The Horned Frogs’ volleyball team looks to improve its record, and despite recent losses, is happy with its season thus far.The Frogs, who are 3-4 in the Mountain West Conference, host conference foe New Mexico Lobos on Friday night, and team members said they hope to bounce back after last weekend’s two losses.

“We’ve had a really good start,” junior right-side hitter Emily Allen said. “In preseason, we did well, and we’ve struggled a little in conference, but I think next time in conference, we’re going to pull it together and do really, really well.”

The two losses last weekend came against the No. 16 Utah Utes and No. 19 BYU Cougars.

“We feel really good coming off this weekend because we played top 20 teams in the nation, and we played them really well,” Allen said.

Sophomore setter Nirelle Hampton said she was also not too disappointed about her team’s performance last weekend.

“I think our team is going to bounce back from our losses,” Hampton said. “We still play everyone one more time, so we still have a great shot even if we’ve lost a couple.”

Head coach Prentice Lewis said she thinks her team has played fantastic so far this season and hopes it continues to do so.

“Obviously we don’t play to be just mediocre,” Lewis said. “Our goal is to be as good as we could possibly be, and that could be high in the conference or that could be in the middle of the conference.”

Allen and Hampton both said they believe their team has a chance to finish at the top of the conference.

“I think this next time around in conference, we’re going to play all the teams really hard and most likely beat them,” Allen said. “I think the end of the year’s going to be very good for us.”

Hampton said as long as the team continues to have good practices and work on the things they need to work on, they will do well.

“I definitely think we have a really bright future as long as we continue to work hard,” Hampton said.