UTEP sells volleyball season tickets for 1st time
EL PASO, Texas -- For the first time ever, season tickets for UTEP volleyball are being sold.
In past years, only individual game tickets were available.
Season tickets cost $60 for adults and $35 for youth (3-12) and are good for all 14 home matches.
All seats are general admission.
Single-match ticket prices are $8 for adults and $5 for youth. Fans can save 46 percent off the single-match adult prices and 50 percent off the single-match youth prices by purchasing a season ticket.
"I'm really excited about our 2020 home slate of matches,” UTEP coach Ben Wallis said. “We inherited a road-heavy schedule in our first season last year but we performed very well at home, securing top-100 wins over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Marshall and North Texas.
"Our roster is much deeper and more athletic this year and I think we have what it takes, with our returning talent and eight new players, to be a force in Conference USA this season,” Wallis continued.
UTEP will launch its home slate with the I-10 Challenge Aug. 28-29 in El Paso. The Miners will host Tulane, Incarnate Word and New Mexico in the two-day event at the Don Haskins Center.
The remainder of the Miners’ home matches will be played at historic Memorial Gym. The following weekend (Sept. 4-6), UTEP will serve as co-host of the Borderland Invitational with N.M. State. The Miners will face off against UT Arlington, Abilene Christian and the arch-rival Aggies.
The Miners will kick off their Conference USA slate on Saturday, Sept. 26 when they host UTSA. It will mark the first of three straight C-USA home matches with North Texas (Oct. 2) and Rice (Oct. 4) scheduled to come to El Paso the following weekend.
The Miners will return home to host Old Dominion (Oct. 16) and Charlotte (Oct. 18) in a weekend set sandwiched between a pair of road series.
UTEP’s conference home schedule will wrap up the last weekend of October as the Miners will host Florida Atlantic (Oct. 30) and Florida International (Nov. 1).
"What I really like about our conference schedule is that we have several of the top teams at home, including UTSA, North Texas and Rice right off the bat,” Wallis said. “Conference USA is a top-10 volleyball conference so everybody will be tough to beat, but we’re excited to have several of the top teams playing here in El Paso and having to deal with our rowdy fans."
The Miners’ home slate will come to a close on Nov. 24 when they play host to N.M. State for a second time on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving.
Wallis and company put together the best turnaround by a first-year staff in program history a year ago, as the Miners went from five wins in 2018 to 13 victories in 2019.
Additionally, the Miners advanced to the C-USA Championships for the first time in three seasons, and had their highest finish in the conference standings since the 2012 campaign.
The Miners also registered a 6-3 mark in Memorial Gym, their first winning mark in the Sun City in six years.
The full 2020 UTEP volleyball schedule will be announced on a later date.
Season tickets can be purchased by calling (915) 747-UTEP (8837), emailing tickets@utep.edu or visiting www.UTEPMiners.com/Tickets.
