Season snapshot
- Record:
- 14-8
- Last result:
- W 3-1 vs Tennessee · Fri, Oct 30
- Next match:
- at Texas · Sun, Nov 1 · 12:00 PM CT (TV: ABC)
- Remaining ranked opponents:
- 1
- Schedule sites:
- 15 home · 17 away · 1 neutral
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Scores checked Oct 31, 2026 · Times as listed
9 upcoming matches · Times shown as listed
SEC Tournament on Nov 20; NCAA 1st/2nd Rounds on Dec 3; NCAA Regional on Dec 10. Start times are not confirmed in the schedule.
Original analysis of the Texas A&M Aggies program, coaching staff, and 2026 outlook.
Texas A&M plays the 2026 season with a target on its back. The Aggies won the program's first NCAA championship last December in Kansas City — a 3-0 sweep of Kentucky in the final, capping a 29-4 run that included knocking off previously undefeated Nebraska in Lincoln — and they open this year ranked No. 8 in the AVCA preseason poll. That ranking says less about doubt in Jamie Morrison's program than about how much turned over: eight players from the title roster are back, and eight are new. Sorting out who does what, and how quickly, is the story of the fall.
The Aggies dropped the opener to No. 7 Louisville 3-1 in Milwaukee after 2025 NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player Kyndal Stowers went down with an apparent back injury in pregame warmups, forcing a rebuilt rotation twenty minutes before first serve. Marquette transfer Natalie Ring had 11 kills in her debut, Taryn Morris set a career high with 10, Eliza Sharp hit .333 with 10 kills and six blocks, and freshman libero Gabi Rodriguez dug 18 balls.
Texas A&M won the 2025 NCAA Division I women's volleyball championship, the first national title in program history. The Aggies went 29-4, became the first team to beat Nebraska in Lincoln since 2022 in the regional final, then swept Pitt in the national semifinal and Kentucky in the final on December 21 in Kansas City. Kyndal Stowers took Most Outstanding Player honors. It was Jamie Morrison's third season in College Station.
Jamie Morrison was hired on December 16, 2022 as the seventh head coach in program history and is 66-25 in three seasons — one of only three coaches to win a national championship within his first three years leading a program. His résumé before College Station is unusual for a college head coach: three Olympic medal-winning staffs (gold with the U.S. men in 2008, silver with the U.S. women in 2012, bronze in 2016) and a run as head coach of the Dutch national team. That international background shows up in how A&M plays — serve pressure, in-system passing as a non-negotiable, and a heavy analytics and video operation behind the scenes. In March 2026 the university signed him to a new five-year contract through the 2031 season.
Associate head coach Lindsey Walton joined in January 2023 after five seasons as head coach at Oklahoma.
How fast the new group gels: eight new players and a new setter mean the connections that win five-setters in November do not exist yet in August, and the non-conference slate is built to force them into existence early. Middle-blocker production is the second question — A&M graduated real numbers there, and Sharp's six-block, .333-hitting opener suggests the transfers were the right call. Health is the third: Stowers' availability is the single biggest variable on this page, and pin depth is the difference between a team that survives an injury and one that doesn't. No program has repeated since Texas in 2022-23, and A&M's path would run through the Alamodome in San Antonio in December — a three-hour drive from campus.
Schedule and scores checked October 31, 2026 · Official source: 12thman.com
Texas A&M plays the 2026 season as the defending national champion, and the calendar below is the whole story: 29 regular-season matches, the SEC Tournament in Savannah and up to three NCAA Tournament weekends, with 15 of the regular-season dates at Reed Arena in College Station. Start times are Central and are subject to change; broadcast windows in particular tend to firm up about a week out. The season opened on August 21 against No. 7 Louisville at the AVCA First Serve event in Milwaukee — a 3-1 loss that nobody scripted, after 2025 NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player Kyndal Stowers went down with an apparent back injury during pregame warmups and never took the floor. A&M rebuilt its rotation in the twenty minutes before first serve.
What followed was encouraging if you squint: Marquette transfer Natalie Ring put down 11 kills in her Aggie debut, Taryn Morris set a career high with 10, Eliza Sharp hit .333 with 10 kills and a team-best six blocks, and freshman libero Gabi Rodriguez dug 18 balls, the most by an A&M freshman since 2022. The offense sputtered at .160 against Louisville's .240, which is what happens when your best attacker is in street clothes and the replacement plan is four days old. Sunday brings No. 11 SMU, a program that has beaten A&M in both prior regular-season meetings — a strange footnote for two schools three hours apart. Stowers' availability had not been announced as of the morning of the SMU match; treat any status you read elsewhere as unconfirmed until the athletic department says otherwise.
After Milwaukee the Aggies host the Texas A&M Invitational (Grand Canyon, Arkansas State, Cal Poly), travel to West Lafayette for Purdue and Indiana, meet Stanford in Kissimmee, host a Final Four rematch with Wisconsin on September 11, and open SEC play at home against South Carolina on September 27.
| Date | Opponent | Listed time | Venue / Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri, Aug 28 | GCU | 11:00 am CT (TV: SEC Network+) | College Station, TX · W 3-1 |
| Fri, Aug 28 | Arkansas State | 7:45 pm CT (TV: SEC Network+) | College Station, TX · W 3-0 |
| Sat, Aug 29 | Cal Poly | 7:00 pm CT (TV: SEC Network+) | College Station, TX · W 3-0 |
| Fri, Sep 11 | Wisconsin | 7:00 pm CT (TV: SEC Network) | Reed Arena, College Station, Texas · L 2-3 |
| Tue, Sep 15 | Stephen F. Austin | 6:00 pm CT (TV: SEC Network+) | Reed Arena, College Station, Texas · W 3-0 |
| Tue, Sep 22 | Rice | 6:00 pm CT (TV: SEC Network+) | Reed Arena, College Station, Texas · W 3-0 |
| Sun, Sep 27 | South Carolina | 2:30 pm CT (TV: SEC Network+) | Reed Arena, College Station, Texas · W 3-0 |
| Fri, Oct 2 | Alabama | 6:30 pm CT (TV: SEC Network+) | Reed Arena, College Station, Texas · W 3-0 |
| Sun, Oct 4 | Mississippi State | 12:00 pm CT (TV: SEC Network+) | Reed Arena, College Station, Texas · W 3-0 |
| Fri, Oct 16 | Florida | 6:00 pm CT (TV: SEC Network) | Reed Arena, College Station, Texas · L 1-3 |
| Sun, Oct 18 | Auburn | 12:00 pm CT (TV: SEC Network+) | Reed Arena, College Station, Texas · W 3-1 |
| Fri, Oct 30 | Tennessee | 6:30 pm CT (TV: SEC Network+) | Reed Arena, College Station, Texas · W 3-1 |
| Fri, Nov 13 | LSU | 6:30 pm CT (TV: SEC Network+) | Reed Arena, College Station, Texas |
| Sun, Nov 15 | Ole Miss | 12:00 pm CT (TV: SEC Network+) | Reed Arena, College Station, Texas |
All home matches are at Reed Arena in College Station. Times are Central and subject to change.
A Final Four rematch in a non-conference window, at home, in September on SEC Network. There is no better early measuring stick, and it may be the best regular-season ticket at Reed all year.
Neutral site in Kissimmee, prime window on ESPN2, national audience — two days before Wisconsin. Brutal scheduling, deliberately.
The SEC's longest-running power program, in the loudest building A&M has, on SEC Network. Historically the conference match that most reliably sells out.
The rematch of last December's national championship match, at Memorial Coliseum on ESPN, in front of a crowd that has had eleven months to think about it.
Note the venue: Gregory Gym in Austin, not College Station. Small, old and hostile in a way modern arenas aren't. The Lone Star rivalry now runs through the SEC, on ESPN.
Not a marquee name, but it lands at the end of a three-match road trip that starts in Austin and passes through Nashville. Teams lose seeding here.
The offense's center of gravity and Most Outstanding Player of the 2025 NCAA Tournament: 385 kills (3.5 per set), 248 digs and 64 blocks. Missed the opener with an apparent back injury from warmups; no status update announced.
Marquette transfer and the most decorated addition — Third Team All-American in 2025 on the strength of a 497-kill season. Had 11 kills in her Aggie debut.
Florida State transfer who inherits the setter job on a roster where nobody has run this particular offense before.
Boise State transfer brought in to replace graduated middle-blocker production. Hit .333 with 10 kills and six blocks in the opener.
Freshman who already looks like a starter after an 18-dig debut, the most by an A&M freshman since 2022.
The Aggies are 0-1 and ranked No. 8, and the ceiling is a return to the Alamodome in San Antonio in December — a three-hour drive from campus, which is not a small thing if they get there. The floor is a top-half SEC finish and an NCAA Tournament bid, which this roster should clear even with turnover. Whether repeating is realistic depends on health at the pins and how quickly a brand-new setter connection matures: no program has gone back-to-back since Texas in 2022-23.
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Hired on December 16, 2022 as the seventh head coach in program history, Morrison is 66-25 in three seasons and won the 2025 NCAA championship — one of only three coaches to win a national title within his first three years leading a program. He worked on three Olympic medal-winning staffs (2008 gold with the U.S. men, 2012 silver and 2016 bronze with the U.S. women) and later ran the Dutch national team. In March 2026 Texas A&M signed him to a new five-year contract through the 2031 season.
Walton joined the staff in January 2023 after five seasons as head coach at Oklahoma, where she led the Sooners to the 2019 NCAA Tournament — their first appearance since 2014.
Everything you need to know about Texas A&M Aggies volleyball
Yes. Texas A&M won its first NCAA title in December 2025, sweeping Kentucky in the final in Kansas City.
Jamie Morrison, now in his fourth season. He was hired in December 2022 and signed a contract extension in March 2026 that runs through 2031.
August 21, against Louisville at the AVCA First Serve event in Milwaukee. The two exhibition dates — an intrasquad scrimmage on August 11 and a trip to #21 Baylor on August 16 — don't count toward the record.
Texas A&M's latest recorded season record is 14-8, checked Sat, Oct 31.
Purdue, Tuesday, September 1 at 7 p.m. Central on FS1, at Holloway Gymnasium in West Lafayette, Indiana.
Twenty-nine regular-season matches, plus the SEC Tournament and up to three NCAA Tournament weekends. Fifteen of the regular-season dates are at Reed Arena.
September 27, at home against South Carolina.
Sunday, November 1 at noon Central, on ESPN — in Austin at Gregory Gym, not at Reed Arena. There is no home match against Texas on the 2026 schedule.
Sunday, October 25 at 2 p.m. Central on ESPN, at Memorial Coliseum in Lexington. It's the first meeting since the national championship match.
Louisville (Aug 21, ESPN2), SMU (Aug 23, ESPN2), Stanford (Sept 9, ESPN2), Kentucky (Oct 25, ESPN) and Texas (Nov 1, ESPN).
SEC Network is a linear TV channel. SEC Network+ is a streaming-only overflow feed inside the ESPN app, and it still requires a TV provider login that includes SEC Network. Most of A&M's home matches are on SEC Network+.
Yes, but you need something. A live TV bundle carrying SEC Network (YouTube TV, Hulu + Live TV, DirecTV Stream, Fubo) covers both SEC Network and SEC Network+. ESPN's standalone streaming service covers the ESPN and ESPN2 dates. Check current carriage before subscribing — these deals shift.
Reed Arena, 730 Olsen Blvd, College Station, TX 77843. Capacity is 12,989, shared with basketball.
Typically one hour before first serve. For high-demand SEC matches, get there earlier than that.
Students use their student ID and sports pass. Public tickets go through the 12th Man Foundation, either as season packages or single matches.
Volleyball parking is generally straightforward and inexpensive compared to football, but lot assignments change based on what else is on campus. Check A&M Transportation Services before you drive over.
A&M's leading returning attacker and the Most Outstanding Player of the 2025 NCAA Tournament. She recorded 385 kills, 248 digs and 64 blocks last season. She missed the season opener with an apparent back injury sustained in warmups; no status update has been announced.
Natalie Ring (Marquette, Third Team All-American), Lily Nicholson (Florida State), Eliza Sharp (Boise State) and Kaia Castle (Ohio State).
Sixteen, including eight newcomers — four transfers and four freshmen.
The SEC. A&M's 2026 conference opponents are South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi State, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Florida, Auburn, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas, Vanderbilt, Missouri, LSU and Ole Miss.
November 20-24 in Savannah, Georgia.
The Alamodome in San Antonio, with the semifinals and final in mid-December.
Possibly. First- and second-round sites are awarded to selected teams based on seeding, and A&M hosted at Reed Arena during the 2025 title run. Nothing is confirmed until the selection show.
No. 8 in the AVCA preseason poll — modest for a defending champion, and a direct reflection of how much of the title roster graduated or turned pro.
Times, TV assignments and results are refreshed whenever the athletic department confirms a change, and scores are posted the same day a match is played.
The Texas A&M Aggies women's volleyball program has risen to become one of the elite programs in the nation. Under head coach Laura 'Bird' Kuhn, Texas A&M has won multiple SEC Championships and made deep NCAA Tournament runs.
The Aggies have produced numerous All-Americans and have established themselves as a dominant force in the Southeastern Conference. The program's commitment to excellence has made Texas A&M a destination for top recruits nationwide.
Texas A&M volleyball has set attendance records at Reed Arena and created one of the most passionate fanbases in college volleyball. The 12th Man tradition extends to volleyball with electric home atmospheres.
Texas A&M faces the toughest conference in the nation, battling rivals like Texas, Kentucky, Florida, and Tennessee throughout the SEC season.
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Address: 730 Olsen Blvd, College Station, TX 77845
Capacity: 12,989 fans
A&M plays 15 matches at Reed Arena in 2026 — three non-conference weekends in August and September, then seven SEC dates spread from late September through mid-November. Address: 730 Olsen Blvd, College Station, TX 77843. Capacity is 12,989, shared with men's and women's basketball. Volleyball doesn't fill the building, and that's fine: matches typically draw somewhere in the four-to-seven thousand range, concentrated in the lower bowl, which makes it sound considerably fuller than the raw number suggests.
The student section stands for entire matches. If you've only experienced Reed for basketball, the volleyball configuration puts you much closer to the floor than you'd expect. Doors generally open an hour before first serve; for the big SEC weekends — Wisconsin, Florida, Tennessee — arriving 45 minutes out is not early enough if you want a good lower-bowl seat. Parking for volleyball is far easier than for football or basketball, but lot assignments vary by date and by what else is happening on campus, so check A&M Transportation Services' event parking page the week of the match rather than assuming.
Texas A&M Athletics enforces a clear bag policy across venues; confirm current dimensions on 12thMan.com before you leave the house.
Networks: SEC Network, ESPN, ESPN2, ABC
Streaming: SEC Network+, ESPN+
Nearly every match this season has a confirmed broadcast home. ESPN and ESPN2 carry four dates — Louisville, SMU and Stanford plus the road trips to Kentucky and Texas — and those are the marquee windows. FS1 has two: at Purdue and at Creighton, both part of inter-conference scheduling agreements. SEC Network has five: Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Florida and Georgia.
SEC Network+ carries 13, the bulk of the home slate and several conference road dates. B1G+ has one, the Indiana match, because Purdue is the host institution for that leg. The part that trips people up: SEC Network is a linear cable channel you get through a traditional provider or a streaming bundle like YouTube TV, Hulu + Live TV, DirecTV Stream or Fubo. SEC Network+ is not a channel at all — it is a digital stream inside the ESPN app, and it still requires you to sign in with a TV provider that carries SEC Network.
With no provider login, SEC Network+ matches are not accessible. Cord-cutters generally have two workable paths: a live TV bundle that includes SEC Network, or ESPN's standalone streaming service, which now carries most of what used to sit behind a cable authentication wall. Coverage details change, so verify before you buy. Tickets: Texas A&M students get in with a valid student ID and the appropriate sports pass.
Everyone else buys single-match or season tickets through the 12th Man Foundation, with prices varying by opponent and seat location; premium dates such as Wisconsin, Florida and Tennessee sell very differently than a Tuesday non-conference match. Secondary-market inventory exists, but volleyball resale in College Station is thin enough that buying direct is usually better.
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