Hickory, N.C. -- The Lenoir-Rhyne volleyball team and Head Coach Nicole Barringer have announced their schedule for the upcoming 2025 season. The Bears are coming off a 25-7 that saw them advance to the SAC Championship game and their second straight NCAA Tournament. Barringer, who is entering her 4th season at the helm, has a career winning percentage of .703 and has a three-year record of 64-27.

The Bears will kick off their 2025 campaign on September 5th when they play host a two-day tournament inside Shuford Arena. The Bears will welcome Lees-McRae, Catawba, Florida Tech and Mount Olive to Hickory for that tournament. Lenoir-Rhyne will open with Lees-McRae on Friday evening at 5:00 p.m. and will be back Saturday morning to host Mount Olive and Florida Tech. 

The next weekend, the Bears will travel to Saint Augustine, Florida to play in the Flagler Saints Classic. On the opening day, the Bears will play a pair of teams that qualified for the NCAA Tournament last year in Embry-Riddle and Flagler. LR will conclude the tournament with another game against Lees-McRae and a contest against Ashland. 

The Bears will open SAC play with a key match up inside Shuford Arena as Anderson comes to town on September 16th.

Lenoir-Rhyne and Wingate will renew their rivalry with back to back games in a span of eight days as the Bears will travel to Wingate to close out September, and the Bulldogs will travel to Hickory on October 7th. 

October concludes with the Bears and Tusculum battling in back to back games as LR will travel to Greeneville on October 28th then the two teams will battle in Hickory on Halloween night. 

LR will open November with a contest against Catabwa on the 4th before the Bears go on the road for back to back games before their home finale on November 14th against Lincoln Memorial.

The SAC Tournament will begin on Tuesday, November 18th, with quarterfinals at campus sites before moving to Rock Hill for the semi-finals and finals that weekend.

The Bears will be looking to make the NCAA Tournament for the third straight season for the first time in program history. The 2025 NCAA Tournament will kick off on Friday, December 5th.