLAND

• All-Time Series: Duquesne is 22-38 all-time against Rhode Island.
• First Meeting: Oct. 11, 1986 at URI – URI won 3-0  
• Last Meeting: Oct. 29, 2021 at URI – DUQ won 3-2 | Recap | Box Score
• Streak: Duquesne, W1

THE DUKES

• Duquesne is 3-16 overall and 0-7 in conference play. The Dukes dropped both matches to Loyola Chicago this weekend.
• Duquesne is now on an eight-match losing streak. Rhode Island is on a nine-match losing streak.
• The last time these two teams met, Duquesne won in five sets. Senior Anita Parrott recorded 12 kills in the victory.
• On Sept. 30 against George Washington, five different Duquesne players had double-digit kills for the first time all season.
• Freshman Carsyn Henschen leads the team and ranks seventh in the A-10 with 192 kills.
• Henschen was named to the Duquesne/RMU Invitational All-Tournament Team Sept. 3 after totaling 41 kills and seven service aces in the three matches.
• Freshman Ariel Helm leads the team with 56 blocks this year, which ranks ninth in the conference.
• Senior Morgan Kelly leads the team with 2.74 kills per set. The senior returns after earning a spot on the Atlantic 10 All-Conference Second Team in 2021 after putting up 3.48 kills per set, which was the second-best in the conference.
• Senior Anita Parrott was named to the Penn State Invitational All-Tournament Team the first weekend of the season. She recorded 15 kills and 1.1 blocks per set in the three matches.
• Senior setter Hailey Poling is second in the conference with 592 assists and ranks second with 8.46 assists per set. She led the A-10 with 1,114 assists in 2021. 
• Sophomore Anna Shoemake returns after being named to the A-10 All-Rookie Team last season after ranking fourth on the team with 254 points and third with 206 kills.
• The Dukes are coming off of a 13-16 (7-9 A-10) season that ended in the A-10 Championship semifinals against the eventual-champion Dayton in a five-set thriller.
• Three of the Dukes' top four point-getters return for the 2022 season.
• Duquesne was picked to finish sixth in the A-10 by the league's coach in the 2022 Atlantic 10 Preseason Poll.

DUQUESNE HEAD COACH STEVE OPPERMAN (Ohio State '87)

• Steve Opperman enters his 25^th season as the head coach of the Dukes in 2021.
• He owns a career-record of 465-482 and a mark of 346-366 at Duquesne.
• Opperman collected his 450^th-career victory with a 3-0 win over Youngstown State in the 2021 season opener.
• The New Bremen, Ohio native is Duquesne's all-time winningest coach with 344 career victories on The Bluff.
• He is a four-time Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year (co-2001, co-2004, co-2010 and 2013).
• Opperman coached the first two AVCA All-Americans in program history, Liz Homan (2010) and Arielle Love (2014).
• The Ohio State alum has coached 16 First or Second Team A-10 All-Conference players (a total of 24 times).
• He has coached 23 A-10 All-Rookie Team members.
• Opperman arrived in Pittsburgh in 1998 after spending seven seasons as the head coach at Wright State, where he amassed a record of 119-116 from 1991-97.

SCOUTING RHODE ISLAND (ROSTER | SCHEDULE | STATS)

• Rhode Island is 4-16 overall and 0-7 in conference play. The Rams are on a nine-game losing streak.
• URI is currently in ninth-place in the Atlantic 10.
• Senior Claire Wagner ranks third in the A-10 with 3.43 kills per set and ranks sixth with 192 total kills.
• Sophomore Katie Butler has 490 assists which ranks sixth in the A-10.
• Sophomore Hannah Blaney has 328 digs and 31 service aces, which ranks fourth and second in the conference, respectively.
• URI was picked to finish eighth in the A-10 this season.
• In 2021, the Rams went 13-19 (5-1 A-10) and just missed out on the A-10 Tournament.
• Angel Agu is in her second season as the head coach at Rhode Island.

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