The Washington State University volleyball team (11-1), coming off three consecutive tournament wins, starts Pac-12 Conference play this week on its home court in Bohler Gym...WSU takes on cross-state rival No. 6 Washington (10-0) Thursday night at 7 p.m. in a match telecast on Pac-12 Washington...Saturday, WSU hosts Utah (6-5* pending 9/23 match vs. Colorado) in a 7 p.m. match that will be live streamed through wsucougars.com.

Jen Stinson Greeny is in her fifth season as WSU's head coach (64-77 at WSU, 5 years; 177-101 in career, 9 years) - complete Greeny bio on page 5...assistant coaches Burdette Greeny (fifth year) and Shannon Hunt (third year)...all coaches are former WSU student-athletes...volunteer coach James Dorr (first year)...Katie Hinrichs is coordinator of operations (fifth year).

McKenna Woodford, a 6-4 OH from Chandler, Ariz., was named Pac-12 Freshman of the Week for Sept. 14-20...she was MVP at Texas Tech Lone Star Showdown, leading WSU to three sweeps over Northwestern St., Texas Tech and Portland St...hit .351 over the weekend, averaging 3.78 kps, 2.00 dps, 0.89 bps and 4.28 pps...17 kills vs. host Texas Tech, hit .538, with five digs, four blocks... had a double-double against PSU (11 kills., 10 digs), and had three blocks...all-time: 5th Freshman of Week and 25th Cougar Player of the Week honor.

WSU IN NCAA NATIONAL STATISTICS (through 9/20/15):

> WSU is 5th in Team aces per set at 2.11 saps (leads Pac-12)

> WSU is 14th in Team blocks per set at 2.83 bps

> Haley MacDonald is 14th in aces per set at 0.53 saps

> Kyra Holt is 31st in aces per set at 0.47 saps

> Olivia Coale is 74th in aces per set at 0.41 saps

> Haley MacDonald is 31st in assists per set at 11.11 aps

> Kyra Holt is 13th in kills per set at 4.71 kps

> Kyra Holt is 7th in points per set at 5.32 pps

> Claire Martin is 20th in blocks per set at 1.39 bps

WSU IN OTHER NATIONAL RANKINGS (through 9/20/15)

> No. 30 Pablo ranking – lowest since 2002 season's No. 5 final Pablo ranking

> WSU's Pablo ranking is 8th-best, tied with No. 18 Oregon...all seven Pac-12 teams ranked above WSU also ranked in the AVCA Top 25 Poll (see page 2).

> WSU's 2015 freshman class was ranked PrepVolleyball.com's 21st-best in the nation...2013's class was 14th-best, and the 2014 class was an honorable mention...WSU is one of only 15 programs nationally to have at least two Top 25 Prepvolleyball.com and one honorable mention recruiting class ranking the last three years.

Lone Star Showdown tournament Champion

All-tournament: McKenna Woodford - MVP, Taylor Mims, Kate Sommer

Cougar Challenge tournament Champion

All-Tournament: Kyra Holt - MVP, Haley MacDonald, Taylor Mims

Idaho Volleyball Classic tournament Champion

All-Tournament: Kyra Holt - MVP, Haley MacDonald

Radford Highlander Invite All-Tournament: Kyra Holt, McKenna Woodford