AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 University of Texas head soccer coach Margueritte Bates announced the Longhorns’ 2026 schedule Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n
Texas’ 17-match regular season slate includes eight contests at Mike A. Myers Soccer Stadium and features nine tilts against 2025 NCAA Tournament teams.<\/p>\n
The Longhorns\u00a0begin their 2026 campaign by hosting HCU on Aug. 13 before a three-match road swing at Pitt (Aug. 16), Arizona State (Aug. 20) and Grand Canyon (Aug. 23).<\/p>\n
Texas returns home to face in-state foes Baylor on Aug 27 and Incarnate Word on Aug. 30.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Longhorns\u00a0wrap\u00a0up non-conference action versus 2025 national-semifinalist TCU in Fort Worth (Sept. 6).<\/p>\n
Texas kicks off league competition at reigning Southeastern Conference Champion Arkansas on Sept. 10.<\/p>\n
The Longhorns’ conference home opener is set for Sept. 18, as Texas welcomes Tennessee to Mike A. Myers Stadium.<\/p>\n
For the lone time in SEC play, the Longhorns play\u00a0back-to-back road tilts at Florida (Sept. 24) and Ole Miss (Sept. 27).<\/p>\n
Texas squares off against Red River rival Oklahoma on Oct. 4 before its penultimate road contest at Kentucky on Oct 9.<\/p>\n
The Longhorns round out their regular season schedule with three of their final four matches at home, taking on LSU (Oct. 15), South Carolina (Oct. 18) and Auburn (Nov. 1).<\/p>\n
Texas’ last road affair comes at Vanderbilt on Oct. 23.<\/p>\n
2026 marks the Longhorns’ first campaign under Bates. Bates arrived on The Forty Acres after an extraordinary four-year tenure at UCLA, where she became the first rookie head coach to win the NCAA Division I Women’s Soccer Championship in 2022.<\/p>\n
During her time with the Bruins, Bates compiled a 67-13-9 (.803) ledger, the fourth-best mark of any program during that stretch. The two-time Pac-12 Coach of the Year guided UCLA to a pair of conference titles and four consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 University of Texas head soccer coach Margueritte Bates announced the Longhorns’ 2026 schedule Tuesday morning.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-355985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355985","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=355985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}