GREEN BAY, Wis. - The Green Bay volleyball team, coming off an impressive come from behind win against Northern Kentucky last week, hits the road for a double-dip at Oakland at the Athletics Center O'rena on Monday and Tuesday. 

MATCHUPS
Monday, Feb. 22 - 4 p.m. CT | WATCH LIVE (ESPN3) | LIVE STATS
Tuesday, Feb. 23 - 4 p.m. CT | WATCH LIVE (ESPN3) | LIVE STATS

LAST TIME OUT
Green Bay earned a split with NKU at home, bouncing back on Tuesday to win after being down 2-1. GB won a fifth set 15-11 to move to 3-5 in the HL, playing its third home series of the season already. Alexandra Zakutney led the attack with 15 kills in each match, including a double-double effort in the second match with 10 digs. 

SCOUTING OAKLAND
The Golden Grizzlies enter the matchups with an even 3-3 record so far this season. They split with Cleveland State last week, exchanging a pair of 3-0 results. Oakland opened the season with a sweep of Robert Morris and followed that by being swept by league-leading Wright State. Jamie Walling and Brittany Welch have led the team's attack, totaling 67 kills and 60 kills this season respectively.
  
PRESEASON POLL
The Horizon League released the spring 2021 preseason poll on January 21 with Green Bay picked to finish fourth. The Phoenix also received two first place votes in the poll voted on by the league's head coaches. Wright State was labeled the favorite, edging defending Horizon League Tournament Champion Northern Kentucky in the poll. The Raiders earned five first-place votes and 112 total points compared to 111 total points and three first-place votes for the Norse.
 
GOOD THINGS HAPPENING AT HOME
Green Bay finished an impressive 21-9 in the 2019 campaign and was nearly unbeaten at home, finishing 11-1 within the friendly confines of the Kress Center. In head coach Abbey Sutherland's first two years, the GB volleyball program finished an astonishing 21-1 at home – a stretch which includes a Horizon League Tournament Championship after the Phoenix earned hosting rights in 2018.
 
EXPERIENCED PHOENIX
Green Bay has a total of six upperclassmen on the roster this season, as Kristen Paulus, Ashley Sledge and Anna Eaton open their senior campaigns, and Alexis Dorner, Shannon Coughlin and Iro Chounta return as juniors. The Phoenix also welcomes Alexandra Zakutney back into the fold after she missed the 2019 season due to injury. Zakutney was named to the all-freshmen team in 2018.

WARM WELCOME
The Phoenix welcomes four newcomers to the roster in the 2020-21 season, with Emily Larson, Addy Karmik, Sydney Rabe and Danilynn Schell all gracing the roster. Larson and Rabe are standouts from Wisconsin, while Karmik comes from neighboring Illinois and Schell hails from Wyoming.
 
FAN ATTENDANCE
At this time, Green Bay will not host fans for home matches at the Kress Center.

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