Saturday, September 17, 2022
Rider Broncs (2-8, 0-0 MAAC) vs. Saint Peter's Peacocks (0-12, 0-0 MAAC)
Location: Alumni Gym
Time: 1 p.m.
Live Video –BroncVision
Live Stats – GoBroncs.com
 
What You Need To Know
- Saturday's match will be broadcast live on BroncVision.
- The team will be celebrating Mental Health at Home during the match, including throwing stress balls into the crowd during team introductions.
- 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 ended the 2021 season on a five-match conference winning streak.
- 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 1,339 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 racked up double-digit kills in a match for the first time this season last time out at Princeton, finishing with 12 kills on .450 hitting.
- 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 839 career assists. 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 last weekend, 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 35-21. The Broncs have taken 23 of the last 24 meetings in the series.
- The Peacocks have struggled to an 0-12 start to the season. The Peacocks have yet to win a set this year.
- Morgan Thurlow leads Saint Peter's with 65 kills this season. Laken Dillon has 96 digs on the year to lead the Peacocks.