DAYTON – Making its third trip to the NCAA Championship in the last four seasons, the Wright State volleyball team will travel to Milwaukee and take on Georgia Tech in the opening round of the NCAA Championship. The Raiders learned their opponent Sunday night as part of ESPN's live Selection Show.
 
The Raiders will take on the Yellow Jackets on Thursday, December 1 at 5 p.m. ET in first round action. The Wright State-Georgia Tech winner advances to take on the Marquette-Ball State winner in the second round on Friday, December 2. Friday's second round match is slated for a 7 p.m. ET start.
 
Wright State punched its ticket to the Dance last Sunday with a sweep over Northern Kentucky, as Jenna Story was named Horizon League Tournament MVP, while Callie Martin and Sam Ott were each named to the All-Tournament team.
 
This will be Wright State's third NCAA Volleyball Championship appearance, with the Spring 2021 Raiders notching the first NCAA postseason win in program history with a sweep of Samford before falling to Texas. Wright State also earned an at-large bid into the 2019 tournament, the first at-large bid to an NCAA Championship in Wright State athletics history, where the Raiders ultimately fell to Purdue in the opening round.
 
Wright State posted a perfect 18-0 record in HL play and has now won 23 straight matches overall. This marks just the fourth time in Horizon League history that a team finished the regular season with three losses or less, with the Raiders joining Milwaukee (1999 and 2007) and Wright State from the Spring 2021 shortened season. The Raiders have the only two undefeated League seasons in Horizon League history (Spring 2021 and 2022).
 
Wright State saw several Raiders earn honors as part of the 2022 Horizon League Volleyball Awards, led by Jenna Story's fourth consecutive HL Defensive Player of the Year honor. Fellow fifth-year senior Lainey Stephenson earned Setter of the Year honors for the second time in her career and first-year head coach Travers Green was named the Horizon League Coach of the Year. The good news didn't stop with the major awards, as Wright State recorded a League-high four First Team honors, with Taylor Bransfield and Callie Martin joining Stephenson and Story, while Aaliyah Byers was named to the All-Freshman Team.
 
Wright State enters the NCAA Championship with a 28-3 overall record, while Georgia Tech holds a 20-7 overall mark. This will be the first-ever meeting between the two schools in volleyball.