WACO, Texas \u2013 The No. 8 Texas A&M volleyball team closes its preseason slate with a road exhibition at No. 21 Baylor Sunday at the Ferrell Center with first serve set for 6 p.m.<\/p>\n
Head coach Jamie Morrison<\/a> and his new-look Aggies prepare for the final tune up before the start of the 2026 campaign. Admission to the match versus the Bears is free and doors open at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n The Maroon & White are coming off the programs first national championship, where they had a historic run to the title after downing three-straight No. 1 seeds in Nebraska, Pitt and finally Kentucky. The team concluded the year with a 29-4 record which was the most wins in a single season since 1984, while boasting a 14-1 ledger in league play to place second.<\/p>\n The Aggies return eight members of the national championships team from last season, including NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player and All-American, Kyndal Stowers<\/a>. The outside hitter recorded 385 kills last season and has been tabbed early as a player to watch for the new season, as she was named to both the AVCA Player of the Year Watch List and Preseason All-SEC Team.<\/p>\n A&M welcomed eight new additions to the roster for the season, consisting of four productive transfers and four talented freshmen. Natalie Ring<\/a> headlines the transfer group, as the All-American joins from Marquette, the remaining three in the groups includes Eliza Sharp<\/a> (Boise State), Kaia Castle<\/a> (Ohio State) and Lily Nicholson<\/a>). The highly touted freshman class includes the 2025 United States\u2019 U21 World Championship libero, Gabi Rodriguez<\/a>. The remaining rookies include Jenna Thedford<\/a>, Brooke Lacewell<\/a> and Lolufe Adedeji<\/a>.<\/p>\n Baylor concluded last season with an 18-10 record and finished 12-6 in Big 12 play. The Bears reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament before a four-set loss (3-1) to Purdue ended their campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WACO, Texas \u2013 The No. 8 Texas A&M volleyball team closes its preseason slate with a road exhibition…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-407669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}