DRC 6-26 Volleyball 2004 schedule

[OldTimer]

Volleyball: UNT announces 2004 volleyball schedule

08:44 AM CDT on Saturday, June 26, 2004

The University of North Texas volleyball team released its 2004 schedule on Thursday.

UNT’s schedule features home matches against TCU and SMU and should be challenging, as the Mean Green will be pitted against some tough competition in the upcoming season as it looks to build on last year’s 22-win campaign.

North Texas is set to face TCU on Oct. 26 and SMU on Nov. 10. Te Horned Frogs and Mustangs each won 20 matches last season and went a combined 43-23 last year. In addition to the Mean Green’s Dallas-Fort Worth rivals, six other teams on the schedule won at least 20 matches and 14 had a .500 or better record. In nonconference play, NT will face two schools that advanced to the 2003 NCAA Tournament in Kansas (22-11) and Valparaiso (27-8).

While those two matches will be played on a neutral court in a tournament setting, the Mean Green will catch Sun Belt Conference Champion and NCAA Tournament qualifier New Mexico State once at home (Nov. 5) and once in Las Cruces (Oct. 3).

"Having such an overall young team next season, we feel this schedule will really be a challenge to us," said North Texas head coach Cassie Headrick. "Unfortunately, we were unable to schedule as many home matches as we would have liked, but the competition level will be tough and we are going to see what we are made of right away."

The Mean Green will open the season at Tulsa on Sept. 1 before playing in the Oral Roberts Tournament (Sept. 3-4), which is the first of three regular-season tournaments on the schedule. The Mean Green will also compete in the Texas Tech Tournament (Sept. 10-11) and St. Louis Tournament (Sept. 17-18).

"Our non-conference tournaments should allow us to develop and grow as a team before starting conference play," said Headrick. "Unfortunately, there is one less weekend of nonconference play this year, which I think would really be an and advantage to a young team and without that weekend we were unable to host the Mean Green Classic. We will hopefully reestablish our tournament again next season."

Although North Texas is not hosting the Mean Green Classic in 2004, it will hold the program’s first Mean Green Alumni Game under Headrick. The game is scheduled for Sept. 21 at 7 p.m. and will feature former standouts such as all-time kill and dig leader Corina Marginas and all-timem assist leader Kristin Sheppard.

North Texas will host Texas Southern on Sept. 14 in its first home match and will host Louisiana-Lafayette on Sept. 24 in its first Sun Belt Conference match.

2004 NORTH TEXAS

VOLLEYBALL SCHEDULE

Date Day Opponent Site Time

Sept. 1 Wed. at Tulsa Tulsa, Okla. 7 p.m.

Sept. 3-4 Fri.-Sat Oral Roberts Tournament Tulsa, Oklahoma

Sept. 3 Fri at Oral Roberts Tulsa, Okla. 7 p.m.

Sept. 4 Sat. vs. Kansas Tulsa, Okla. 10 a.m.

Sept. 4 Sat. vs. Loyola-Chicago Tulsa, Okla. p.m.

Sept. 10-1 Fri.-Sat Texas Tech Tournament Lubbock

Sept. 10 Fri. vs.UTEP Lubbock 10 a.m.

Sept. 10 Fri. vs. UT-Pan American Lubbock 5 p.m.

Sept. 11 Sat. at Texas Tech Lubbock 2 p.m.

SEPT. 14 TUE. TEXAS SOUTHERN DENTON 7 PM

Sept. 17-18 Fri.-Sat. St. Louis Tournament St. Louis, Mo.

Sept. 17 Fri. at St. Louis St. Louis, Mo. noon

Sept. 18 Sat. vs. Valparaiso St. Louis, Mp. 2 p.m.

Sept. 18 Sat. vs. St. Louis St. Louis, Mo. 7 p.m.

SEPT. 24 FRI. LOUISIANA-LAFAYETTE* DENTON 7 PM

Sept. 26 Sun. at Middle Tennessee* Murfreesboro, Tenn. 1 p.m.

Oct. 1 Fri. at Denver* Denver, Colo. 8 p.m.

Oct. 3 Sun. at New Mexico State* Las Cruces, N. M. 2 p.m.

OCT. 8 FRI. SOUTH ALABAMA DENTON 7 PM

OCT. 9 SAT. NEW ORLEANS* DENTON 1 PM

Oct. 12 Tue. at Stephen F. Austin Nacogdoches 7 p.m.

OCT. 16 SAT. FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL* DENTON 7 PM

Oct. 22 Fri. at Arkansas-Little Rock* Little Rock, Ark. 7 p.m.

Oct. 23 Sat. at Arkansas State* Jonesboro, Ark. 7 p.m.

OCT. 26 TUE. TCU DENTON 7 PM

Oct. 29 Fri. at New Orleans* New Orleans, La. 7 p.m.

Oct. 31 Sun. at South Alabama* Mobile, Ala. 1 p.m.

NOV. 5 FRI. NEW MEXICO STATE* DENTON 7 PM

NOV. 7 SUN. DENVER* DENTON 1 PM

NOV. 10 WED. SMU DENTON 7 PM

Nov. 12 Fri. at Louisiana-Lafayette* Lafayette, La. 7 p.m.

NOV. 14 SUN. WESTERN KENTUCKY* DENTON 1 PM

Nov. 18-20 Thurs.-Sat. Sun Belt Conference Championships New Orleans, Louisiana

*Sun Belt Conference match All Times Central

[GrandGreen]

Wonder why there is only 1 home non-conference game scheduled before conference play begins? Games against TCU and SMU are both during middle of conference play. Looks like a very poor schedule.

[Doublequick]

Grandgreen,

You didn't read the article very closely. It was stated that we normally host our Mean Green Classic during pre-season but the pre-season is one full weekend shorter than normal due to the way the calendar year fell. TCU and SMU always play us during conference play due to the fact that their conference play starts a week before the Sunbelt does. We are hoping to bring back the Mean Green Classic next season and that will allow for additional home games early in the year. Luckily we have been a pretty good road team in the past and if you haven't seen us play in the past couple of years I encourage you to drop by a match this year. We are coming off a 22-14 record and a 2nd place finish divisionally. We did lose 4 starters off of last years squad but the talent we have coming in is the best in the programs history.

Hope you'll find the time to support us this fall!