CHADRON, Neb. – After going to the full five sets in each of their last three matches, Chadron State volleyball will seek to snap the three-game losing streak spanning those matches when they head to Denver and Colorado Springs this weekend for more RMAC matches.

The Eagles (7-9, 1-5 RMAC) will have a challenge, facing defending Division II national champions MSU Denver (10-6, 5-1 RMAC) on Friday at 6 p.m. before heading south to battle preseason projected RMAC winners UCCS (10-6, 5-1 RMAC) on Saturday at 3 p.m.

MSU Denver and UCCS, along with Colorado Mesa, are in a three-way tie atop the league standings at 5-1. The Eagles will face opposing attackers ranked first (MSU Denver's Brooke Gennerman) and second (UCCS's Payton Tompkins) in the RMAC in kills this week.

Numbers to Know

• 100: percent of 2026 home matches that have ended specifically in five-set losses for CSC (5 out of 5)
• 6.0: Digs per set averaged by libero Avery Lacy last weekend
• 27: consecutive wins against CSC for MSU Denver, although the Eagles won a set off the nationally-ranked Roadrunners in 2 of past 3 matchups
• 30: Blocks in the last three matches for Sarah Meservey (13 vs. SDM, 10 vs. ASU, 7 vs. NMHU)

How to Tune In
For the second straight year, the RMAC Network is under a pay-per-view model, with single-game, monthly and annual subscription options to watch all of Chadron State's home games and away conference games. 

PURCHASE: RMAC NETWORK

Fans can purchase monthly subscriptions to the RMAC Network for $25 or annual passes for $130. Those prices are both unchanged from the 2025-26 season.

All remaining Chadron State regular season volleyball games, both home and away, will be on the network.

Fans can also follow along via live stats and on social media (@cscvolleyball on X/Twitter, csc.volleyball on Instagram).

Looking Back
Chadron State played two five-set matches at home last week, falling to Adams State on Friday and New Mexico Highlands on Saturday. Four of the Eagles' five losses, and all four matches at home, have been in five sets.

RECAPS: Friday (Adams State) | Saturday (New Mexico Highlands)

Chadron State took a different route in each match. On Friday against the Grizzlies, the Eagles won the first two sets, only for Adams State to come from behind and win the next three. The following night, Chadron State dropped the first two sets to New Mexico Highlands, only to rally by winning sets three and four before the comeback fell just short in overtime of the fifth set.

Big Digs
Libero Avery Lacy had a milestone weekend, both in single-match production and career accomplishments. 

Lacy tied a career-high with 32 digs in the five-setter against Adams State, then followed it up with 28 digs against Highlands. While the 60-dig total for the week was obviously helped by playing the maximum 10 sets, Lacy's 6.0 digs/set average from last weekend would lead the RMAC and rank third in Division II if she was able to maintain that average across a full season.

Over the course of those 60 digs, Lacy also shot past the 1,000 career digs mark for her career, with the Windsor, Colorado senior at 1,015 and counting. She becomes the second CSC volleyball player to hit a big 1,000 milestone this season after sophomore setter Jillian Donovan also cleared 1,000 assists.

Lacy is averaging 4.45 digs/set across the 2026 season, which ranks fifth in the RMAC. Lacy has 285 total digs, already just 28 away from surpassing her single-season career high in total digs, while her digs/set average is nearly 0.75/set above her career high pace as well.

Middle Presence
It is a testament to the lofty standards that junior middle Sarah Meservey has established for herself this season that 17 total blocks and 1.7 blocks/set technically represented a downgrade in production.

Meservey, who tied a school record and set an RMAC season-high with 13 blocks against South Dakota Mines on September 24, immediately tallied her second-highest total of the season last Friday with 10 blocks, including three solo blocks, against Adams State. 

The three solo blocks were a season-high for Meservey, who then added a fourth solo block among her seven more blocks against New Mexico Highlands.

Meservey has taken over the RMAC lead in total blocks with 86, which is the fifth-most in all of Division II. Meservey's 1.34 blocks/set ranks ninth in Division II and second in the RMAC, just 0.01 behind Colorado School of Mines's Jenna McLaughlin, who averages 1.35 blocks/set.

Three of Meservey's top four total block performances this season have come in Chadron State's last three matches.

Here for a While
No RMAC team has played more sets in conference matches than Chadron State's 28. The Eagles have six conference matches played, meaning CSC has logged only two under the maximum of 30 sets played.

Chadron State had exactly four five-set matches in each of the entire 2024 and 2025 seasons – the Eagles are currently at six in 2026 with 10 matches left to play.

The Eagles are currently 0-5 in home matches, with all five losses coming in five sets. Dating back to last season, the Eagles have lost eight consecutive home matches, with six of themin five sets and one in four sets.

Feed Her The Ball
Gibson Beckler has been given a lot of opportunities to attack in 2026.

Beckler tallied 70 attack attempts during last Saturday's loss to New Mexico Highlands. Earlier this year, the senior racked up 63 in another five-set conference loss to Colorado Christian back at September 11. 

Those two matches are the second-most and third-most attack attempts by one player in the RMAC this season – and the most and second-most in five-set matches. The only player who has more attack attempts in a match is MSU Denver's Brooke Gennerman, who had 71 attempts in a four-set match against Colorado School of Mines on September 12.

Beckler ranks fourth in the RMAC in attacks per set (9.48) and total attacks (578) while ranking 15^th in the RMAC in kills per set (2.75) and 12^th in total kills (168).

In the Polls
Chadron State was picked 15^th in the RMAC Preseason Coaches Poll. The poll is voted on by the league's head coaches, who each rank the other 14 programs without voting for their own team.

UCCS finished atop the poll with 187 points and eight first-place votes after capturing a share of the RMAC regular season championship a year ago, the first such title in program history. Colorado Mesa (169 points, one first-place vote) came second in the poll and had the most second-place votes (five) of any school.

MSU Denver received four first place votes, second-most in the league, but only ended up tied for third in the poll, receiving 165 points alongside Colorado School of Mines. 

CSU Pueblo is in fifth, while Colorado Christian, Fort Lewis, South Dakota Mines, Westminster and Regis round out the top 10. Adams State, New Mexico Highlands, Western Colorado and Black Hills State rounded out the poll, finishing just ahead of CSC's 38 points. 

RMAC Update
No RMAC teams are ranked in the AVCA Coaches Poll. Colorado Mesa, MSU Denver and Colorado School of Mines are receiving votes in the poll.

Here is a look at the current RMAC standings:

Team	RMAC Record	Overall Record
#RV Colorado Mesa	5-1	13-3
#RV MSU Denver	5-1	10-6
UCCS	5-1	10-6
#RV Colo. Sch. Of Mines	4-2	13-3
Adams State	4-2	10-8
Colorado Christian	4-2	7-7
Fort Lewis	4-3	10-7
South Dakota Mines	3-3	11-5
CSU Pueblo	3-3	8-9
Black Hills State	2-4	6-10
Westminster	2-4	3-13
Western Colorado	2-5	7-10
Chadron State	1-5	7-9
New Mexico Highlands	1-5	3-14
Regis	1-5	2-15

Scouting the Roadrunners
MSU Denver is 10-6 overall and one of three teams in a tie at the top of the RMAC standings at 5-1. The Roadrunners were picked third in the RMAC Preseason Poll despite winning the past five RMAC titles and the NCAA Division II national championship in 2025.

The primary reason for that preseason drop is a new coach and primarily new roster. Taking the reins of the MSU Denver program is Stacie Meisner, who joins the Roadrunners after three seasons leading Alaska Anchorage, including GNAC Coach of the Year honors in 2025. 

Sophomore Brooke Gennerman leads the RMAC and ranks eighth in Division II with 4.29 kills per set and also leads with 236 total kills. Three other Roadrunners have triple-digit kills – Hayden Liebsack (141, 2.76/set), Kamdyn Scott (116, 2.07/set) and Mayah Pridgett (105, 1.84/set).

Setter GabriElle Brewer ranks second in the conference with 9.72 assists/set while Liebsack is third with 0.41 aces/set. Mia Accomazzo leads the team in digs (233, 4.09/set) while Trynity Martin leads in blocks (54, 0.95/set).

Scouting the Mountain Lions
UCCS is 10-6 overall and 5-1 in the RMAC. The Mountain Lions captured a share of their first regular season title in program history last season and earned a No. 1 preseason poll prediction from the RMAC coaches earlier this fall.

Reigning RMAC Coach of the Year Tara Hittle is in her fifth year at UCCS. Hittle's first career NCAA Tournament appearance came last season. Hittle is a Colorado Springs native and spent three years as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Pepperdine (DI) prior to moving to UCCS.

Payton Tompkins ranks second in the RMAC in kills (222, 3.58) while the Mountain Lions have four other attackers with between 100 and 135 kills (Sydney Hyde, Sydni Lafasciano, Nicole Himebauch, Sydnee Walker).

Alysse Marcoso leads UCCS with 249 digs and has double-digit digs in all but one match this year. Sydney Hide (65 blocks) and Nicole Himebach (59 blocks) each rank in the RMAC's top eight in that category.

5-for-5
Under a new eligibility ruling passed by the NCAA this summer, all NCAA student-athletes will have five years of eligibility upon entry to college while developmental redshirts and medical waivers that previously could grant another year of eligibility have been eliminated – with exceptions for military service, religious missions and pregnancy.

To accommodate this new system, Chadron State is changing how student-athletes are labeled on its sport rosters – using the term "freshman" for a player in their first year of college, "sophomore" for a player in their second, "junior," "senior," and "fifth-year," regardless of whether the player has previously received a redshirt year.

For example, a player now being referred to as a "junior" has been with Chadron State or another college volleyball program for two seasons (regardless of if they played or not during those seasons) and has three years of eligibility remaining, including 2026.

Coach's Corner
Head Coach Jennifer Stadler will begin her eight season in charge of the Chadron State volleyball program in 2025, accumulating a 56-115 record in her first seven seasons. 

Prior to CSC, Stadler coached for eight seasons at Sheridan College in Wyoming, racking up three straight 20-win seasons from 2012-2014. She was a player, assistant coach and interim head coach at current RMAC foe Black Hills State, back when the Yellow Jackets competed in the Dakota Athletic Conference. 

In her first year at CSC in 2019, Stadler immediately led the Eagles to a winning record of 14-12 and coached the RMAC Co-Defensive Player of the Year in Ashton Burditt. The Eagles had a banner year in 2023, finishing 15-12 for the program's highest win total since 2003. Chadron also had an 8-6 conference mark in 2023, finishing sixth in the league and qualifying for the RMAC Tournament for the first time in 20 years.