Match date: Thursday Sept. 4
Opponent: New Mexico
Time: 6 p.m.
Streaming: ESPN+

Match date: Friday Sept. 5
Opponent: Prairie View A&M
Time: 7 p.m. 
Streaming: ESPN+

Match date: Saturday Sept. 6
Opponent: Northwestern State
Time: 1 p.m. 
Streaming: WAC International

Tournament Central

Quick Points

The Texans opened the 2025 campaign with a 2-1 record at the Sawyer Camillo Memorial Classic hosted by Louisiana.

• Tarleton State opened the weekend with a 3-0 sweep of New Orleans. The Texans posted a .408 hitting percentage, their second best in the Division I era.

• On Sunday, the Texans fell behind early to Texas Southern before orchestrating a reverse sweep to finish the weekend 2-1.

• LaNeah Lara has recorded double-digit kills in each of the first three matches for the Texas. She  broke her career-high mark with 12 kills in the opener, matched it on Saturday and set a new best with 13 against the Tigers.

• Morgan Carter has established herself in the libero role for the Texans. She is the only Texan to notch double-digit assist totals in each of the first three contests.

• Teya Nguyen is the only Texan to register a double-double so far this season. The San Jose State transfer notched 18 assists and 13 digs in the opener against New Orleans.

• First-year head coach Jazymne Johnson collected her first collegiate win with a sweep in the season opener. She is one of 25 first-year head coaches in the nation this season and one of 11 to record a winning record in the first weekend.

• The Texans went a perfect 3-0 a season ago in the Tarleton State Invitational.

• Since becoming a D1 program in 2020, the Texans have hosted five invitationals and have posted a cumulative 13-3 record. Tarleton State has gone undefeated in four of those five so far.

Texans Open Season with win over Privateers

• Against New Orleans, the Texans swept 3-0 in their season opener earning Coach Jazymne Johnson her first win as head coach. 

• LaNeah Lara set a career-high that she matched and later broke in the third match with 12 kills. She also posted a .478 hitting percentage.

• For just the fourth time in program history, and the first time since Nov. 13, 2021, the Texans recorded at least a .400 attack percentage. The Purple and White hit .408 in the match, the second highest in the Division I era.

• Teya Nguyen earned her first double-double with 18 assists and 11 digs.

• Morgan Carter with match-high of three service aces and Megan Hodges with 18 assists. 

• The Texans rattled off 10 consecutive points to take the third and final set to complete the sweep.

Emma Burke tabbed Preseason All-WAC Again!

• For the second consecutive season, Emma Burke earned Preseason All-WAC Honors.

• Last season, she led the conference in hitting percentage (.402) and ranked third in total blocks (123), earning All-WAC Second Team honors.

• Burke is one of four returning Texans for the 2025 campaign

• The senior is the only Texan to receive the honor after becoming the first a season ago.

Texans end weekend with Reverse Sweep

• Tarleton State Volleyball reverse swept Texas Southern to finish 2-1 on the weekend.

• LaNeah Lara topped her career high match from each of the past two matches notching 13 kills. 

• Madison Rice-Lockett and Madison Frank also add double-digit kill totals. Rice-Lockett recorded 12 while Frank posted 11. 

• Emma Burke posted a match-best seven blocks to fuel the Texan defensive efforts. 

• The Texans notched 12 service aces, their most in a match since Sept. 16, 2023 against UMES. 

• TSU dropped the first two sets, 25-22. 

• The Texans used an 8-2 run in the middle of the third set to ultimately take the set, 25-16.

• Set four was monumental for the Texans as a four-point run to close the set helped tie the match at two. 

•  The Texans opened the fifth set strong with another four-point run to help them quickly close the fifth set , 15-6 and come out of the match victorious.

Jazymne Johnson tabbed new leader of the Texans

• Jazymne Johnson was named the head coach of the Texans on Dec. 17, 2024.

• Prior to leading the Texans she served as an assistant coach before being elevated to associate head coach at Louisiana-Lafayette from 2021-2024

• She spent four seasons playing collegiate volleyball at Middle Tennessee (2012-14) and Mississippi State (2014-16).

• The DeSoto, Tex., native, is one of 25 active first-year head coaches.

• Out of the 25 first-year head coaches, Johnson is one of 11 to post a winning record in her first weekend of play this season.

• Johnson received her bachelor's degree in communications with a concentration in broadcast journalism from Mississippi State in December 2016. She earned her master's in business administration from Harding in December 2020

• Johnson was a 2020 AVCA Diversity Award recipient and is an active member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated. 

• She currently serves on the AVCA Assistant coaches committee.

Meet the Texans

• Tehana Mo'o served as Team Captain her senior season of HS and lettered three years in track and field.

• Leila Paraoan was ranked as the No. 11 player in her graduating class from Hawaii. She also was named 2025 All-Girls OIA West Player of the Year, and "Hurricane Athlete of the Year" in 2025.

• LaNeah Lara Served as a team captain all four years in HS. She was named MVP and served on the National Honor Society.

• Breannah Peterson was named Franklin High School Newcomer of the Year. She also received 1-6A First Team All-District honors, All-City Honorable Mention recognition, and was selected as a GEPGCA All-Star.

• Megan Hodges was named Texas Girls Coaches Association Class 4A All-State team in 2019 and 2021 and was a National Honor Society member in high school.

• Taylynn Biggs served as team captain her senior year. She earned First Team All-District honors and was selected District MVP.

• Leddy Rae Guinn was named District 6-4A Defensive Player of the Year at libero. She was also a four-time Academic All-District honoree and three-time All-District selection at Stephenville HS.

• Madison Frank served as a team captain her senior year of HS. She also lettered in track two years where she advanced to regionals in triple jump.

• Emma Burke was named District 11-4A Hitter of the Year in 2021. She served as a two-time team captain in her prep days.

• Victoria Fontenot was a four year varsity starter and played as a setter for three years before transitioning to libero her senior year. She was a member of the State Finalist 2022 Canyon Ridge HS squad.

• Alexa Earle earned District 26-6A Honorable Mention and was selected to the THSCA Academic All-State Second Team. She was named JV Defensive Player of the Year.

• Madison Natori Rice-Lockett competed on the varsity team beginning in eighth grade. She was named team captain as a senior and was ranked as the number two recruit in Kentucky when she graduated.

• Morgan Carter is a proud military child who has lived in four states. She helped lead Plano West to a state championship runner-up finish in 2019.

• Alyssa Dinh has two brothers, Tam Dinh and Sang Dinh, both of whom play professional basketball overseas. She earned varsity letters for the Cougars while competing at a high level in district and regional play.

• Teya Nguyen played four years on varsity and served as team captain. She was also a two-time WCAL First Team All-League selection.

• Makayla White collected multiple honors during her high school career, including Blocker of the Year, Second Team All-District, First Team All-District, and Academic All-District recognition.

The Texans will be back in action next week at the Islanders Classic on Thursday and Friday. The Texans will play just two matches against the host Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Islanders and Sam Houston State.