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🏐 Setting The Standard
🎳 Strike Season Ahead
🌾 And much, much more!

🔼 Setting the Standard. Jordan Heatherly is earning preseason praise! The Wichita State senior setter was named to the American Conference preseason all-conference team after finishing third in the league with 1,020 total assists last season. Heatherly started all 30 matches in 2025, highlighted by a season-high 57 assists and 15 digs in the conference semifinal against Rice. The Shockers, picked fourth in the preseason coaches poll, host Kansas City in an exhibition Saturday before opening the season Aug. 28 against Stephen F. Austin in the Shocker Volleyball Classic!

🔼 Strike Season Ahead. Wichita State bowling is ready to roll! Head coach Holly Harris finalized a 2026-27 schedule featuring 10 tournaments ahead of the Conference USA Championship, as the Shockers look to build on a second straight NCAA Final Four appearance and national runner-up finish. The season opens at home with the Mid-States Championships before nine road tournaments. Harris returns a loaded roster featuring three All-Americans in Aleesha Oden, Sara Duque Jiménez, and Ashtyn Woods!

🔼 New Episode. Wichita State women's basketball coach Terry Nooner details the book project that kicked off summer workouts, how 12 newcomers are adjusting, and strong summers from transfer Ma'Riya Vincent and freshman Mari Milton in the newest episode of The Roundhouse Podcast.

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How many times has Wichita State bowling won the Mid-States Championship since the competition began in 1974-75?

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Saturday, Aug. 22
🏐 Volleyball vs. Kansas City @ 1 p.m. (Exhibition) | Tickets

Friday, Aug. 28
🏐 Volleyball vs. Stephen F. Austin | Shocker Volleyball Classic @ 6 p.m. | Tickets

Saturday, Aug. 29
🏐 Volleyball vs. Idaho State | Shocker Volleyball Classic @ 6 p.m. | Tickets

Sunday, Aug. 30
🏐 Volleyball vs. Missouri State | Shocker Volleyball Classic @ 12 p.m. | Tickets

Friday, Sept. 4
🏐 Volleyball @ Colorado @ 7 p.m. (Boulder, Colo.)

Saturday, Sept. 5
👟 Cross Country vs. JK Gold Classic | Men’s 6K @ 8 a.m. | Women’s 5K @ 8:30 a.m. | Meet Info
🏐 Volleyball vs. Northern Colorado @ 2 p.m. (Boulder, Colo.)

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Answer: 31.

🌾 Have a great weekend, Shockers!