PISCATAWAY, N.J. – Rutgers volleyball heads off on its final road trip of the 2025 season to meet #17 Indiana at Wilkinson Hall at 6 p.m. in Bloomington. The Hoosiers will be the sixth top-25 opponent the Scarlet Knights will have faced this season.
- Rutgers meets the nationally ranked Hoosiers in their final road game of the 2025 season after coming off its West Coast trip to USC, ranked at #17 last week, and UCLA, a squad continuing to receive votes and that handed #1 Nebraska its only Big Ten set loss of the year. Prior to embarking on this current road swing, the Scarlet Knights played to five sets in a pair of home matches against Michigan, a team receiving votes, and Ohio State.
- The Scarlet Knights continue to lead the conference in aces per set in averaging 1.80 per frame to rank 33rd nationally in the category. RU has served up a total of 176 aces this season. Lexi Visintine continues to lead RU at the line and enters the week at fourth in the Big Ten with 41. Visintine became RU's rally-era season on Nov. 1 at Michigan State. Additionally, the senior outside has been leading the way on the attack with double-figure kills in four of the last six matches, including a career-high 19 kills in back-to-back contests with Michigan and Ohio State two weeks ago.
- Aspen Maxwell, who has picked up two all-tournament nods this nonconference season, including being named the Sacred Heart Invite MVP, is seventh in the league in total points (405.0) and 15th in kills per set (3.46). Her 3.46 kills per frame ranks at the top of the rally-era career leaders list.
- Lily Bolen is adding 9.94 assists per frame and is fifth among Big Ten setters in the category. She has collected 10 double-doubles this season in matches, including the last four games - UCLA (27a, 10d), USC (20a, 10d), OSU (55a, 12d) and Michigan (50a, 10d). Bolen also surpassed the 1,000-career assist mark back on Oct. 26 at Iowa and is nearing the 1,000-season assist mark.
- Zora Hardison leads RU with the stops at the net with 102 total blocks, including 27 solo stops. She is the Rutgers rally-era career and season leader in solo blocks. She surpassed the 200-career total block total in early October.
- Alleigh Dutton has led RU in digs in all but three matches to date and averages 3.16 per set. At Iowa back on Oct. 26, Dutton tied her career high for a third time this year with 17 digs and also added a career-high eight helpers.
- The Hoosiers play their third-straight home contest, welcoming the Scarlet Knights with a 21-5 overall record and 12-4 mark in Big Ten play. Indiana has won six of its last seven matches, with the lone setback being a straight-set loss to Wisconsin on Nov. 9. Last weekend, the Hoosiers earned a 3-1 win over Oregon and topped Maryland in three sets.
- A trio of Hoosiers are averaging over three kills per set, led by Candela Alonso-Corcelleles at 3.55 per frame. Jaidyn Jager produces 3.51 per set and Avry Tatum adds 3.21. The Indiana roster also features the Big Ten leader in assists in Teodora Krickovic at 10.81 assists per set. Krickovic ranks seventh nationally in the category. On the serve, Avery Freeman leads Indiana with 27 aces.
- On defense, Jager leads the way with 2.22 d/s and Victoria Gray has made a team-leading 89 blocks, averaging 1.06 stops per set.
- ALL-TIME CAREER WATCH
- Zora Hardison needs seven more solo blocks to move into a tie for ninth on the all-time block solo leaders list, joining Addie Thiry (2001-04) and Margaret Puccio (1985-87). Hardison currently has 47 career solo blocks.
- RALLY-ERA CAREER WATCH
- Zora Hardison is the rally-era career leader in solo blocks with 45.
- Hardison needs 24 more total blocks to move up into seventh past Alex Jones (2009-12). Hardison currently has 227 career total blocks.
- Hardison needs four more block assists to move onto the top 10 list and into a tie with Stasa Miljevic (2017-19). She also needs 16 more to move into ninth place past Beka Kojadinovic (2017-21). Hardison currently has 186 career block assists.
- Lexi Visintine needs four more aces to not only move into second past Inna Balyko (2018-21), but will also become only the second Scarlet Knight of the rally era with 100 or more career aces. Additionally, Visintine needs 11 more to take over the top spot from Beka Kojadinovic (2017-21). Visintine currently has 96 career aces
- Lily Bolen needs 28 more assists to move into fourth, passing Megan Sharkey (2016-17). Bolen currently has 1,257 career assists. Bolen was the seventh Scarlet Knight of the rally era to collect 1,000 or more helpers in a career.
- Bolen is also three aces away from moving into a tie for ninth alongside Hannah Curtis (2008-11). Bolen currently has 65 career aces.
- Natalie Robinson needs two more solo blocks to move up to sixth and pass Inna Balyko (2018-21) and six more to surpass Alex Jones (2009-12) for fifth place on the list. Robinson currently has 25 career solo blocks.
- Robinson also needs 27 more total blocks to join the top 10 and move into a tie for 10th with Beka Kojadinovic (2017-21).
- ALL-TIME SEASON WATCH
- Lexi Visintine needs 10 more aces to join the all-time top 10, moving into a tie with Kerry Cody (1988). Visintine currently has 41 season aces.
- Zora Hardison needs three more solo blocks to move into a tie with Margaret Puccio (1986) for ninth on the all-time list.
- Hardison also needs 16 more total blocks to join the all-time top 10 list and move into a tie with Shealyn McNamara (2021).
- RALLY-ERA SEASON WATCH
- Lexi Visintine's 41 aces on the year are the most by a Scarlet Knight in the rally era.
- Zora Hardison's 27 solo blocks on the year are the most by a Scarlet Knight in the rally era.
- Hardison needs two more total blocks to move into seventh past Kristina Grkovic (2022) and four to move into a tie for sixth with Megan Vrnon (2022). Hardison currently has 102 total blocks on the year.
- Hardison needs 14 more block assists to move into the top 10 and into a tie with Inna Balyko (2018). Hardison currently has 75 season block assists.
- Lily Bolen needs 23 more assists to surpass Stephanie Zielinski (2010) for fourth. Additionally, the sophomore setter is 26 helpers away from becoming the fourth Scarlet Knight of the rally era to collect 1,000 assists in a season. Bolen currently has 974 assists.
- Bolen is two aces shy of moving past teammate Lexi Visintine's 2024 mark for third. Bolen currently has 36 season aces.
- Alleigh Dutton needs 55 more digs to move into a tie for 10th with Stephanie Zielinski (2012). Dutton currently has 307 season digs.
- Aspen Maxwell has racked up 405.0 points behind 339 kills and 73 blocks to rank fifth. She needs 11.5 more points to move into fourth past All-Big Ten selection Alissa Kinkela (2023) and 14.0 points to surpass Caitlin Saxton (2009) for third.
- Maxwell is also four aces away from joining the top 10 list and moving into a tie for 10th with Bolen's mark of 31 served up last season.
- Imani Howell is five solo blocks away from joining the top 10 list and into a tie with Natalie Robinson's 12 solo blocks from both this season and last season.
- In Caitlin Schweihofer's first season, played in the spring of 2021 due to COVID-19, the Scarlet Knights tripled their conference win total en route to capturing numerous program firsts. Among the team's firsts were its first-ever All-Big Ten honoree and Big Ten series sweeps. The Scarlet Knights won their first-ever Big Ten home opener, earned victories over Indiana and Michigan State for the first time in history, captured two series sweeps against Maryland and Michigan State, picked up set victories against No. 4 Nebraska and No. 10 Purdue and pushed No. 19 Ohio State to five sets and match point. RU established new team, season and match records for aces and reset program Big Ten game bests in kills, attempts, attack percentage and assists, as well as individual conference superlatives in attack percentage, assists and digs.
- Returning to fall ball for the 2021 season, only three and a half months after the conclusion of the Big Ten-only 2020 season, Rutgers continued to make strides, going 8-3 for its best nonconference record since 2012. During the season, the Scarlet Knights battled eight Top 25 teams during Big Ten play, a conference that sent eight teams to the NCAA Tournament, including the year's national champion. Rutgers captured set wins over No. 8 Purdue and No. 15 Penn State and took Illinois to five sets in front of a national audience on BTN. Inna Balyko wrapped up her career fifth all-time in assists and ninth all-time in block assists, while Kamila Cieslik became the rally era leader in matches played (132) and Beka Kojadinovic concluded her career as the rally era leader in aces.
- More success continued in 2022 as the Scarlet Knights opened the year at 3-0 for the first time since 1998 and battled eight Top 25 teams during Big Ten play and eight teams that advanced to the 2022 NCAA Tournament. During the nonconference schedule, four Scarlet Knights were named to All-Tournament squads, while Rutgers had 11 entries altogether among the rally-era season leaders list.
- Another step up the ladder occurred in 2023 as the Scarlet Knights earned their first-ever All-Big Ten attacker, captured their first-ever top 25 victory, collected the most overall wins and best nonconference record since 2012, improved set wins by 45% over the previous season and set a school record in attendance. RU placed 12 entries into the rally-era individual season top 10 records and 13 entries into the rally-era team top 10 records while collecting the most sets played, kills, assists, assists per set, digs and solo blocks by a team in conference play since joining the Big Ten in 2014.
- Last season, a youthful Scarlet Knight squad continued to rewrite the Rutgers record book, putting up several notable career and season numbers as the Big Ten expanded to the West Coast. On the attack, Alissa Kinkela, the squad's first-ever All-Big Ten attacker from 2023 and an Australian Olympic hopeful, cracked the top 10 all-time in career kills, the second most rally-era career kills and the third most rally-era career kills per set. Following the season, Kinkela signed to play professionally in South Korea. In addition to Kinkela's mark in the record book, Rutgers put nine entries into the rally-era individual season top 10 records, with a new benchmark set for blocks in a rally-era season from rookie Natalie Robinson. Additionally, Robinson leads RU's career blocks per set category after only one season "On The Banks". At the same time, junior Lexi Visintine was just two aces shy of setting a new season standard in the category.
- The Scarlet Knights return home for the final three games of the 2025 season, beginning with Minnesota in front of the BTN cameras on Sunday, Nov. 23, at 4:30 p.m. Click here to purchase tickets.
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