UWF Volleyball: Argos making their 17th consecutive NCAA tourney appearance
Yet another University of West Florida athletics program is heading to the big dance.
After winning the Gulf South Conference championship on Sunday, the UWF volleyball team earned an automatic bid to the NCAA Division II Championship, first having to go through the South Regional.
The Argos earned the seventh seed in the region, and will face No. 2 Lynn University out of Boca Raton. The regional will be hosted by the University of Tampa – the No. 1 team in the country – as the top team in the region. Games will be played at the Bob Martinez Sports Complex on Tampa’s campus.
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The tournament is slated to begin on Nov. 30 and go through Dec. 3.
UWF comes into the first match against Lynn with a 25-7 overall (15-1 GSC) record, ranked 17th in the country. Lynn, in the most recent AVCA Division II Women’s Volleyball Poll, just missed the Top 25 with 56 votes, the highest team receiving votes but not in the national rankings.
Lynn finished the regular season with a 24-7 (15-5 Sunshine State Conference) record, finishing second in the conference behind Tampa. This will be the first matchup in program history between UWF and Lynn.
The Argos won their sixth consecutive GSC Championship after a sweep of the University of Alabama-Huntsville, which saw the final set go to an incredible 35-33 set win for UWF. The Argos, making their 17th-straight NCAA tournament appearance, are on a four-game win streak, sweeping all four.
Ben Grieco is a sports reporter for the Pensacola News Journal. He can be reached on X (@BenGriecoSports) and via email at BGrieco@gannett.com.
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