INSIDE VOLLEYBALL BY DIANE NORDSTROM @BadgerVBall SCHEDULE (12-1, 0-0)
Last Week at Georgia Southern Invitational Sept. 14 vs. Savannah State W, 3-0 vs. Georgia Southern W, 3-2 W, 3-0
Sept. 15 vs. Jacksonville vs. South Alabama W, 3-1
This Week Friday
at Northwestern Sunday at Illinois
Up Next Sept. 28 Penn State Sept. 29 Ohio State Oct. 5 Oct. 7
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Coach Pete Waite won his 300th match at Wisconsin on Sept. 15. Badgers open Big Ten T
he schedule for the Bad- gers kicks up a notch as Wisconsin opens the Big Ten Conference season this weekend. UW plays its first ranked team of the year as it travels to Champaign to face No. 20 Illinois on Sunday. Wiscon- sin opens league play on Fri- day at Northwestern, which
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season on the road Wisconsin travels to Northwestern, Illinois
is receiving votes in the coaches poll. Currently, nine Big Ten
teams are ranked or receiv- ing votes in the coaches poll, led by No. 3 Nebraska and No. 4 Penn State. The Badgers wrapped up
the non-conference season at 12-1, one of the program's best-ever starts.
Waite wins No. 300 » Wisconsin head coach Pete Waite won his 300th match at Wisconsin on Sept. 15 with a 3-1 victory over South Alabama. Waite is 300-132 (.694) in his 14th season at UW, ranking as the all-time leader at Wisconsin in wins and winning percentage. He is also 566-234 (.707) in his 25th season as a head coach overall. Waite ranks 21st among active coaches in number of career wins and 26th in career winning per- centage.
Hickey picks up 1,000 digs » Junior Annemarie Hickey picked up career dig No. 1,000 against South Alabama on Sept. 15. Hickey becomes just the 12th Badger play- er to tally 1,000 digs in a career. Hickey ranks fourth on the UW career record list in digs per set at 3.73. She currently has 1,004 digs in her career.
