{"id":6675,"date":"2024-09-17T16:08:52","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T16:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=6675"},"modified":"2024-09-17T16:20:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T16:20:46","slug":"troy-volleyball-sweeps-the-citadel-in-front-of-fans-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2024\/09\/17\/troy-volleyball-sweeps-the-citadel-in-front-of-fans-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy Volleyball sweeps The Citadel in front of fans at home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 Troy&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/troytrojans.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">volleyball team<\/a> opened up the Trojan Invitational against <a href=\"https:\/\/citadelsports.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Citadel<\/a> in Trojan Arena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Trojans made quick work of the Bulldogs, fully sweeping them 3-0. Head Coach <a href=\"https:\/\/troytrojans.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/coaches\/josh-lauer\/1876\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Josh Lauer<\/a> spoke about practices, what they&#8217;ve been targeting and how the results are starting to show on the court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I thought that we could, each day, we need to get a little bit better and prepare, and I think that they really focused in practice,&#8221; Lauer. &#8220;What I think one of the big things coming out of last week was that we needed to get better with our surface pressure and our defensive execution and intensity, and I think that in both matches this week so far, they&#8217;ve really taken to that.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2024\/09\/05\/stuempfig-receives-sbc-preseason-title\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>OTHER NEWS: <\/strong>Stuempfig receives SBC Preseason Title<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In all three sets, <a href=\"https:\/\/troytrojans.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/amiah-butler\/11104\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amiah Butler<\/a> led the team with a match high 16 kills. This is Butler&#8217;s third consecutive match leading the team in kills. Along with Butler, <a href=\"https:\/\/troytrojans.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/tori-hester\/11107\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tori Hester<\/a> performed 13 kills, continuing her double-figure kills streak of the 2024-2025 season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I feel super grateful,&#8221; Butler said. &#8220;We have amazing setters to provide amazing balls everywhere. I just put my head down and take a high rip and just hope for the best. Just having fun and going after balls and defense. I feel like if we just put more pressure and more effort into taking swings and just getting them high, we&#8217;ll do great, cause after this match we just had everything going, just need to do it again.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, the Trojans led the Bulldogs in kills, assists, service aces and digs. This is also the Trojans&#8217; second consecutive sweep after beating the Alabama State Hornets 3-0 Tuesday. Troy&#8217;s volleyball team moves to 2-0 all-time against The Citadel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To view Troy&#8217;s full schedule, <a href=\"https:\/\/troytrojans.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/schedule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 Troy&#8217;s volleyball team opened up the Trojan Invitational against The Citadel in Trojan Arena.<\/p>\n<p>The Trojans made quick work of the Bulldogs, fully sweeping them 3-0. Head Coach Josh Lauer spoke about practices, what they&#8217;ve been targeting and how the results are starting to show on the court.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2024\/09\/17\/troy-volleyball-sweeps-the-citadel-in-front-of-fans-at-home\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":6690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1706,81,1727,79],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-6675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-amiah-butler","tag-josh-lauer","tag-tori-hester","tag-volleyball"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6689,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6675\/revisions\/6689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6675"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=6675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}