LORMAN, Miss. – The Alcorn State University women's volleyball program announced its schedule for the upcoming 2021 fall season, highlighted by five home matchups with its newly acquainted SWAC West divisional rivals.
Coach Robinson and the Lady Braves will rack up a lot of mileage as it will participate in 12 true road games, three non-conference tournaments and two SWAC clusters.
The Purple and Gold will begin its journey with the short trip down to The Crescent City, where it will open the season
on August 27 and 28 in the UNO Tournament against Tennessee State, New Orleans (host) and Texas-Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV).
The following week they will head to the heart of the Volunteer State for a co-hosted tournament by both Middle Tennessee and Belmont Universities. On the route to Murfreesboro and Nashville, Alcorn will play a fine-tune its skills in a nonconference contest at North Alabama
on September 2. Before splitting its two matches between the two host institutions
on September 3 and 4, the Lady Braves will tussle with Indiana State
at noon C.T. at MTSU before making the 45-minute trek to Belmont to take on the Bruins
at 6 p.m.
Volleyball will take part in its third and final non-SWAC tournament the following weekend in Atlanta where it will battle host Georgia State plus Presbyterian and Stetson in that order.
ASU will conclude its month-long road swing with a short bus ride up the Natchez Trace to visit the Lady Bulldogs of Tougaloo College
at 6 p.m. on September 23 after a nearly two-week hiatus to recharge.
At long last, Coach Robinson and the ladies will get to step foot on the court in front of the Alcorn faithful
on September 26 and 27 as Texas Southern plus Prairie View A&M pay its now annual visit to the Davey L. Whitney Complex, thus signaling the start of the SWAC West era of Alcorn volleyball.
The Lady Braves will then head back out on the road for trips to Grambling State (
October 3) and Arkansas-Pine Bluff (
October 4). The subsequent weekend will account for a new experience as the squad travels to Tallahassee, Florida to take on its newest SWAC counterparts in Bethune-Cookman and Florida A&M (
October 10) along with Alabama State (
October 11).
Alcorn State will have a quick turnaround afterwards as Southern makes its way to Lorman for a short one-game homestand
on October 14 before boarding the bus yet again for the Lone Star showdowns at TSU (
October 24) and PVAMU (
October 25).
The second SWAC cluster of the campaign will be hosted by SU down in Baton Rouge with the Purple and Gold facing off opposite Mississippi Valley State and Alabama A&M on Halloween then bitter rival Jackson State on the first of November.
Alcorn concludes its modest home slate
on November 7and 8 when it hosts Grambling State and UAPB inside the Davey L. Whitney Complex before heading back to Southern for a road contest in the regular season finale
on November 11.
The SWAC Tournament will take place inside Elmore Gymnasium on the campus of Alabama A&M in Huntsville, Alabama
from November 19 to November 21.
Click here to view the full fall 2021 volleyball schedule.
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