Volleyball Season Tickets Now On Sale
8/14/2013 3:38:00 PM | Women's Volleyball
Season tickets for 2013 Sam Houston home volleyball at Bernard G. Johnson Coliseum are on sale now.
Volleyball season tickets are available for $30 and include all 11 home matches including the 2013 Sam Houston Invitational tournament.
With last year's Southland “Player of the Year” and an all-league setter both returning, the Bearkat volleyball team will be out to defend its conference championship this fall.
Single game volleyball tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for youth under 12. Group tickets for groups 10 or more are $3 per ticket. The ticket office at Johnson Coliseum will open an hour before each match.
Sam Houston will open its home schedule Tuesday Sept. 3 with former Southland Conference rival Texas State in a 7 p.m. struggle.
Lamar, Jackson State and Washington State visit Huntsville for the SHSU Invitational tournament Friday and Saturday Sept. 13-14.
Other home matches include Southland Conference tilts with A&M-Corpus Christi Sept. 26, Houston Baptist Sept. 28, New Orleans Oct. 17, Southeastern Louisiana Oct. 19, Oral Roberts Oct. 31, Central Arkansas Nov. 2, McNeese State Nov. 7 and Nicholls Nov. 9.
Tickets can be purchased online at www.gobearkats.com , by calling the ticket office at (936) 294-1729 or at the Johnson Coliseum before the match.
The Bearkats earned the Southland Conference championship with a 15-3 league record in 2012, hoisting the volleyball regular season trophy for the first time since 1994.
The season marked a banner year climaxed by having Deveney Wells-Gibson named as “Player of the Year” and Brenda Gray receiving league “Coach of the Year” honors.
Wells-Gibson was the top scorer for a Bearkat team that rolled to a 21-11 overall season mark and posted its highest Southland victory total ever. Two senior starters return along with Wells-Gibson for the coming campaign.
Tayler Gray, an All-Southland setter, assisted on 1,162 of Sam Houston's 1,413 kills last year and led the squad with 383 digs. Outside hitter. Middle blocker Haley Neisler has totaled 562 kills in 84 matches including 76 starts for the Bearkats.
Last year's Sam Houston team rolled up 13 consecutive victories during the march to the conference title. The 13-match winning streak is the longest since Sam Houston moved up to the Division I level in 1986.
Other returning players from the championship squad include Bridgette Bennett, Lauren Bohlen, Cherise Coleman, Michelle Griffith, Sarah Guzman and Carling Urben.
The Bearkats also look to reload with freshmen Claire Kilpatrick, Sarah Sherman, Brenna Homer, Shelby Genung and Avery Zamzow and transfers Krista Koopmann and Morgan O'Brien.
