The women's volleyball team lost their final home match of the season, 3-1 (20-25,25-22,20-25,18-25) against University of California – Merced. Win or lose, the Golden Eagles already knew they had clinched a spot in the upcoming conference tournament. To close out the regular season La Sierra will travel to Lancaster, Calif. to play against University of Antelope Valley.
Adiva Joseph was swinging away towards a match-high 16 kills. She was joined in the effort by Kiana Krumm, who added 13 kills and 10 digs. Veronica Ramirez finished the match 9 kills and 4 block assists.
Setter Angala Jensen spread the offense around and finished with 42 assists, with Ayana Felton leading the team with 11 digs.
Prior to Saturday night's match, the women's volleyball program recognized three of their seniors (Angala Jensen, Kiana Krumm, Kyrsti Photias), who played in their final home match of their collegiate career. We would like to thank our seniors for their hard work and commitment to the women's volleyball program.
Kyrsti Photias Asst / Digs / SA
UC Santa Cruz (2 seasons): 681 / 226 / 47
La Sierra (2 seasons): 103 / 438 / 72
Total: 784 / 664 / 119
For the past two years, Kyrsti has been an essential part of the team's defense, even after making the transition from setter to defensive specialist. Head coach, Erin Sintek, stated that "she is a solid player and someone [they] could depend on when they switched her role from a setter to DS." Photias was not fazed by the change as she says that she was a DS before she became a setter at UC Santa Cruz.
Angala Jensen Asst / Digs / SA
Mont. St. Billings (1 season): 995 / 202 / 13
Lynn University (1 season): 446 / 317 / 6
La Sierra (2 seasons): 2138 / 433 / 56
Total: 3579 / 750 / 75
In the two years that Angala Jensen has been with the women's volleyball program at La Sierra, she has led as both a captain and on the leader boards. Jensen has surpassed the all-time setters record in total assists with 2138, with the previous record being 2017 total assists.
In Cal Pac, Jensen ranks first in total assists with 577, but averages in assists/set at 10.49 ranking her in third for the conference. She finished last season with Second Team honors.
In NAIA Div I, Jensen ranks fifteenth in assists per game, and twenty-third in total assists.
Kiana Krumm K / Digs / SA
2016: 337 / 325 / 43
2017: 362 / 331 / 54
2018: 379 / 348 / 41
2019: 365 / 278 / 58
Total: 1443 / 1282 / 196
Since her freshman year, Kiana Krumm has been an all-around vital player for the women's volleyball program. As proven by her statistics, Krumm currently holds the record for total kills with 1443. Sintek states that Krumm is "an overall outstanding and tremendous athlete with stats to support what she did in four years for this program."
In Cal Pac, Krumm ranks third in total kills with 188, and averages at 3.6 in kills/set. In her first year with La Sierra and the Cal Pac, she was awarded Freshman of the Year and three consecutive First Team honors.
In NAIA Div I, Krumm ranks seventh in total service aces and tenth in service aces per game. She also ranks thirty-eighth in total kills and kills per game.
Volleyball Playoffs:
La Sierra and UC Merced are in, most likely as the #2/#3 seeds in some order. The two split their regular season matches (both by 3-1 margins) and their 4 losses are to ERAU (2), BEN (1), and each other. That kicks in the #4 tie-breaker – "sets won in descending order of finish" – and LSU went 3-6 vs. ERAU, UCM went 1-6 vs. ERAU.
LSU finishes the season vs. Antelope Valley; UCM plays PUC and Simpson.
