The Ohio Northern volleyball team will open its 2021 season with a non-conference road match at Earlham (Ind.) on Sept. 1 under second-year head coach Katie Kuhn.

The Polar Bears will return home to host the 42nd Annual ONU Invitational on Sept. 3-4 at the ONU Sports Center.

The Polar Bears will also play in-season tournaments at Illinois Wesleyan and Calvin (Mich.) to go with non-conference matches with Ohio Wesleyan, Defiance, Denison, Wooster, Kenyon and Bluffton.

Northern will begin the quest for its 23rd Ohio Athletic Conference Regular Season title with a home match against Capital on Sept. 25.

ONU also has home OAC contests with Muskingum, Baldwin Wallace, John Carroll, Otterbein and Mount Union and road tilts at Marietta, Wilmington and Heidelberg.

The OAC Tournament is slated for Nov. 2-6.

Northern was 13-3 overall and was third in the OAC with a 13-3 mark in its abbreviated 2020-21 campaign.