CONWAY, S.C. \u2013 Coastal Carolina travels to Jacksonville, Fla., for three matches at the Dolphin Volleyball Classic inside Swisher Gymnasium. The Chanticleers will face UConn and host Jacksonville on Friday before closing the tournament against Florida A&M on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Coastal opens the tournament against UConn at 11 a.m. Friday and returns to the court to face Jacksonville at 7 p.m. The Chants will take on Florida A&M at 5 p.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n
Live statistics will be available for all three matches. The tournament will not be streamed.<\/p>\n
CHANTS AT THE DOLPHIN VOLLEYBALL CLASSIC SCOUTING UCONN SCOUTING JACKSONVILLE SCOUTING FLORIDA A&M SERIES HISTORY OPENING WEEKEND SPLIT BLOCK PARTY RINARD LEADS THE ATTACK NEWCOMERS MAKE AN IMPACT
\nFriday, Sept. 4 | Coastal Carolina vs. UConn | 11 a.m. | Live Stats<\/a>
\nFriday, Sept. 4 | Coastal Carolina at Jacksonville | 7 p.m. | Live Stats<\/a>
\nSaturday, Sept. 5 | Coastal Carolina vs. Florida A&M | 5 p.m. | Live Stats<\/a><\/p>\n
\n\u2022 UConn enters the tournament with an 0-3 record after dropping matches to High Point, No. 10 Penn State and Hofstra at the Penn State Invitational.
\n\u2022 The Huskies took High Point to five sets in their season opener before suffering a pair of three-set losses.
\n\u2022 Freshman middle blocker Courtney Grayson was named to the Penn State Invitational All-Tournament Team after totaling 23 kills and eight blocks while hitting .526.
\n\u2022 Helena Einarsdottir leads UConn with 25 kills, followed by Sydney Borowy with 24 and Grayson with 23.
\n\u2022 Isabella Sohl has recorded a team-high 76 assists, while Maja Daca leads the Huskies with 10 service aces.
\n\u2022 UConn is hitting .155 through three matches and has recorded 21 service aces.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Jacksonville opened the season with a 2-1 record at the Gamecock Classic, sweeping Southern and Jacksonville State before falling to Southern Miss in five sets.
\n\u2022 The Dolphins are hitting .297 while limiting their opponents to a .159 percentage. They are averaging 2.64 blocks and 2.00 service aces per set.
\n\u2022 Abbie Tuyo leads Jacksonville with 39 kills and is hitting .427. Jaylyn Tuiasosopo has added 25 kills and a team-high eight service aces, while Claire Mrukowski has 24 kills.
\n\u2022 Haley Yount, the preseason ASUN Player and Defensive Player of the Year, earned the conference’s first Defensive Player of the Week award after leading Jacksonville with 15 blocks during the opening weekend.
\n\u2022 The Dolphins went 22-8 last season, recording their most victories since 2013.
\n\u2022 Jacksonville is 16-6 at Swisher Gymnasium under third-year head coach Alicia Manguiat, including a 9-2 mark last season.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Florida A&M is 1-2 after opening the season at the Betty K. Austin Invitational. The Rattlers fell to North Carolina Central and Delaware State before sweeping Maryland Eastern Shore.
\n\u2022 Senior outside hitter Sydney Whitfield leads the SWAC with 45 kills and 4.09 kills per set. She recorded double-digit kills in each of Florida A&M’s first three matches.
\n\u2022 Iyonnie Sanford ranks second on the team with 29 kills while hitting .234.
\n\u2022 Makenzie Taylor has distributed 84 assists and is tied for the team lead with five service aces.
\n\u2022 Tamia Coleman leads Florida A&M with 15 blocks, while Sanford has recorded 10.
\n\u2022 The Rattlers are averaging 2.18 service aces and 2.18 blocks per set.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Friday morning’s match will be the first meeting between Coastal Carolina and UConn.
\n\u2022 Coastal and Jacksonville last met in 2014, with the Chanticleers earning a 3-0 victory in Jacksonville.
\n\u2022 Coastal is 2-0 all-time against Florida A&M. The Chanticleers swept the Rattlers in both previous meetings, winning in Tallahassee in 2015 and Miami in 2016.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Coastal Carolina opened the season with a 1-1 record at the Coastal Carolina Invitational. The Chanticleers fell to Duke in four sets before rallying for a five-set victory over Queens.
\n\u2022 Coastal hit .636 with 15 kills and one attack error in the opening set against Queens. After the Royals won the next two sets, the Chants captured the fourth set 25-23 and closed the match with a 15-11 victory in the fifth.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Coastal averaged 3.00 blocks per set during the opening weekend, totaling 27 blocks in nine sets.
\n\u2022 The Chanticleers recorded 13 blocks against Duke and 14 against Queens.
\n\u2022 Hatteras Welker<\/a> leads Coastal with 15 blocks, while Natalie Hughes<\/a> and Amarah Johnson<\/a> have recorded 10 apiece.
\n\u2022 Coastal limited Duke and Queens to a combined .143 hitting percentage. Queens hit just .117 in Sunday’s match.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Junior outside hitter Anzley Rinard<\/a> leads Coastal with 31 kills and 3.44 kills per set.
\n\u2022 Rinard recorded 12 kills against Duke before posting a match-high 19 kills in the victory over Queens.
\n\u2022 Natalie Hughes<\/a> ranks second on the team with 23 kills and is hitting .254. She finished with 15 kills and six blocks against Queens.
\n\u2022 Welker recorded 14 kills while hitting .458 against Queens after finishing with five kills and eight blocks against Duke.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Freshman Viara Parapunova<\/a> recorded a team-high 18 kills while hitting .375 in her collegiate debut against Duke.
\n\u2022 Abby Bucey<\/a> served five aces in the win over Queens, the most by a Chanticleer since Jalyn Stout<\/a> recorded five against Georgia Southern on Oct. 11, 2025.
\n\u2022 Kaylee Musick<\/a> totaled 53 assists during the opening weekend, including 29 against Queens.
\n\u2022 Jonna Spohn<\/a> leads Coastal with 46 digs after recording 20 against Duke and a career-high 26 against Queens.
\n\u2022 Coastal’s nine newcomers accounted for 72 of the team’s 106 kills and 25 of its 27 blocks during the opening weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CONWAY, S.C. \u2013 Coastal Carolina travels to Jacksonville, Fla., for three matches at the Dolphin Volleyball Classic inside…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-390179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}