For the second season in a row, DePauw women's volleyball team is soaring through its season with an outstanding win-streak.
They are currently 13 games into the season, with 12 of those being wins. The only loss of the season came at the hands of Ohio Northern University in the Tiger's first match-up of the season.
There are a lot of parallels being drawn between this season and last. In 2012, DePauw lost its first two games, but then continued the season to establish the longest win-streak in women's volleyball history with 17 straight wins.
So far this season, the Tigers have only had one North Coast Athletic Conference game, which was against Oberlin, but that is soon to change as their schedule starts to rev up with more conference games.
"We had a successful season last year, but we know we have a lot more in us and can take our game to a higher level," said sophomore Faith Rolwes. "Our current win streak has definitely fueled our team. We've won a lot of big games against really good teams so that's definitely boosted our confidence and the strong competition has helped us to take our game to the next level."
Head coach Deb Zellers has coached the women's volleyball team at DePauw, her alma mater, for 19 years and has an outstanding coaching record at 407-221. Not only has she taken the team to the Division III postseason twice, Zellers is also the coach with the most wins in the program's history.
The Tigers are next looking toward two home games this Saturday at Neal Fieldhouse. Their first game of the weekend is against College of Wooster, and it is an NCAC game. Last season, they beat Wooster 3-1.
"A lot of our success early on this year has a lot to do with how we ended our season last year," said Rolwes. "We finished second in conference, so that really fueled us to want to work hard over the summer, during our pre-season and practices so that we can achieve our ultimate goal this year of winning conference and going to the national tournament."