Rebels Volleyball Position Watch: Setters

Sept. 13, 2016

OXFORD, Miss--There is no drama for Ole Miss Volleyball when it comes to the most important positon on the court, at least not when it comes to the starting job. Senior Aubrey Edie (Fayetteville, Arkansas), is a 4-year starter and will enter conference play this season as the best setter in school history. Her counterpart, freshman Jordan Fate (Fairview, Texas) will look to acquire the positon after Edie leaves her fingerprint on the program.

Edie, the 6 foot setter, began her final year as a Rebel with hot hands setting the career assists record (3,970 to date). She has had an outstanding career thus far at Ole Miss setting the single-season assist record with 1,322 and becoming the second player in the history of the program to earn CoSIDA Academic All-American honors. In only three weekends of play this year, Edie has been named SEC Setter of the Week, ranks fifth in the Southeastern conference with 19.55 assists, and set a single-match record with a career-high 63 assists.

"I am really proud of her for breaking records; they get tougher and tougher to break as the program history goes on," said head coach Steven McRoberts. "She is consistent and the best setters are the ones that you don't notice a whole lot, they just do their job. She is as good of a setter as I have ever had."

Edie today is 30 assists away from the 4,000 mark and will spend the next two months giving her team everything she's got to make it to her first NCAA Tournament. Fate will continue to learn from Edie and push her teammates in order to prepare for her start in the 2017 season.

Fate joined the Rebels as an AVCA Under Armour Honorable Mention All-American and PrepVolleyball High School All-American. During her time at LoveJoy High School she was named to the Texas Sports Writers Association All-State 4A Player of the year and was a member of Texas Girl Coaches Association 5A All-State Team. Fate served as a team captain for four years at Victory Volleyball Club located in Plano, Texas. She is hoping to use her previous experience in addition to the knowledge she is gaining from Edie to lead the Rebels in the spring and the remainder of her time at Ole Miss.

"We are confident in her for the future. She is a competitor and a winner," said McRoberts. "She has a calm presence about her and she is not afraid to have the ball in her hands when the match is on the line."

While this positon may not appear as a competition to an outsider, Coach McRoberts is very confident that one of the only reason's his team has started off the season 9-1 is because of Fate and what she brings to the team on the other side of the net.

"She is raising the level in our gym," said McRoberts. "We had days in preseason where the only change we would make would be setter and she would win with the first rotation, there wasn't a huge difference in the game."

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