{"id":100818,"date":"2025-12-25T20:44:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T20:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/100818\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T20:44:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T20:44:20","slug":"penn-state-womens-volleyball-earns-commitment-from-texas-transfer-outside-hitter-whitney-lauenstein-penn-state-volleyball-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/100818\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn State women&#8217;s volleyball earns commitment from Texas transfer outside hitter Whitney Lauenstein | Penn State Volleyball News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Penn State landed its second commitment in the transfer portal of the day.<\/p>\n<p>The Nittany Lions earned a commitment from outside hitter Whitney Lauenstein.<\/p>\n<p>Lauenstein was previously at Texas and Nebraska before transferring to her third school, Penn State.<\/p>\n<p>Lauenstein adds depth to the right side and outside, which is already pretty deep for the blue and white.<\/p>\n<p>The Waverly, Nebraska, native had her best season in 2022 with the Cornhuskers, totaling 297 kills, with 2.78 kills per set and a .238 hitting percentage. She added 28 aces as a premier server, which could be a major part of her role with the Nittany Lions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;ll make her way to Happy Valley as a graduate transfer with one year of eligibility.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MORE VOLLEYBALL COVERAGE<\/p>\n<p>                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psucollegian.com\/sports\/women_volleyball\/penn-state-womens-volleyball-earns-commitment-from-pitt-transfer-middle-blocker-ryla-jones\/article_86126c6c-0cd7-4f78-be4f-702ff772d654.html\" class=\"tnt-asset-link\" aria-label=\"Penn State women&#039;s volleyball earns commitment from Pitt transfer middle blocker Ryla Jones\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Penn State women's volleyball earns commitment from Pitt transfer middle blocker Ryla Jones\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1067\" height=\"710\" data- data-\/><br \/>\n                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/692118bc58144.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"tnt-summary\">Penn State earned another commitment from the transfer portal. <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in submitting a Letter to the Editor, click here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psucollegian.com\/form\/letter_to_the_editor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                Submit<br \/>\n            <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Penn State landed its second commitment in the transfer portal of the day. The Nittany Lions earned a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[46189,23047,42443,46191,9095,771,46190,154,27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-100818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-beaver-stadium","9":"tag-big-ten-conference","10":"tag-big-ten-conference-teams","11":"tag-former-atlantic-10-conference-teams","12":"tag-ncaa-division-i-fbs-football-teams","13":"tag-penn-state-nittany-lions","14":"tag-pennsylvania-state-university","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-texas","17":"tag-texas-headlines","18":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}