Written By: NM State Athletic Dept.

DENVER, CO - Senior outside hitter Kayleigh Giddens has been named Western Athletic Conference Volleyball Player of the Week for the week of Oct. 4-10. This is the second WAC Player of the Week honor of the season for Giddens and the fourth of her career.

The Lubbock, Texas, native led the Aggies to road wins at San Jose State and Fresno State. She hit .357 with 6.43 kills, 3.00 digs, 0.57 service aces and 7.50 points per set.

"We had a good week on the road and our team played well against two pretty good teams," Giddens said. "I am happy to receive the honor and I hope we can continue to play well."  Continue Reading This Post >>

Written By: WAC Media Relations

DENVER, CO - New Mexico State senior outside hitter Kayleigh Giddens has been named Western Athletic Conference Volleyball Player of the Week for the week of Sept. 20-26. This is the first WAC Player of the Week honor of the season for Giddens and the third of her career.

The Lubbock, Texas, native led the Aggies to a pair of wins over Louisiana Tech to open WAC play. She hit .513 with 7.67 kills, 3.33 digs, 0.50 service aces and 8.42 points per set over the two matches. In the first match against the Lady Techsters, Giddens posted her WAC-leading seventh double-double of the season with a season-high 24 kills and 12 digs. She also added three blocks and a service ace. In the second match against LA Tech, she tallied 22 kills on a career-high .556 hitting to go with eight digs and two service aces.  Continue Reading This Post >>

Aggie senior outside hitter Kayleigh Giddens and junior middle hitter Kelsey Brennan were named to the 2010 FSU Invitational All-Tournament Team. The Aggies opened up the 2010 season in Tallahassee and recorded a 2-1 record in the event defeating Florida International 3-1, Florida A&M 3-0 while losing 3-1 to No. 15 Florida State.

Brennan finished with a team-high .418 hitting percentage with 29 kills. Brennan recorded 13 kills against Florida International hitting .455 for the match and added 10 kills against Florida A&M hitting .500 for the match.

Giddens led the team with 51 kills and recorded 19 kills against Florida A&M while hitting .536 on the match. Giddens also added 26 digs in the three matches including 13 against Florida International.

Written By: NM State Athletic Dept.

LAS CRUCES, N.M. - The New Mexico State athletics department is proud to announce that all of this year's volleyball matches produced for the Aggie Vision television network will also be available on ESPN3.com (formerly ESPN360). ESPN3 is a broadband channel distributed by participating Internet service providers (ISP).

"Through AggieVision, more people have been exposed to New Mexico State University than ever before," said Steve Macy, Associate Athletic Director. "This partnership with ESPN3 allows that trend to continue and permits even more fans and alums to learn about the university and its programs."

Aggie Vision serves up its first volleyball broadcast of the season on Friday, September 3 when New Mexico State faces I-10 rival UTEP. That broadcast begins at 7:00 PM. Additional games on Aggie Vision and ESPN3 include:  Continue Reading This Post >>

The AVCA Top 25 Preseason Coaches Poll was released today and New Mexico State received 14 votes placing them 41st in the rankings. The Aggies' regular season schedule includes nine matches against teams that are either ranked or are receiving votes.

New Mexico State will face #15 Florida State and Florida International (receiving votes) in the FSU Invitational on Friday, August 27th. On September 10th and 11th the Aggies will face Rice who is receiving votes and then #23 LSU. NM State will then travel to Albuquerque to face in-state rival New Mexico who is also receiving votes before heading to Tucson for the Arizona Invitational on September 17th and 18th where they'll face Pepperdine (receiving votes) and #18 Arizona.

The Aggies will then host #5 Hawai'i in a nationally televised match on ESPNU on September 29th at 8:00 p.m. MT and then four nights later will host #18 Arizona. The Aggies will travel to Honolulu to face the #5 Wahine on Sunday, October 31st.  Continue Reading This Post >>

The date was November 25th, the location Las Vegas, Nevada. Amidst the celebration by the Hawai'i volleyball team and their fans and the consolation of the New Mexico State players by their teammates and parents, Whitney Woods sat alone quietly in the first row in the stands behind the Aggie bench staring off in the distance. Her team had just lost the WAC Tournament championship match to Hawai'i, one of three losses to the Final Four bound Wahine last season.

Losing is never any fun. Losing to Hawai'i in the championship match of the WAC Tournament is even less fun. For Woods, this loss was a little tougher to take. "I took it hard because I knew we were able to beat them. No doubt about it," said Woods. "There were just plays in the game where we let our guard down and let them get in our heads."

Nearly nine months later, Woods enters the 2010 season as one of three seniors on the Aggie volleyball team and was named to the WAC's preseason All-Conference team along with with her teammates Kelsey Brennan, Jennah DeVries and fellow senior Kayleigh Giddens.

The preseason All-Conference pick should come as no surprise to anyone that's watched Woods play the past two seasons, however, for Whitney the metamorphosis into an All-Conference right-side attacker didn't happen overnight.  Continue Reading This Post >>

The Aggies' match against Hawai'i in Las Cruces will be televised by ESPNU and as a result, the match date has been moved from Friday, October 1st to Wednesday, September 29th. The match time has also been changed from 7:00 p.m. MT to 8:00 p.m. MT.

ESPNU will televise four other WAC matches this season including the WAC Tournament championship match on Wednesday, November 25th from The Orleans in Las Vegas, NV.

Wednesday, Sept. 29 - Hawai’i at New Mexico State - 8 p.m. (MT)
Wednesday, Oct. 6 - Utah State at Idaho - 7 p.m. (PT)
Thursday, Oct. 21 - Hawai’i at Idaho - 8 p.m. (PT)
Monday, Oct. 25 - Hawai’i at Utah State - 8 p.m. (MT)
Wednesday, Nov. 25 - WAC Tournament Championship Match - 6:30 p.m. (PT)

Written By: NM State Athletic Dept.

DENVER, CO - The Western Athletic Conference volleyball coaches have selected New Mexico State to finish second in the preseason poll, while the Aggies placed the most players on the preseason All-WAC team with four selections, the league office annouced.

The Aggies received 57 points in the poll, while earning one first-place vote, with Hawai'i taking eight first-place votes and earning 64 points. The Rainbow Wahine have been selected to win its 15th-straight WAC regular season title in 2010. Senior outside hitters Kayleigh Giddens and Whitney Woods were Preseason All-WAC selections along with junior setter Jennah DeVries and junior middle hitter Kelsey Brennan. Rainbow Wahine outside hitter Kanani Danielson was selected as the preseason player of the year.  Continue Reading This Post >>