SAINT LOUIS, Mo. – The Duquesne volleyball team hits the road for the final time in the 2022 regular season, this time traveling to Saint Louis to take on the Billikens.  

Both matches will be available to stream on ESPN+ and live stats will be available.

SERIES BREAKDOWN VS. SAINT LOUIS

• All-Time Series: Duquesne is 6-24 all-time against SLU
• First Meeting: Sept. 30,2005, at DUQ – DUQ won 3-0 | Recap  
• Last Meeting: Nov. 13, 2021, at SLU – SLU won 3-2 | Recap | Box Score
• Streak: SLU, W6

THE DUKES

• Duquesne is 7-21 overall and 4-12 in conference play. The Dukes are 3-3 in their last six matches.
• Last weekend the Dukes split two matches with VCU, winning 3-1 on Friday and losing in five sets on Saturday.
• Senior Morgan Kelly is first on the team with 2.83 kills per set, which ranks 10^th in the conference. Her 266 kills rank seventh in the A-10. She's averaging 12 kills per match over the last six.
• Freshman Carsyn Henschen leads the team and ranks sixth in the A-10 with 274 kills. She had 25 kills in each of the past two weekends and 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 90 blocks this year, which ranks sixth in the conference. She has 27 blocks in the past six matches.  
• Senior Anita Parrott has 31 blocks in her last six matches. She 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 leads the conference with 920 assists and 9.02 assists per set. She led the A-10 with 1,114 assists in 2021.
• Poling now ranks sixth all-time in Duquesne history with 2,742 assists.
• Freshman Madison Grimm leads the Dukes and ranks ninth in the conference with 341 digs. She has 20 matches this season with 10 or more digs.
• 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 469-487 and a mark of 349-370 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 SAINT LOUIS (ROSTER | SCHEDULE | STATS)

• Saint Louis is 17-11 overall and 9-7 in conference play. The Rams currently sit in fifth-place in the conference.
• The Billikens have won four in a row thanks to two wins each against Fordham and Dayton.
• Junior Emily Henken leads SLU with 246 kills, which ranks ninth in the conference. Her 2.89 kills per set also lead the team.
• Sophomore Kate Aupperle leads SLU with 752 assists, which ranks fourth in the conference.
• Junior Jillian Mattingly's 92 blocks are the fifth-most in the A-10.
• Saint Louis was picked to finish fourth in the A-10 this season.
• Kent Miller is in his 11^th season as the head coach at SLU and in his 23^rd year overall.

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