PITTSFORD, N.Y. – For the second consecutive season, the St. John Fisher College women's volleyball team will play for an Empire 8 Championship as they will travel to Hoboken, N.J. as Stevens Institute of Technology hosts the four-team tournament beginning on Saturday. Fisher will play as the number three seed and take on the number two seed East Avenue rival Nazareth College at 2:30 p.m., while the number one seed Stevens will take on number four seeded Alfred University at 12 p.m.
  Best Record Since '93 Season: The Cardinals .733-win percentage after finishing 22-8 overall in the regular season was the best since the 1993 season when the team finished 35-12 with a win percentage of .744. The team also finished 6-2 in Empire 8 Conference play. As for home court advantage, finishing 7-1 on Bobby Wanzer Court would be considered as such. The Cardinals lone loss was a four set loss to RIT in mid-September. Fisher compiled two separate five game win streaks throughout the regular season including sweeps at the Oswego Invitational, Fisher Tournament, and two of the three Empire 8 Crossovers.
 
Senior Year Leadership: Fisher was led by a strong senior class that included outside hitter/opposite Anna Marcy, outside hitter Katie Mazierski, middle blocker Amanda Miller, and outside hitter/opposite Madison Karwas. Marcy has been a dominant force all season long for the Cardinals offensively, leading the team in kills, hitting percentage, attempts, service aces, and blocks. She ended the regular season leading the conference in pts/set with 4.68 and has managed to remain extremely consistent, while putting together one of the most impressive offensive season in program history. Mazierski showed her all-around talents finishing the regular season second on the team in kills and digs, as well as fourth in service aces. Amanda Miller shined at the middle blocker position posting 116 kills which was good enough for fourth on the team, while finishing second in both service aces and total blocks. Madison Karwas played both at both the outside and opposite hitter positions providing many mid-game sparks with timely kills and service aces. Most recently posting a season-high 15 kills versus Wells College and brought her career kills total to 542.
 
Re-Writing the Record Book: Many individual milestones were achieved during the regular season to add to the team's successes thus far. Anna Marcy joined the 1,000 career kill list as she now stands at 1,298 and sits at number three all-time on the Cardinal total kills list. Katie Mazierski moved into 6^th place on the Cardinal all-time digs list with 1,545 for her four -year career. Amanda Miller moved into 9^th place on the all-time service aces list as she now has 138 for her for year career as well. Junior libero Elise Kreuz surpased the 1,000 career dig mark just a few weeks back. She now sits at 419 total digs for the 2017 season. 
 
All-around Success: Freshman Rebecca Hay was very impressive from the setter position throughout the regular season; she notched 518 assists, averaging 7.30/set, and finished second on the team in total service aces with 45. Fellow freshman middle blocker Alex Buhrle finished sixth on the team in kills with 77 and third on the team in blocks with four solo and 34 block assists. Both were regulars in the starting lineup and helped maintain a consistent offensive and defensive effort throughout the course of the 2017 campaign. Sophomore Izzy Smith has provided offensive firepower in many key matches throughtout the regular season. Smith has tallied 171 total kills, which is third on the team. As well as 559 total attemots which ranks third on the team as well. 

Scouting: Nazareth: The Golden Flyers earned the second overall seed after posting a 7-1 conference record, while finishing 20-12 overall. Nazareth ranks second in the conference in a number of categories including hitting percentage (.222), assists per set (11.12), and kills per set (12.06). Offensively for the Golden Flyers, Kelsey Milligan leads the way with 297 kills and a .319 hitting percentage which leads the E8 Conference. Jessica Berry ranks first in total assists in the conference as she notched 1,038 in the regular season. Defensively, Savannah Bothner led the way with a total of 563 digs and an average of 4.65 per set, which ranks first on the team and second in the conference.
 
Scouting Stevens: The Ducks earned the number one overall seed and will be the hosts for the tournament as they will take on Alfred University in the first round. Stevens finished the regular season with an 8-0 conference mark, as well as a 24-7 overall record. The Ducks rank first in the conference in a number of statistical categories including hitting percentage (.230), assists per set (11.81), kills per set (12.56), and total blocks (205.0). Kasey King led the way offensively finishing with 345 kills throughout the regular season, a .231 hitting percentage as well as adding 55 service aces, and 275 digs. Defensively, Sydni Horner posted 526 digs (4.92 per set), while Julie Greco tossed out 859 assists with a 9.65 average per set which was top in the Empire 8 Conference.
 
Scouting Alfred: The Saxons earned the number four overall seed in the Empire 8 Championship finishing with a 4-4 conference mark, with a 9-20 overall record. Alfred was led by setter Aubrey Totsline as she posted 908 total assist which ranked 3^rd in the conference. Amber Smith ranked first on the team third in the conference in both total kills and average per set as she posted 354 and 3.40 respectively throughout the regular season. Jacquelynn led the way in the middle as she finished with 20 solo blacks and also added 24 blocking assists.