WAVERLY, Iowa-- The Wartburg volleyball team (19-5 overall, 7-0 IIAC), fresh off its Iowa Conference Championship, travels to face Simpson (9-14, 1-6) Thursday at 7:30 p.m.

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The Series
Simpson owns the all-time series lead at 36-32, but the Knights have won the last seven-straight meetings.

Wartburg
Senior Aryn Jones (Marion) has a team-best 352 kills, 3.91 kills/set, .356 hitting percentage and is second with 29 service aces. Junior Lizzy Blough (Dike) joins her in triple digits with 230 kills and a team-high 33 aces. Senior Maddie Miller (Johnston), freshman Kylie Bildstein (Dyersville), and junior Mallary Erbes (Urbandale) round out the leading hitters with 161 and 123, and 111 kills, respectively.

Senior Maria Brown (Peosta) leads the setters with 471 assists and Erbes (Urbandale) follows with 430 in the 6-2 system.

Freshman Katie Foster (Charles City) has 471 digs.

Career Leader Lists
Brown has now moved into sixth on the all-time career leader list with 1,717 assists to date. She recently surpassed Traci Robinson's 1,708 mark

Simpson
Jacque Luth leads the team with 238 kills and Hannah Lester follows with 209. Morgan Taylor has 32 aces and Ariana Martinez has 272 digs.

National Stat Rankings
Wartburg ranks in the top 100 of seven statistical categories, which the NCAA released Monday.
 
The Knights rank 35^th in blocks per set (1.97), 48^th in match won-lost percentage (.783), 52^nd in team total blocks (173), 58^th in hitting percentage (.218), 63^rd in kills per set (12.59), 83^rd in assists per set (11.45), and 96^th in team kills (1,108).
 
Individually, two Knights rank in the top 100 of eight statistical categories: Jones ranks 12^th in points per set (4.89), 20^th in hitting percentage (.362), 29^th in kills per set (3.94), 39^th in total kills (343), 80^th in total blocks (78), and 81^st in blocks per set (.90), and  Foster ranks 79^th in total digs (451) and 81^st in digs per set (5.13).