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It could be an exciting season for the Austin Peay women’s volleyball team. The Ohio Valley Conference’s coaches and sports information directors APSU to finish second in the 2017 regular-season race. In addition to the preseason poll, senior middle blocker Ashey Slay and junior setter Kristen Stucker were named to the 14-member Preseason All-OVC team.
It is the highest the Governors have been picked in the league’s preseason poll since being picked second in 2011, the year following its OVC tournament championship. Austin Peay was picked behind preseason favorite Belmont, which received 10 first place votes to the Governors six first-place nods. Austin Peay will host Belmont at the OVC race’s midway point in a Thursday, Oct. 19 contest at the Dunn Center. Behind the Governors, SIUE was picked to finish third after a second-place finish last season. Murray State, the defending OVC champion, was picked to finish fourth. Eastern Kentucky and Jacksonville State were tabbed for fifth and sixth place, respectively.
Austin Peay will open its 2017 schedule when it hosts the Culvers Governors Challenge, August 25-27. The Governors will open the season with a 3:00pm, Friday, August 25 contest against UMKC. Austin Peay also will face Marshall, nationally-ranked Missouri and Northern Iowa during the event.
(Courtesy APSU Athletics)
