Nearly halfway through its conference campaign and with two Ivy wins under its belt, the women’s volleyball team will take on Princeton and Penn this weekend on the road. Columbia (11-7, 2-3 Ivy) will face Princeton (4-12, 2-3 Ivy) on Friday and Penn (4-14, 5-0 Ivy) on Saturday.
The Tigers have won two of their last three contests, most recently falling to Harvard and defeating Brown last weekend. After coming within one point of defeating the Crimson in a five-set nail-biter, the Tigers rebounded with a 3-1 victory over the Bears.
Senior co-captains Sheena Donohue and Taylor Carroll led Princeton in the win. Donohue tallied a double-double with 20 kills and 21 digs, while Carroll contributed on the defensive side with 21 digs and four blocks. Freshmen Molly Bagshaw and Lydia Rudnick have also made impressive contributions to Princeton’s Ivy play this season, with Bagshaw picking up 42 assists, nine of which went to Rudnick.
Princeton is currently tied with Columbia at sixth in the Ivy rankings. The last time the Lions and the Tigers met, Princeton swept Columbia 3-0. The Tigers took the first set of the match 25-5, and though the Lions rebounded slightly in the following two games, they were held to a -.027 attack percentage. Donohue led in that effort as well, posting 10 kills.
Following its faceoff with Princeton, Columbia will take on conference leader Penn. Undefeated in the Ivy League, Penn most recently beat Harvard, 3-1. Senior Elizabeth Semmens, third in the league for kills behind Columbia’s Megan Gaughn, led the Quakers in the effort with a career-high 26 kills and a team-high 14 digs for her third straight double-double.
The last time the Quakers and the Light Blue met, Penn suffered from multiple errors, allowing Columbia to take the victory in the first set, only to fall in the following three.
The Lions head to the court on Oct. 23 in Princeton, N.J. at 7 p.m.
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