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Irish Announce 2025 Schedule

SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Get ready to mark your calendars as the 2025 schedule for Notre Dame Fighting Irish Volleyball is set.  

Head Coach Salima Rockwell leads the Irish into the upcoming season, heading into her fourth season at the helm of the program. 

The Irish are set to play 28 regular season matches with 15 matches slated at home and 13 matches on the road. The Irish will play a home-and-home against Michigan, Louisville, Wake Forest, and Virginia Tech this season. 

Notre Dame has eight non-conference matches on the docket ahead of ACC play. After an exhibition match at Wisconsin, the Irish will open up with four straight matches at home starting with Santa Clara on Friday, August 29. Shortly after, the Irish will take on Villanova on Sunday, August 31. 

The following week Notre Dame will host Big Ten and SEC opponents, Illinois and LSU. This will be the first time that the Irish and the LSU Tigers have played one another since 2009. The Irish will then head to Fort Collins, CO to take on Colorado State and face East Texas A&M for the first time in program history.  

The Irish will play in 20 conference matches this season. ACC play will open up with Syracuse and Boston College at Purcell Pavilion Oct. 3 and Oct.5, before traveling west to play at Stanford and Cal the following weekend. 

Notre Dame will then host four straight ACC matches starting with Virginia and Virginia Tech, then taking on the NCAA Championship Finalist, Pitt, and closing out the homestand with SMU. 

After a weekend in the triangle at North Carolina and Duke, the Irish will play back-to-back matches against Louisville in a home-and-home series. 

The Irish will then hit the road for Wake Forest and NC State before hosting Miami and Florida State in South Bend. They will then head south for their final weekend of road games at Clemson and Georgia Tech.

The regular season will wrap up the week of Thanksgiving Break with the final away game on Wednesday, Nov. 26 at Virginia Tech and then the last regular-season match on Saturday, Nov. 29 against Wake Forest at Purcell. 

For the full 2025 volleyball schedule, click here. The full television schedule will be released at a later date. 

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