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Fall 2026 · Through games Thursday, October 15, 2026

Fall 2026 / CURRENT SEASON — live ncaa.com D1 women’s volleyball stats Through games Thursday, October 15, 2026. Freshness: 2026-10-18 07:56 CT · 2026-10-18T12:56:36Z UTC · desk date 2026-10-18. Early-season small samples — treat rates as provisional.

Universe in this file: 343 teams · 1315 players · Source: ncaa.com · Mode: CURRENT_SEASON_2026

Categories ingested: 15 individual · 15 team

Sidearm roster expansion: ok = Pittsburgh, Louisville, Creighton, Florida, USC, SMU. JS-walled / empty = Nebraska, Wisconsin, Penn State, Texas, Stanford, Minnesota, Kansas, UCLA, Purdue, Texas A&M.

Coverage: National leaderboards include NCAA.com qualified leaders only (not every D1 player). Sidearm full-roster HTML available for: Pittsburgh, Louisville, Creighton, Florida, USC, SMU. JS-walled / empty: Nebraska, Wisconsin, Penn State, Texas, Stanford, Minnesota, Kansas, UCLA, Purdue, Texas A&M.

National kill leaders (2026)

Player Team Kills Sets K/S Hit% Kill% Err%
Allie Sweet UNC Greensboro 344 70 4.91 0.224 0.368 0.145
Kalista Lukovich Eastern Wash. 329 75 4.39 0.218 0.329 0.111
Riley Rosneck Purdue Fort Wayne 311 75 4.15 0.261 0.364 0.103
Sylvie Zgonc South Dakota St. 310 66 4.70 0.286 0.422 0.136
Kennedy Louisell James Madison 309 66 4.68 0.292 0.413 0.120
Mallory Reck Marist 309 80 3.86 0.222 0.367 0.145
Jurnee Robinson LSU 298 60 4.97 0.238 0.402 0.165
Victoria Marthaler Sacramento St. 297 73 4.07 0.192 0.363 0.171
Kiera Hamilton George Mason 294 64 4.59 0.214 0.398 0.184
Carola Tesoro St. John’s (NY) 289 71 4.07 0.262 0.431 0.168

Kill% = K/TA · Err% = E/TA · Hit% = (K−E)/TA. Computed from ncaa.com counting stats — not Evollve RAPM / not sideout%.

Points leaders (PTS / PTS per set)

NCAA counting points ≈ K + SA + BS + ½ BA. Rows marked ≈ use that approximation when official PTS was missing from a leaderboard merge.

Player Team Pos PTS Sets PTS/S Note
Olivia Babcock Pittsburgh RS 345.5 55 6.29 ncaa.com
Taylor Stanley Kansas OH 309.5 54 5.73 ncaa.com
Mckenna Wucherer Minnesota OH 283.0 50 5.66 ncaa.com
Allie Sweet UNC Greensboro OH 394.5 70 5.64 ncaa.com
Jurnee Robinson LSU OH 335.0 60 5.58 ncaa.com
Kennedy Louisell James Madison OH 367.5 66 5.57 ncaa.com
Bianna Muoneke Georgia OH 321.0 59 5.44 ncaa.com
Kennedi Rogers Tennessee OH 218.0 42 5.19 ≈ approx
Ksenia Rakhmanchik Baylor OH 284.0 55 5.16 ncaa.com
Sylvie Zgonc South Dakota St. OH 340.0 66 5.15 ncaa.com

Overnight movers

No prior CURRENT_SEASON_2026 snapshot to diff yet — movers appear after the next successful live ingest.

Form notes (tracked teams with 2026 data)

Voice: sideout / transition / serve-receive pressure — only from Fall 2026 counting stats in this snapshot. Early-season caveat applies.

Nebraska

Pittsburgh

Louisville

Florida

Kansas

SMU

Minnesota

Kentucky

Purdue

Stanford

Penn State

Wisconsin

UCLA

Texas A&M

Texas

USC

Creighton

Tracked slate statistical rankings (2026)

Ranks among the tracked Daily Desk universe only (not full D1). Counting rates from this snapshot — early-season sample.

Team Hit% Opp Hit% Diff A/K K/S Digs/S Blk/S Aces/S Record
Nebraska 0.328 0.101 0.227 0.942 14.02 12.68 2.96 2.00 18-0
Pittsburgh 0.320 0.180 0.140 0.918 14.43 12.79 2.99 1.43 15-1
Louisville 0.319 0.151 0.168 0.905 14.28 15.00 2.91 1.58 16-2
Florida 0.290 0.164 0.126 0.924 13.74 13.96 2.77 1.57 13-2
Kansas 0.288 0.181 0.107 0.936 14.37 12.87 2.32 2.17 12-4
Minnesota 0.282 0.193 0.089 0.935 13.82 13.94 2.39 1.98 9-5
SMU 0.282 0.185 0.097 0.929 13.58 12.12 2.86 1.22 13-3
Kentucky 0.271 0.196 0.075 0.937 14.42 13.25 2.36 1.44 13-3
Purdue 0.264 0.181 0.083 0.948 13.77 15.11 2.71 1.04 11-5
Stanford 0.264 0.214 0.050 0.928 13.30 14.43 2.38 1.29 10-6
Penn State 0.258 0.181 0.077 0.916 14.05 13.45 2.44 1.59 12-4
Wisconsin 0.256 0.227 0.029 0.949 13.77 14.80 1.98 1.28 11-5
UCLA 0.255 0.199 0.056 0.918 13.68 13.42 2.86 1.20 13-4
Texas A&M 0.236 0.177 0.059 0.906 13.66 12.81 2.55 1.39 10-7
Texas 0.228 0.213 0.015 0.945 13.58 13.25 2.14 1.12 8-6
USC 0.209 0.203 0.006 0.914 12.64 12.96 2.89 1.33 8-8
Creighton 0.201 0.180 0.021 0.919 12.28 14.36 2.55 1.47 10-8

Opp Hit% = opponent attack efficiency allowed (lower better). Diff = team Hit% − Opp Hit%. A/K = assists/kills (system distribution). Tracked-slate ranks only — early-season sample.

National Opp Hit% + hitting differential (team)

Lowest Opp Hit% allowed (better)

Team Opp Hit% Team Hit% Diff
Nebraska 0.101 0.328 0.227
Lehigh 0.132 0.259 0.127
Hawaii 0.135 0.231 0.096
UNI 0.140 0.205 0.065
Washington 0.150 0.257 0.107
Colorado St. 0.150 0.233 0.083
Delaware St. 0.150 0.179 0.029
Louisville 0.151 0.319 0.168
Arizona St. 0.152 0.253 0.101
CSUN 0.153 0.205 0.052

Highest hitting differential (Hit% − Opp Hit%)

Team Diff Hit% Opp Hit%
Nebraska 0.227 0.328 0.101
Louisville 0.168 0.319 0.151
Pittsburgh 0.140 0.320 0.180
BYU 0.128 0.316 0.188
Lehigh 0.127 0.259 0.132
Florida 0.126 0.290 0.164
Michigan St. 0.124 0.287 0.163
Tennessee 0.121 0.295 0.174
Tulane 0.110 0.293 0.183
Kansas 0.107 0.288 0.181

Source: ncaa.com Opp Hitting Percentage + Hitting Percentage. Opp Hit% mixes block, dig, serve pressure, and opponent talent — not pure “defense.”

Matchup previews (statistical comparison)

Side-by-side Fall 2026 counting rates for scout context. No win probabilities assigned.

Pittsburgh vs Nebraska

Wisconsin vs Louisville

Texas vs Stanford

Penn State vs Creighton

Kentucky vs SMU

Purdue vs Texas A&M

Player watchlist

Efficiency leaders (min 25 attacks — early threshold)

Player Team Pos Hit% Kill% Err% Kills Attacks Kill share
Natalia Newsome SMU MB 0.524 0.602 0.078 124 206 16%
Taina Kaauwai Portland MB 0.516 0.594 0.079 151 254 20%
Andi Jackson Nebraska MB 0.494 0.602 0.108 145 241 18%
Alaina Lester Southeast Mo. St. MB 0.457 0.511 0.054 113 221 12%
Eva Rohrbach Maryland MB 0.445 0.532 0.087 140 263 19%
Alec Rothe Florida MB 0.445 0.559 0.115 127 227 17%
Caroline Noonan Col. of Charleston MB 0.440 0.519 0.079 177 341 20%
Maya Bukovcan High Point MB 0.440 0.541 0.101 166 307 21%

Kill share = player kills ÷ team kills (usage among terminators). Not the same as Evollve % Tm Pts Plyd (on-court point share).

Kill% leaders (attack-qualified, min 25 TA)

Player Team Kill% Err% Hit% TA
Andi Jackson Nebraska 0.602 0.108 0.494 241
Natalia Newsome SMU 0.602 0.078 0.524 206
Taina Kaauwai Portland 0.594 0.079 0.516 254
Brooke Bultema Louisville 0.569 0.176 0.394 216
Alec Rothe Florida 0.559 0.115 0.445 227
Manaia Ogbechie Nebraska 0.554 0.134 0.419 186
Kamryn Lee-Caracci Georgetown 0.546 0.111 0.435 324
Hannah Sanders Delaware St. 0.544 0.137 0.407 241
Maya Bukovcan High Point 0.541 0.101 0.440 307
Kristina Starostenko Illinois 0.541 0.110 0.431 255

Usage / kill-share leaders (min 25 TA)

Breakout / high-rate watch

Efficiency risk (volume + sub-.150 hit, early)

Methodology

  1. Ingest (scripts/ingest_stats.py) scrapes ncaa.com current-season individual + team leaderboards (paginated), caches raw HTML under data/raw/YYYY-MM-DD-live/, and merges into data/processed/.
  2. Sidearm school pages are attempted for tracked programs; only server-rendered HTML tables are parsed. JS-walled sites are documented, not fabricated.
  3. stats.ncaa.org is not used (Akamai blocks from this environment).
  4. Prior-season calibration CSVs are not the published desk narrative.
  5. Movers diff against a previous CURRENT_SEASON_2026 snapshot when present.
  6. Form notes, tracked rankings, and matchup previews use only 2026 counting stats in this snapshot. Early-season small-sample caveats are intentional — rates move quickly with more sets.
  7. Advanced counting derived here: Kill% (K/TA), Err% (E/TA), PTS/PTS/S, Opp Hit%, hitting differential, assists/kills, and kill share (player K ÷ team K). These are not Evollve RAPM, not % Tm Pts Plyd, and not sideout%/FBSO.
  8. Side-out % and point-scoring % are computed separately from ncaa.com play-by-play — see Side-out % vs Point-scoring %. Service errors (SE) and RAPM remain teach-only.

Further reading (stat literacy)

Generated 2026-10-18T12:56:36Z · label CURRENT_SEASON_2026 · 1315 players / 343 teams · Through games Thursday, October 15, 2026

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