Coming off its most successful season in program history, the Siena Heights women's volleyball team will begin its 2023 campaign in the Sunshine State with four matches at the Keiser Invitational in West Palm Beach, Fla. on Friday and Saturday.

Last year, the Saints finished with a 24-8 record and 18-2 mark in Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference action. SHU qualified for the WHAC Tournament semifinals for only the third time in program history -- the previous years were 2011 and 2017 -- before falling to Indiana Tech. Siena Heights had defeated the Warriors twice in the regular season and suffered its only two WHAC defeats to eventual champ Cornerstone.

SHU is loaded with experience coming into 2023 and brings back four All-WHAC players from a year ago. That quartet includes three First Team honorees, senior Aubrey Bates, junior Olivia Norman and sophomore Devyne Eisenhauer, and a Second Team performer, senior Kinsey Wagner.

Bates is a three-time All-WHAC honoree, taking First Team honors twice and a Second Team accolade as a freshman. In 2022, she became the first women's volleyball Saint to earn NAIA All-America recognition, receiving an honorable mention. Bates, who was the 2021 WHAC Setter of the Year and member of the 2020 WHAC All-Freshman Team, has already made her mark on the Siena Heights record books. Bates ranks No. 2 all-time with 2,807 assists and No. 4 with 138 aces.

Norman is a two-time All-WHAC player, earning Second Team her freshman year in 2021 along with WHAC All-Freshman honors. She currently ties for sixth all-time in career block assists at SHU with 179.

Eisenhauer made an immediate impact in her first season as a collegian, adding WHAC Newcomer of the Year and WHAC All-Freshman Team awards to her All-WHAC First Team season. Wagner earned her first All-WHAC award in three teams with her ascension to the Second Team.

The Saints' squad includes six seniors: Bates, Wagner, Kadie Carsten, Payton Osborne, Cailynn Sullivan and Taylor Wegener. Osborne has moved up the all-time digs list, ranking fifth with 1,232.

Bates, Osborne and Wagner appeared in all 32 matches last year, along with Eisenhauer, Norman and junior Claire VanDyke. Carsten and Wegener played in 31 matches.

While in Florida, the Saints will take on Life, Rust, Campbellsville and Saint Thomas (Fla.). After another road match at Huntington on Wednesday, Aug. 30, SHU will host the Siena Heights Invitational on Sept. 1-2 at the SHU Fieldhouse.