Wyoming volleyball releases 2026 schedule, nine conference home matches in Laramie
Nine conference home dates and late-summer tournaments give Laramie an early map of Cowgirl volleyball’s 2026 run, with renewals due June 30.
Nine Mountain West home matches will anchor Wyoming Cowgirl Volleyball’s 2026 season, giving Laramie a full fall calendar that stretches from the Brown & Gold Scrimmage in mid-August to the conference tournament in Las Vegas. University of Wyoming Athletics released the schedule on May 28, and the early slate points to a busy run of weekends at the UniWyo Sports Complex and the Arena-Auditorium for campus regulars, downtown businesses and families planning around home dates.
The season unofficially opens Aug. 15 with the Brown & Gold Scrimmage inside the UniWyo Sports Complex, followed by exhibition matches at Northern Colorado on Aug. 21 and 22. Wyoming’s first true home action comes in the Rumble in the Rockies at the Arena-Auditorium, where the Cowgirls will host Texas Tech on Aug. 28 and St. Thomas on Aug. 30. The schedule then returns to Laramie for a Sept. 10-12 home tournament that brings UC Santa Barbara, South Dakota and Colorado State to town, a stretch that should make early-season volleyball one of the more visible campus events before conference play begins.
Mountain West play starts Sept. 25 in Laramie against UTEP, and the league’s 2026 format will be different from a standard home-and-away grind. Each team will play every conference opponent twice over nine weeks and 18 matches, with travel partners creating paired home and road series. Wyoming’s travel partner is Air Force, so the Cowgirls will host Air Force on Oct. 8 before heading to Colorado Springs on Oct. 10. Later home conference series will bring Hawai‘i, UNLV and UC Davis to Laramie, giving the Cowgirls nine conference dates in front of home crowds.
The homecourt backdrop matters too. The UniWyo Federal Credit Union Sports Complex opened in fall 1984, seats 1,200 and is one of the few U.S. facilities built specifically for volleyball and wrestling. Wyoming says the venue gained improved fan seating, a large video scoreboard in 2016 and LED lighting, details that should help the building stay loud when league matches tighten in the final weeks of the season. The Mountain West Volleyball Championships are set for Nov. 24 and 25 in Las Vegas.
Season-ticket renewals are already open, with a Tuesday, June 30 deadline. Fans can renew through the UW Athletic Ticket Office by phone at 307-766-7220, by email at tickets@uwyo.edu or in person, as the Cowgirls’ 2026 calendar takes shape well before the first serve in Laramie.
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