HAVERFORD, Pa. –The Haverford College women's volleyball team released its 2011 schedule, which includes six NCAA Division III championship tournament teams from a year ago, on Monday

The Fords get an early test in the season-opening Haverford Invitational on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 3-4. Haverford faces 2010 NCAA tournament participants Coast Guard Academy and Cal Lutheran University along with Bethany College and Bluffton University.

Haverford's non-conference schedule includes road matches against 2010 NCAA Tournament teams Stevens Institute of Technology (Wednesday, Sept. 14), Juniata College (Saturday, Sept. 24 at Elizabethtown College), Eastern University (Friday, Oct. 21) and Cabrini College (Tuesday, Oct. 25).

The Fords open Centennial Conference play on Wednesday, Sept. 21 with a trip to Dickinson College. Haverford takes on defending conference champion Franklin & Marshall College on Sunday, Oct. 9 in Lancaster, Pa.

Haverford hosts rival Swarthmore College on Saturday, October 29 as part of a tri-match with Elizabethtown.

View the Fords entire 2011 schedule here.