Jamie Morrison's Aggies to host Maroon & White Scrimmage on Saturday

Coming in at No. 9 in the AVCA Preseason Poll, Texas A&M volleyball is poised to make plenty of noise this year. Before his third season in Aggieland gets underway, head coach Jamie Morrison joined TexAgs Live to preview his 2025 squad.

Key notes from Jamie Morrison interview

• The season is here. I’m really excited, and I love where our team is at. I’ve coached for a really long time, and this is probably the best three weeks of practice I’ve had with a group. Execution and the way we’re going about our business in practice. Next week, we throw on the uniform against someone else.
   
• In Year 1, I said it was a soft piece of clay. Year 2, you’re pushing it. Year 3, it’s the way we do things, and you get to start layering things on top of it. We’re in a great spot, and recruits are starting to see that.
   
• It’s a confidence of process. There’s a bit of familiarity with how practice will go. We’re going to be pushed. This is the way we do business, which is where wins come from. Confidence is fickle when it’s just built on thinking you’re good. If I believe in the process and that process is the right one… It’s always hard as a coach to have a vision of what volleyball should look like. I’m excited to put the uniform against each other and take some notes, then we have one more against Baylor, then it’s go time.
   
• One of the hardest pieces is that we’ve never been expected to do anything. We’ve always had a chip on our shoulder. We have to focus on the process, and at some point, we may have a loss to someone we shouldn’t lose to. How we respond to that is one thing we’ve talked about a lot. Do we let that shatter our identity or not? I really think this group is dialed into the right things.
   
• Pound for pound, I would put Kyndal Stowers up against any athlete here in terms of general athletic ability. I’ve enjoyed her the most as a human being, but coaching her, she understands and applies the conversations that you have. She’s added a lot to our culture and team, and she’s excited to show the world what she hasn’t been able to with her injury. Her ability to show that is what I think she’s looking forward to the most.
   
• Gratitude is infectious. If you don’t have it, that permeates the locker room. The way we recruit is the people who exude the core tenets we want. I don’t have to press on it. It’s just become who we are as a team.
   
• Looking at the overall sport, there’s a level of grace, execution and power to our game. We have to be technical, explosive and put all the skills together. You’re going to get some emotion regardless of who we’re playing. If you stick around to interact with our team, you’ll see we have some amazing human beings. I’m trying to accumulate those among the staff and players.
   
• We have nine seniors. I think it’s the best practice gym in the country. So many rallies where I can’t believe what just happened, and that’s just in practice. That’s a combination of the people in every class and the competitiveness. I get chills thinking about it. It’s really fun to coach them.
   
• I think there’s no better compliment than someone seeing something you think is important. We talk about creating a safe place where you can be yourself. Where can you get on your head coach at times? The players and staff can have fun with each other.
   
• Saturday is the Maroon & White Scrimmage at Reed. It’s free to come in. Next Wednesday, we play Baylor at 6:00 p.m. I think that will be a great matchup. That will be a better preseason game. We want to treat these as real matches. I encourage people to come to that. Individual game tickets went on sale yesterday.