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The Florida Atlantic Owls women’s volleyball team (20-12, 12-7 AAC) will play in the National Invitational Volleyball Championship (NIVC) for the first time in program history on Friday at 7 p.m., after a historic season. The Owls’ 20 regular season wins are the most they’ve tallied since their 21 in 2018. The NIVC is one...

FAU women’s volleyball (11-9, 3-4 AAC) fell to the Southern Methodist University Mustangs (SMU) (12-6, 6-1 AAC) on Sunday afternoon, losing three of four sets to pick up their fourth loss in conference play this season.   “I felt like we played really well today. SMU is the number one team in the conference and I...

This season, four players on the FAU Women’s Volleyball team are all from different parts of Texas. Each knew one another, whether from being teammates in high school, in club sports or as rivals. “I honestly wanted to stay in Texas. I committed early to UTSA, and after transferring from UTSA, I knew what I...

The Terps head back down to Florida for their last tournament before conference play.

Florida Atlantic University’s women’s volleyball team (6-3) swept the Bethman-Cookman University Wildcats (0-9) in the last game of the Owls Paradise Classic, three sets to zero, to win the tournament on Saturday afternoon.  “I’m very pleased how hard we played and we didn’t care about who was on the other side. That’s something that we...

The Florida Atlantic University women’s volleyball (4-3) swept the University of Incarnate Word (UIW) Cardinals (5-2) in their first game of the Owls Paradise Classic, three sets to none; and swept the Youngstown State University Penguins (4-4), three sets to none, on Friday night. “We came out and played strong. We were able to stay...

The Owls volleyball team announced Brooke Salvato as the new assistant coach for the upcoming season on August 11.   “FAU has been in my backyard since I was born, so I was really excited to work with a local school,” Salvato, a Delray Beach native, shared. She also noted FAU’s recent promotion to the American...

The Florida Atlantic Owls women’s volleyball team defeated the Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU) Knights volleyball team, three sets to one, to end the FAU Invitational.  Out of the gate, FDU graduate midfielder Rebeka Fucka came out with a kill shot to put the Knights up 1-0. FAU rallied back with two kills by junior outside...