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CANYON, Texas – West Texas A&M Volleyball opens their 2019 season this weekend as they host the BritKare Lady Buff Classic at the WTAMU Fieldhouse "The Box in Canyon with matchups against St. Mary's, Southern Arkansas and Tuskegee.
 
ST. MARY'S
The Rattlers join the Lone Star Conference for the 2019 season as Stephanie Armstrong enters her third campaign at the helm. St. Mary's finished last season with an overall record of 14-15 as they finished Heartland Conference play with a mark of 8-4 as they fell to Arkansas-Fort Smith in the opening round of the conference tournament. The Lady Buffs lead the all-time series with the Rattlers, 18-2 as WT has won the last 11 meetings.
 
SOUTHERN ARKANSAS
Lindsey Partridge enters her first season as the head coach at Southern Arkansas following three years at Northern State. The Muleriders finished the 2018 campaign with an overall record of 8-21 as they went 2-14 in Great American Conference action. Friday night will mark the first ever meeting against Southern Arkansas.
 
TUSKEGEE
The Golden Tigers finished the 2019 season with an overall record of 17-15 as they finished Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference action with a mark of 12-5 under head coach Janay Yancey. Saturday afternoon will be the first ever meeting on the court between West Texas A&M and Tuskegee.
 
LIVE COVERAGE
The West Texas A&M Athletic Communications Department will provide live stats and a pay-per-view webstream of all matches during the BritKare Lady Buff Classic. A new partnership between BlueFrame Technology and the Lone Star Conference has been established with the LSC Digital Network debuting this Fall. Fans can purchase a $5 single-day pass or a $50 season pass that included every home WT event during the 2019-20 year.
 
WELCOME TO THE BOX
West Texas A&M is fortunate to have one of the best home environments in all of NCAA Volleyball. The WTAMU Fieldhouse is more affectionately known as "The Box," is home to 19 Lone Star Conference Championships, 13 Regional Titles and three NCAA Division II National Championships. 
 
The Box boasts one of the best home winning records in the NCAA on any level of competition. The Lady Buffs are 479-79 at The Box since the 1980 season for an incredible winning percentage of 85.8%.
 
LONE STAR CONFERENCE PRESEASON POLL
Reigning South Central Regional Champion Tarleton picked up 39 of the possible 45 first place votes for a total of 802 points to sit atop of the poll followed by Texas A&M-Commerce (two first place, 755), Angelo State (two first place, 717), West Texas A&M (628) and Arkansas-Fort Smith (one first place, 586) to round out the top five.
 
A NEW ERA BEGINS
For the first time since the 2009 season, the Lady Buffs will be under the guidance of a new head coach as former WT All-American Kendra Potts was introduced as the 15th head coach in program history back on December 10th.
 
Potts spent four seasons as an assistant in Canyon from 2005-2008 where the Lady Buffs went 131-27 during that span with a pair of appearances in the NCAA Division II National Semifinals. WT went an incredible 43-2 in league action during her four seasons on the sideline with three undefeated Lone Star Conference Championships and three LSC Tournament titles.
 
The Amarillo High product registered a standout collegiate career for the Lady Buffs, becoming a three time All-American and the LSC's all-time assists leader with 6,087. The 2014 WTAMU Hall of Champions inductee was named to the Lone Star Conference 75th Anniversary Team. During her four year career in Maroon & White, the Lady Buffs went 129-16 overall including 39-1 in league action with four NCAA Tournament Appearances and a pair of Regional Championships (2000, 2003).
 
OPENING THE SEASON
2019 marks the 25th straight season that the Lady Buff Classic will take place on opening weekend, WT is 23-2 when opening the season at the event during the last quarter century.
 
Lubbock Christian (550) was tabbed sixth followed by Texas Woman's (526), Texas A&M-Kingsville (479), St. Mary's (426), St. Edward's (410), UT Permian Basin (one first place, 363), Eastern New Mexico (307), Dallas Baptist (295), UT Tyler (239), Western New Mexico (205), Midwestern State (201), Texas A&M International (105) and Cameron (101).
 
DISHING OUT THE ASSISTS
West Texas A&M senior setter Selena Batiste is making her way up the program's all-time assists leaderboard as the Portland, Oregon native joined the 2,500 Assist Club on September 22nd of last year in a sweep of Western New Mexico. Batiste enters the 2019 campaign with 2,903 career assists to rank sixth all-time in program history as she sits 112 assists behind Lacy Hayes (3,015) for fifth place.
 
STAPLE IN THE BACK ROW
Reigning Lone Star Conference Libero of the Year Chandler Vogel enters her junior season with 1,223 career digs as the Hereford High School product is on pace to challenge Lauren Beville's (2009-12) all-time career mark of 2,423. Voegl has seen time in 250 sets for the Lady Buffs over the last two seasons in Canyon as she has started 69 matches in the back row over that span.
 
NEW LOOK LSC
The Lone Star Conference expanded to 18 volleyball playing institutions back on July 1st as the league welcomed Arkansas-Fort Smith, Dallas Baptist, Lubbock Christian, St. Edward's, St. Mary's, Texas A&M International and UT Tyler. The LSC is utilizing a divisional scheduling model, in which each team will play one match home and away against each of the other teams within their six-team division, and a single game versus eight other conference teams.
 
The LSC divisional champions will be determined by regular season games within the division, while the postseason tournament winner is designated as LSC Champion and earns the conference's automatic bid into the NCAA Postseason. Twelve teams will qualify for the LSC Championship with the opening round on campus Tuesday, Nov. 19, and the final eight teams at the No. 1 seed on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, November 21-22-23.