Rhody Volleyball Announces 2025 Schedule

KINGSTON, R.I. – Rhode Island unveiled a 2025 women’s volleyball schedule that includes four matches against Top 25 teams from a year ago and seven matches against teams that made national postseason tournament appearances last season.

Rhody gets started during the final weekend of August, when it travels to Stony Brook’s tournament. The Rams open the season against Siena on Aug. 29 before facing Central Connecticut State and the Seawolves the following day.

The second-annual Ocean State Cup will be hosted by Providence the following weekend. All four Division I programs from the state will get together for the weekend. Rhode Island opens against Providence on Sept. 5 before playing both Bryant and Brown on Sept. 6.

The action ramps up in the third weekend when URI heads to Fort Worth, Texas for TCU’s tournament. All three opponents are coming off national tournaments, as Rhode Island will play Missouri, TCU and Wyoming. Making its second straight trip to the NCAA Championship, The SEC’s Missouri ended the season ranked No. 25 in the country and reached the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2017. No. 20 TCU of the Big 12 advanced to the second round of the NCAAs in its third consecutive trip. Wyoming came out of the Mountain West with its second straight bid to the National Invitational Volleyball Championship.

After the TCU tournament, Rhode Island plays its home opener on Sept. 15, when it welcomes Northwestern from the Big 10 to Keaney Gymnasium. Later in the week, the Rams close out non-conference play with road matches at NJIT (Sept. 19) and Manhattan (Sept. 20).

The final 18 matches of the season are all Atlantic 10 matches. This season, conference play will eight weekends of two head-to-head matches, plus a pair of midweek single matches. URI’s partner for the midweek matches is Fordham. Rhody will travel to George Washington (Sept. 26-27), Fordham (Oct. 8), Saint Louis (Oct. 17-18), Duquesne (Oct. 24-25) and defending champion Loyola Chicago (Nov. 7-8).

Rhode Island will host Davidson (Oct. 3-4), VCU (Oct. 11-12), Fodham (Oct. 29), George Mason (Nov. 1-2) and Dayton (Nov. 14-15).

The final four matches of conference play will come against 2024 NCAA Championship teams. After upsetting Dayton to win the A-10 Championship, Loyola Chicago won its opening-round match of the NCAA Championship against BYU, marking the program’s first win at the tournament.

Rhode Island closes out the regular season against No. 23 Dayton, which was a No. 5 seed at last year’s NCAA Championship. The Flyers – who were 29-2 in 2024 – reached the Sweet 16 after beating South Carolina and Baylor before falling to national semifinalist Nebraska in four sets.