Tennessee heads to South Carolina this weekend where they’ll face Wofford, Jacksonville, and the tournament hosting College of Charleston.

• Tennessee is meeting Wofford for the first time. They’ve already faced five first-time opponents this year, and will meet two more next week.
• Tennessee is 2-0 all-time vs Jacksonville. The team won a five-set match back in 1981, and a four-set match in 1998.
• Tennessee is 4-0 all-time vs the College of Charleston. UT won a match each year from 1979 to 1981, and the most recent match in 2005.
• All three of UT’s opponents this weekend have already faced SEC competition this year. Wofford lost to Georgia 3-1. Jacksonville lost to Auburn 3-2 and Mississippi 3-0. And College of Charleston defeated Alabama 3-2.
• Since 2001, the Lady Vols are 12-1 against members of the Southern Conference, 9-1 vs the Atlantic Sun, and 1-0 vs the Colonial Athletic Association.
• UT is 4-3 in the state of South Carolina — vs teams not named “South Carolina” — since 2001.
• If Tennessee can get through the weekend without losing a match they would have the best start in program history since 1973, when that squad began the year 20-0 (though all those matches were shorter best-of-three games).
  

  UT ALL-TIME BEST STARTS
  1973	20*
  1986	11
  2015	9
  2004	9
  * streak includes shorter best-of-three matches

• Senior setter Lexi Dempsey has 26 career double-doubles in her three seasons in Knoxville. That’s good for the sixth most by a Lady Vol in rally-scoring era matches. And she’s in good company. The five players above her? Third Team All-American Julie Knytych, Third Team All-American Nikki Fowler, Second Team All-American Kelsey Robinson, Third Team All-American Amy Morris, and Honorable Mention All-American Mary Pollmiller.
• Before former Tennessee athletics director (and namesake of the new volleyball training facility) Joan Cronan took that position at UT, she coached volleyball (among other sports) and was the first women’s AD at College of Charleston. Under her watch, the women’s athletics program was named the best in the country in 1980 by the American Women’s Sports Foundation. She was later named to the school’s Athletics Hall of Fame.
• College of Charleston head coach Jason Kepner took the job in 2007 when the previous coach, Sherry Dunbar, left the program to take over at Indiana. Dunbar was UT head coach Rob Patrick’s first assistant coach hire in 1997 when he came to Tennessee. She remained with the Lady Vols until 2003 when she left for Charleston.
• Three people on the opposing sidelines this weekend have some history against Tennessee. Jacksonville University head coach Julie Darty was an assistant coach at South Carolina in 2012 and 2013. Wofford DS Reagan Petty played against UT last season with Alabama. And though CofC assistant coach Katelyn Bishop started in over half of USC’s matches in 2006, she watched as her teammates took on Tennessee that season.

WOFFORD TERRIERS
Friday, September 11th 4:30pm ET // Charleston SC			2015 Record: 5-3 (0-0 SoCon) WEBSITE // STATS
JACKSONVILLE DOLPHINS
Saturday, September 12th 10:30pm ET // Charleston SC			2015 Record: 2-4 (0-0 A-Sun) WEBSITE
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON COUGARS
Saturday, September 12th 7:00pm // Charleston SC			2015 Record: 4-4 (0-0 CAA) WEBSITE // VIDEO // STATS