Friday, August 29, 2025 / Saturday, August 30, 2025
Salt City Classic
Rider Broncs (0-0) vs. Le Moyne Dolphins (0-0) / Syracuse Orange (0-0)
Location: Syracuse, NY
Time: 6 p.m. / 5 p.m.
Live Video – NEC Front Row / ACCNX
Live Stats – LeMoyneDolphins.com - Friday / Cuse.com - Saturday
 
What You Need To Know
- Friday's match will be available on NEC Front Row.
- Saturday's match will be available on ACCNX.
- The Broncs were selected third by the league's coaches in the MAAC Preseason Poll, including a first-place vote. Rider finished third in the regular season in 2024 before reaching the MAAC Tournament semifinals with a win over Merrimack. The Broncs ultimately fell in the semifinals to eventual Quinnipiac.
- Rider returns five starters from a season ago led by First-Team All-MAAC honoree Kiannisha Santiago (San Juan, PR/Hudson Catholic (NJ)). Santiago was named to the Preseason All-MAAC Team by the league's coaches this season. The senior led the Broncs last season at 3.04 kills per set and 350 total kills.
- Other returning starters include the middle hitter duo of Second-Team All-MAAC honoree Molly Rohde (Hortonville, WI/Hortonville) and Carley McAleavey (Smithtown, NY/Smithtown West). Rohde led the Broncs and was second in the MAAC last season with 139 total blocks and McAleavey led the Broncs and was fourth in the conference with a .289 hitting percentage.
- Keegan O'Connor (Weatherford, TX/Weatherford) is set to reprise her role as starting libero. She led Rider and was sixth in the MAAC with 337 digs a season ago.
- Defensive Specialist Simone Langford (Hollywood, FL/Flanagan) also returns after finishing second on the team with 229 digs in 2024.
- Key reserves returning for the Broncs include Makenna Mason, who is expected to assume the starting setter duties, after coming off the bench as the second setter in Rider's 5-2 offense last season. Outside hitters Brynn Johnson (River Falls, WI/River Falls) and Rylah Robinson (Fairfax, VA/Robinson) are both in the mix to see playing time and see action in the starting lineup.
- Rider and the Dolphins will be meeting for the first-ever time on Friday. The Dolphins finished 3-1 in NEC play last season and are picked ninth in the NEC Preseason Coaches Poll.
- The Orange topped the Broncs in the Bronx, the last time these teams met in 2010. Syracuse leads the all-time series 2-1 with Rider earning its lone win in the series during the 1983 campaign.