WolfPack look to upset T-Birds in first playoff appearance since 2020

Game Information
 
Date: Friday, February 23
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Location: Vancouver, BC
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Date: Saturday, February 24
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Location: Vancouver, BC
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*Date: Sunday, February 25*
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Location: Vancouver, BC
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*If Needed*

Weekend Story
 
KAMLOOPS – Extra volleyball is on tap for a Thompson Rivers WolfPack women’s volleyball team that earned a return to the postseason after finishing the 2023-24 regular season with a bang.
 
The WolfPack (10-14) will travel to Vancouver this weekend where they will face the reigning national champion and current No. 1 ranked team in Canada, the UBC Thunderbirds (22-2) in a best-of-three series.
 
Four-straight wins – and eight in the second semester – to close out the season saw TRU lead up the standings and into the eighth and final playoff spot.
 
Knowing that they needed a pair of wins last weekend, the WolfPack delivered with victories of 3-2 and 3-1over the Mount Royal Cougars inside the TCC. Those victories, combined with the previously last-place Regina Cougars upsetting the Winnipeg Wesmen, saw TRU clinch a playoff berth for the sixth time in the program’s Canada West history.
 
Entering the weekend at the very top of the U SPORTS Top 10, UBC has won six games in a row. Last weekend they took care of the Brandon Bobcats by scores of 3-0 and 3-1 at home.

UBC won the two games that these teams played in Vancouver back in November.
 
The last time TRU made it to the postseason they won the first CW quarter-final series in program history and made it all the way to the bronze medal match.

 
By The Numbers
 
318: With 318 kills WolfPack outside Brooklyn Olfert finished second in the conference and also had three of the five highest kill matches in the conference.
 
17.6: UBC led the conference by scoring 17.6 points-per-set as a team.
 
1: The ‘Pack will be looking for the first victory in the program’s postseason history against the T-Birds this weekend. They previously fell 2-0 to UBC in a CW quarter-final series back in 2015-16.

0: It’s an incredibly young WolfPack team that is on track to be a contender in CW for years to come. The ‘Pack feature no players in their fourth year of eligibility or above.