Senior Kayla Clark did a little bit of everything in Friday's WHAC Opening win against Lourdes, recording 50 assists, seven aces, and 14 digs. All three are season highs for the senior, and seven aces is a career high. Clark now has 2626 career assists, continuing her push for the 3000 mark. 

Senior Brooke Nicholson also had an outstanding outing defensively for the Golden Eagles in the WHAC Opener recording eight total blocks, all of them assisted. This is a season high and the most for any Cornerstone player this season. 

Nicholson leads the team with 15 blocks through the first five games this year. 

Scouting Aquinas

Aquinas was selected as the preseason favorite in the WHAC after tying for second place in the conference last season with a 17-13, 14-6 WHAC record. 

AQ has played three games this season and won all three as they opened their season with a four set victory over Rochester in a WHAC match, before traveling to Indiana for a pair of games against Governors State and Calumet St. Joseph that were won in straight sets. 

Kali Crawford and Kylie Christensen are the two leading returners for AQ at the setter and middle hitter position. Crawford is coming off a 1066 assist season in 2019, while Christensen just recorded her 1,000th career kill this past weekend. 

Scouting Indiana Tech 

Indiana Tech is one of the few teams that began their season on-time in the fall during the COVID-19 pandemic and has played a total of nine games and gone 7-2 in those contests. Tech is 5-0 in conference play with all five of those WHAC games being played in the fall. 

In 2019, Indiana Tech was 26-10, 12-7 WHAC which was good for fifth, but the team returns multiple starters from last season and has added some young talent. 

Senior outside Olivia Niekamp leads the team so far this season with 74 kills, while true freshman Andrea Schriver has taken over as the setter and has 150 assists. Schriver is a Grand Rapids native, coming from Sparta High School in northern GR.