Match Schedule
Navy (6-8, 4-2) at Army (10-5, 4-2) • Fri., Oct. 9 • 7 p.m.
Gillis Field House • West Point, N.Y.
Series - Army leads, 57-21
Series at Army - Army leads, 33-6
Patriot League Series - Army leads, 44-16
Patriot League Series at Army - Army leads, 25-5
Last Match - Army, 3-2 / Nov. 1, 2025; Annapolis, Md.
Live Video - ESPN+

Lehigh (11-3, 4-2**) at Navy (6-8, 4-2) • Sun., Oct. 11 • 3 p.m.
Wesley A. Brown Field House • Annapolis, Md.
Series - Navy leads, 42-32
Series at Navy - Navy leads, 24-22
Patriot League Series - Navy leads, 34-26
Patriot League Series at Navy - Navy leads, 22-9
Last Match - Navy, 3-1 / Oct. 25, 2025; Annapolis, Md.
Live Video - ESPN+
** = Lehigh plays at Army on Oct. 10

Match Information
•    Another split-site weekend is ahead of the Navy volleyball team as the Mids will play at Army Friday night (7 p.m.) in the annual Star Match and then play host to Lehigh Sunday afternoon (3 p.m.).  Additionally, the Mountain Hawks will face the Black Knights Saturday in West Point.
•    Friday's match is part of the Army-Navy Star Series, presented by USAA.
•    The three teams enter the weekend tied for second place in the Patriot League standings with identical 4-2 records.
•    Links to the ESPN+ video and live stats from both matches can be fond at NavySports.com.
•    The Navy players will be signing team posters after the conclusion of Sunday's match.

Attending Sunday's Match
•    Only those vehicles driven by someone with a Department of War approved identification card will be allowed onto the USNA.
•    Fans without approved vehicle access to the USNA must park outside of The Yard.  The simplest way to do this is to take the free shuttle bus.  
•    The shuttle bus on Sunday (2-6 p.m.) will depart from and return to Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium (550 Taylor Avenue, Annapolis, Md., 21401).  Enter the blue / west parking lot through gate 5 off of Taylor Avenue.  There is a $10 per vehicle parking fee.  The free fan shuttle bus will leave from and return to the Blue Angel jet.  
•    Whether a visitor rides the shuttle bus or walks through one of the USNA gates, everyone ages 18 and over must have a valid picture ID (i.e.: State issued driver's license with REAL ID, student I.D., or a U.S. government issued passport). Visitors ages 17 and younger who do not have a valid picture ID must be accompanied by an adult. 
•    Foreign passports are not permitted for general access.

Last Week
•    Navy fell in a pair of local matches last weekend.
•    The Mids first dropped a four-set decision (27-25, 22-25, 25-17, 27-25) to Loyola in Annapolis.
•    Serving cost Navy in the first set as it lost eight points to the Greyhounds from the service line in the 27-25 opening frame.
•    Farrah Eike tallied 20 kills and 16 digs for the Mids, with Siena Morgan added 8 blocks.
•    Navy then played another close opening set to American two days later in Washington, D.C., in what proved to be a three-set win (28-26, 25-16, 25-15) win for the Eagles.
•    The Mids couldn't keep pace the American offense as the Eagles hit .336 in the match to better the .131 mark posted by Navy.
•    Ellen Gundlach recorded 8 kills for the Mids.

Army Preview
•    Army has won three of its last four matches to enter Friday with a 4-2 mark in league play.
•    The Black Knights lost a four-set match at Bucknell and defeated Lafayette in three sets at home last weekend.
•    Army also has defeated Loyola (3-1), Colgate (3-0) and Holy Cross (3-1) and lost to American (3-0) since the start of league play.

Close Matches
• It is not uncommon for an Army-Navy match to last fivensets, especially in recent years.

Army-Navy 5-Set Matches Have Been Played in ...
5 of the last 8 matches
7 of the last 13 matches
11 of the last 22 matches
18 of the 60 Patriot League regular season matches
5 of the last 10 Star Matches
15 of the 44 Star Matches in the series
23 of the 78 overall matches in the series

•    Five of the last eight matches between Army and Navy have been extended to five sets.
•    Of the 36 sets played over the last eight matches, 13 have been decided by either two or three points and 19 have been determined by no more than five points.
•    Navy has 11 players on its current roster who have previously played the Black Knights and Army has 13 players who have faced the Mids.

See You Soon
•    Army and Navy will meet again next week in Annapolis.  The eight days between matches is the shortest amount of time between two Army-Navy matches in series history.
•    The previous standard is 11 days (2021, when the second match was in the league tournament).

Lehigh Preview
•    Lehigh won a pair of matches last weekend to halt a two-match skid in which both of the losses came on the road in five-set decisions to American and Loyola.
•    The Mountain Hawks opened league play with wins over Bucknell and Lafayette, then defeated Colgate and Holy Cross last weekend.  All four of those matches were played in Bethlehem.

Next for Navy
•    Navy plays just one match next week, a Saturday, Oct. 17 match against Army in Annapolis.

Good Defense
•    These three teams rank 1-2-3 in league matches this season in opponent hitting percentage.
•    Lehigh leads the league at .164, Army is second at .178 and Navy ranks third at .195.

5-Set Matches
•    It made sense that Navy's season-opening match against Indiana State was extended to five sets.
•    Navy's 2025 season opener against Boise State also was a five-set match.
•    The Mids played eight five setters in 2025, which was one away from tying the school record for the most in a Division I season (since 1991).
•    Navy has played 30 five-set matches since the start of the 2022 season.
•    Navy has played 22 five-set matches during the Patriot League regular season since the start of the 2022 season.

Many Lineups
•    Navy used 20 different starting lineups (including the libero) during the 2025 season.
•    The Mids have used seven different starting lineups through 14 matches this season.

Close Sets
•    33 of Navy's 52 sets this season have been decided by no more than five points.
•    11 of Navy's 23 sets in league play this season have been decided by no more than five points.

Rebounding Well
•    Navy has posted just a 1-5 record in the first set of Patriot League matches this season.
•    The Mids have gone on to post 4-2 records in sets two and three and a 3-1 record in set four.
•    Navy has tallied a 3-2 record in league matches in which it loses the first set.  This is after having won a combined three matches when losing the first set during the 2024 and 2025 seasons (3-14 overall).

2026 Navy Season Information
•    Navy returns two starters plus the libero, eight letter winners and 11 players from the 2025 team that compiled an overall record of 13-14 and finished in fifth place in the Patriot League regular season with an 8-8 record.  Navy won a four-set road Patriot League Tournament quarterfinal round match at Bucknell to advance to the semifinal round where it fell to top-seeded and eventual-champion American.
•    The Mids used 20 different starting lineups during the 2025 season, with players who totaled 73 starts back this season.
•    The list of returners includes eight players who started at least five matches, plus Amara Chambers who was the libero in 24 matches.
•    Back for the Mids are the team's top-two attackers from last season in Farrah Eike (2.99 kps) and Caroline Buffum (2.43 kps).  
•    Chambers paced Navy with 32 aces and 350 digs a year ago, with setter Isa Boyd back after she dished out a team-best 394 assists and rankling second to Chambers with 28 aces.
•    2026 team captain Grace Burgoyne ranked third on the team in 2025 with 56 blocks.  She leads all returning players in that statistic.
•    Eight freshmen and nine new players round out the roster.
•    Navy has advanced to at least the semifinal round of the tournament in six of the seven years under head coach Paco Labrador in which the full season was played.
•    The Mids placed fifth in the 2026 nine-team Patriot League Preseason Poll of head coaches.

Half Century
•    The 2026 season is the 50th varsity season for the Navy volleyball team and 51st season as a program.
•    The program competed on the junior varsity level in 1976 and then was elevated to varsity status starting with the 1977 season.
•    The Mids competed on the AIAW / NCAA Division II levels for 14 seasons from 1977 through 1990.  
•    Navy entered the NCAA Division I ranks in 1991, which was the same year it joined the Patriot League.