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By the time we were allowed to wander down to North Ave & Oak Street Beach, I was practically in college and was settled into the sports I loved.  Plus, as you probably know, it wasn't exactly Fort Lauderdale or Miramar packed with beautiful people.  But yeah, saw some beach volleyball.  Spent time living in the city, in dumpy near West side 'burbs, NW, SW, and points in between.  I have a "spirited" upbringing.  But once I got to Florida and saw serious, serious beach volleyball...I realized it was a whole 'nother level of athlete.  

 

All that to say, when da' Spring Schedule coming out?  

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19 minutes ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

Your calendar is off. The beach match is Saturday, March 25. 

According to the hoops announcer the other night, matches will still be free. 

Good chance for fans to go watch our newbies and see Parra 

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On 2/27/2023 at 8:31 PM, shadow_operative2.0 said:

Tomorrow, Tuesday the 28th at 6p. 

Little ridiculous we still can’t get more than a 30-minute show. That’s like 22 minutes of content for the whole fucking season. 

I agree, but it is an awesome show for what it is.

The only regular season match they even mention is the loss to Iowa State. I'm with you. I'd love it if they could have made it an hour long show. But I sure liked reliving it in any case. 

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Zoe Fleck was featured on the podcast Coffee with Berez and Z, featuring Kentucky volleyball players Maddie Berezowitz and Azhani Tealer. 

The conversation turns to Texas around the 25:30 mark. She confirms on there the reason she transferred from UCLA was a lack of scholarships for her 5th year, otherwise it's likely she would never have come to Texas

 

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Jerritt Elliot is being inducted into the USA volleyball Hall of Fame.

https://usavolleyball.org/story/usa-volleyball-announces-2023-hall-of-fame-inductees/

"Texas women’s volleyball coach Jerritt Elliott will receive the All-Time Great Coach Award, which recognizes individuals for success and excellence in volleyball coaching over a period of many years. Elliott has coached several successful National Team Development Program (NTDP) age-group teams for USA Volleyball while leading Texas to two NCAA Championships and multiple other titles."

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (March 23, 2023) – USA Volleyball is pleased to announce the athletes, coaches and leaders it will celebrate and induct into its Hall of Fame at the annual banquet and ceremony on May 24 at the Omni Hotel in Dallas, Texas.

The Hall of Fame ceremony, a celebration of volleyball’s greatest athletes, coaches, officials and leaders, will take place one day before the 2023 USA Volleyball Open National Championship starts at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center.

The proceeds from the banquet will go to the USA Volleyball Foundation to provide funding to support the Olympic & Paralympic dreams of the athletes in USA Volleyball’s national team program. To purchase tickets and explore sponsorship opportunities, visit 2023 USA Volleyball Hall of Fame.

Eight Olympic and Paralympic players will be inducted into the Hall of Fame:
All-Time Great Male Indoor Athlete: Ryan Millar – Three-time Olympic middle blocker (2000, ’04 and ’08) who won gold in 2008 in Beijing.
All-Time Great Male Indoor Athlete: Clay Stanley – Three-time Olympic opposite (2004, ’08, ’12) who won gold and was named Most Valuable Player, Best Scorer and Best Server in 2008 in Beijing.
All-Time Great Female Indoor Athlete: Liane Sato – Two-time Olympic defensive specialist and setter (1988, ’92). She won bronze in Barcelona in 1992.
All-Time Great Female Indoor Athlete: Logan Tom – Four-time Olympic outside hitter (2000, ’04, ’08, ’12) who won silver medals in 2008 in Beijing and in 2012 in London.
All-Time Great Female Sitting Athlete: Kari (Miller) Ortiz – Three-time Paralympic libero (2008, ’12, ’16) who won the gold medal in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro and silver in both 2008 in Beijing and 2012 in London. All-Time Great Male Sitting Athlete: the late Edgar Laforest – Outside hitter who competed at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and medaled at the Parapan American Games three times (1 Gold, 2x Silver). Worked as an international referee before passing away in 2020.
All-Time Great Female Beach Athlete: Elaine Youngs – Three-time Olympian (1996 [indoor], 2004, ‘08) who won bronze on the beach in 2004 with Holly McPeak.
All-Time Great Male Beach Athlete: Todd Rogers – Won the gold medal at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing with Phil Dalhausser.

Texas women’s volleyball coach Jerritt Elliott will receive the All-Time Great Coach Award, which recognizes individuals for success and excellence in volleyball coaching over a period of many years. Elliott has coached several successful National Team Development Program (NTDP) age-group teams for USA Volleyball while leading Texas to two NCAA Championships and multiple other titles.

Leaders who will be honored:
Delta Region Commissioner Joe Williams will receive the George J. Fisher Leader in Volleyball Award, which recognizes longtime significant contributions to volleyball programs and activities as a player, coach, official, leader and/or administrator at the local and national levels.
Ohio Valley Commissioner Bob Price will be awarded the Dr. Neville A. “Doc” Booth Commissioner’s Award for making significant contributions to volleyball and USA Volleyball through the office of regional commissioner.
USAV Director of Officials Development and national and international referee Pati Rolf will receive the Harry E. Wilson International Service Award for her significant contributions to USA Volleyball and the FIVB, and her involvement in major international events.
Coach Bill Neville will be awarded the
James E. Coleman National Team Award for his  service/involvement with USA national team programs and his outstanding commitment to them.

Verna Klubniken and the late Dan Apol will be honored with the Wilbur H. “Wil” Peck Referee Emeritus Award, which recognizes those who have retired from refereeing on the national level and who have made significant contributions to the USA Volleyball referee program locally, regionally and nationally.

Lynne Updegraff will be presented with the Nancy S. Sharpless Scorer Emeritus Award, which honors individuals who have retired from scoring on the national level and who have made significant contributions to the USA Volleyball scorekeeping program locally, regionally and nationally.

As previously announced, Scott Fortune and the late Elroy Osorio will both receive the Harold T. Friermood “Frier” Lifetime Achievement Award, USA Volleyball’s highest honor.

 

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Here's an interview with Logan Eggleston about her experiences as a pro in Turkey thus far. It's conducted by Brooke Nuneviller, the Oregon star who also just went pro in Turkey at about the same time Logan did. Madi Kubik from Nebraska is also on the interview, talking about her experiences as a pro in Puerto Rico.

Brooke has been doing a series of these for Volleyball magazine, including one where she interviews all time Texas great and Olympic gold medalist Chiaka Ogbogu, but this is her best one because the others she's interviewing veterans, but this one she's interviewing two other players who are in the same boat as her. Nothing really about Texas per se in here. It's really all about what they're experiencing as pros, and what an adjustment it's been:

https://volleyballmag.com/pro-volleyball-life-abroad-with-brooke-nuneviller-logan-eggleston-madi-kubik-032523/

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From the 2 matches so far in spring, it does like Swindle is really good, Jenna is legit, Singletary looks great after her RS, Devin is still inconsistent, passing is good but not great (no Barnes yet), but blocking looks much stronger

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12 hours ago, Js1 said:

I mean, I know it’s a spring match but we are up on Baylor 20-5 in the 2nd set 

Baylor will just be a good program moving forward instead of what they were with Pressley. 

I don't think people realize how good Pressley was. That was a once in a lifetime type player for Baylor. 

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4 hours ago, Rickylovesweed said:

Baylor will just be a good program moving forward instead of what they were with Pressley. 

I don't think people realize how good Pressley was. That was a once in a lifetime type player for Baylor. 

While I agree about Pressley, I don’t know that I agree about Baylor. I guess it depends on what we’re calling good. They’re recruiting really well, and I think McGuyre is a good coach. Someone is going to have to be the best program in the Big 12 after Texas departs, and while the likeliest answer is BYU, Baylor took take that crown. 

They were one of the few teams to beat Wisconsin. They hosted as a top 16 seed. Made it to the Sweet Sixteen. And they were extremely young. Now they’re going to be even younger this season. 

Stowers looks like a stud. Not Pressley good, but she looked just a notch below that last night as a true freshman. 

I think Baylor is going to be right up there as a Sweet 16 type program for a while, and once they can get some experience, I could see them making another push for a regional host/Final Four again. 

The key will be instate recruiting. A&M has three uber recruiters with a lot of relationships in the club world on their staff. UH is on the rise. Their former assistant at TCU looks like he might do something. Tonya Johnson is at LSU. Baylor has made a living grabbing all the girls that Texas didn’t go after. We’ll see how well that works out for them in the long run. But I think they’re here to stay as long as they keep McGuyre, and I don’t think he’s looking to leave. 

All that said, Pressley was spectacular. I’m glad I got to watch her as much as I did throughout her career. 

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15 minutes ago, Rickylovesweed said:

They made 3 straight regional semifinals and a final 4 with Pressley. There is no chance Baylor will repeat that run. 

 

Well, maybe not. Pressley was special. But we'll see. I don't think it will be this year's team, that's for sure. Too young. 

Elite 8s and Final Fours are no joke. Especially when you have so many of those 8 slots taken up with an annual reservation by 
programs like Texas, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Stanford, and now I guess maybe Louisville. Maybe even Penn State can get back there based on their portal recruiting this year.

I don't think Baylor is about to emerge as a program at that level, but I do think they can be at a level just below that consistently. 

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8 hours ago, Rickylovesweed said:

Watching the Texas and Baylor match and Texas isn’t going to be challenged in the Big 12. 

I hope they schedule a tough nonconference schedule. 

 

Both BYU and UH will beef up the conference a bit. UCF has been good lately, but they just lost their version of Pressley, McKenna Melville, after she'd been there for 5 years, so they're going to have a drop off. 

The Big 12 is actually going to be a pretty competitive conference once Texas leaves. 

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Skinner served Texas' set point into the net, then Skinner with the hitting error, and Athletes unlimited take care of business on their set point. Texas down 2 sets to 1

Skinner needs to clean up those backrow attacks 

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Last year was special... 

This upcoming season is going to be a huge work in progress.

Ellas is going to be an inconsistent freshman, Wenaas is not a terminal OH, Molly still can't put down an out-of-system ball, and Bella is average at best. 

My expectations have been lowered. 

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If you haven't watched any AU play over the last couple of years, you should know just how good they are.  It's ridiculous watching them play one another.  Haven't seen them on ESPN lately so I'm assuming their numbers weren't great, which I get, but if you are a VB nerd, it's good shit.

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On 4/12/2023 at 9:56 PM, TexasDPT said:

Last year was special... 

This upcoming season is going to be a huge work in progress.

Ellas is going to be an inconsistent freshman, Wenaas is not a terminal OH, Molly still can't put down an out-of-system ball, and Bella is average at best. 

My expectations have been lowered. 

Well, when we say a work in progress, it’s all relative. Texas is still going to be a consensus top 5 preseason pick. They’ll still be the overwhelming favorites to win another Big 12 titie. Anything less than one of the top 8 seeds will be a disappointment. 

I don’t foresee them being the top overall seed, but I do think they have an outside shot at hosting a regional depending on how the non conference season goes. It’s also going to be helpful adding BYU and UH as conference foes. Both of them are fielding Sweet 16 type squads this year, along with Baylor. 

But yeah, last year was a juggernaut. On the other hand, anything short of a national championship was going to be a disappointment last year, whereas this year an Elite Eight appearance would be good. 

I’m excited to see how the pieces come together. We still have Carissa Barnes reporting in the summer, and who knows what might happen during the May portal period. 

But yeah. This isn’t gojng to be another one loss season, that’s for sure. 

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BTW, AAS’s Danny Davis will no longer be covering women’s volleyball. Thomas Jones now has those duties. Don’t know how anyone else feels about it, but it’s a huge personal disappointment to me. I loved the way Danny covered the team. I’m going to miss him being on the beat. 

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BTW, AAS’s Danny Davis will no longer be covering women’s volleyball. Thomas Jones now has those duties. Don’t know how anyone else feels about it, but it’s a huge personal disappointment to me. I loved the way Danny covered the team. I’m going to miss him being on the beat. 

As long as it isn't Bowels

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BTW, AAS’s Danny Davis will no longer be covering women’s volleyball. Thomas Jones now has those duties. Don’t know how anyone else feels about it, but it’s a huge personal disappointment to me. I loved the way Danny covered the team. I’m going to miss him being on the beat. 

Dang that sucks. Just volleyball? I enjoy Danny’s coverage of softball and WBB

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Dang that sucks. Just volleyball? I enjoy Danny’s coverage of softball and WBB

“Thomas Jones officially started on the UT beat this week. Jones will cover the football team for the American-Statesman alongside Danny Davis, Kirk Bohls and Cedric Golden. He will also lead the American-Statesman's coverage of the men's basketball, volleyball, softball and soccer programs at Texas.”

I guess Danny might still cover women’s Basketball. 

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Schedule out

Non-conf is TAMUCC, LMU, Long Beach, Minnesota, Stanford, FGCU, Rice, Ohio State and Washington St

Conference games are 2 matches in back to back days unless noted otherwise: OU, BYU, KU, UH, TCU (single), Baylor, WV, KSU (single), Cincy (single), ISU (single), UCF (single), Tech (single)

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Schedule out

Non-conf is TAMUCC, LMU, Long Beach, Minnesota, Stanford, FGCU, Rice, Ohio State and Washington St

Conference games are 2 matches in back to back days unless noted otherwise: OU, BYU, KU, UH, TCU (single), Baylor, WV, KSU (single), Cincy (single), ISU (single), UCF (single), Tech (single)

The A&M-CC match is an exhibition. Similar to Rice last year. Interesting since I fully expect Carissa Barnes to be playing. Not that it would be an issue. Maybe very mildly interesting is more accurate. 

I think that Wazzu match is super interesting. They're going to have a really good team this year. Could be the 2nd or 3rd best opponent on the schedule after Stanford, with Minnesota, BYU, and UH as contenders, too. Stanford didn't lose anyone, so they're loaded. 

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Abby Vanderwal commits to Texas. Rated as the #2 outside hitter in the class of 2025. Rumored to be a strong lean to Wisconsin or Minnesota, she was invited to the recent Texas elite camp and that's all she wrote. 

Texas is also the prohibitive favorite for the #1 outside hitter in Macaria Spears, and allegedly has a shot at the #3 outside hitter, Kaci Damaria. I don't understand how we have room, or how you convince the top 3 outside hitters in a single class to sign with the same program, but I want to believe.

Here are some comments a non Texas fan who follows the volleyball club scene used to describe her prior to her commitment:

"Seen this kid on the other side of the net a ton the past 3 years. Consistently will put her team on her back and terminate when everyone knows shes getting set the ball. Doesn’t have any other elite players around her to take the focus of the defense away from her.  All solid, but none elite.  Wants the ball in the biggest moments.  Does everything well a 6 rotation outside needs to + Has an elite arm.  In a class that has many elite players at the OH position, she sits #1 imo. "

 

In sad panda news, the setter Texas seemed to be targeting for this class, Campbell Flynn, committed to Nebraska. I don't know who Texas is going after, but there are names being thrown around. I'm also unclear on who they'd sign as a middle blocker. Or where they'd get all the scholarship room. 

 

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