{"id":450889,"date":"2026-09-29T07:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T07:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/450889\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T07:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T07:16:11","slug":"ut-arlington-volleyball-cross-country-mens-tennis-to-compete-this-week-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/450889\/","title":{"rendered":"UT Arlington volleyball, cross-country, men\u2019s tennis to compete this week | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Illustration shows a baseball player swinging a bat. Above, a tennis player, a wheelchair basketball player and a track runner compete in their respective sports.\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1763\" height=\"1175\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/696e904c4e910.image.png\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theshorthorn.com\/users\/profile\/Ryleigh%20A.%20Hood\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">File illustration \/ Ryleigh Hood<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the summer ends and temperatures begin to lower, UTA sports start ramping up. <\/p>\n<p>Here is the schedule for Tuesday to Oct. 5. <\/p>\n<p>Volleyball<\/p>\n<p>The volleyball team (7-7) plays two home conference games this week. The Mavericks start at 6 p.m. Thursday against the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. The Trojans are 0-2 in United Athletic Conference play. <\/p>\n<p>The team finishes the week taking on Eastern Kentucky University at 1 p.m. Saturday. The Colonels are 12-2 overall and 2-0 in conference play. Both games will be at College Park Center and streamed on ESPN+. <\/p>\n<p>Men\u2019s tennis<\/p>\n<p>The men\u2019s tennis team will open its season in the Ron Wesbrooks Invitational hosted by Lamar University from Friday to Sunday at the Thompson Family Tennis Center in Beaumont, Texas. <\/p>\n<p>It will be the first time the team has competed since prematurely ending the 2025-26 season in March due to team injury. <\/p>\n<p>Cross-country<\/p>\n<p>The cross-country teams will compete in the 38th annual Chile Pepper Festival, hosted by the University of Arkansas at Agri Park in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The event includes 14 races over two days. <\/p>\n<p>The men\u2019s team will run in the McDonnell Memorial 8K at 10:25 a.m. Saturday, followed by the women\u2019s team racing in the Harter\u2019s Habanero 5K at 11 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Last time the teams raced, the men won the Gerald Richey UTA Invitational, while the women placed second. Both teams had multiple runners in the top three of their races, according to previous Shorthorn reporting. <\/p>\n<p>@TyRoland06<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theshorthorn.com\/sports\/ut-arlington-volleyball-cross-country-men-s-tennis-to-compete-this-week\/mailto:sports-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sports-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File illustration \/ Ryleigh Hood As the summer ends and temperatures begin to lower, UTA sports start ramping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,154],"class_list":["post-450889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450889","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=450889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}