Panthers from Way Downtown

Heading into the Edisto Island Invitational in five days... Sophomore Madison Rookard sits at thirteen tournaments in her Panther career. Sophomore Lindsey Pak sits at seven tournaments. 

Completion Percentage Redshirt junior Cameran Brown is at 67.1% for the season and the school record for season completion percentage is at 67.5%. Punt Average Sophomore Reed Chandley is averaging 47.9 yards/punt this year, just three-tenths of a point behind the season-record average of 48.2 set in 2018.   Kickoff Return Yards Freshman TJ Peyton is just 390 yards away from breaking the school record set in 2012- he's at 362 kickoff return yards and the season record is at 751.  Tackles for Loss Redshirt junior Josiah Robinson has tallied six on the year and the school season record is fourteen, set in 2020.  Career Record Watch Redshirt junior Liam Rickman tallied his twenty-fourth career field goal against Georgia Southern, eight back of tying the career record. He's also at 148 points through 29 games and the school record for points by a kicker is 213.  

Freshman Manuela Altieri Liev had a career game- after posting 5.5 points across her first five appearances, Altieri picked up 12.5 points on Saturday with 12 kills, a block assist and three digs. Freshman Marta Lazzarin has picked up 352 digs on the year at a clip of 5.18/set. This is currently on pace to be the new second-best mark for digs/set in a season while she needs 120 to tie the tenth-best mark for digs in a season. Junior Akira Burt surpassed the 600-point milestone for her Panther career- she's at 601.5 through 68 games. In terms of block assists, Burt's logged 153 and the current hold on tenth on the all-time chart is 230.  Senior Shanelle Martinez is at exactly fifty games for her Panther volleyball career and is up to 1,044 assists. There's also the fact that she's now directly or indirectly contributed 1,137 points with 93 points herself. 

Heading into today's game at Old Dominion, junior Akira Burt has 151 block assists in her 67-game career. Tenth on the career list is current beach volleyball head coach Beth Van Fleet with 230. 

Junior Akira Burt is now 14.5 points away from 600 for her career- she's posted 585.5 points in 67 games.  Senior Courtney Smith , in addition to her extending her mark for court volleyball games by a beach volleyballer to 16 (56 across the two sports), is two shy from reaching the century mark for total points- she's contributed 86 points in court volleyball and has helped add another 12 points from beach volleyball wins for 98 points.  Freshman Manuela Altieri Liev , after tallying 2.5 points across her first four appearances, added three points in Friday's game.  Senior Shanelle Martinez tallied her 1,000th career assist- she's now at 1,018. She's now either directly or indirectly contributed to 1,109 points in her 49-game career: 1,018 assists and an additional 91 points. 

Senior Courtney Smith has extended her school career mark for indoor volleyball appearances by a beach volleyballer- Friday's game against Coastal Carolina was her fifteenth indoor appearance and fifty-fifth overall across the two sports. 

Freshman Marta Lazzarin has 332 digs entering the Old Dominion road weekend. Currently tenth for digs in a single season at GSU is Livy Kowalkowski, who tallied 472 in the 2022 season. *Lazzarin is also on pace to break the season record for digs per set- she's currently at 5.35 and the record is 5.26. 

With seven games remaining in the regular season, senior goalie Loan Marin has tallied 36 saves. Tenth on the season list is Yannic Horn, who tallied 71 in 2016.  *Saturday at Marshall was also Marin's tenth appearance for the Panthers.