LOS ANGELES — San Diego volleyball (15-8, 10-3 WCC) closes its three-match road trip Saturday at WCC leader LMU (22-3, 13-1 WCC), taking an eight-match winning streak into Gersten Pavilion two days after rallying from two sets down to beat Pepperdine. The Lions beat the Toreros in five sets at the Jenny Craig Pavilion on Oct. 8, and a win would pull San Diego within a game and a half of first place.
First serve is set for 1 p.m. PT on Saturday, Nov. 14. The match will stream on ESPN+.
Live statistics will be available on StatBroadcast.
LAST TIME OUT: TOREROS RALLY FROM TWO SETS DOWN AT PEPPERDINE
• San Diego rallied from two sets down for a 21-25, 19-25, 25-21, 25-17, 17-15 win at Pepperdine on Nov. 12, extending its winning streak to eight in its final visit to the Firestone Fieldhouse. Playing on ESPNU, the Toreros avenged an Oct. 10 home loss, handed the Waves their second WCC loss and won a five-set league match for the first time since Nov. 15, 2025, at Portland.
• After hitting .095 and .026 in the first two sets, San Diego hit .223 over the last three and held Pepperdine to .096. Down 2-1 early in the third, the Toreros scored eight straight points, the last seven with Lauren Lynch serving, and Meghan Scholz had three kills and two block assists in the run. The set was tied at 16, 19 and 20 before Kierstyn Barton's back-to-back kills and an Emma Brewer ace, and Nemo Beach put away the last two points for a 25-21 win.
• BayLea Sparks answered Pepperdine's first point of the fourth set with four kills in a 6-0 run, five of the points coming with Kylie Munday serving. San Diego hit .406 in the set and led by as many as eight, and Brewer ended it 25-17 with a kill and an ace.
• The fifth set had nine ties, and San Diego trailed 4-2 and 9-7 before a Pepperdine service error and a Munday kill evened it. Sparks, who had four kills in the set, put the Toreros ahead 11-10 and tied it 13-13. Brewer's kill brought up match point at 14-13, and Pepperdine saved two before the Toreros closed it out: Barton's kill made it 15-14 after a successful San Diego challenge, an unsuccessful Pepperdine challenge kept San Diego ahead 16-15, and Scholz and Munday combined on the final block.
• Barton finished with a match-high 24 kills, 25.0 points and 16 digs, the kills and points both season highs for any Torero, and Sparks hit .500 with 11 kills. Brewer had nine kills, 10 digs and five aces, Beach six kills and three aces and Scholz five kills and five block assists. Munday posted her ninth double-double of the season with 42 assists and 18 digs, Lynch had a match-high 23 digs, and San Diego finished with a 62-38 edge in kills and a season-high 11 aces.
MUNDAY, BREWER EARN THIRD WCC WEEKLY HONORS OF 2026
• Kylie Munday was named the WCC Setter of the Week and Emma Brewer the Freshman of the Week on Nov. 9, each for the third time this season. Munday also won on Aug. 31 and Oct. 19, and her three awards are tied with Santa Clara's Macy Hinshaw for the most by a setter this season. Brewer won on Sept. 21 and Oct. 26 and is tied with Portland's Kalaweloilehua Chock for the most freshman awards.
• Munday handed out 42 assists at Denver, 14.00 per set, as San Diego hit .393, spreading them among six hitters with at least eight each to Kierstyn Barton, Brewer, Ryann Knuth and BayLea Sparks. The Toreros hit .469 (17-2-32) in the third set, when she set Knuth for kills on their next four points after an 18-12 lead and then set Meghan Scholz for the match-ending kill. She added eight digs, a kill and two blocks for her seventh career Setter of the Week award.
• Brewer led San Diego with 15 kills and a match-high 16.5 points, averaging 5.00 kills per set, and hit .406 (15-2-32) with an ace, five digs and a block assist. Seven of her kills came on 14 error-free swings in the first set, and her kills put the Toreros up 20-16, 22-16 and 23-18 late in the set.
• San Diego has 10 WCC weekly awards in 2026, tied with Santa Clara for the most in the conference: four Defensive Player of the Week honors and three each for Freshman and Setter of the Week. A Torero has been honored in each of the last four weeks, with multiple Toreros honored in three of them.
ALL-TIME SERIES VERSUS LMU
• San Diego leads the all-time series 50-45 and has won 36 of 45 meetings since 2004, but LMU has won five of the last seven. The Lions' 3-2 win at the Jenny Craig Pavilion on Oct. 8 snapped the Toreros' two-match winning streak in the series, and four of the last five meetings have gone five sets.
• San Diego is 26-23 all-time at LMU and 22-6 there under Jennifer Petrie, who is 41-14 against the Lions since taking over in 1999. The Toreros' 25-15, 25-15, 25-20 sweep at Gersten Pavilion on Nov. 1, 2025, was their first win there since 2022.
• The Toreros won both meetings in 2025, rallying from two sets down for a 3-2 win at the JCP on Sept. 27 and sweeping in Los Angeles on Nov. 1, when they hit .408, held LMU to .179 and got a career-high 13 kills on .579 hitting from Ava Durgan.
STATISTICAL STANDOUTS: LAST TIME OUT AGAINST LMU
• LMU beat San Diego 13-25, 26-24, 25-17, 22-25, 15-12 at the Jenny Craig Pavilion on Oct. 8 in a match with 18 ties and 10 lead changes. The Toreros hit .240 to the Lions' .160, out-blocked them 12.5-5.5 and scored two more points, 103-101, but LMU served 13 aces to San Diego's eight. Each team has lost only once since, both times to Pepperdine.
• Nemo Beach served eight straight points to turn a 4-1 first-set lead into 12-1, with Ryann Knuth and Kierstyn Barton adding two kills apiece during the run, and the Toreros hit .424 in the set to LMU's .061. San Diego led 23-17 in the second before Maria Tabacuks put away six kills in the last 10 points, four in a row with Gabriella Cascione serving, and the Lions erased a set point at 24-23 to win 26-24.
• Nicole Schuetz served six straight points, three of them aces, as LMU stretched an 8-7 third-set lead to 15-7, and Anya Santrac added five straight from the line for a 21-8 advantage. In the fourth, Beach's kill made it 12-10 and she served the next five points, including an ace and two BayLea Sparks blocks, for a 17-10 lead, and kills by Meghan Scholz and Beach closed out a 25-22 win after LMU got within 23-21.
• Sparks' solo block of Aleksandra Stojanovic put San Diego ahead 8-7 at the switch in the fifth, and after LMU answered with four straight, Barton's kill capped a three-point Torero run that tied it at 11. The Lions then scored three straight, the last on a red card against the San Diego bench, and closed out the match 15-12.
• Barton had 14 kills, 17 digs and a team-high 17.5 points, one of three Torero double-doubles with Knuth (12 kills, 13 digs) and Kylie Munday (40 assists, 14 digs, three aces). Sparks had 10.0 blocks, five of them solo, Scholz hit .474 with 10 kills on 19 swings, Beach had 11 kills and Lauren Lynch had 18 digs while passing 18-for-18. Tabacuks had a match-high 23 kills on 70 swings and 10 digs, Schuetz added 10 kills and six aces, Cascione had a match-high 19 digs and Delfina Schuh 27 assists.
2026 WCC WEEKLY HONORS
• Kylie Munday, Setter of the Week (Aug. 31): 115 assists (11.50 per set), 33 digs, 6.0 blocks and three aces as USD went 2-1 in Honolulu. Fifth career Setter of the Week honor.
• Emma Brewer, Freshman of the Week (Sept. 21): 23 kills (3.29 per set), 16 digs, 7.0 blocks and two aces in wins over Arizona and San Diego State. First career weekly honor.
• Lauren Lynch, Defensive Player of the Week (Oct. 5): 11 digs, four assists and an ace in a 3-0 win over Denver, passing 5-for-5 in serve receive. First career weekly honor.
• Meghan Scholz, Defensive Player of the Week (Oct. 19): 12.0 blocks (2.00 per set), 16 kills on .387 hitting and two aces in sweeps at Seattle U and Portland. First career WCC weekly honor.
• Kylie Munday, Setter of the Week (Oct. 19): 65 assists (10.83 per set), 11 digs, 6.0 blocks and two aces as USD hit .376 in sweeps at Seattle U and Portland. Sixth career Setter of the Week honor.
• Lauren Lynch, Defensive Player of the Week (Oct. 26): 35 digs (5.83 per set), 22-for-22 in serve receive, five assists and an ace in sweeps at Pacific and Saint Mary's. Second career weekly honor.
• Emma Brewer, Freshman of the Week (Oct. 26): 25 kills (4.17 per set) on .345 hitting, 27.5 points and 4.0 blocks in sweeps at Pacific and Saint Mary's. Second career weekly honor.
• Lauren Lynch, Defensive Player of the Week (Nov. 2): 37 digs (5.29 per set), 21-for-21 in serve receive, 14 assists and an ace in wins over San Francisco and Santa Clara. Third career weekly honor.
• Kylie Munday, Setter of the Week (Nov. 9): 42 assists (14.00 per set), eight digs, two blocks and a kill as USD hit .393 in a sweep at Denver. Seventh career Setter of the Week honor.
• Emma Brewer, Freshman of the Week (Nov. 9): 15 kills (5.00 per set) on .406 hitting, a match-high 16.5 points, an ace and five digs in a sweep at Denver. Third career weekly honor.
NATIONALLY RELEVANT NUMBERS
• San Diego is holding opponents to .151 hitting, ninth in the nation and tops in the WCC, according to NCAA statistics through Nov. 12. The Toreros also rank 45th nationally in blocks per set (2.48), 50th in hitting percentage (.251), 67th in kills per set (13.27), 72nd in assists per set (12.27) and 85th in digs per set (14.96).
• Lauren Lynch ranks 31st nationally in digs per set (4.59), Kylie Munday is 44th in assists per set (10.18) and Meghan Scholz is 85th in blocks per set (1.17), with BayLea Sparks 139th (1.10). Kierstyn Barton is 97th in points per set (4.16) and 122nd in kills per set (3.56).
• San Diego has hit .310 (716-192-1693) over its last 15 matches, starting with the Sept. 17 sweep of Arizona, after hitting .163 through its first eight. In 13 WCC matches, the Toreros are hitting .303 to their opponents' .147 and averaging 2.61 blocks per set to 1.40.
• The Toreros have hit .322 (382-100-875) during their eight-match winning streak, which includes a .153 night at Pepperdine after they hit .284 or better in each of the first seven. Their 11 aces in Malibu were a season high, and their 62 kills and 80 digs were their second-most this season, behind 66 and 85 against UC Davis.
TOREROS IN THE NCAA RPI
• San Diego is 61st in the NCAA RPI through games of Nov. 8, up three spots from 64th, and third among WCC teams behind Pepperdine (39th) and LMU (43rd). The Toreros' nonconference RPI ranks 47th nationally.
• Through games of Nov. 8, USD was 4-7 against teams in the RPI top 100 — 0-4 against the top 25, 1-2 against Nos. 26-50 and 3-1 against Nos. 51-100 — and 10-1 against teams ranked 101st or lower, the lone loss coming in five sets to Saint Mary's (145th) on Sept. 24. Thursday's win at Pepperdine, 39th in that RPI, was its second this season over a top-50 team.
• Saturday's opponent, LMU, is 43rd in the RPI, unchanged from the previous week, with a nonconference RPI of 41st. The Lions were 2-3 against the top 100 and 19-0 against teams ranked 101st or lower through games of Nov. 8, and they are the last top-100 team on San Diego's regular-season schedule. Elsewhere in the WCC, Santa Clara is 125th, Saint Mary's 145th, Denver 183rd, San Francisco 197th, Portland 221st, Pacific 298th and Seattle U 327th, and the WCC ranks 13th among conferences in conference RPI.
• The Toreros are 8-2 in their last 10 matches and 7-1 on the road.
HOW THEY STACK UP IN THE WCC
• San Diego leads the WCC in hitting percentage (.251), opponent hitting percentage (.151) and digs per set (14.96) and ranks second in the league in blocks (2.48), kills (13.27) and assists (12.27) per set, according to NCAA statistics through Nov. 12. The Toreros are also third in total blocks (206.0) and attacks per set (34.12) and seventh in aces per set (1.46).
• Lauren Lynch leads the WCC in digs per set (4.59), ahead of Denver's Madison Winkler (4.49), and her 381 digs rank third. Kylie Munday is second in assists per set (10.18), behind Santa Clara's Macy Hinshaw (11.02), and her 814 assists rank fourth.
• Meghan Scholz (1.17) and BayLea Sparks (1.10) are third and fourth in the WCC in blocks per set, behind Pepperdine's Ella Piskorz (1.39) and Seattle U's Lexi Jones (1.18), and Sparks' 90 blocks are tied for fourth. Kierstyn Barton is fifth in both kills per set (3.56) and points per set (4.16).
• In 13 WCC matches, Sparks is hitting .537 (87-8-147) and Scholz .331 (75-21-163). Barton has 154 kills on .324 hitting and 15 of her 19 aces in 43 league sets, Emma Brewer is averaging 2.94 kills per set against WCC opponents and Munday 10.14 assists per set.
PLAYERS TO WATCH
#7 KIERSTYN BARTON | SENIOR | 6-1 | OUTSIDE HITTER | CHANDLER, ARIZ. | CORONA DEL SOL HS
Through 23 Matches (2026)
• Barton leads the Toreros in kills (285, 3.56 per set) and points (333.0, 4.16 per set) through 80 sets. Her kills and points per set both rank fifth in the WCC, and her points per set rank 97th nationally. She is hitting .261 and has added 211 digs, 55.0 blocks and 19 aces.
• She had a match-high 24 kills at Pepperdine, adding 25.0 points and 16 digs while passing 22-for-23 in serve receive. Her back-to-back kills broke a 20-20 tie in the third set, and her kill after a successful San Diego challenge put the Toreros ahead 15-14 in the fifth.
• Against LMU on Oct. 8, she had 14 kills, 17 digs and a team-high 17.5 points for one of three Torero double-doubles. Two of her kills came during Nemo Beach's eight-point service run in the first set, and her kill capped a three-point run that tied the fifth set at 11.
• Her 24 kills at Pepperdine are the most by a Torero this season, topping her 20 against SMU and 19 in her USD debut against Baylor. Her .542 (15-2-24) against San Francisco ties BayLea Sparks' mark against UC Davis for the best by a Torero with at least 12 kills this season, and she has been charged with 10 reception errors on 221 serve-receive attempts (.955).
#12 KYLIE MUNDAY | JUNIOR | 5-10 | SETTER | POST FALLS, IDAHO | POST FALLS HS
Through 23 Matches (2026)
• The WCC Setter of the Week for Aug. 31, Oct. 19 and Nov. 9, Munday has 814 assists through 80 sets. Her 10.18 assists per set rank 44th nationally and second in the WCC, behind Santa Clara's Macy Hinshaw (11.02), and her assist total ranks fourth in the league.
• She handed out 42 assists at Pepperdine and added 18 digs for her ninth double-double of the season, along with five kills, two aces and three block assists. Five of the points in San Diego's 6-0 fourth-set run came with her serving, her kill tied the fifth set at 9-9, and she teamed with Meghan Scholz on the match-ending block.
• Her season-high three aces came against LMU on Oct. 8, when she had 40 assists and 14 digs for one of three Torero double-doubles and served four of the points in a 5-0 third-set run.
• Her 55 assists against UC Davis are a season high and one shy of her career high of 56, set in the five-set win over Arizona on Sept. 13, 2025. She set a season high with 25 digs against UC Davis and added 5.0 blocks and two aces while running an offense that produced 66 kills; according to Evollve/Avid Volleyball, that line made her just the second player in the past seven seasons to finish a match with at least 55 assists, 25 digs and five blocks.
• She has nine double-doubles in 2026 — 39 assists and 12 digs against Baylor, 42 and 19 against Georgia Southern, 55 and 25 against UC Davis, 35 and 10 against Oregon, 38 and 10 against San Diego State, 43 and 16 against Saint Mary's, 40 and 14 against LMU, 35 and 12 against Santa Clara, and 42 and 18 at Pepperdine.
• Munday leads the Toreros with 23 service aces and is tied with Kierstyn Barton for second on the team with 211 digs (2.64 per set). She has added 43.0 blocks and 40 kills on .270 hitting.
#1 NEMO BEACH | SENIOR | 5-11 | OUTSIDE HITTER | CHANDLER, ARIZ. | HAMILTON HS
Through 23 Matches (2026)
• Beach reached 1,000 career kills, all at San Diego, in the Sept. 6 match against USC. She ranks second on the team with 225 kills (2.85 per set) through 79 sets and is hitting .240.
• She put away the last two points of the third set at Pepperdine as San Diego took its first set of the night, 25-21, and finished with six kills and three aces, matching her season high for aces.
• She served eight straight points against LMU on Oct. 8 to turn a 4-1 first-set lead into 12-1 and finished with 11 kills. In the fourth, her kill made it 12-10, she served the next five points, including an ace, for a 17-10 lead, and she ended the set with a kill.
• Her season high is 22 kills, set against UC Davis on a season-high 61 attempts, and her 12 digs that night made it one of her three double-doubles in 2026. The other two came in sweeps, with 11 kills and 11 digs apiece at Hawaii and against Arizona.
• Beach ranks second on the team with 259.0 points (3.28 per set) and third with 246 serve-receive attempts (.919), and has added 121 digs, 18 aces, 11 assists and 25.0 blocks.
#13 EMMA BREWER | FRESHMAN | 6-1 | OUTSIDE HITTER | SALEM, ORE. | SPRAGUE HS
Through 23 Matches (2026)
• The WCC Freshman of the Week for Sept. 21, Oct. 26 and Nov. 9, Brewer ranks third on the team in kills per set (2.54) and points per set (2.98), with 160 kills and 188.0 points through 63 sets. She is hitting .229 and has added 91 digs, 33.0 blocks and 10 aces, and she is averaging 2.94 kills per set in WCC play.
• She served a career-high five aces at Pepperdine, matching the most by a Torero in a match this season, and added nine kills and 10 digs. A kill and two of her aces keyed a 4-0 run that put San Diego ahead 8-5 in the first set, her ace followed Kierstyn Barton's back-to-back kills late in the third, and her kill and ace ended the fourth set, 25-17.
• She had a career-high 19 kills on 45 swings against Santa Clara on Oct. 31 and added a team-high 20.5 points, eight digs and three block assists while passing 15-for-15 in serve receive. Five of San Diego's final eight points in the first set came on her kills, and she teamed with BayLea Sparks on the block of Morgan Hayes that ended the match.
• Her first two career double-doubles came in back-to-back matches: 13 kills on .440 hitting with 14 digs against San Diego State, then 12 kills and 13 digs against Saint Mary's on Sept. 24.
• Against Arizona on Sept. 17, she checked in with the Wildcats ahead 13-12 in the first set and had four kills in the 8-1 run that followed, finishing with 10 kills on .474 hitting off the bench.
#2 LAUREN LYNCH | SOPHOMORE | 5-5 | LIBERO | BURBANK, CALIF. | SIERRA CANYON HS
Through 23 Matches (2026)
• The WCC Defensive Player of the Week for Oct. 5, Oct. 26 and Nov. 2, Lynch leads the Toreros with 381 digs, and her 4.59 digs per set lead the WCC and rank 31st nationally. She has taken 378 serve-receive attempts, far and away the most on the team, with 14 errors for a .963 mark.
• Her match-high 23 digs at Pepperdine made it six straight matches in which she has led all players, and she passed 11-for-12 in serve receive. She served the last seven points of an 8-0 third-set run that turned a 2-1 deficit into a 9-2 lead.
• She led the Toreros with 18 digs against LMU on Oct. 8, passing 18-for-18 and adding five assists, and she also passed 24-for-24 at Arizona State and 23-for-24 against Pepperdine on Oct. 10.
• The libero had at least 14 digs in each of the first 11 matches, topped by a season-high 26 against SMU, and her 23 at Pepperdine are her second-most this season. She has added 96 assists out of the back row.
#8 RYANN KNUTH | FRESHMAN | 6-2 | OUTSIDE HITTER | GLENVIEW, ILL. | GLENBROOK SOUTH HS
Through 23 Matches (2026)
• Knuth leads the Toreros with 0.36 aces per set, and her 21 aces rank second on the team behind Kylie Munday (23). She ranks fourth in both kills per set (1.92) and points per set (2.47), with 113 kills and 146.0 points through 59 sets, and has added 101 digs and 23.0 blocks.
• Knuth played the second set at Pepperdine, when her back-to-back kills were part of a 4-0 run that pulled San Diego within 10-9, and she added an ace and two block assists. Five days earlier, she had nine kills on 16 error-free swings in two sets at Denver.
• She led all players with 13 kills and 13.5 points in the Oct. 3 sweep of Denver, hitting .478 (13-2-23), tied for the fourth-best mark by a Torero with at least 12 kills this season, and had 12 kills and 13 digs against LMU five days later, when her kill gave San Diego set point at 24-23 in the second set. Her career high is 17 kills against SMU, when she added 13 digs.
• Her four aces against Georgia Southern, three of them in a row as San Diego opened the fourth set on an 8-0 run, are the second-most by a Torero in a match this season. She has also served three in a match twice, against UC Davis and in the Sept. 26 match against Pacific.
#18 BAYLEA SPARKS | REDSHIRT SENIOR | 6-2 | MIDDLE BLOCKER | GRAND JUNCTION, COLO. | FRUITA MONUMENT HS
Through 23 Matches (2026)
• Sparks leads San Diego's regulars in hitting percentage at .458, turning 264 swings into 141 kills with 20 attack errors through 82 sets, and she is hitting .537 (87-8-147) in 13 WCC matches.
• She hit .500 at Pepperdine with 11 kills on 18 swings and added three block assists. Four of her kills came in a 6-0 run early in the fourth set, and four more came in the fifth, when she put San Diego ahead 11-10 and later tied it 13-13.
• Against LMU on Oct. 8, she blocked five attacks on her own and assisted on five more for 10.0 blocks, matching her 10.0 against Saint Mary's on Sept. 24 (one solo, nine assists) for the most by a Torero in a match this season. The five solo blocks are a Torero season high, and one of them, on Aleksandra Stojanovic, put San Diego ahead 8-7 at the fifth-set switch.
• Sparks leads the team with 90.0 blocks and has 19 of San Diego's 41 solo blocks. Her 1.10 blocks per set rank fourth in the WCC and 139th nationally.
• Her 8.0 blocks against UC Davis, two of them solo, came with a season-high 14 kills on .542 hitting for 19.0 points, also a season best. She has 195.5 points in 2026, third on the team.
#15 MEGHAN SCHOLZ | SENIOR | 6-3 | MIDDLE BLOCKER | TOMAHAWK, WIS. | TOMAHAWK HS
Through 23 Matches (2026)
• The WCC Defensive Player of the Week for Oct. 19, Scholz leads the Toreros with 1.17 blocks per set and ranks second on the team with 88.0 blocks through 75 sets. Her average ranks 85th nationally and third in the WCC, behind Pepperdine's Ella Piskorz (1.39) and Seattle U's Lexi Jones (1.18).
• Scholz had three kills and two block assists in the 8-0 run that put San Diego ahead 9-2 in the third set at Pepperdine, finishing with five kills and five block assists, and she teamed with Kylie Munday on the match-ending block. Against LMU on Oct. 8, she hit .474 with 10 kills on 19 swings, and her kill made it 24-21 in the fourth set.
• She has put up at least 5.0 blocks in 10 matches — Georgia Southern, Hawaii, UC Davis, Oregon, San Diego State, Saint Mary's, Seattle U, Portland, Pacific and Pepperdine. Her 9.0 blocks against San Diego State are her season high, followed by 7.0 against both Saint Mary's and Portland.
• Her most efficient match came against Georgia Southern, with 10 kills on 15 swings and no attack errors for a .667 clip. She has 114 kills on .258 hitting this season, including .331 (75-21-163) in WCC play.
