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Nov. 6, 2003
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.-- The Wake Forest volleyball team hits the road for its final regular season road match of the season on Sunday. The Demon Deacons will travel to Atlanta to take on the seventh-ranked Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets at 2 p.m. in O'Keefe Gymnasium. Georgia Tech is 13-1 in the ACC and 24-1 overall. In the previous meeting between these two teams on October 10 in Winston-Salem, the Yellow Jackets swept Wake Forest in three games.
After suffering a tough 3-0 loss to Duke on Nov. 1, the Demon Deacons rebounded with a 3-1 victory over the Tigers at Clemson on Tuesday evening. Wake Forest has not lost consecutive matches all season, going 7-0 in matches following a loss.
Redshirt sophomore Valerie Rydberg had a streak of eight consecutive double-doubles snapped Oct. 17 at NC State. The redshirt-sophomore from Lemont, Ill. has recorded 15 double-doubles in just 25 matches played this season. Entering the week, Rydberg was fifth in the ACC with 3.91 kills per game and led the league with 0.79 service aces per game. That mark also ranked fifth in the nation. Rydberg also ranked fifth in the ACC with 3.56 digs per game. With her 20 kill, 26 dig performance on Sept. 30 at Duke, the Lemont, Ill. native surpassed the 500-mark in both categories during her career at Wake Forest.
Sophomore setter Erin Borhart achieved a feat rarely seen in volleyball at Florida State on Oct. 4. Borthart had 14 kills and 13 digs to go along with 37 assists, recording the first triple- double of her career. Borhart recorded her 1,000th career assist on Oct. 21 versus Maryland and surpassed the 1,000 assist mark for the season against Duke on November 1. Borhart ranked third in the ACC entering the week with an average of 11.91 assists per game.
Wake Forest's 3-1 victory at Florida State on Oct. 4 gave head coach
Valorie Baker 68 career wins, moving her ahead of Gale Chamblee (1978-80) into second place on the Demon Deacons' all-time victories list. Baker is now 74-45 in her fourth season at the helm for Wake Forest. She has a 34-28 record in ACC matches.
At 19-7 overall in 2003, the Demon Deacons have surpassed their win total from a year ago. The 2002 Wake Forest volleyball team finished the season 14-18 overall with a 6-10 mark in the ACC. The Deacs have also improved on last year's conference record, as they are 8-5 at this point. With one more victory, Wake Forest will have its fifth 20-win season in the past six years and third in head coach Valorie Baker's four years.
