Women's Volleyball | 6/4/2025 2:15:00 PM

GREENSBORO – The North Carolina A&T volleyball team released its 2025 schedule on Wednesday after coming off a season where the program made it to the postseason for the fourth time in six seasons. In addition to making it to the postseason in the National Invitational Volleyball Championship (NIVC) tournament, the Aggies also qualified for the Coastal Athletic Association (CAA) Volleyball Championship Tournament for the first time in their three-year existence in the league.

Head coach Hal Clifton, the longest-tenured volleyball coach in program history, returns for his 15th season. His schedule includes HBCU opponents, ACC opponents and two in-state rivals before the Aggies enter the crucial portion of their schedule – facing CAA opponents.

"We are very excited about our fall schedule," said Clifton, who enters the 2025 season with 143 wins.  "We have a variety of schools on our non-conference schedule that is very similar to what we are going to see in the CAA. 

It's nice that we were able to get some fellow HBCUs on our schedule.  It's been a while since we've battled with Howard, Bethune-Cookman and Coppin State.  We also added three Power Four matches, which also created a challenge for us.  The schedule will have us battle-ready as we start CAA play on the road at UNC Wilmington."

The Aggies start the regular season on Friday, August 29 at 6 p.m. inside Corbett Sports Center with a familiar foe from their Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference days in the Bethune-Cookman Wildcats. It will be the 67th meeting between the two teams, with A&T leading the all-time series 42-24. The two teams will meet for the first time since August 27, 2022, when the Aggies defeated the Wildcats 3-0 in Moore Gymnasium.

Bethune-Cookman will play the Coppin State Eagles on Saturday afternoon, August 30, at 1 inside Corbett as a part of the Aggie/Phoenix Invitational shared with Elon University before the Eagles face A&T at 6 p.m. at Corbett. The Aggies had a similar beginning to the 2022 season when they opened with the Coppin State Eagles and the Wildcats at home. The Eagles beat the Aggies 3-2 in Moore on August 26, 2022. A&T leads the series 18-5.

 The Aggies have an additional HBCU on the schedule when they face the Howard Bison on Friday, September 12, in Washington, DC, at 6 p.m. The Bison won six MEAC tournament titles from 2015-2021 in seven years. Howard won the MEAC regular-season title in 2024 with a 14-0 record. The two schools will meet for the 20th time, with A&T holding an 11-8 advantage, but the Aggies have not defeated Howard since October 15, 2006, a streak of six straight losses.

A&T will stay in the nation's capital to face American University on Saturday, September 13 at 4 p.m. The Aggies will begin a string of three-straight in-state non-conference matches, starting with the Wake Forest Demon Deacons on Thursday, September 18, at 6:30 p.m. at Reynolds Gymnasium in Winston-Salem, NC.

The next night, the Aggies will travel down Market Street to face Gate City rival UNC Greensboro at Fleming Gymnasium at 6 p.m. before facing the UNC Asheville Bulldogs at Fleming at 1 p.m. on Saturday, September 20. The other ACC opponent on A&T's non-conference schedule is the Clemson Tigers. A&T will face the Tigers on September 4 and 5 at 6 p.m. at Clemson's Jervey Gymnasium.

UNCW will be the Aggies first CAA opponent. The Aggies will travel to Wilmington, NC, to face the Seahawks on Friday, September 26, at 6 p.m. and Saturday, September 27, at 2 p.m. A&T's other road CAA matches include at College of Charleston (October 10-11), Elon (October 24-25) and Stony Brook (November 7-8).

Hampton will be the Aggies first CAA home opponent, facing the Aggies on Friday, October 3, at 6 p.m. and Saturday, October 4, at 2 p.m. The other CAA matches at Moore Gymnasium are against William & Mary (October 17-18), Hofstra (November 1-2) and Campbell (November 14-15).