(MATCH NOTES)

OPENING SERVE: Fresh off a successful three-match trip to Hawai'i, the newly crowned 2015 Pacific West Conference champion Dixie State women's volleyball team (18-9/15-4 PacWest) will wrap up the 2015 regular season this week with a pair of home matches at the DSU Student Activities Center. The Storm opens the homestand Wednesday night with a non-conference match against in-state foe Westminster College (7-19) at 6 p.m., followed by their PacWest season finale vs. Fresno Pacific (14-12/9-9 PacWest) Saturday at 12 noon.

DSU has won 15 of its last 17 overall, a stretch that propelled the Storm to their first-ever PacWest title, which was clinched late last Saturday night after Dixie State won at Hawai'i-Hilo (3-1), followed by a BYU-Hawai'i home loss (3-1) to Hawai'i Pacific. Dixie State also received the PacWest's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament, marking the third-straight season the Storm has advanced to NCAA postseason play.

DIXIE STATE VS. THIS WEEK'S OPPONENTS: Wednesday's match vs. Westminster will be just the second-ever meeting between the Storm and Griffins on the volleyball court. In 2007, Westminster handed DSU a 3-0 loss in a match played in Salt Lake City. DSU is 3-1 in it brief series with FPU and has won three-straight overall vs. the Hawks, including a 3-2 victory this past Oct. 21 in Fresno. DSU also claimed a 3-2 win the last time the two teams met in St. George in 2013, and a 3-0 road sweep in Fresno last year. However FPU's lone win in the series (3-1) did come at the DSU SAC in 2012.

COACHING STAFF: Head Coach Robyn Felder (Eastern Washington, 2002) is in her fourth season on the Storm bench. Felder has posted a 64-42 overall record during her tenure, including a 22-9 mark in 2014 in leading the Storm all the way the NCAA West Region final (Sweet 16). Felder is joined on the bench by assistant coaches Liz Fisher (fourth season), Whitnee Tupe (fourth season) and volunteer assistant Nate Capps (first season). 

DSU IN THE POLLS: Dixie State received 12 votes in the latest 2015 AVCA Division II Coaches' Poll, which was released on Monday. The Storm is the lone PacWest representative listed in this week's rankings. The weekly NCAA West Region poll will not be released until this Wednesday. However last week DSU was ranked eighth in the region, one spot behind PacWest rival California Baptist. Alaska-Anchorage was ranked No. 1 in the region, followed by Western Washington, Central Washington, Sonoma State, Cal State San Bernardino and UC San Diego.

QUICK HITS: Fourteen of DSU's 18 wins this year have come in four sets or less, including the final two matches last weekend at Chaminade and at Hawai'i Hilo ... this season the Storm is 14-2 when they win the first set and 10-1 when up 2-0 ... Saturday's win at UHH also marked the fourth time this season DSU had four players register 10 or more kills in a match ...  junior Delayne Daniel (American Fork, Utah/Pleaseant Grove HS) led the way with 13 kills, while sophomore Brette Anderson (Prescott, Ariz./Prescott HS) had 11 spikes, and senior Makenzi Bird-Murphey (St. George, Utah/Snow Canyon HS) and junior Lindsay Jones (St. George, Utah/Desert Hills HS) had 10 kills apiece ... the Storm also had four players with 10+ kills in wins at FPU (10/21) and at home vs. AAU (10/17), and in a loss at CBU Sept. 18 ... Jones (218 kills this season) averaged 9.0 kills and hit .309 for the week, including a .444 clip with 10 kills at UHH ... Jones enters the week as DSU's career leader in hitting percentage at .291 ... Jones also averaged 3.0 total blocks for the weekend, including six total blocks (one solo) at Chaminade .... Daniel continues to lead the team in kills with 266 (2.74 kps) and she is third on the club in digs with 222 ... Daniel notched her team-leading 10th double-double of the year at Hilo with 16 digs to go with her 13 kills ... B. Anderson is one kill shy of becoming the fourth player with at least 200 kills this season ... she hit .529 at Hilo and currently stands sixth on DSU's career hitting percentage list (.259) ... freshman OH Taylor Duryea (Logan, Utah/Sky View HS) is right behind B. Anderson with 195 kills and she is second on the team in kills/set at 2.53 kps ... with seven block assists at Hilo last Saturday, Bird-Murphey became DSU's career leader in block assists ... Bird-Murphey (232) passed former DSU player Morgan Hill (2008-11), who collected 226 block assists in her four-year career ... Bird-Murphey Bird (24) needs three more solo blocks to move into third place on DSU's career solo blocks list, and she is also ranked #3 all-time in total blocks (256) and currently fourth in career hitting percentage (.261) ... junior setter Kailey Frei (Orem, Utah/Timpanogos HS) averaged 32.3 assists (9.7 aps) in three matches last weekend and recorded a career-high four aces at Chaminade ... Frei has reached 50+ assists five times this season, including 51 dimes at Azusa Pacific (10/30) and a career-high 54 assists vs. NDNU (9/23) ... senior libero Alex Anderson (Prescott, Ariz./Prescott HS) collected 38 digs last week and now has 1,689 digs for her career (#2 all-time) ... A. Anderson stands just 110 digs shy of becoming DSU's career digs leader.

HEAD COACH ROBYN FELDER ON THE STORM: "We are excited to be home for our last games knowing that we have the [PacWest] conference title wrapped up. It is a great feeling, but we want to win these last two games for our seniors. We know we'll have a great crowd and we are excited to finish strong and head into the [NCAA] postseason with some momentum."

UP NEXT: Dixie State will find out its seeding and opponent as the 2015 NCAA Division II Women's Volleyball tournament 64-team field will be announced next Monday evening, Nov. 23, at 5:30 p.m. (MT), online at NCAA.com. Please visit www.dixieathletics.com for complete NCAA tourney information.