Category: Auburn Sports

Auburn volleyball (10-2) opens Southeastern Conference play at Arkansas (8-3) tonight, Friday, Sept. 25. First serve is 7 p.m. CT at Barnhill Arena in Fayetteville, Ark., and the match streams on SEC Network+. The Tigers have won seven straight, including a sweep of last weekend's Alabama Showdown at Neville Arena, where they beat UAB, Samford and South Alabama, each 3-1. They have kept winning without preseason All-SEC pick Lauren Dreves. Anastasija Ivkovic led the team… Read More

Auburn soccer beat Missouri 2-0 Thursday night in Columbia, Mo., for its second straight SEC shutout and its first conference win on the road this season. The Tigers are now 6-1-3 overall and 2-1-0 in the SEC. Both goals came in a three-minute span in the first half, and junior Kelly Gordon set up both of them. In the 17th minute, Gordon dribbled along the end line and passed to Kennedy Husbands at the top… Read More

Auburn soccer plays its first SEC road match of the season tonight, Thursday, Sept. 24, at Missouri. Kickoff is 6 p.m. CT at Audrey J. Walton Soccer Stadium in Columbia, streaming on SEC Network+. The Tigers are 1-1 in SEC play. They lost 1-0 to No. 11 Alabama in the Iron Bowl of Soccer, then shut out Ole Miss 3-0 last week for their first league win. Missouri is coming off a 5-0 home win… Read More

Auburn's third-ranked equestrian team opens its 2026-27 season this week with two Jumping Seat meets at home at the Auburn University Equestrian Center. The Tigers host Lynchburg today, Thursday, Sept. 24, at 2 p.m. CT, and Bridgewater (Va.) on Friday, Sept. 25, at 3 p.m. CT. Admission is free for both meets. Next on the home schedule is SMU on Saturday, Oct. 3, followed by South Carolina on Friday, Oct. 9. Source: Auburn Tigers (auburntigers.com)… Read More

September 19, 2026 — Huntsville, AL

Auburn cross country raced Friday at the Southern Showcase at John Hunt Cross Country Running Park in Huntsville, where the Tiger women finished third as a team and the men placed seventh.

Source: Auburn Athletics

From the Opelika Weekly News Digest — September 14 – 20, 2026 | Vol. 1, No. 24 | Compiled by Viktor AI for Opelika Daily News

September 20, 2026 — Auburn, AL Auburn beat Samford 3-1 (25-18, 28-26, 20-25, 25-20) on Friday and South Alabama 3-1 on Saturday at Neville Arena to finish the non-conference slate at 10-2. Greer Chambless led the Samford win with 15 kills, hitting .353. Grace Havlicek — named SEC Defensive Player of the Week earlier in the week — closed the weekend with 14 kills on 22 swings for a .545 hitting percentage and seven blocks… Read More

September 19, 2026 — Auburn, AL Three different Tigers scored and the defense held Ole Miss to three shots and none on goal as Auburn won 3-0 Friday night at the Auburn Soccer Complex for its first conference victory of the season. Gracie Brown opened the scoring, Grace Ivey doubled the lead less than six minutes later off a pass from Layla Sirdah, and Kennedy Husbands added her first goal of the season at 55:23.… Read More

AUBURN — Auburn volleyball made its home debut count Thursday night, beating UAB 3-1 (19-25, 25-16, 25-18, 25-19) in front of 1,696 at Neville Arena to open the Alabama Showdown. Anastasija Ivkovic carried the offense with a career-high 13 kills on 19 swings and one error, a .632 hitting percentage, filling in with Lauren Dreves still out and Belle Patrick limited to about half a set. The weekend continues tonight at 6 against Samford for… Read More

AUBURN — Auburn soccer is back at the Auburn Soccer Complex tonight at 6:30 for its second SEC match of the season, hosting Ole Miss on a night the athletics department is billing as "Pixels on the Pitch." The Tigers are 4-1-3 after last week's 1-0 loss to No. 11 Alabama in the Iron Bowl of Soccer, played before 2,319 fans — the second-largest crowd in the complex's history. Auburn's back line leads the SEC… Read More

AUBURN — Junior middle blocker Grace Havlicek was named Southeastern Conference defensive player of the week Monday after piling up 20 blocks in a 4-0 week for Auburn volleyball. Havlicek, from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, had a season-high seven blocks in the Tigers' 3-1 win at Florida State, then added six against UIC and five at DePaul in Chicago, plus two against Central Michigan and a season-high four digs. She averaged 1.43 blocks, 1.86 kills… Read More

September 13, 2026 — Chicago, IL Auburn volleyball closed its non-conference schedule with a 3-0 weekend in Chicago, beating Illinois-Chicago, Central Michigan and host DePaul while winning nine of 10 total sets. The Tigers survived their closest set of the weekend Friday against UIC, winning 26-24, 25-13, 25-22, then swept Central Michigan 25-19 in each set on Saturday. Sunday against DePaul, Auburn dropped the opening set before taking the next three, hitting .415 over the… Read More