Completed Event: Volleyball at San Diego State on October 16, 2025 , Win , 3, to, 2
Volleyball
at San Diego State
W 3-2
Grand Canyon University Athletics
Thursday, October 30
Phoenix, Ariz.
6 p.m.
Grand Canyon
vs
Air Force
Photo by: Jayden Todd
Lopes return home to host Air Force, Nevada
10/29/2025 6:21:00 PM | Volleyball
Saturday's match will include Senior Day celebration
Grand Canyon is back at home for Thursday's 6 p.m. match against Air Force (11-11, 3-7 Mountain West), marking the Lopes' first match with Air Force this season. GCU will return to Global Credit Union Arena on Saturday to host Nevada (7-13, 3-7 MW) for a 2 p.m. Saturday match.
Saturday''s match will include a pregame senior celebration for Anaelena Ramirez, Sophia Parlanti and Hayden Goodman.
Saturday''s match will include a pregame senior celebration for Anaelena Ramirez, Sophia Parlanti and Hayden Goodman.
AT A GLANCE
- GCU freshman setter/opposite Bella Nunez has recorded seven triple-doubles this season, including five in a row to earn consecutive MW Freshman of the Week awards on Oct. 13 and 20.
- The Lopes rank 11th nationally and first in the Mountain West in blocks per set at 2.82.
- GCU freshman middle blocker Aubrey Bellus totaled 14 blocks, helping set a Division I-era program record of 21 team blocks against San Diego State.
- Lopes senior outside hitter Anaelena Ramirez ranks eighth in GCU's Division I era for career kills with 607.
- GCU's season block total of 223 ranks ninth in the nation.
- Lopes freshman libero Bella Anderson posted a career-high 24 digs against San José State.
- GCU freshman middle blocker Aubrey Goodere recorded the third-best hitting percentage of GCU's Division I era at .714 against Fresno State.
- Bellus is second in the conference in blocks per set with 1.7.
- The Lopes have not played a home match since Oct. 11 and are 3-1 since then.
LAST TIME OUT
- GCU went 2-0 last weekend after handing San José State and Fresno State losses on the road while dropping only one set out of seven.
- The Lopes are 4-3 against Air Force all-time dating back to a match in 1989. The Lopes have won the four most recent with a 3-2 victory at Air Force in 2016 being the only DI-era match.
- GCU is 1-1 against Nevada, most recently sweeping the Wolf Pack in a 2021 neutral-site match in Idaho.
- Air Force is led offensively by senior outside hitter Ashley Bible who is seventh in the conference in kills per set with 3.5 in conference play. Defensively, sophomore middle blocker Grace Fiaseu ranks fifth in the conference in blocks per set (1.4).
- Nevada's Haylee Brown sits at fifth in the conference in kills per set with 3.5. Audrey Jensen is fourth in assists at 8.2 per set.
WHAT'S NEXT?
- The Lopes will stay at home for their final two home matches of the season against San Diego State on Nov. 6 and UNLV on Nov. 8, which will be pivotal matches in the hunt for a Mountain West Championships spot.
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