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Bronx, N.Y. – The Fordham volleyball team (10-14, 3-9) wraps up the regular season this weekend with trips to George Washington (14-12, 7-5) and George Mason (4-20, 0-12) on Friday and Saturday, respectively. Those matches will begin at 7 p.m. and 5 p.m.  Links to watch and follow along can be found above. 
 
Cancer Awareness Week
The team's match against the Flyers on October 18^th was the team's Cancer Awareness match, sponsored by New York Presbyterian Lawrence Hospital. Although it's over, you can still make a donation to help those in need. For more information, please click here.
 
Last Time Out
The Rams sent their five seniors out with a bang, defeating Davidson in a thrilling five sets on Saturday afternoon. Fordham took sets one and three before the Wildcats clawed their way back to force a fifth frame. For a while, it looked like Davidson would maintain its momentum, leading, 12-7, late. That's when Coach Choi used his second timeout and the Rams rally began. The hosts rattled off an 8-1 run to take the match. Davidson took a timeout after three unanswered points and led by two, 13-11, but the Rams scored four straight to snatch the win. McKenna Lahr led the way with 15 kills and 11 digs, plus a pair of aces, while freshman Aria De La Rosa notched a season-high 13 kills at a .379 clip, adding four blocks (two solo). Kaitlin Morley chipped in 11 kills and three digs, while Elise Benjamin, Olivia Fairchild, and Joey Landeros combined for 16 kills. Benjamin led the defense with five blocks. Morgan Williams tallied her eighth 30-dig effort of the season, totaling 37, fourth-most in a single match at Fordham and two shy of her five-set record that she broke earlier this year. Megan Brzozowski, with 27, and Makaela Tanaka, with 18, split setting duties, the latter adding two aces and the former adding seven digs. Mallory Lipski contributed a match-high three aces, seven digs, and her first career kill.
 
Series Histories
George Washington – The Colonials lead, 33-11, all-time since Fordham joined the Atlantic 10 in 1995. GW dominated the early portion of the rivalry, but in the last three years, Fordham is 4-1. George Washington stopped a four-match losing skid with a tight five-set win in the Bronx the day before the Rams defeated George Mason in the season finale. Earlier in the year, Fordham won in four sets on the road, improving them to 5-18 all-time in Washington, D.C. In that most recent contest, Kaitlin Morley went off for a career-high 28 kills and 20 digs, plus three blocks, while Makaela Tanaka racked up a season-high 47 digs.  
 
George Mason – The Patriots and Rams each have five wins in the series since the former joined the Atlantic 10 in 2013. The two schools have traded wins for the last eight contests. Most recently, Fordham finished last year's campaign with a five-set win at home. In that match, Lahr recorded a career-high 23 kills, while Makaela Tanaka did the same with her 21 digs. Claire O'Neil notched a match-high seven blocks, as well. The Rams are 1-4 all-time in Fairfax.
 
Williams, Rams Among Nation's Digs Leaders
Senior captain and libero Morgan Williams is up to 583 digs already this season, good for an average of 6.07 per set, both of which are Fordham school records. The former stat ranks seventh in all of Division I, while the latter sits fifth. The team, as a whole, has averaged 18.13 digs per set, which ranks sixth in the country, while their 1,740 total digs sits 28^th. The Rams are also 30^th in attacks per set (37.64) and 84^th with a combined .187 opponent hit percentage. Defensively, the Rams are 137^th with 203.5 total blocks and, with 2.12 per set, are 125^th overall.  
 
Williams Smashing Records
A four-time Atlantic 10 Defensive Player of the Week honoree this year, Morgan Williams has set five school records already this year and will likely set a sixth, most recently becoming the school's all-time career leader in digs and setting the single-season digs record. She is up to 1,804 now, most in Fordham history. She is also averaging 4.41 per set for her career, which will smash the previous record, and is up to 6.07 per frame this year alone, which would smash her previously set record from last year (4.28). Her first record this year came when she initially broke the four-set mark for digs with 33 at Georgia State during opening weekend before breaking the overall single-match record with 42 digs in four frames at Dartmouth. The team also combined for 103 digs that day, a new four-set record, as well.
 
Though she didn't pick up any hardware for it, Williams added yet another record to her resume when she notched 39 digs at Rhode Island, breaking Maria Rodenberg's record of 38 for five-set matches, which also used to be the overall record. Williams has eight matches of 30 or more digs this year already, including three of the last four.  
 
Fairchild Hits 1,000 Kills
The redshirt junior entered this season with 827 career kills after sitting out last year due to injury. This year, Fairchild has 218 kills and is now up to 1,045 for her career, becoming the 11^th Ram to reach the milestone and is now 10^th all-time. Fairchild is already the program's leader with 3.44 kills per set and is 10th with a .235 hit percentage. She is also seventh all-time with 127 career aces, 17 away from joining the top-five.
 
Pejouan Matches Blocks Record
At LIU, freshman Chloe Pejouan made the start and tallied 13 blocks, tying Marija Markovic's single-match record in four sets against Manhattan in 2006. She also surpassed Randi Ewing's five-set record of 12 from 2012.
 
Class of 2023
The Rams welcomed five new faces to the program with freshmen Megan Brzozowski, Mallory Lipski, Aria De La Rosa, Chloe Pejouan, and Aneliesa Cartledge. Read more about the rookies and their high school careers at the links.