Volleyball releases 2025 slate – Sam Houston

HUNTSVILLE – The Sam Houston Bearkat volleyball team released its official schedule for the upcoming 2025 season on Friday with a pair of tournaments and four Conference USA weekends highlighting the fall slate.  

Coach Brenda Gray is back for her 42nd year on the bench leading the Kats and will get the season going on August 29-30 when Sam Houston hosts the Bearkat Invitational with Southern Illinois, McNeese and Tulane. 

Weekend tournaments at Stephen F. Austin and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and a home midweek match vs Lamar (Sept 9) will follow before the Kats return home to HCU, Georgia State and ULM in the Bearkat Classic on September 18-20 to conclude non-conference play.  

The following weekend CUSA play will begin in Huntsville when UTEP comes to Bernard G. Johnson Coliseum for a pair of matches on September 26-27. A trip to NM State follows the next weekend to open the month of October ahead of FIU coming to Huntsville the weekend of October 10-11. 

The Kats will then go on the road for consecutive weekends at WKU (Oct 17-18) and Jax State (Oct 24-25) before two straight home weekends vs Kennesaw State (Oct 31 – Nov 1) and Louisiana Tech (Nov 7-8) concludes the home portion of the schedule. 

Sam Houston will close the regular season with a trek to league newcomer Delaware (Nov 145-15) ahead of the annual CUSA Tournament. FIU will play host to the Conference USA Tournament in 2025 with play for the three-day tournament set to begin on Thursday, November 20.