FRIDAY AT POMONA

• The Cougars will look to continue their three-match win streak on Friday against the No. 24 Cal Poly Pomona Broncos.
• CSUSM and CPP are knotted at 5-5 in the all-time series as well as even at 3-3 in Kellogg Arena.
• The Cougars swept the Broncos both times the teams faced each other in 2019.
• CPP enters Friday's match undefeated at 9-0 with only one of those matches going to five sets, the SoCal Freeway Challenge tournament opener against Point Loma.
• The other two common opponents CPP has had with CSUSM are Concordia University Irvine (3-1 win) and Fresno Pacific (3-0 win).
• CPP did not play any matches in 2020 and finished 2019 with an 8-16 overall record and 6-11 record in CCAA action.
• In the 2021 CCAA Volleyball Preseason Coaches Poll, the Broncos were picked to finish seventh.

SATURDAY AT SAN BERNARDINO

• CSUSM will conclude its road trip with a stop at No. 12 Cal State San Bernardino on Saturday.
• The Cougars are 1-9 in the all-time series against CSUSB but are winless when playing in Coussoulis Arena.
• CSUSM's lone victory against the volleyball powerhouse was a thrilling five-set win (25-19, 25-20, 24-26, 20-25, 15-9) in 2017 in The Sports Center.
• The Coyotes enter Friday's match against Cal State East Bay with a 7-3 overall record and 2-0 record in CCAA play.
• CSUSB's three losses this season are to teams now ranked in the AVCA Women's Division II Coaches Top 25 Poll: Simon Fraser (No. 22), Rockhurst (No. 21) and Concordia St. Paul (No. 6).
• CSUSB did not compete in 2020.
• In 2019, the Coyotes posted a 33-0 record and became only the third team in the history of NCAA Division II to go undefeated en route to winning the first NCAA Championship in school history.
• CSUSB was unanimously selected by the conference coaches to repeat as the CCAA champion.

COUGAR OUTLOOK

• The Cougars are anxious to get back on the court after their season was canceled in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
• CSUSM returns five starters from the 2019 season - Grecia Cordero-Barr (L), Kassy Doering (MB), Micah Hébert (OH), Madison Turner (S) and Emily Vander Weide (OH).
• Nine will be donning Cougar Blue for the first time on Friday with the combination of last year's and this year's freshman classes.
• The 2019 season ended on a high note with the Cougars recording their first-ever CCAA Tournament victory, a five-set thriller over Stanislaus State.
• CSUSM's 2019 season came to an end in the next match, falling to eventual NCAA Division II National Champion Cal State San Bernardino.
• As a team in the CCAA statistics, CSUSM concluded 2019 ranked third in kills per set (13.08), blocks per set (2.12) and digs per set (15.40).
• Grecia Cordero-Barr was the CCAA leader in digs per set (4.70) and was second in total digs (437).
• In the 2021 CCAA Volleyball Preseason Coaches Poll, the Cougars were picked to finish third.

DOERING NETS CCAA PLAYER OF THE WEEK HONORS

• Senior middle blocker Kassy Doering is the first Cougar in program history to earn the conference's weekly honor.
• Doering crushed 27 kills in two matches with a hitting percentage of .533. She also had nine total blocks with four solo blocks in the two contests.
• Against Cal State Monterey Bay, Doering had 10 kills on 17 attempts without an error (.588) while putting up five total blocks (two solo).