CHAMPAIGN, ILL. - The Madison College women's volleyball experienced some high notes during their trip to the Parkland Mid-Season Invite, where they upset one of the top-ranked teams in the nation on their home floor and saw a major school record go down. The #13-ranked WolfPack split their opening matches on Friday, falling 3-2 against Hawkeye Community College before sweeping Kalamazoo Valley Community College 3-0 in a match that saw sophomore setter
Allie Andrews broke the all-time assists record in Madison College history and became the first player in program history to reach the 2,000-assist plateau. Saturday's slate opened with a Top-15 class that resulted in a 3-2 win over #4-ranked Parkland College and ended with another 3-0 sweep of Kankakee Community College in a neutral site Region 4 match.
Match #1: Hawkeye Community College 3, #13 Madison College 2 (25-10, 22-25, 12-25, 25-19, 17-15)
Three weeks after sweeping the RedTails at the Lincoln Land Tournament, Madison College was unable to duplicate the win as they fell in the second all-time meeting with HCC. An early 7-0 run had Hawkeye off to a fast start, and they closed the first set with a 10-1 surge to win by 15. However, the WolfPack responded with a narrow win in the second set and a resounding win in the third set, where they built a 15-point lead.
The RedTails pulled it together in the fourth to force the decisive fifth set. Facing a three-point deficit at 10-7, Madison College rattled off five straight points to lead 12-10. After holding off match point #1 for Hawkeye Community College (13-17), who committed a hitting error, another poor attack gave the Pack a 15-14 lead and match point. The RedTails went on to win the final three points for the match.
Madison College racked up 48 kills, ten aces, 4.0 blocks, and 72 digs in the five-set match.
Sophomore
Makayla Dallas registered a double-double with a season-high 15 kills and 13 digs, to go along with three assists, two aces, and 1.0 block for the native of Valders, Wisconsin.
Ella Vosberg posted 12 kills.
Allie Andrews amassed 42 assists, five kills, four digs, and an ace.
Sam Schultz was tops with 25 digs, while freshmen
Amara Jahner and
Jaydon Golsteyn had 11 and ten digs, respectively. Golsteyn, a former New Berlin West HS athlete, also led the team with three aces.
Match #2: #13 Madison College 3, Kalamazoo Valley Community College 0 (25-16, 25-18, 25-11)
In the first-ever meeting between the two programs, Madison College had little trouble with the Cougars en route to the sweep. Kalamazoo Valley Community College (12-10) only led for a small time early in set one as they created an 9-4 differential before the WolfPack took control.
Allie Andrews added 34 assists as she became the new all-time leader in assists at Madison College. The Darlington, Wisconsin, native, tied the previous mark of 1,949 with an assist to an
Ella Vosberg kill to make it 21-18 in the second set. The sophomore and NJCAA First Team All-American moved into first place all alone on the next point as she set up
Caylee Coggins for a successful attack. Andrews moved past Kristen Klein, a Cuba City, Wisconsin, native, who held the record since playing in 2008 and 2009. In addition to the assists, Andrews also had four kills, four aces, and seven digs as she closed in on the all-time assists record.
Madison College finished with 40 kills to just 15 for KVCC. They also had 14 aces and 48 digs, while the Cougars did hold a 4.0-3.0 edge in blocking.
The sophomore duo of
Makayla Dallas and
Ella Vosberg paced the Pack with 11 kills each, with both owning an attack percentage of .320 or higher. Fellow second year
Caylee Coggins added nine kills.
Sam Schultz was the lone player in double-digits defensively with 11 digs. Freshman
Amara Jahner had a career-high five aces.
Match #3: #13 Madison College 3, #4 Parkland College 2 (17-25, 25-23, 25-19, 23-25, 15-12)
The match of the weekend was between a pair of Top-15 teams, and Parkland College (36-3) struck first with a comfortable win in set one. The WolfPack held off a late rally by the Cobras to win a long second set on a kill by freshman
Braelee Kiepert before using an 8-2 closing stretch to close out the third set on a block by
Allie Andrews.
In a back-and-forth fourth set, the teams were even at 17-17 when the Cobras earned four straight points and kept the Pack at bay to force the weekend's second - and season's sixth - five-set match for Madison College. The WolfPack led by as much as seven after a 5-0 burst made it 11-4. A serving error by Parkland closed out the match.
Allie Andrews added 48 more assists to her career total to become the first player in school history to reach 2,000. She also added 11 digs for her 12th double-double, to go along with eight kills, 2.5 blocks, and an ace.
Sophomores
Ella Vosberg and
Sam Schultz also racked up double-doubles to help lead Madison. Schultz, an Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, native, earned her fourth double-double this season with 13 kills and 20 digs, while Vosberg's 13 kills and 19 digs equalled her ninth. The WolfPack offense also produced nine kills from
Makayla Dallas, eight by
Caylee Coggins, and seven from
Braelee Kiepert, who led the squad with three aces and 3.0 blocks.
Freshman
Amara Jahner set a new career best as the libero from Appleton, Wisconsin, chased down 38 digs. Dallas added 14 digs, leaving her one kill shy of becoming the fourth player in the match with a double-double.
Parkland College still leads the all-time series by a 6-2 tally.
Match #4: #13 Madison College 3, Kankakee Community College 0 (25-8, 25-16, 25-13)
The final match of the weekend marked the lone Region 4 contest as Madison College squared off with Kankakee Community College (12-17-1) in the first of two meetings with the Cavaliers over the final two weeks of the regular season. The WolfPack used the momentum from their big win over Parkland to throttle KCC in the opening set, holding the opposition to just eight points. In the second set, the Pack was behind 5-2 early before a 15-4 surge that included a run of six straight points put Madison College in control before
Caylee Coggins closed it out with a kill. The third and final set opened with a 7-0 run, four of which were the result of kills by Coggins. Freshman
Colby LaPlant terminated a kill to secure the match.
Madison College registered 40 kills and a .395 attack percentage in the win, as well as seven aces, 4.0 blocks, and 45 digs.
Ella Vosberg was tops with 11 kills and a season-high .733 efficiency. The native of Cuba City, Wisconsin, sits at 748 career kills and is 69 kills behind the all-time mark of 817 held by Courtney Gorum. Vosberg also had 11 digs for her tenth double-double in 2026. Coggins racked up eight kills and 2.0 blocks.
Freshman
Gretchen Kammerer ran the offense as the setter tallied 25 assists, with
Allie Andrews adding nine.
Amara Jahner also had double-digit digs with 11.
Madison College narrowly owns a 5-4 edge in the all-time series with Kankakee Community College. The teams will play again October 30 at the Kankakee Triangular.
Up Next:
Madison College (20-6) remains on the road Wednesday, October 21 for an in-state and Region 4 showdown with rival Milwaukee Area Technical College (17-11). The head-to-head series dates back to 1977, with the WolfPack owning a 97-29-3 all-time lead and riding a 43 match win streak over the Stormers. First serve is at 7:00 p.m. at Alverno College's Reiman Gymnasium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and can be streamed live via
Hudl.
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