MALIBU, Calif. — The #25 Pepperdine women's volleyball team only has one match on the docket this week as the Waves make the short trip down the coast to take on PCH Cup rival LMU.
 
MATCH #20 — Friday (October 29) at Gersten Pavilion in Los Angeles, Calif.: #25 Pepperdine vs. LMU at 7 p.m. PT. | Watch: WCC Network.
 
LIVE COVERAGE — Live stats will be available for all road and home matches and each match will air on the WCC Network. Links can be found on PepperdineWaves.com.
 
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400 DUB CLUB — With the 3-0 sweep over Gonzaga in Spokane last week, the Pepperdine women's volleyball program won its 400th all-time win over any West Coast Conference school.  The Waves now have a 401-147 record and .876 winning percentage against West Coast Conference opponents all-time.
 
MILESTONES & RECORD WATCH — Rachel Ahrens marked a tied career-high 27 kills in the Waves match against #9 Washington this season and in doing so, she surpassed the 1,000 career-kill mark.  She became the 21st Wave to have accomplished the feat and now with 1,211 kills, she ranks 11th in the Pepperdine women's volleyball career record books. 
 
She also has put in 144 career aces during her time with the Waves which ranks 2nd in the Pepperdine records.  She is three aces away from tying and four away from becoming the Pepperdine women's volleyball program's career ace leader.  As for the record books, Ahrens has racked up quite a few mentions throughout.  So far, she ranks atop the career Pepperdine records with 0.42 aces/set, and 7th with 4.30 points/set.  Her points/set output makes her the first Wave to crack the points/set top-10 records since Julie Rubenstein did so from 2005-08.  Ahrens also ranks 1st after tabbing 49 total aces in 2019, 2nd in the single-season rally scoring single-season records with 0.44 aces/set, 4th with 4.44 kills/set and 5th with 5.13 points/set.  This season, she has already amassed 42 aces on a 0.56 aces/set ratio and is on track to impacting the single-season record books once again.
 
Isabel Zelaya ranks 6th with 10.53 career assists/set and 9th with 2,590 total assists.  To cap off the single-season rally scoring records, Madison Shields ranked tied-7th in 2020 with 4.22 digs/set last season.  She also tied for 3rd in the single-match records with 34 digs - both in five sets and overall.  Shields has amassed 981 total digs thus far and is rapidly approaching the 1,000-career dig mark.
 
SQUAD GOALS — The Waves have gone 15-4 overall this season, with a 7-3 output in West Coast Conference play.  Pepperdine has posted a 4-3 record at home with tough ranked competition for the losses, but have steadily performed on the road, collecting 7-1 away and 4-0 neutral records so far this season.  As a team, the Waves have averaged 13.72 kills/set on a .253 clip, while allowing only 11.41 kills/set on a .221 success rate to the opposition.  Pepperdine has also posted 12.67 assists, 1.76 aces, 12.75 digs and 2.01 blocks per set, while giving up 10.47 assists, 1.23 aces, 11.76 digs and 2.21 blocks per set to foes from across the net.  The team's 1.76 aces/set is the highest team seasonal output since the program posted 1.77 aces/set in the 1995 season.
 
Rachel Ahrens has performed highly for the Waves all-around, amassing 4.49 kills/set on a .267 output, with 0.56 aces, 1.99 digs and 0.51 blocks per set this season for a team-best 398.5 total points.  Grace Chillingworth has turned things up a notch in the second half of her freshman campaign and now averages 3.20 kills/set on a .268 clip to help the cause.  Meg Brown and Emma Ammerman have also been hitting heavy for the Waves with 2.32 and 1.77 kills/set outputs on .271 and .199 success rates respectively.  Brown has also put in a tied-team high 69 blocks to average 0.92 blocks/set and has amassed 0.31 aces/set and 0.63 digs/set.  Rosie Ballo leads the Waves with 1.00 blocks/set after also totaling 69 blocks including six solo rejections.
 
Isabel Zelaya is the primary playmaker for Pepperdine with 10.83 assists/set and 812 total assists this season thus far.  She adds 1.51 digs, 0.12 aces and 0.59 blocks per set for her squad, while dishing out the 13.72 team kills per set on the above .250 collective hitting percentage.  Madison Shields, Trinity Stanger and Kayla Joyce defend the Waves' back row with 3.81, 1.84 and 1.69 digs/set outputs respectively.  Shields leads the team with 286 digs and adds 0.85 assists and 0.20 aces/set, while Stanger has put up 138 digs and 16 aces and Joyce has added 125 digs and 21 aces this season.
 
LAST WEEK — Pepperdine dominated some road WCC competition last week, sweeping past both Gonzaga and Portland.  In the sweep in Spokane, the Waves marked 47 kills on a .299 success rate, while giving up only 30 kills on a .147 output.  Pepperdine also amassed three aces, 50 digs and 6.0 blocks while allowing 34 digs and 7.0 blocks with no aces to the opposition.  Rachel Ahrens and Grace Chillingworth led the hitting effort with 12 kills, while Ahrens added a .417 clip, one ace and 10 digs for her 10th career double-double.  Isabel Zelaya picked up 39 assists, four digs, three kills and two blocks, while Madison Shields led with 14 digs.  Rosie Ballo had a team-high four blocks with two solo rejections as well.
 
In the second sweep at Portland, the Waves hit for an impressive .383 hitting percentage with 48 kills, while allowing only 23 kills on a .114 clip to the Pilots.  The Waves also totaled six aces, 40 digs and 4.0 team blocks, while giving up three aces, 29 digs and 3.0 blocks.  Ahrens led with 15 kills on a .464 output, while Chillingworth tabbed another 12 smashes and added an ace.  Meg Brown led with three aces and three blocks including one solo job, while adding eight kills on a .400 clip.  Isabel Zelaya dished out 36 assists throughout the effort, helping the Waves to their high team output along with spreading out the offense to four players with over eight kills, all of which who hit above a .346.  Emma Ammerman added nine kills on an astounding .667 and Shields led with 11 digs and added seven assists as well.
 
THE COMPETITION — This season, LMU has gone 15-5 overall and 6-4 in the WCC, falling to BYU, San Diego, Pepperdine and most recently last week to Gonzaga.  Though the Lions defeated Portland in four sets, the squad has gone 1-4 in the last two weeks of action.  All-time, Pepperdine leads LMU with a 61-24 record, dating back to the 1976 campaign when the Waves won on the road 3-0.  The Waves have had a few streaks throughout: 2006-12 (12), 1987-91 (10), 1984-86 (7) and currently have won seven in a row since 2018, including four sweeps.