Boston College Athletics
Volleyball Releases its 2015 Schedule
June 29, 2015 | Volleyball
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CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. -- Chris Campbell's Boston College volleyball team team will face six teams that played in last year's NCAA Tournament in 2015 and host the annual Boston College Invitational in late August, according to the team's schedule which was released today.
The team's 32-game schedule includes 20 matches against Atlantic Coast Conference foes, plus four non-conference tournaments: the Boston College Invitational, Fairfield Invitational hosted by Fairfield University, the Holly Young Invitational hosted by New Hampshire and the annual New England Challenge. In total, there are 12 matches scheduled against non-conference opponents.
The Eagles open their campaign with their own tournament on August 28 and 29 in Power Gym with Providence, Sacred Heart and South Alabama joining BC in the annual event.
The second weekend of the season will see the Eagles at the Fairfield Tournament, Sept. 4-5. Joining the host Stags and Eagles will be Stony Brook and Marshall.
The following weekend, BC will play in the Holly Young Invitational, hosted by New Hampshire and also including Michigan State and Delaware. Both the hosts and Spartans were NCAA participants last year.
BC will play in the annual New England Challenge the following week before opening ACC play. On Sept. 17, the Eagles will host Northeastern at Power Gym, before facing Connecticut and Harvard at Harvard on Sept. 19.
Conference play is set to begin at the end of September and runs through the end of the season in late November. The Eagles will play six teams twice and eight teams once for 20 league games. BC will play home and away against Georgia Tech, Louisville, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, Syracuse and Virginia Tech. The Eagles will play their single games at home against Clemson, North Carolina, NC State and Virginia, and will play their single games on the road against Duke, Florida State, Miami and Wake Forest.
The Eagles start with four straight road games at Syracuse (Sept. 25), at Georgia Tech (Sept. 27), Notre Dame (Oct. 2) and Louisville (Oct. 4) before coming home for back-to-back weekends against Virginia Tech (Oct. 9), Pitt (Oct. 11), Syracuse (Oct. 14) and Virginia (Oct. 16).
After a trip to Florida for games at Miami (Oct. 23) and Florida State (Oct. 25), BC will play four straight at home. The Eagles will host Clemson (Oct. 30), Georgia Tech (Nov. 1), NC State (Nov. 6) and defending conference champion North Carolina (Nov. 8).
Boston College is set to hit the road for two straight weekends with games at Wake Forest (Nov. 13), Duke (Nov. 15), Pitt (Nov. 20) and Virginia Tech (Nov. 22), before hosting Louisville on Nov. 25 -- the day before Thanksgiving -- and closing the regular season against Notre Dame on Nov. 27.
The NCAA Tournament kicks off the first weekend of December at campus sites. Regionals will played Dec. 11-12 in Austin, Texas; Des Moines, Iowa; Lexington, Ky.; and San Diego. Nebraska will host the national semifinals and championship at Century Link Center in Omaha, Neb., Dec. 17 and 19.
Boston College posted an 11-18 mark overall in 2014, and the squad's 6-12 record in the ACC was the team's best conference mark in six seasons. The Eagles will return 10 letterwinners from last year's squad, and welcome four freshmen.
Among the returnees is senior outside hitter Katty Workman, who will have a strong chance to challenge the school's career kills record (1,449 by Kelsey Johnson, 2004-07). Workman has already registered 1,258 kills in her first three years at The Heights.
