COLUMBUS — Mississippi University for Women is getting ready for its first full season in Division III and the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference this fall.
Owls volleyball will be the athletic department’s first program to compete in D-III, and they released their 2023 schedule to the public Friday.
The W will play a 28-match schedule this fall and winter, including 18 conference matches. MUW has eight scheduled home matches, 13 away matches and seven neutral-site matches.
“I am super excited to get this season started,” MUW head coach Halee Hensley said in Friday’s press release. “We have a good mixture of transfers, as well as freshmen, who are very athletic and will help out tremendously. We have unfinished business from last season to handle.”
Owls volleyball will literally usher in a new era of athletics for the school, participating in the first D-III sporting event of any program on campus when they face Toccoa Falls College at 3 p.m. Sept. 1.
That is the first of three matches as part of the Agnes Scott College Labor Day Bash in Decatur, Goergia. from Sept. 1 – 2.
Other MUW home matches include Huntingdon College, Westminster College (Mo.), Spalding (Ky.), Belhaven, Lyon College (Ark.), Fontbonne, Webster and Rhodes College.
The SLIAC tournament begins on Nov. 8.
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