No 1 Texas, No. 3 Baylor stay put in the AVCA poll ahead of Wednesday’s war...
For the fourth straight week, Texas and Baylor were respectively ranked first and third in the American Volleyball Coaches Association’s Division I poll. Texas (19-2, 13-0 Big 12) compiled 1,581 points...
View ArticleNo. 3 Baylor finishes off No. 1 Texas in five sets to claim its first win...
WACO — At a press conference on Monday, Texas coach Jerritt Elliott warned against looking too much into his volleyball team’s sweep of Baylor in October. Elliott surmised that nerves had gotten the...
View ArticleOne more time: Texas volleyball to say goodbye to seniors Hahn, White
When Texas volleyball coach Jerritt Elliott pointed to the Longhorns logo on his shirt this week and said, “we’re always the hunted,” his assessment was not gratuitous. Two days later in Waco, No....
View ArticleTexas volleyball rallies for win over Kansas
The Texas volleyball team rallied from a set down to take a 22-25, 25-17, 25-18, 25-18 win over Kansas on Saturday night. Four Longhorns had double-digit kills, led by Micaya White who recorded 16 on...
View ArticleTexas slips to No. 4 as the NCAA nears the revelation of its tournament’s...
Following a loss to Baylor, Texas has lost its claim as the nation’s top-ranked team. After four weeks atop the American Volleyball Coaches Association’s poll, Texas (20-3) tumbled to fourth place on...
View ArticleGregory Gym could host two weeks of volleyball as Texas lands NCAA...
For Texas’ Longhorns, a potential trip to Pittsburgh includes a long layover in Austin. On Sunday night, Texas was awarded the second overall seed in the NCAA’s volleyball tournament. The Longhorns...
View ArticleTexas senior Micaya White closes out her last regular season with another Big...
For the last time, Texas senior Micaya White has climbed to the top of the Big 12’s weekly awards stand. White, an outside hitter for the Longhorns, was named the Big 12’s offensive player of the week...
View ArticleBig 12 honors Skylar Fields as its top freshman as Baylor overwhelms the...
Once again, the Big 12’s top newcomer in volleyball is a Longhorn. On Tuesday, it was announced that Texas opposite hitter Skylar Fields had been unanimously chosen as the Big 12’s freshman of the...
View ArticleBohls: Texas’ Brionne Butler is a chip off the ol’ middle blocker
Brionne Butler is nothing like her mom. Just ask ‘em. For starters, Javonne Grant’s a true extrovert. She’s loud, brash, brimming with confidence. Sure of who she is and where she’s going and where...
View ArticleStandard Sweep: Texas blasts Albany as NCAA Tournament gets underway
On Thursday night, like it has so many times before, Texas began a postseason run by tidying up its gym. Senior Micaya White led the way with 13 kills as Texas opened the NCAA Tournament with a 25-9,...
View ArticleTexas thwarts UC Santa Barbara’s upset attempt and rallies itself into the...
On the night that UC Santa Barbara ended Texas’ 1997 volleyball season, current UT standout Logan Eggleston was not alive. Brionne Butler wasn’t around either when the Gauchos recorded that 3-0 win in...
View ArticleGolden: Texas spikers will learn from surviving second-round upset scare
No one promised Texas an easy stroll through the NCAA volleyball tournament even if the bracket appeared friendly on initial inspection. The Longhorns, who are the No. 2 overall seed in the tournament,...
View ArticleAfter going for gold on an international stage, UT’s ‘peas in a pod’ ready to...
Skylar Fields has stashed all the medals she’s won over the course of her volleyball career back home in Missouri City. The Texas freshman has collected more than 40 of them, going back to when she...
View ArticleFour Longhorns honored on the AVCA’s all-region team
A quartet of Longhorns can now count themselves among the best volleyball players in the Southwest. On Tuesday, senior Micaya White, sophomores Logan Eggleston and Jhenna Gabriel and freshman Skylar...
View ArticleGet to know the four volleyball teams in Austin’s NCAA regional
In search of two wins and an invitation to the Final Four, the volleyball teams from Texas, Minnesota, Florida and Louisville will battle at Gregory Gym this weekend. Texas is set to host Louisville on...
View ArticleJerritt Elliott on Khat Bell’s pep talk: ‘It was a unique situation that will...
During a second-round match against UC Santa Barbara this past Friday, former Texas All-American Khat Bell exited the stands to give the Longhorns a pep talk. Bell was a member of UT’s 2012...
View Article‘We just need to hit them first’: Texas readies for Louisville in Sweet 16...
A decade ago, the volleyball team from Hawaii beat Michigan to advance to the Final Four for the ninth time in school history. Jhenna Gabriel, a native of Honolulu, was nine years old during that 2009...
View ArticleBREAKING: No. 2 Texas upset by Louisville, ousted from NCAA volleyball...
On Friday afternoon, No. 2 Texas suffered a fifth-set heartbreak as Louisville ended the Longhorns’ volleyball season in the third round of the NCAA Tournament. The first two sets of Louisville’s...
View ArticleTexas’ 2019 volleyball season ends as Louisville delivers a Sweet Sixteen...
As the fifth set at Gregory Gym reached its halfway point Friday afternoon, Texas threw everything it could at Louisville. Micaya White, a senior and soon to be a four-time All-American, sent six shots...
View ArticleGolden: Texas’ crushing NCAA loss to Louisville was more mental than physical
They left Gregory Gymnasium in stunned silence Friday night. Louisville players were the ones dancing off the court, celebrating with their parents and embracing their coaches. Meanwhile, the Texas...
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