Tennessee volleyball opens season with Arkansas win

Tennessee defeated Arkansas on the road in SEC volleyball, with Jalyn Stout leading the Lady Vols with a season-best 19 kills on .455 hitting and libero Burns recording 23 digs. Tennessee finished with 65 kills and a .297 hitting percentage; Kennedi Rogers and Chelsea Sutton added 12 kills apiece, while Caroline Kerr had 47 assists. The match followed Arkansas’s upset win over defending national champion Texas A&M, which ended the Razorbacks’ 16-match SEC losing streak. Arkansas had entered the matchup with a strong blocking unit, while Tennessee brought one of the conference’s top attacks.