Mahwah, NJ:  The Ramapo College women's volleyball team has earned the program's first ever bid to the 2016 NCAA Women's Volleyball Championship Tournament. The Roadrunners (24-5) earned one of 20 at-large bids up for grabs in the field of 64 teams. Forty-three conferences earned an automatic bid to the tournament for winning their conference championship.
 
The Roadrunners, who recorded a 19-match win streak this season, will travel to Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ for their first round match. The Ducks will host the first, second and third round match-ups this weekend, November 11^th through 13^th.
 
Ramapo will square off against a familiar non-conference foe in Hunter College (19-14) who captured their third straight CUNYAC Conference Title. The Roadrunners and Hawks will take the floor at Walker Gymnasium on Friday, November 11^th at 12:30pm. Ramapo defeated Hunter three times this season. The two teams met in the first match of the year on Sept. 2^nd with Ramapo earning a five-set match victory, 3-2 (19-25, 25-15, 25-17, 18-25, 15-7). The Roadrunners defeated Hunter once again on Sept. 16^th at the Bradley Center, 3-0 (25-12, 25-12, 25-21). Their final match-up came on Sept. 24^th at Hunter as Ramapo won, 3-0 (25-23, 25-20, 25-13).
 
The winner of the Ramapo/Hunter match will take on the winner of the Farmingdale State (19-6) and Eastern (29-5) match on November 12^th. Eastern and Farmingdale both won their conference titles to earn the automatic bid. Ramapo defeated Farmingdale State on October 27^th at home in a 3-0 (25-15, 25-20, 25-18). 
 
The only other team the Roadrunners are familiar with in the bracket is NJAC rival Montclair State University. The Red Hawks recently defeated Ramapo in an exciting four-set match in the NJAC Championship on November 5^th. The Roadrunners defeated MSU during the regular season, 3-0 (25-21, 25-23, 25-19).
 
Offensively the Roadrunners are led junior outside hitter Larysa Iwaskiw. Iwaskiw, who is also the career kills leader at Ramapo, has posted a team high 603 kills this season, 5.91 per set. She leads the team with 371 digs while she is second on the team with 44 aces. Senior outside hitter Emily Guzman recorded 192 kills this season and is second on the team with 53 total blocks. Senior Rachel Selmore and rookie Kate Shirkey have split the setting duties this season with Shirkey leading the pair with 520 assists while Selmore recorded 483. On defense, sophomore defensive specialist Kristen Behrens has tallied 368 digs while senior Natalia Saavedra has recorded 140 digs of her own and 19 aces.  Rookie outside hitter Karina Almeda has posted 101 kills, 12 assists and a team high 65 aces. Sophomore outside hitter Judy Errichetti has helped lead the Roadrunners on offense with 151 kills while rookie middle blocker Samantha Main leads Ramapo with 64 total blocks, including 13 solo. Main has also recorded 56 kills this season.
 
Hoboken, NJ – Stevens Institute (listed in order from NCAA bracket)
Stevens (31-5) vs. Regis (MA) (15-15) – 8:00pm
Clark (MA) (23-8) vs. Montclair St. (28-4) – 5:30pm
Ramapo (24-5) vs. Hunter (19-14) – 12:30pm
Eastern (29-5) vs. Farmingdale St. (19-6) – 3:00pm