Senior libero Emma Halter broke the Texas three-set record with 25 digs while moving to No. 8 all-time in school history with 1,282 digs. At the net, sophomore middle blocker Ayden Ames set her career high with eight blocks as Texas notched a 42-15 advantage in kills, holding the Rattlers to a -.027 hitting percentage, the lowest for a Longhorns opponent this season.<\/p>\n
In the first set, Texas came out gunning on a 4-0 run with outside hitter Torrey Stafford snagging two back to back kills. The Rattlers where able to force some attacking errors to come back 7-4, but the high-powered Longhorn offense continued to attack to go on another 7-0 to make the set, 15-7. Texas\u2019 defense forced four Florida A&M attacking errors with the aid of junior setter Ella Swindle, who handed out eight assists to close the opening set, 25-11.<\/p>\n
In the second set, both teams came out swinging with the Rattlers keeping up forcing early Longhorns attacking errors to keep the set at 3-3. Shortly, Texas opened the floodgates with Stafford, true freshman Abby Vander Wal and senior Whitney Lauenstein leading and collecting 12 kills with a hit percentage of .545 and forcing nine Florida A&M errors to close the second set 25-8.<\/p>\n
In the third and final set, Texas took an early 6-2 lead with true freshman Cari Spears recording two kills. The Rattlers showed their grit, but could not handle the Longhorns offense, which hit .345 while holding Florida A&M to a .080 hit percentage, closing the final set 25-14.<\/p>\n
In the second round of the 2025 NCAA Volleyball Tournament, Texas will face defending champion Penn State on Saturday at at 6:30 p.m. central on ESPN+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senior libero Emma Halter broke the Texas three-set record with 25 digs while moving to No. 8 all-time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,11165],"class_list":["post-74201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-texas-longhorns-volleyball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}