{"id":861587,"date":"2026-08-17T18:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T18:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/861587\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T18:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T18:04:09","slug":"soccers-flynn-garners-sec-defensive-player-of-the-week-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/861587\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer\u2019s Flynn garners SEC Defensive Player of the Week honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Texas Longhorns senior <a href=\"https:\/\/texaslonghorns.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/bayliss-flynn\/17121\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17121\" target=\"_blank\">Bayliss Flynn<\/a> was named the Southeastern Conference Defensive Player of the Week, the league office announced Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Flynn became just the second Texas goalkeeper to record back-to-back clean sheets in her first two starts as a Longhorn in the program&#8217;s illustrious 33-year history, joining Dana Hall in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>In Texas&#8217; season-opening shutout win over HCU, the 5-foot-6 netminder directed a Longhorns&#8217; defense that held the Huskies to just three shots, including zero attempts on target.<\/p>\n<p>Flynn followed her first clean sheet with a six-save performance in a 1-0 victory at Pitt on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>A transfer from Montana, she earns her third career weekly league honor after being tabbed Big Sky Conference Defensive Player of the Week twice during the 2024 campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Texas Longhorns senior Bayliss Flynn was named the Southeastern Conference Defensive Player of the Week,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":861588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-861587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/861588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}