TAMPA, November 18, 2025 – The University of South Florida volleyball team has earned the No. 2 seed in the 2025 American Conference Volleyball Tournament set to begin this Friday, November 21, inside The Corral.
 
The Bulls will open the tournament at 5 p.m. with the No. 7-seed Charlotte 49ers. The 49ers finished the season with an 8-8 record. South Florida took both meetings against Charlotte in the regular season. The Bulls won the first meeting in straight sets in Tampa and won, 3-1, in Charlotte.
 
The top eight teams in the conference who will be in Tampa this weekend are: No. 1 Rice, No. 3 Tulsa, No. 4 North Texas, No. 5 Wichita State, No. 6 Florida Atlantic, No. 7 Charlotte, and No. 8 UTSA.

The full bracket is below. 
 
American Conference Tournament
South Florida will host the 2025 American Conference Volleyball Tournament, November 21-23, at the Corral, after winning the 2024 Regular Season. The top eight teams will make it to the tournament. Tickets for the conference tournament can be found here. More information can be found at TheAmerican.org.
 
Tickets
Fans can purchase women's volleyball tickets by calling 1-800-GoBulls or at USFBullsTix.com. The 2025 Olympic Pass can be purchased here.
 
Follow
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About USF Volleyball
Head coach Jolene Shepardson enters her sixth season at the helm of her alma mater in 2025. Named head coach on January 8, 2020, Shepardson led the Bulls to a conference championship and the program's last NCAA tournament appearance as a student-athlete in 2002. South Florida won the 2024 AAC regular-season title, earning Jolene Shepardson her first Coach of the Year Honor. In 2023, the Bulls won the AAC East Division title, made a postseason appearance in the NIVC, won three matches, and advanced to the Fab Four to mark the longest postseason run in program history. South Florida Volleyball has won eight Player of the Year honors, most recently in Maria Clara Andrade in 2024. The Bulls have also had four Setter of the Year honors, most recently in Caroline Dykes in 2024. South Florida has made seven NCAA Tournament appearances and won 13 conference titles since its inception in 1972. The Bulls play in The Corral (1,000), located adjacent to the Yuengling Center on the USF campus in Tampa.