{"id":435087,"date":"2026-09-13T23:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T23:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/435087\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T23:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T23:24:09","slug":"graystone-dismissed-as-head-coach-of-texas-tech-volleyball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/435087\/","title":{"rendered":"Graystone dismissed as head coach of Texas Tech Volleyball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LUBBOCK, Texas \u2013 Texas Tech Director of Athletics <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/staff-directory\/kirby-hocutt\/261\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"261\" target=\"_blank\">Kirby Hocutt<\/a> announced Sunday the immediate dismissal of head volleyball coach <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/coaches\/tony-graystone\/4277\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4277\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Graystone<\/a>.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHocutt has appointed associate head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/coaches\/alisa-blair\/4280\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4280\" target=\"_blank\">Alisa Blair<\/a> as interim head coach for the remainder of the 2026 season. This is Blair&#8217;s fourth season at Texas Tech as she arrived after serving one year as the head coach at Abilene Christian in 2022. Current assistant <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/coaches\/mikayla-ell\/4278\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4278\" target=\"_blank\">Mikayla Ell<\/a> will serve as interim associate head coach for the remainder of the season as well.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBlair will make her debut as interim head coach Tuesday when the Red Raiders host Tarleton State at United Supermarkets Arena. First serve is slated for 6 p.m. to wrap a four-game homestand for the Red Raiders.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas \u2013 Texas Tech Director of Athletics Kirby Hocutt announced Sunday the immediate dismissal of head volleyball&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-435087","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\/435087","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=435087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}