Date: Aug. 28-30, 2015
First Serve: 9:30 p.m., 11:59 p.m., 7:30 p.m. (Central)
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii
Arena: Stan Sheriff Center (10,300)
Free Audio: www.goshockers.com/watch
Talent: Mike Kennedy
Series: Oregon State leads WSU 1-0; Hawaii leads WSU 4-0; First Meeting vs. Idaho

Shockers Travel to Hawaii
Wichita State hits the road to open the 2015 season in Honolulu, Hawaii at the Chevron Rainbow Wahine Invitational. The Shockers will play Oregon State on Aug. 28, host and No. 18 Hawaii on Aug. 29 and Idaho on Aug. 30. It will be Wichita State's fourth trip to the Islands. WSU went 1-2 in 2003, 2-1 in 2007 and 1-2 in 2011.

On the Web
All of Wichita State's matches this weekend at the Chevron Rainbow Wahine Invitational will be on the internet at www.goshockers.com/watch with Mike Kennedy calling the action.

Larson to Wear Number 15
Junior outside hitter Jody Larson will wear number 15 for the tournament this weekend in Hawaii. Her normal number for the 2015 season will be number 11.

Series History vs. Tourney Field
The Shockers are 0-5 all-time against the 2015 tourney field:
Oregon State -  0-1
Hawaii -  0-4
Idaho -  0-0

Scouting Oregon State
The Beavers finished 21-13 in 2014 and 9-11 in the Pac-12 and earned an at-large berth into the NCAA Tournament where they advanced to the Sweet 16. OSU is receiving votes in the AVCA preseason poll and returns one starter and eight letterwinners and is picked to finish ninth in the Pac-12. The Beavers are led by 11th-year head coach Taras Liskevych.

Last Meeting vs. OSU
The last meeting between the two teams was Sept. 4, 1998, in Corvallis, Ore. The Beavers won 3-0 by scores of 15-3, 15-1 and 15-13.

Scouting Hawaii
The Rainbow Wahine finished 22-7 in 2014 and 13-3 in the Big West and earned an at-large berth into the NCAA Tournament where they advanced to the second round.  UH is ranked 18th in the AVCA preseason poll and returns five starters and 12 letterwinners and is picked to finish first in the Big West. The Rainbow Wahine are led by 41st-year head coach Dave Shoji.

Last Meeting vs. UH
The last meeting between the two teams was Sept. 21, 2013, in Wichita, Kan. Hawaii won 3-0 by scores of 25-20, 25-20 and 25-23.

Scouting Idaho
The Vandals finished 15-14 in 2014 and 11-5 in the Big Sky. Idaho returns two starters and nine letterwinners and is picked to finish fifth in the Big Sky. The Vandals are led by 16th-year head coach Debbie Buchanan.

Season Openers
Wichita State is 18-19-2 in season openers overall and 9-6 in season openers under head coach Chris Lamb.  

Valley Announces Extension With ESPN
ESPN and the Missouri Valley Conference have announced a 10-year extension to their current media rights agreement that will provide increased coverage of conference events across ESPN platforms through the 2023-24 academic year.
As part of the deal – which continues a business relationship that began in 1986 – ESPN, the Missouri Valley Conference and its 10 member institutions will work jointly to develop in-house production capabilities at each campus that will provide significant national coverage for multiple sports on ESPN3 and hands-on educational opportunities for students. As a result, ESPN3 will showcase a minimum of 820 events a year (a minimum of 70 men's basketball) in the final six years of the agreement.
In 2015, all Wichita State volleyball home matches and road Valley matches will be streamed on ESPN3.

WSU Receives Votes in AVCA Poll
The Wichita State volleyball team received votes in the AVCA Preseason Poll, which was released Aug. 12.  The Shockers received nine points in the poll.
The Shockers open the season on the road Aug. 28, at the Chevron Rainbow Wahine Invitational in Honolulu, Hawaii, against Oregon State.
WSU returns six starters and 12 letterwinners to a team that went 20-10 in 2014.
The Shockers will play five teams that are ranked or receiving votes in the preseason poll including Illinois (8th), Kentucky (15th), Hawaii (18th), Oregon State (RV) and Texas A&M (RV).

Shocks Picked First in Preseason MVC Poll
The Wichita State volleyball team is picked first in the 2015 Missouri Valley Conference Preseason Coaches Poll. The Shockers received seven first-place votes and 97 points in the poll.
The Shockers return 12 letterwinners and six starters from a team that went 20-10 in 2014.

Lehman Named to Preseason All-Valley Team
Sophomore middle blocker Abbie Lehman has been named to the preseason all-Valley team. In 2014, she earned All-America and first team all-Valley honors and averaged 2.55 kills and 0.85 blocks per set, while hitting .382.

Sisters
Sisters Dani Mostrom and Gabi Mostrom are the fifth set of sisters to play volleyball at Wichita State. They are only the second set to play together at WSU joining Marsha and Pam Olmsted who played together for the Shockers in 1976. The other Shocker sisters include: Valerie and Kim Wadsworth, Jessica and Taylor Keys and Angie and Michele Hallagin.

Six Starters Return
The Shockers return six starters (Katie Reilly, Abbie Lehman, MaryAshton Floyd, Emily Hiebert, Jenny Whitledge, Mikaela Raudsepp) in 2014 from a team that went 20-10 a year ago. WSU also returns libero Dani Mostrom.  

Television Schedule Announced
Three Wichita State volleyball matches during the 2015 season will be televised on the Cox Channel Kansas.
The three matches that will be televised are Oct. 17 against Loyola, Nov. 7 against UNI and Nov. 21 against Evansville.
In addition, each match will appear live or tape delayed via Time Warner Sports Channel in Kansas City.

Shocks Eighth Nationally in Attendance in 2014
WSU volleyball ranked in the top-10 nationally in attendance in 2014.  The Shockers had a total attendance figure of 27,706 and averaged 3,078 fans per match, which was eighth nationally.

Lamb Returns for 16th Season
Head coach Chris Lamb, four-time MVC Coach of the Year, returns for his 16th season after guiding the Shockers to 12-straight 20-win seasons.  In 2011, he became the winningest coach in Shocker volleyball history and in 2013 he won his 300th career match.

Valley Titles
WSU has won five out of the last 11 MVC regular-season titles.  The Shockers collected titles in 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2013.  

Shocks on the Web
All Wichita State volleyball matches will be broadcast on goshockers.com/watch in 2015.  WSU Hall of Famer Mike Kennedy will perform play-by-play duties for all of the matches.  

Fall Practice Schedule
The Shockers will practice in the Aetna Multi-Purpose Center on Monday-Thursday from 1-4 p.m. On the day before a home match, the team will practice on Devlin Court.

Shocks Earn AVCA Team Academic Award
The Wichita State volleyball program has been named a recipient of the 2014-15 American Volleyball Coaches Association Team Academic Award. WSU is one of 146 Division I programs to earn the award.
The award, which was initiated in the 1992-93 academic year, honors collegiate and high school volleyball teams that displayed excellence in the classroom during the school year by maintaining at least a 3.30 cumulative team grade-point average on a 4.0 scale or a 4.10 cumulative team GPA on a 5.0 scale.
Recipients of the award range from NCAA Division I institutions to high school girls' and boys' teams.
The Shockers had a team GPA of 3.46 last season.

2014 Review
The Shockers went 20-10 in 2014 and 13-5 in the Missouri Valley Conference.  Leading the Shockers was honorable mention All-American middle blocker Abbie Lehman and first team all-Valley selection MaryAshton Floyd. Ashlyn Driskill earned second team all-Valley honors, while Lehman and Emily Hiebert were both named to the Valley all-freshman team.