Campbell Draws Texas A&M in 2025 NCAA Volleyball Championship First Round
Dylan Smith
RICHMOND, Va. (Nov. 30, 2025) – Fresh off the school’s first CAA Championship since joining the conference, Campbell (23-6) will head to College Station, Texas, to face No. 3 seed Texas A&M (23-4) in the opening round of the 2025 NCAA Women’s Volleyball Championship on Friday, Dec. 5. The Camels’ first-round matchup is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on ESPN+.
Being selected to top-seeded Nebraska’s quadrant, the winner of Friday’s match will meet the winner of No. 6 seed TCU (20-10) and Stephen F. Austin (23-7) on Saturday, Dec. 6, at 8 p.m.
After winning just six matches in 2024, the Camels were the nation’s most improved team in 2025 after securing 23 wins this season. Campbell will make its second-ever appearance in the NCAA Tournament, marking its first since 2021. The CAA Champions will face the Aggies for the first time in program history.
The Camels enter the national tournament after edging out Stony Brook and Hofstra in the 2025 CAA Volleyball Championship, erasing a 2-1 deficit in both matches and pulling off the comeback in a pair of five-set thrillers that saw the program move to 7-0 in matches that go the distance.
After Campbell halted sixth-seed Stony Brook’s run thanks to a 15-kill effort from Maja Daca and a nine-block showing from Aley Clent, the CAA Champions mounted an incredible comeback over Hofstra in the title match. The Camels fought off three consecutive championship points in the fourth frame before stunning the top seed for its first CAA crown in a five-set thriller (26-24, 17-25, 20-25, 26-24, 15-12) from SECU Arena in Towson, Md. Campbell’s Daca saw her team sitting on the brink of defeat with the Pride leading, 24-21, willing her team to the fifth set on three crucial kills, part of a 5-0 run that lifted the tournament’s second seed to a 26-24 win in the fourth frame.
The tournament’s Most Outstanding Player, Gwen Wolkow, will look to follow up her dominant display in the league’s postseason competition after logging 3.6 kills and 3.2 digs per set. The senior outside hitter went off for 23 kills and 12 digs in the title match alone to guide her team to just its second-ever conference title in program history. Wolkow also picked up All-CAA First Team honors and enters the national postseason competition third in the league with 423.5 total points.
The Camels will look to become the first CAA team to secure a win in the NCAA Tournament since Dec. 6, 2019, when Towson defeated American in five sets.
Campbell has won 13 of its last 14 matches entering the NCAA Tournament. As a team, the Camels have been the league’s best serving team all season, averaging 1.84 aces per set, good for 26th in the nation. Daca has been crucial to that success with 54 aces of her own (16th in NCAA).