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Photo by: Kate Laney, BGSU Athletics
October 28, 2026 | Volleyball
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - The Bowling Green State University volleyball team heads into a pivotal stretch of conference play where they will face Ball State on the road this weekend and host longtime rival Toledo on Tuesday evening. The matches between the Falcons and Cardinals will take place on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 30-31 with Friday's first serve scheduled for 6 p.m. while Saturday's contest is slated for a 3 p.m. start before returning home to host Toledo on Tuesday night at 6 p.m. All three contests will be available on ESPN+.
Weekend Schedule
Friday, October 30
Bowling Green at Ball State | 6 p.m. | ESPN+
Saturday, October 31
Bowling Green at Ball State | 3 p.m. | ESPN+
Tuesday, November 3
Bowling Green vs. Toledo | 6 p.m. | ESPN+
First Serve
KEEPING 'EM QUIET
UP NEXT
Following Tuesday's tilt with Toledo, the Falcons will head back on the road for a Saturday afternoon contest at Western Michigan. First serve between the Falcons and Broncos on Nov. 7 is scheduled for 4 p.m. and the match will broadcast live on YouTube.
Follow the Falcons
Be sure to follow the Falcons volleyball team on social media:
Twitter - @BGSU_Athletics and @BGSUVolleyball
Instagram - 'bgfalcons' and 'bgsuvolleyball'
Facebook - 'BGSU Athletics' and 'Bowling Green State University Volleyball'
TikTok - @bgsuvolleyballÂ
YouTube - 'Falcon Athletics'
Weekend Schedule
Friday, October 30
Bowling Green at Ball State | 6 p.m. | ESPN+
Saturday, October 31
Bowling Green at Ball State | 3 p.m. | ESPN+
Tuesday, November 3
Bowling Green vs. Toledo | 6 p.m. | ESPN+
First Serve
- Bowling Green begins the week on the road against Ball State for a clash between two top-four teams in the Mid American Conference.
- The Falcons will return to the Stroh to face longtime rival Toledo for the first leg of the Battle of I-75 featuring the conferences two top programs.
- BGSU has won nine of its first ten conference contests this season for the sixth time in the past ten years.
- Bowling Green averages 18.03 points, 13.89 kills, 13.03 assists and 2.79 blocks per set during conference play. Each of those figures lead the MAC through the initial ten matches.
- The Orange and Brown have recorded 15 double-doubles this season which leads the conference. Senior Amanda Otten and sophomore Anastasija Bozic lead the charge with six double-doubles a piece while senior teammate Avery Hobson has added three.Â
- Otten has tallied 3,045 career assists and sits 74 away from surpassing Amber Mareski (2002-04) for third-most in the Rally Scoring Era and sixth place on the all-time leaderboard.
- Opponents are hitting at a frigid .156-clip against the Falcons' who own the lowest opponent attack percentage in program history at this point in a season since the COVID-shortened 2020-21 campaign (.148). That .156 mark is the lowest by any MAC team and is the 10th-lowest in the nation.
- BGSU has amassed 221.5 total blocks this season which leads the conference and is fifth-most among the nation.
KEEPING 'EM QUIET
Bowling Green has held opposing hitters to a combined .156 hitting percentage throughout the 2026 season and have held conference opponents to a .138-clip. Overall, the Falcons have limited opponents to 937 kills while forcing 486 attacking errors on 2,884 attempts. BGSU has held opponents below the .200 mark in 17 matches this season.
LOCKED IN ON DEFENSE
Bowling Green continues its best defensive start for the program in six seasons with a .156 opponent attack percentage. That is the program's lowest opponent attack percentage through 21 matches since the 2020-21 season. During that COVID-shortened campaign, when BGSU played a MAC-only schedule, opponents hit just .155 through the first 21 contests. Since then, Falcon opponents have hit .200 (2021), .202 (2022), .220 (2023), .212 (2024), and .200 (2025) through 17 contests.
OTTEN KEEPS CLIMBING
Senior setter Amanda Otten continues to move up Bowling Green's career assists list leaderboard during her final season. Otten entered 2026 with 2,333 career assists after three seasons in Orange and Brown and has since collected her 3,000th assist. She has moved into fourth-most during the Rally Scoring Era and seventh-most all-time with 3,045 assists. Otten sits 74 assists away from claiming the third-place spot in the Rally Scoring Era and sixth-place all time by surpassing Amber Mareski (2002-04) who amassed 3,119 career assists. The all-time record belongs to Linda Popovich, who recorded 4,406 assists from 1986-89 and Isabelle Marciniak's 3,916 assists (2016-19) are the most in the Rally Scoring Era. Otten's 2024 season, when she totaled 1,179 assists, ranks seventh on BGSU's Rally Scoring Era single-season list.
FALCON FIREWALL
Bowling Green's success this season has been anchored by one of the MAC's top blocking units. The Falcons have recorded 221.5 total blocks, averaging 2.73 blocks per set. Bowling Green's total blocks figure ranks fifth among the nation while the Falcons' blocks per set is the 18th-best in the NCAA. BGSU has amassed 347 block assists and 48 solo blocks through 21 matches this season.
WILFORD'S BLOCKBUSTER SEASON
Helen Wilford has been at the forefront of the Falcon's blocking success, leading the conference in total blocks (110) and blocks per set (1.36) with her total blocks ranking 12th-most in the nation. The redshirt junior enters this weekend with 253 career block assists, 33 career solo blocks, and 276 total career blocks, etching her name in several rally-scoring era records. Wilford sits in 10th-place in both career blocks and block assists and is tied with Jessica Andrews (2022) in seventh place for solo blocks in a single season.Â
THE BIG FOUR
Bowling Green's offense has continued to produce at a high level, hitting at a .236-clip as a team with 1,112 kills on 2,942 attempts, while averaging 13.73 kills per set. BGSU has utilized an attack that is led by Avery Hobson's 300 kills, Anastasija Bozic's 272 kills, Karli Molnau's 206 kills and Cecily Waynar's 113 kills, giving the Falcons four players that have tallied triple digit kills this season. The quartet has combined for 891 of Bowling Green's 1,112 kills (80.1%), helping the Falcons maintain one of the MAC's most consistent attacks.
NO PLACE LIKE STROH
The Falcons enter this weekend with a 9-2 overall record at home this season which includes winning all six conference matches that have taken place inside the Stroh Center. In those nine home matches, BGSU has recorded 488 kills on 1,279 attempts to hit at a .247-clip.
FALCON FIREWALL
Bowling Green's success this season has been anchored by one of the MAC's top blocking units. The Falcons have recorded 221.5 total blocks, averaging 2.73 blocks per set. Bowling Green's total blocks figure ranks fifth among the nation while the Falcons' blocks per set is the 18th-best in the NCAA. BGSU has amassed 347 block assists and 48 solo blocks through 21 matches this season.
WILFORD'S BLOCKBUSTER SEASON
Helen Wilford has been at the forefront of the Falcon's blocking success, leading the conference in total blocks (110) and blocks per set (1.36) with her total blocks ranking 12th-most in the nation. The redshirt junior enters this weekend with 253 career block assists, 33 career solo blocks, and 276 total career blocks, etching her name in several rally-scoring era records. Wilford sits in 10th-place in both career blocks and block assists and is tied with Jessica Andrews (2022) in seventh place for solo blocks in a single season.Â
THE BIG FOUR
Bowling Green's offense has continued to produce at a high level, hitting at a .236-clip as a team with 1,112 kills on 2,942 attempts, while averaging 13.73 kills per set. BGSU has utilized an attack that is led by Avery Hobson's 300 kills, Anastasija Bozic's 272 kills, Karli Molnau's 206 kills and Cecily Waynar's 113 kills, giving the Falcons four players that have tallied triple digit kills this season. The quartet has combined for 891 of Bowling Green's 1,112 kills (80.1%), helping the Falcons maintain one of the MAC's most consistent attacks.
NO PLACE LIKE STROH
The Falcons enter this weekend with a 9-2 overall record at home this season which includes winning all six conference matches that have taken place inside the Stroh Center. In those nine home matches, BGSU has recorded 488 kills on 1,279 attempts to hit at a .247-clip.
UP NEXT
Following Tuesday's tilt with Toledo, the Falcons will head back on the road for a Saturday afternoon contest at Western Michigan. First serve between the Falcons and Broncos on Nov. 7 is scheduled for 4 p.m. and the match will broadcast live on YouTube.
Follow the Falcons
Be sure to follow the Falcons volleyball team on social media:
Twitter - @BGSU_Athletics and @BGSUVolleyball
Instagram - 'bgfalcons' and 'bgsuvolleyball'
Facebook - 'BGSU Athletics' and 'Bowling Green State University Volleyball'
TikTok - @bgsuvolleyballÂ
YouTube - 'Falcon Athletics'
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