WICHITA FALLS, Texas – Midwestern State closes out the regular season on Friday night as it hosts Lubbock Christian. First serve at D. L. Ligon Coliseum is scheduled for 6 p.m. Jenna Redding, Emerson Reedy, Nyle Mathis, Jaiden Wright, Isabella Dickens, Remi Madison and Giselle Cazares are the seven seniors that will be recognized during Senior Night ceremonies.

Midwestern State (15-12, 10-6) clinched a berth in the 2026 Lone Star Conference Volleyball Championship with its 3-0 (25-23, 25-18, 25-22) win over UT Permian Basin in its final away match of the regular season. The Mustangs finished with a 5-6 record on the road.

Midwestern State is assured of finishing with a record better than .500 for the third consecutive season. Prior to the 2024 season, MSU had one season over .500 since finishing 15-14 in 2010. In the spring of 2021, the Mustangs were 10-7 in a season truncated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Midwestern State can finish with an 8-3 home record with a victory on Friday. MSU has won its last seven sets at home and has a three-match home winning streak. MSU is 8-8 when hosting Lubbock Christian, which leads the all-time series, 22-15.  The Lady Chaps have won the last six meetings overall and their last three visits to D.L. Ligon Coliseum. 

Last year in Lubbock, the Mustangs fell short in a tightly contested five-set match 20-25, 18-25, 25-23, 25-23, 12-15. Dickens led the team with 21 kills on 48 attempts, achieving a hitting percentage of .354, and Wright finished the match with nine blocks.

Dickens and Mathis each had 15 kills, and Wright had nine kills in the win at UTPB last week. Midwestern State hit .297 in the victory. Dickens led the team with 19 points as she finished the match with three aces and was in on two of three blocks for the Mustangs. Macy Scheer recorded 47 assists and six digs. Cazares led MSU with 11 digs, while Redding and Savannah Cummings both had nine digs in the victory.

Midwestern State is third in the Lone Star Conference in assists and fourth in kills per set. The Mustangs are averaging 12.5 assists and 13.2 kills per set. Scheer is third in the league with 9.4 assists per set. Dickens leads the Mustangs and is 10th in the conference with three kills per set.

The Mustangs are sixth in the LSC with a hitting percentage of .214, led by Wright and Dickens. Wright is hitting .337, which is fourth in the LSC, and Dickens is seventh in the league with a hitting percentage of .325.
The Stangs are sixth in the conference with 15.7 digs per set. Redding is sixth in the league with 4.1 digs per set. The Mustangs are 17th in the conference with 1.4 blocks per set, and Wright leads the team with 64 total blocks and 0.64 blocks per set. Opponents are hitting .227 against MSU.

Scheer leads the Mustangs with 32 service aces, and MSU is averaging 1.4 aces per set, which is 14th in the league.   

In her 24th season as a head coach, Stephanie Radecki has a record of 434-322 (.574). Radecki is in her fifth season at the helm of the Mustangs' program.

Lubbock Christian (12-14, 8-8) has alternated wins and losses over its last five matches following a 3-0 loss at Angelo State. LCU arrives at D.L. Ligon Coliseum with an 8-8 record in conference play and a 12-14 mark overall.  

Camdyn Sears has posted three triple doubles this season, which is second in the conference. The 5-8 sophomore from Midland, Texas, had 11 kills, 13 assists and 15 digs in a 3-0 win over Texas A&M International. She had 13 kills, 21 assists and 21 digs in a 3-2 win over Texas Woman's. In a 3-1 loss to West Texas A&M, Sears finished with 12 kills, 19 assists and 11 digs.

Kayson Reeves, a freshman from Arkansas, is fourth in the conference with 97 blocks. She has 89 block assists with eight solo blocks and just three block errors this season. She had a season-high eight block assists in a 3-0 win at Cameron on Oct. 2.

The Lady Chaps average nearly two blocks per set, which is seventh most in the conference. 

The nine-team LSC Volleyball Championship is scheduled for Nov. 11-14 at Angelo State, the No. 1 seed in the tournament.