Saturday, October 15, 2022/Sunday, October 16, 2022
Rider Broncs (5-13, 3-5 MAAC) vs. Quinnipiac Bobcats (3-13, 2-7 MAAC)/Fairfield Stags (13-6, 7-1 MAAC)
Location: Alumni Gym
Time: 1 p.m.
Live Video –ESPN3 (Saturday / Sunday)
Live Stats – GoBroncs.com
 
What You Need To Know
- Both Saturday and Sunday's match will be broadcast live on ESPN3.
- On Sunday, the Broncs will be giving out free foam fingers to the first 100 students. Be sure to arrive early to snag one as they will go fast.
- The Broncs were selected second by the league's coaches in the MAAC Preseason Poll. Rider finished second behind Fairfield during the regular season and reached the MAAC Championship match before falling to the Stags.
-The Broncs won a program-record 14 MAAC matches to earn a program-best two seed in last year's tournament. The Broncs had previously finished third in 2004, 2018, and 2019.
- Rider had fallen in four-straight before the Broncs bounced back with a three-set victory over Manhattan on Wednesday.
- Kianny Santiago (San Juan, PR/Hudson Catholic (NJ)) was dominant in the match, putting down 15 kills on .448 hitting.
- Morgan Romano (Oviedo, FL/Hagerty) was named to First-Team All-MAAC honors by the league last season. Romano was also named to the preseason All-MAAC team.
- With another All-Conference honor, Romano would become the first player in program history to earn four All-MAAC honors during her career.
- Romano now has 1,430 career kills, good for third in program history after passing Hailey Riede '19 in Rider's match at George Washington. Next on the list is Jaclyn Levi '05, who ended her career with 1,546.
- In the Broncs' first tournament of the season, the dōTERRA Classic, freshman Carley McAleavey (Smithtown, NY/Smithtown West) earned All-Tournament honors after racking up 15 kills on .250 hitting over the three matches.
- McAleavey ranks fourth among all players in the MAAC with a .311 hitting percentage..
- At the Steel Classic Tournament, Pamela Loh (Cortlandt Manor, NY/Hendrick Hudson) and Brynn Johnson (River Falls, WI/River Falls) earned All-Tournament Team honors. Johnson had 16 kills on .200 hitting across the three matches to go along with five blocks. Loh had 32 digs in the three matches, led by a 16 dig effort in Rider's win over Cleveland State.
- Loh now has 869 career digs. She is attempting to become just the 16^th Bronc in program history to reach 1,000 for her career.
- In the Dig for the District Tournament, Nicole Wilkinson (New Castle, IN/New Castle) and Julia Slivka (Adamstown, MD/Tuscarora). Wilkinson exploded with 11 kills and five blocks against George Washington, both career-highs. She finished the weekend with 17 kills on .297 hitting. Slivka had 69 assists and 24 digs in the three matches during the tournament. In Rider's win over Georgetown, Slivka had her third double-double of the season with 31 assists and 13 digs, while also adding five aces.
- Rider leads the all-time series over the Bobcats 13-10, including taking three matches last season. Romano had 26 kills in a three-set victory in the MAAC semifinals.
- The Bobcats are 3-13 on the season, including a 2-7 conference mark. The Bobcats are coming off a four-set midweek loss to Siena.
- The Bobcat offense is led by Alexandra Tennon and Aryanah Diaz. The duo has 202 and 178 kills, respectively.
- Fairfield leads the all-time series over the Broncs 39-5. The teams met in the MAAC Championship Match a season ago, with the Stags earning the victory and advancing to the NCAA Tournament.
- The Stags are 13-6 overall with a 7-1 conference record. The Stags lost a midweek match Wednesday to Marist last time out, their first MAAC loss of the season.
- KJ Johnson, the reigning MAAC Player of the Year leads the Stags with 224 kills on the season. As a team, the Stags are hitting .236 for the season.