Mackey Arena to host Inaugural Boys Volleyball State Finals
The Indiana High School Athletic Association is pleased to announce that Mackey Arena will serve as the site of the Inaugural IHSAA Boys Volleyball State Finals next month. The iconic Purdue University venue will host the two semifinal matches and the state championship match on
Saturday, May 31, 2025.
Boys volleyball is in its first year of full sponsorship by the IHSAA, and participants in the state finals will conclude
their high school season in another top-notch facility.
Since 1994, the sport has been under the leadership of the Indiana Boys Volleyball Coaches Association (IBVCA).
“Mackey Arena will be an outstanding venue to finish the inaugural season of boys volleyball,” said IHSAA
Commissioner Paul Neidig. “We’re grateful to Purdue Athletics and thank them for offering to host this great
event. It promises to be a great atmosphere and experience for our student-athletes.”
Matchups will be announced during the state tournament pairings show scheduled for Sunday, May 4 at 6 pm ET / 5
CT on IHSAAtv.org. Sectional matches at 16 sites will be played May 13-17, and two rounds of regional matches on
Saturday, May 24 will determine the four state finalist teams.
Purdue University will host two state championship events this spring, with the softball state finals scheduled two weeks later on June 13-14 at Bittinger Stadium.
Prior to that, Purdue’s Lambert Fieldhouse Pool was the site for the boys’ swimming and diving state finals in 1962. And the baseball state finals have been played in the area six times – at Lafayette’s Loeb Stadium in 1971, 1974, 1975, and 2005, and the university’s old Stuart Field in
1912 and 1917.