Posted: Jun 28, 2013
Golden Bears Open 2013 Volleyball Season on Saturday, Aug. 31
2013 WNE Volleyball Schedule
SPRINGFIELD, Mass.--The 2012 Eastern College Athletic Conference New England champion Western New England University women's volleyball team has announced its 29-match schedule, which includes the annual Golden Bears Invitational and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tournament. Western New England will have nine home dates at the Alumni Healthful Living Center field house, play eight opponents at a neutral site and have 12 road matches.
The 2013 season gets under way on Saturday, Aug. 31, when the Golden Bears will be in Norton to play three matches against Southern Vermont, Simmons and host Wheaton (Mass.).
Western New England will seek to defend its own Invitational title on Friday and September, Sep. 6-7, at the AHLC, which signals the start of the team's home docket. Elms, Emerson and Western Connecticut State round out the field. Last season, the Golden Bears bested Western Connecticut (3-2), Westfield State (3-1) and Emerson (3-0) en route to the championship as part of a 9-2 home record.
The Commonwealth Coast Conference slate for WNE begins with three straight home matches versus defending CCC champion Roger Williams (Sep. 25), University of New England (Sep. 28) and Curry (Oct. 1). One of the many highlights last fall occurred on Oct. 24 when the Golden Bears downed three-time CCC champion Roger Williams, 3-1, to snap the Hawks' 27-match conference winning streak (dating to 2009) and hand them their first home loss in 29 outings.
Worcester State--appearing on the schedule for the first time since the 2009 campaign--on Thursday, Oct. 31, will be the last non-conference opponent to visit the AHLC before the Golden Bears wrap up the regular season at home against CCC foe Wentworth on Saturday, Nov. 2.
Western New England is expected to return 86 percent of its kills, 63 percent of its digs and 66 percent of its blocks from last year's record-setting 25-7 squad, which also went 10-4 on the road and won six of seven neutral-site matches. The Golden Bears, who finished 6-2 for a second-place tie in the CCC, were in the hunt for the conference tournament's No. 1 seed up until the final day of the regular season, and later went on to capture the program's first-ever postseason title in the form of the ECACs.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass.--The 2012 Eastern College Athletic Conference New England champion Western New England University women's volleyball team has announced its 29-match schedule, which includes the annual Golden Bears Invitational and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tournament. Western New England will have nine home dates at the Alumni Healthful Living Center field house, play eight opponents at a neutral site and have 12 road matches.
The 2013 season gets under way on Saturday, Aug. 31, when the Golden Bears will be in Norton to play three matches against Southern Vermont, Simmons and host Wheaton (Mass.).
Western New England will seek to defend its own Invitational title on Friday and September, Sep. 6-7, at the AHLC, which signals the start of the team's home docket. Elms, Emerson and Western Connecticut State round out the field. Last season, the Golden Bears bested Western Connecticut (3-2), Westfield State (3-1) and Emerson (3-0) en route to the championship as part of a 9-2 home record.
The Commonwealth Coast Conference slate for WNE begins with three straight home matches versus defending CCC champion Roger Williams (Sep. 25), University of New England (Sep. 28) and Curry (Oct. 1). One of the many highlights last fall occurred on Oct. 24 when the Golden Bears downed three-time CCC champion Roger Williams, 3-1, to snap the Hawks' 27-match conference winning streak (dating to 2009) and hand them their first home loss in 29 outings.
Worcester State--appearing on the schedule for the first time since the 2009 campaign--on Thursday, Oct. 31, will be the last non-conference opponent to visit the AHLC before the Golden Bears wrap up the regular season at home against CCC foe Wentworth on Saturday, Nov. 2.
Western New England is expected to return 86 percent of its kills, 63 percent of its digs and 66 percent of its blocks from last year's record-setting 25-7 squad, which also went 10-4 on the road and won six of seven neutral-site matches. The Golden Bears, who finished 6-2 for a second-place tie in the CCC, were in the hunt for the conference tournament's No. 1 seed up until the final day of the regular season, and later went on to capture the program's first-ever postseason title in the form of the ECACs.
