UH women’s volleyball schedule features 3 other NCAA teams

The University of Hawaii announced a 29-match schedule with 17 at SimpliFi Arena at Stan Sheriff Center for the 2025 Rainbow Wahine volleyball team on Wednesday.

The five-time defending Big West Conference champions, who went 21-10 last season and advanced to the first round of the NCAA Tournament, will play three other returning NCAA teams in the nonconference schedule.

UH will open the season with the Hawaiian Airlines Wahine Volleyball Classic on Aug. 29 against Marquette, which advanced to a regional semifinal in the NCAA Tournament last season.

Hawaii will also play Utah State and San Diego before hosting the Outrigger Invitational the following weekend against San Jose State, Utah Valley and St. John’s.

The nonconference home schedule concludes with two matches against Portland on Sept. 11 and 12.

UH’s first road trip will be in Palo Alto, Calif., in a four-team tournament hosted by Stanford. UH will open against the Cardinal, who advanced to a NCAA Regional Final and placed fifth in the final AVCA coaches poll. Hawaii will renew a rivalry with UCLA in the 79th meeting between the two programs before ending the tourney against reigning Sun Belt champion Texas State.

The Rainbow Wahine open conference play against UC Riverside and UC Davis at home on Sept. 26 and 27. Eight of UH’s 11 matches in October are on the road.

UH will end the regular season at home against Long Beach State on Nov. 22 before the Big West Championship is held Nov. 26-29 at the Walter Pyramid in Long Beach, Calif.

Head coach Robyn Ah Mow, who enters her eighth season at the helm, has three transfers and early-enrollee freshman Cha’lei Reid still on the roster who were added in the spring. UH, which lost three seniors and three more players to the transfer portal, is also expecting to add two more freshmen and at least one new transfer in 6-foot sophomore hitter Ravyn Dash, who averaged 2.31 kills per set as a freshman at Houston Christian last year, in the fall.

Lois Hansen, a UC Santa Barbara transfer from last season who played in UH’s spring matches, is no longer on the roster.