WKU Volleyball announces new courtside seats and 2025 schedule

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — WKU Volleyball is excited to announce their schedule for the 2025 season and new courtside seats at E. A. Diddle Arena.

New For 2025

Want to watch high-level volleyball up close like never before? Courtside seats make their debut at Diddle Arena for the 2025 volleyball season. For just $200 each, catch the action up close for all 15 home matches this season. Courtside seats can only be purchased by calling the WKU Ticket Office at 1.800.5.BIGRED.

Season ticket packages return and continue to offer the flexibility to attend every match, or mix and match during the season. Season ticket packages are $75 and provide fans with 15 vouchers to use throughout the season – that’s just $5 per ticket!

If you prefer to go game by game, single game tickets will go on sale closer to the beginning of the season. Season ticket prices will be $10 for adults, $7 for youth (under 12) and $5 for groups of 10+.

2025 Schedule

The 30-match slate includes 15 matches at E. A. Diddle Arena as well as matchups with four NCAA Tournament teams. Three of those four teams made it past the first round of the NCAA Tournament, while Louisville made it to the national championship match.

WKU opens its 44th season at home in the WKU Invitational. That tournament, held Aug. 29 and 30, will feature three matches for the Hilltoppers against Wright State, Loyola-Chicago, and Drake.

Hilltopper Volleyball will then go on a six-match road trip to play Drake, Marquette, and Buffalo at the Marquette tournament in Milwaukee, Wis., Sept. 5-6. After returning from Milwaukee, WKU will travel to Johnson City, Tenn. To take on High Point, East Tennessee
State, and Virgina Commonwealth University on Sept. 12-13.

On Sept. 16, WKU is excited to host Vanderbilt Volleyball at E. A. Diddle Arena in the Commodores’ first indoor volleyball season since 1980. Later that same week, WKU Volleyball will host its eighth-annual Alyssa Cavanaugh Classic Sept. 19-20, featuring Bradley, Indiana, and Austin Peay.

After hosting Vanderbilt and the Alyssa Cavanaugh Classic, the Hilltoppers will travel to Louisville, Ky. on Sept. 22 to take on the national runner-up Cardinals.

Completing a preseason schedule that includes three AVCA Top 50 teams, WKU will open its Conference USA slate against Jacksonville State, Sept. 26-27.

New to Conference USA in the fall of 2025 is Missouri State. WKU will travel to Springfield, Mo. to take on the Bears, Oct 3-4. Continuing their road trip, the Hilltoppers head to Ruston, La. to play LA Tech Oct 10-11. After their four-match road swing, WKU returns to Bowling Green, Ky. to host Sam Houston Oct. 17-18, and UTEP Oct. 24-25.

In their 76th and 77th all-time matchup. WKU will travel to Murfreesboro, Tenn. for the 100 Miles of Hate rivalry against Middle Tennessee Oct 31- Nov. 1.

On Nov. 7-8, WKU welcomes new CUSA opponent, Delaware, to Bowling Green for their final two home matches of the season. Much like last season, WKU will round out its CUSA regular season schedule against Liberty on Nov. 14-15 in Lynchburg, Va.

The 2025 Conference USA Championship will take place at the Ocean Bank Convocation Center in Miami, Fla. from Nov. 21-23.

WKU returns eight returners—Callahan Wiegandt, Callie Bauer, Gabby Weihe, Izzy Van De Wiele, Faith Young, Alivia Skidmore, Camila Adams, and Abby Schaefer–and welcomes six new faces to the WKU Volleyball program. Four of those six are freshman, Kaira Knox, Kennedy Cherry, Kate Rush, and Sonja Laaksonen, while the Hilltoppers also welcome Austin Peay transfer Taylor Baron, and Colorado
transfer Kendall Meller.

The Hilltoppers are coming off a 28-7 overall record and a perfect 18-0 in Conference USA. WKU also claimed its 10th regular season title and seventh CUSA Tournament title.