Fisher Announces 2024 Schedule

PITTSBURGH – The University of Pittsburgh volleyball team and head coach Dan Fisher are excited to announce the 2024 schedule and pursue a sixth ACC Championship and first National Championship. The returning ACC Co-Champions are coming off their third straight Final Four and top four national finish.

The Panthers will play 15 matches against 2023 NCAA Tournament participants, including two teams that advanced to the Sweet 16 (Penn State and Georgia Tech) and three Elite Eight teams (Louisville, Oregon and Stanford). Seven of the ten non-conference matches are against teams that advanced to the 2023 NCAA Tournament.

The Panthers will open the season with a Blue/Gold exhibition at the Fitzgerald Field House on Aug. 17 before traveling to Ann Arbor, Mich. to play the Michigan Wolverines on Aug. 24 in a final scrimmage before the season opener.

Pitt will head west Aug. 30-31 to face Oregon and Long Beach State to open the season. The Ducks have advanced to the Elite Eight in each of the past two seasons and most recently defeated Pitt at the Fitzgerald Field House last September in a five-set battle.

The Panthers host Buffalo on Sept. 3 for the home opener before they head back out to the West Coast to play USC (Sept. 11) in Los Angeles. Shortly after, Pitt will play host Pepperdine (Sept. 13) and UC Santa Barbara (Sept. 14) to wrap up the week. Pitt defeated USC in the NCAA Tournament Round of 32 while Pepperdine and UC Santa Barbara participated in the Round of 64 last season.

Pitt returns for a four-match home slate as it takes on in state rival Penn State (Sept. 18) in the first of two games at the Petersen Event Center. The Panthers look to even the score as the Nittany Lions defeated Pitt in 2019 when the previous attendance record of 5,195 people was set.

The East Carolina Pirates come to Pittsburgh, Sept. 20 before Marquette (Sept. 22) and UMBC (Sept. 25) head to the Fitzgerald Field House as the Panthers wrap up non-conference play.

The Panthers will play 20 ACC matches this year with the addition of the three new conference members, Stanford, Cal and SMU. To kick off conference play, the Panthers head south to face Clemson (Sept. 27) and Georgia Tech (Sept. 29) before traveling to Boston College (Oct. 4) and Syracuse (Oct. 6).

Pitt will play SMU for the first time in the Fitzgerald Field House on Oct. 9 before heading to Dallas to wrap up the series with the Mustangs on Oct. 12.

The remaining ACC newcomers in Stanford and Cal come to Pittsburgh Oct. 18-20. The nine-time NCAA Champion Cardinal have advanced to at least the Elite Eight in six of the last eight seasons.

Pitt squares off with rival Louisville in the Petersen Events Center (Oct. 25) before hosting Notre Dame (Oct. 27) in the Fitzgerald Field House. The Panthers and Cardinals played three times in 2023, as the Cardinals swept Pitt in Louisville before Pitt won the following two matches. The Panthers set the program attendance record with 8,865 in the Petersen Events Center in a reverse sweep last November before defeating Louisville in a reverse sweep once again in the Elite Eight to advance to a third straight Final Four.

The Panthers hit the road to play Virginia (Nov. 1) and Virginia Tech (Nov. 3) the next weekend.

The following four matches are at home as the Panthers play North Carolina (Nov. 8), Duke (Nov. 10), Florida State (Nov. 15) and Miami (Nov. 17) at the Fitzgerald Field House. The Seminoles and Hurricanes advanced to the 2023 NCAA Tournament.

The Panthers travel for the next three matches and play Wake Forest (Nov. 22), NC State (Nov. 24) and Louisville (Nov. 27). Pitt wraps up the ACC schedule against Georgia Tech at home on Nov. 30.

Pitt volleyball's televised match schedule, as well as a promotional schedule, will be announced at a later date.

TICKETS
Pitt Volleyball 2024 Season Tickets are now on sale!

Season ticket holders will be able to catch the action from the same seats all season long. Seating in the Fitzgerald Field House will be reserved.

Benefits for Season Ticket holders:
•   Save money on every match, instead of buying separately
•   Flexibility to exchange tickets If unable to attend a match (restrictions may apply)
•   Same seat for entire season
With the reserved seating model, season ticket holders will now be able to exchange tickets from a match they are unable to attend for additional seats to another match. Tickets must be exchanged prior to the start of any match being exchanged. Exchanged seats cannot be guaranteed near season ticket location(s).

Pricing:
• Season Tickets: $95
  All tickets will be delivered via mobile delivery.

Times (ET), dates and venues of matches are subject to change.

2024 ROSTER
The Panthers return 10 players from last year's Final Four team, including five All-Americans in Rachel Fairbanks, Olivia Babcock, Torrey Stafford, Emmy Klika and Valeria Vazquez Gomez. Pitt also returns Cat Flood, Blaire Bayless, Dillyn Griffin, Bre Kelley and Haiti Tautua'a.

Fisher and his staff have added four freshmen in Bianca Garibaldi, Ryla Jones, Kiana Dinn and Mallorie Meyer. Garibaldi and Jones graduated a semester early and trained with the Panthers this spring.