First Serve: Senior Night and Regular Season Home Finale

UNF vs. KSU \| UNF vs. Liberty
Match 28	Friday, Nov. 12 at 7 p.m.
Series History	KSU leads, 18-7
Match 29	Saturday, Nov. 13 at 7 p.m.
Series History	Liberty leads, 5-2
Social Media / Coverage	@OspreyVB \| #SWOOPLife \| @UNFOspreys

Series History
KSU: This is the 26th meeting between KSU and UNF ... the Ospreys are 4-8 against the Owls in home matches ... North Florida broke a seven-match losing skid to KSU with a 3-1 win against the Owls Oct. 27, 2019 ... the Ospreys fell 3-1 to Kennesaw State in the only other meeting with KSU this season, Oct. 17 in Georgia ... the first-ever meeting between these two teams was Oct. 6, 2006.
LIB: Liberty paces the all-time series, 5-2 ... the Ospreys won the last meeting in commanding fashion, a 3-0 sweep of the Flames in Lynchburg ... North Florida has won each meeting in Jacksonville ... these two teams first played each other as non-conference opponents Sept. 4, 2010 in Charlottesville, Va.

Scouting Report
KSU: The Owls are coming in hot as winners of their last nine games ... Kennesaw State is 17-8 and 11-3 in ASUN play, tied for second place with North Florida in the ASUN East Division ... the Owls rank 20th in the nation in aces with 171 ... Claire Parsons is second in the league to UNF's Bre Walp in total blocks with 110 ... setter McKinley Ferguson guides the offense with 880 assists ... Lauren Chastang won last week's ASUN Player of the Week honor.
LIB: Liberty is 9-12 and 5-9 in conference play, having lost their last three games ... Liberty ranks in the last half of the league in aces/set, assists/set, hitting percentage and kills/set ... Trinity Watts has 201 kills to pace Liberty ... Lydia Burts paces the team with 80 blocks.

First Serve
North Florida enters its final home stand of the regular season with matches against Kennesaw State and Liberty ... the Ospreys fell 3-1 to (RV) Florida State ... UNF came into the week tied for seventh in the nation for wins with a 71 RPI ... the Ospreys celebrate Senior Night against Liberty, honoring Dariana Hollingsworth-Santana, Gabby O'Connell, Grace Youngblood, Grace Peterson and Alessia Venturelli ... Solimar Cestero became the 12th Osprey to reach the 1,000-kill milestone in Tuesday's match at Florida State ... North Florida is 11-1 at home this year, not having lost at The Nest since Oct. 2 against FGCU in five sets ... Bre Walp currently stands fourth in the country for blocks and atop the ASUN with 128 stuffs.

AN OSPREY WIN WOULD...
-Give UNF 23 wins, the most in a single season during UNF's Division I era.
-Give North Florida 12-ASUN wins for the first time since joining the league.
-Provide the Ospreys with their most wins in a season since 2004.
-A win Friday would put UNF one game ahead of Kennesaw State with one game remaining.
-A win Friday and Saturday would guarantee UNF as the No. 2 seed.

SEEDING SCENARIOS
IF UNF and KSU both finish the regular season tie for ASUN play...the tiebreaker scenario would use the following tiebreaker factors:

1st) Head-to-head record
2nd) Head-to-head sets won
3rd) Divisional record
4th) Divisional sets won
5th) RPI

LOOKING AHEAD
North Florida will head to the ASUN Championship in Fort Myers (Nov. 18-20). UNF will either enter as the #2 or #3 seed out of the East Division.

UNF can either play Lipscomb or Eastern Kentucky in the first round.

SENIOR NIGHT!
North Florida will honor the following five Ospreys for Senior Night this Saturday against Liberty:

-Dariana Hollingsworth-Santana
-Gabby O'Connell
-Grace Peterson
-Alessia Venturelli
-Grace Youngblood

WE LOVE JAX
UNF is 15-1 in matches played in a city named Jacksonville, going 11-1 at the UNF Arena, 1-0 at JU and 3-0 at Jacksonville State's ASUN Crossover.

NOVEMBER REIGN
November 6 in Jacksonville was a day-long rain shower, although UNF continued its reign against JU in the series history witha 3-1 win against the Dolphins at Jacksonville University. The Ospreys are on a 10-match winning streak against Jacksnoville.

SEASONS COME & GO, BUT I'll NEVER CHANGE
Graduate student Gabby O'Connell has achieved a myriad of "firsts" in her storied career at UNF. The outside hitter became the UNF Division I era record holder for most matches played after appearing in Friday night's match at FGCU. One night later she played in five sets, surpassing Nicole Baran for first in UNF history for sets played. She's played in 130 matches for 484 sets.

At Kennesaw State Oct. 17, O'Connell reached 100-career aces, making her just the third Osprey in program history to have at least: 1,000 kills, 1,000 digs, 100 blocks, 100 assists and 100 aces.

O'Connell ranks fifth in UNF history for kills with 1,395, 9 behind Kierstan Jakowicz. Last weekend she became just the third Osprey to surpass 4,000 total attack attempts.

Her play on the attack isn't the only thing recognized by the record books. O'Connell is the all-time leader for service attempts (1,732).

O'Connell notched her 42nd double-double with another impressive defensive day in the Oct. 30 win at Stetson. O'Connell has 1,275 digs, good for eighth in UNF history. She is 26 shy of Paige Pridgeon's mark for seventh all-time.

O'Connell is seventh all-time for matches played.

MORO MOVES UP
UNF's all-time career digs/set record holder, Rocio Moro, continues her climb up the total digs ladder.

Moro surpassed Jessica Bosacki (2000-03) for fourth in UNF history for total digs, reaching 1,526. Moro is 69 short of Traci Till's mark of 1,593.

Nicole Baran touts the all-time record with 1,929 digs. Moro has only played 306 sets, 169 fewer than Baran.

THE WALL
Middle blocker Bre Walp finally became eligible in the UNF Career Record books for the blocks/set season record after surpassing 100 sets played this season.

The middle blocker is third in UNF history for blocks/set in a season with 1.09. Her total is currently the best for a single season in UNF's DI era.

Walp has 196 career blocks.

A NEW "ASUN" RISING
UNF's 11 wins in ASUN play ties a program best for ASUN wins in a season.

A win Friday against Kennesaw State would set a program record for ASUN victories in a single season.

SOLI REACHES 1,000
Solimar Cestero has been a staple in UNF's offense since coming to UNF in 2018. The outside hitter has 1,005 kills, 12th most in UNF history.

Cestero already surpassed 1,000 points for her career earlier this season.

The Toa Baja, P.R., native paced UNF with 424 kills in 2019, the same year she was named to the 2019 ASUN Second Team.