SETTING THE SCENE:
The Hartford volleyball team will wrap the 2015 season with a non-conference matchup against Yale on Tuesday, Nov. 24. The Hawks and Bulldogs will do battle at 5 p.m. in the Hartford Volleyball Gym.

LAST TIME OUT:
Hartford got a match-high 15 kills from Katy Henchy and 10 from Paulina Modestow, but Stony Brook held off the Hawks for a 3-1 victory on Sunday. It marked the final conference game of the season for Hartford.

TWO GARNER AMERICA EAST HONORS:
Freshman Paulina Modestow (Hampden, Mass.) was named to the America East All-Rookie Team and senior Erinn Lavelle (Hicksville, N.Y.) was named to the America East All-Academic Team, representing the Hartford volleyball team on the all-conference squads. The league announced the awards at its banquet on Thursday night.
 
Modestow shone for the Hawks in her debut season, leading the squad with 2.76 kills per set (eighth in America East) and finishing second with 2.16 digs per set (18^th in conference). She also placed 16^th in the conference and was second on the team with an average of 0.23 aces. She had 12 matches with double-digit kills, including a career-high 18 at Sacred Heart, and totaled 115 kills in conference action, finishing in double figures in eight of the team's 12 conference matches.
 
Lavelle was a solid contributor on the court, but her tremendous academics off the court earned her a spot on the All-Academic Team. The senior possesses a cumulative 3.89 GPA in civil engineering, and is on track to graduate from the university in the spring. On her way to her third straight Commissioner's Honor Roll selection, the Hicksville, N.Y., native plans to move on to a career as a structural engineer. On the court, she finished fourth on the team with 1.65 digs and served as the team's backup setter in her 40 sets of action.
 
HENCHY NAMED POW:
Sophomore Katy Henchy was named the America East Player of the Week on Monday, Nov. 9. The Ventura, Calif., native led the Hawks to their first two victories of the season last week.
 
Henchy started the week with arguably her best performance of the season, as she rolled off 17 kills in leading Hartford to a come-from-behind 3-1 victory over Quinnipiac on Wednesday night. She made just two errors on her 27 total attacks for an outstanding .556 attack percentage. She also added five blocks, two solo, for 20.5 points in the match.
 
She followed that up with a nine-kill performance at UMass Lowell on Sunday, as Hartford swept the River Hawks. She tallied just two errors on 20 attacks to post a .350 attack percentage in the match, and also added three block assists and four digs in the victory.

Henchy has had a standout sophomore campaign, as she has a team-best .200 attack percentage on the season and is second on the squad with 2.62 kills per set. In league play she has stepped it up, with a .242 attack percentage and an average of 2.88 kills. Her 22 blocks in America East play are second on the team as well.

ONE LAST TIME:
Tuesday will mark the final match in the careers of seniors Erinn Lavelle and Kathryn Gawrych. The two both have post-graduate professional careers lined up, with Lavelle heading into her work as a structural engineer and Gawrych lined up for a position at Price Waterhouse Cooper.

SCOUTING THE OPPOSITION:
Yale enters Tuesday's match with a 14-9 overall record on the season, including a 9-5 mark in Ivy League play. The Bulldogs are just 3-6 on the road as opposed to an 8-2 home mark.
 
Freshman outside hitter Kelley Wirth leads the squad with 2.98 kills per set, while senior Kelly Johnson adds 2.75 kills per set. Jesse Ebner leads the way with a .265 attack percentage and adding 0.78 blocks per set. Kate Swanson paces the Bulldogs with 3.77 digs per set.

FIRST-YEAR HEAD COACH MITCH KALLICK:
Mitch Kallick is in his first year atop the Hawks Volleyball program. He joined Hartford with more than 12 years of coaching experience at the college level, spending time as an assistant at Central Michigan, Maryland, Cal State Fullerton, Tennessee and his alma mater, New York University. He served as the recruiting coordinator at both Maryland and Fullerton, and his 2011 class at UMD was ranked in the nation's top 40.