College volleyball is taking over AT&T Stadium in Arlington on Thursday, with four nationally ranked programs competing in a one-night tournament for a $1 million grand prize.<\/p>\n
Nebraska, Florida, Penn State and SMU will take part in the first Spikes Under the Lights exhibition tournament.<\/p>\n
The three-match event will open with Nebraska against Florida at 7 p.m., followed by Penn State against SMU. Both opening matches will be played as best-of-three sets. The winners will advance to a winner-take-all championship match, with $1 million on the line.<\/p>\n
The grand prize is the largest cash prize ever for a women’s college sporting event.<\/p>\n
The tournament will also serve as a homecoming for several players with North Texas ties.<\/p>\n
Penn State’s Danielle Whitmire is from Celina, while Nebraska’s Keoni Williams is from Fort Worth.<\/p>\n
SMU’s roster includes several North Texas players: Hannah Beauford from Prosper, Natalia Newsome from Arlington, Jadyn Livings from The Colony, Suli Davis from Euless, Favor Anyanwu from Rowlett and Levariya Pinder from Justin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"College volleyball is taking over AT&T Stadium in Arlington on Thursday, with four nationally ranked programs competing in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,1771,15750],"class_list":["post-418667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-ncaa","tag-smu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418667","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=418667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}