The Pitt volleyball team competes in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and plays their home games in Fitzgerald Field House.

Since the founding of the volleyball program in 1974, the Panthers have had a winning season all but four years, have one of the nation's top all-time winning percentages,[2] have appearances in 23 national championship tournaments, and have won conference championships in 17 different seasons including eleven as a member of the Big East Conference[3] and six since joining the ACC.

Pitt women's volleyball was founded in 1974 and was led during its first season by coach Mary Kromer who guided the team, originally nicknamed the Pantherettes, to a 14–3 record in their first year of existence.

[4] Kromer continued as coach for the programs second season, in which the team posted an 18–2 record and again appeared in the EAIAW regional championships.

[6] The program next turned to Ohio State assistant Shelton Collier, who in his initial season as head coach in 1980 guided the Panthers to a school record with 41 wins, and followed up in 1981 with a season that included a win at eighth-ranked Pepperdine,[10] an EAIWA Championship, and a ninth-place finish in the final year of the AIAW national championships.

[11] In 1982, the women's volleyball program transitioned both into the NCAA, which took over the sponsorship of intercollegiate athletics from the AIWA, as well as into the Big East Conference.

Pitt also won the first ever Big East Tournament in 1982 without losing a game en route to the program's second 41-win season.

[13] Collier guided Pitt to capture additional Big East Tournament crowns in 1984, 1986, and 1988 and appeared in the NCAA Women's Volleyball Championship in 1982, 1984, 1986, and 1987.

[5] Sue Woodstra, a silver medalist for the U.S. National Volleyball Team at the 1984 Summer Olympics, took over the Pitt program in 1989.

Dan Fisher arrived as head coach the same year that Pitt entered the Atlantic Coast Conference in 2013.

[24] In 2019, the program reached the highest national ranking ever achieved by an ACC team when it was voted #2 in the AVCA coaches poll,[25] won its third straight ACC conference championship with an 18-0 conference record, and received a program best sixth seed in the NCAA tournament.

After a 4–4 record in the fall schedule, the Panthers won twelve straight matches to finish the regular season 16–4.

In the NCAA tournament, the Panthers would make program history by advancing past the second round for the first time after a sweep of #14 overall seed Utah.

In the following round, Pitt upset #3 overall seed Minnesota in five sets to advance to its first Regional Final in school history.

In the second round of the tournament, the Panthers defeated rival Penn State for the first time in postseason history in a tight 3–1 win at the Petersen Events Center.

Upon advancing, the Panthers earned the right to host their first Regional, and held their first ever tournament matches at Fitzgerald Field House.

In some years, prior to the establishment of round-robin conference play and standings in 1990, the Big East held regular season division tournaments.