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Games #1-4 - 2015 BritKare Lady Buff Classic
Location: Canyon, Texas
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The Lady Buffs enter the 2015 season with high hopes following the team’s 10th straight
2015 WT Volleyball Schedule
and 25th overall appearance in the NCAA Postseason in 2014 as they advanced to the
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icans in Kameryn Hayes and Lauren Bevan but Lexi Davis returns to the front row as the
South Central Regional Semifinals. The Lady Buffs will have to replace a pair of All-Amerlone senior on this year’s team but the Dumas native has plenty of big-match experience for WT along with juniors Lauren Britten, Cori Haley, Aspen Sanders and McKenzie
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Dallas Baptist! CSU-Pueblo! Adams State! Lubbock Christian! #25 Armstrong State^ St. Leo^ Central Oklahoma^ #17 Florida Southern^ Texas A&M-Commerce* Texas Woman’s* Tarleton State* Angelo State* Midwestern State*
Canyon, TX Canyon, TX Canyon, TX Canyon, TX Lakeland, FL Lakeland, FL Lakeland, FL Lake;and, FL Canyon, TX Canyon, TX Stephenville, TX San Angelo, TX Wichita Falls, TX
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Oklahoma Christian SW Oklahoma State Eastern New Mexico* Texas A&M-Kingsville* Newman Midwestern State* Cameron* Wayland Baptist Texas Woman’s* Texas A&M-Commerce* Cameron* Angelo State* Tarleton State*
Canyon, TX 2 p.m. Canyon, TX 7:30 p.m. Portales, N.M. 7 p.m. Canyon, TX 12:30 p.m. Canyon, TX 7 p.m. Canyon, TX 6 p.m. Canyon, TX 2 p.m. Canyon, TX 7 p.m. Denton, TX 7:30 p.m. Commerce, TX 2 p.m. Lawton, OK 7 p.m. Canyon, TX 6 p.m. Canyon, TX 2 p.m.
Eastern New Mexico* Oklahoma Panhandle St. Newman Arkansas-Fort Smith St. Edward’s Texas A&M-Kingsville*
Canyon, TX Wichita, KS Wichita, KS Wichita, KS Austin. TX Kingsville, TX
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Long. HOME DOMINANCE The WTAMU Fieldhouse “The Box” boats one of the best home winning records in the NCAA on any level of competition. The Lady Buffs are 433-62 at The Box since the 1980 season for an incredible winning percentage of 87.5%. The Lady Buffs are no-stranger to starting off the season on a high-note, WT is 30-5 all-time in season opening games including an impressive 26-1 when the Lady Buffs open-up the season at home. WT HEAD COACH JASON SKOCH WT head coach Jason Skoch, the 2014 Lone Star Conference Coach of the Year, is now in his seventh season at the helm of the Lady Buffs, carrying an overall career
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6 p.m. 2 p.m. 7 p.m. 1:30 p.m. 7 p.m. 2 p.m.
! - BritKare Lady Buff Classic (Canyon, TX) ^ - Florida Southern Terrace Hotel Classic (Lakeland, FL) * - Lone Star Conference Match All Home Matches played at the WTAMU Fieldhouse “The Box” All times listed are Central and subject to change
West Texas A&M Athletic Media Relations Assistant Director/VB Contact: Brent Seals bseals@wtamu.edu // Office: 806-651-4442 // Cell: 806-674-7050 Mailing Address: WTAMU Box 60049 - Canyon, TX 79016 Overnight Address: 2403 Russell Long Blvd. - Canyon, TX 79016 www.GoBuffsGo.com
record of 336-50 (.870, 12th year) including a 200-30 (.865) mark in Canyon. LIVE COVERAGE The West Texas A&M Athletic Media Relations Department will provide live stats for alll tournament matches with a free video webstream of WT matches that can be viewed on mobile devices. For links, please visit the Lady Buff Volleyball schedule page at GoBuffsGo.com. A tournament central website is also available with a complete schedule of games for the BritKare Lady Buff Classic, visit GoBuffsGo.com for more information. ANOTHER UNDEFEATED LSC SEASON The Lady Buffs finished the 2014 Lone Star Conference schedule with a perfect 16-0 record for the second straight season. West Texas A&M has finished the league schedule unbeaten an incredible 16 times since the 1986 season as they claimed the program’s 19th LSC Title. LONE STAR CONFERENCE PRESEASON POLL The defending Lone Star Conference Champion Lady Buffs were selected atop of the league’s Preseason Volleyball Poll for the 10th straight season announced on August 4th. It marks the 19th time in the last 20 seasons that the Lady Buffs have been selected atop of the poll with the lone second place coming in 2005 following a 19-11 campaign in 1994. The 1995 team responded with a 30-8 overall record while advancing to the South Central Regional Finals before falling just shy of another Elite Eight trip in a five set thriller to Central Missouri. The Lady Buffs picked up 19 of the possible 25 first place votes for a total of 218 followed by 2014 LSC Tournament Champion Tarleton State who grabbed five first place votes for a total of 186. Fellow NCAA Postseason participant Angelo State picked up the final first place vote for a total of 179 followed by Texas Woman’s (147), Texas A&M-Kingsville (115), Cameron (87), Texas A&M-Commerce (75), Eastern New Mexico (65) and Midwestern State (53).
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