The ENMU Greyhounds volleyball team returns to the court on Friday and Saturday when it travels to Wichita Falls, Texas and Lawton, Okla., to take on Midwestern State and Cameron. The Green and Silver are coming off a pair of sweeps against West Texas A&M and Texas A&M-Kingsville and improved their record to 12-10 overall and 7-5 in Lone Star Conference action.
 
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• ENMU Head Coach Sia Poyer (46-68), in his fourth-year at the helm of the volleyball program, needs four victories to eclipse the 50-win plateau.
 
• Eastern ranks in the top-100 in NCAA DII in a number of statistical categories:
               Category               #              Nat'l.      LSC
               Assists/Set           12.80      19            3
               Kills/Set                13.64      25            3
               Assists                  1,088       35            3
               Kills                       1,159        36           3
               Attacks                 3,108       91            6
 
• Lauren Frye enters the weekend with 1,527 career kills to rank No. 3 on the all-time list and needs 168 to break Christabell Mariner's program record of 1,695. The senior sits 11th-nationally in total kills this season with 378 and is second in the conference behind Tarleton's State's Hailey Roberts for the LSC lead. Frye is coming off a program-record 25 kills in the three set win over West Texas A&M. The Amissville, Va., native has been named the Lone Star Conference Offensive Player of the Week three times this season.
 
• Junior Brooklyn Biel ranks second on the team with 258 kills and is hitting at a .278 clip on the year. The junior middle blocker from Laveen, Ariz. has 46 blocks on the year.
 
• Senior Courtney Lawson was named one of three Academic Greyhounds of the year last year and has 32 double-doubles during her tenure at ENMU, including eight this season. The senior from Rio Rancho, N.M. has 192 kills, 254 digs and 25 aces to go along with 20 blocks.
 
• Junior Alexis Aguirre and sophomore Kaitlyn Kluna have set the table for the offense this season, dishing out a combined 933 dimes. Aguirre has 553 on the year, with Kluna not far behind at 380.
 
• Junior libero Andrea Aguilar has 345 digs this season after setting the ninth-highest mark in school history last year with 522. The Clovis, N.M. native climbed into 7th-place on the all-time list for the Greyhounds and eclipsed 1,000 in her career earlier this season against Cameron. Aguilar was named as the conference's Defensive Player of the Week after recording the first 30-dig performance of the season against Texas Woman's. She was the first player to accomplish the feat in four sets for Eastern since Hayley Crouch did so in 2012.
 
Lone Star Conference Outlook
• The Greyhounds were picked to finish ninth in the Lone Star Conference, despite returning 13 letterwinners
• Tarleton State's Hailey Roberts was named Offensive Player of the Year, Texas Woman's Sara Oxford earned Defensive Player of the Year acclaim, and Texas A&M-Kingsville's Casey Klobedans was tabbed Setter of the Year.
• Angelo State was the narrow favorite to capture the Lone Star Conference title, according to the 2016 LSC volleyball preseason poll. The league's preseason polls reflect the opinions of LSC head coaches and sports information directors, plus various media representatives from throughout the region.
 
LSC Preseason Poll
               Place     Team                                     Points   
               1.             Angelo State (13)                301
               2.             Tarleton State (12)              291
               3.             Texas Woman's                  239
               4.             West Texas A&M (4)          206
               5.             Texas A&M - Kingsville   184
               6.             Western New Mexico        176
               7.             Cameron                               158
               8.             Texas A&M - Commerce   154
               9.             Eastern New Mexico         99
               10.           Midwestern State               61
               11.            UT Permian Basin             45
 
All-Tournament Performers
• WTAMU Lady Buff Classic - Eastern finished 3-1 at the West Texas A&M Lady Buff Classic. Senior Lauren Frye led the tournament with 73 kills while Brooklyn Biel and Andrea Aguilar were named to the All-Tournament team.
• Tarleton State Tournament - Eastern went 1-3 at the Tarleton State Tournament in Stephenville. Lauren Frye and Kaitlyn Kluna were named to the All-Tournament team.