{"id":402108,"date":"2026-08-09T22:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T22:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/402108\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T22:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T22:22:16","slug":"texas-volleyball-vs-minnesota-longhorns-host-free-scrimmage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/402108\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas volleyball vs Minnesota: Longhorns host free scrimmage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/hookem\/volleyball\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas volleyball<\/a> fans wanting an early look at the 2026 squad will get their first chance Monday with a free scrimmage against Minnesota at Gregory Gymnasium. The preseason matchup starts at 1 p.m., and doors will open at noon. Free parking is available at the Speedway Garage, 105 E. 27th St.<\/p>\n<p>The Longhorns also will host Rice at 6 p.m. Friday\u00a0in a second free scrimmage.<\/p>\n<p>Texas welcomes back 11 letterwinners from last year&#8217;s squad, including outside hitters\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/college\/longhorns\/article\/torrey-stafford-texas-volleyball-ncaa-tournament-21215706.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Torrey Stafford<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiD8e--3fWVAxW4mGoFHQtKA2cQFnoECCIQAQ&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.statesman.com%2Fsports%2Fcolumns%2Farticle%2Fmarcus-spears-swagu-cari-spears-longhorns-21229502.php&amp;usg=AOvVaw02To7Vvl5oT7McMZluhSsz&amp;opi=89978449\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cari Spears<\/a>, both of whom are on the\u00a0AVCA player of the year preseason watch list and have earned preseason All-SEC honors. Texas went 26-4 last season and reached the NCAA Tournament regional finals before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiv4b6N3PWVAxUGkyYFHSZVDyoQFnoECB0QAQ&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.statesman.com%2Fsports%2Fcollege%2Flonghorns%2Fvolleyball%2Farticle%2Ftexas-longhorns-volleyball-score-today-wisconsin-21230280.php&amp;usg=AOvVaw1kXZz7JZ4pL7LV6Kjs1lqI&amp;opi=89978449\" data-link=\"native\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiv4b6N3PWVAxUGkyYFHSZVDyoQFnoECB0QAQ&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.statesman.com%2Fsports%2Fcollege%2Flonghorns%2Fvolleyball%2Farticle%2Ftexas-longhorns-volleyball-score-today-wisconsin-21230280.php&amp;usg=AOvVaw1kXZz7JZ4pL7LV6Kjs1lqI&amp;opi=89978449\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">falling to Wisconsin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas volleyball fans wanting an early look at the 2026 squad will get their first chance Monday with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,140982,2237,140983,537,1074,36848],"class_list":["post-402108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-cari-spears","tag-college-volleyball","tag-gregory-gym","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-longhorns-volleyball","tag-torrey-stafford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402108","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=402108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}