{"id":457819,"date":"2026-10-06T08:54:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T08:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/457819\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T08:54:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T08:54:17","slug":"no-9-volleyball-trio-earn-sec-weekly-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/457819\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 9 Volleyball trio earn SEC weekly honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2013 No. 9\u00a0Texas Volleyball&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/texaslonghorns.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/rella-binney\/14346\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14346\" target=\"_blank\">Rella Binney<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/texaslonghorns.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/torrey-stafford\/14361\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14361\" target=\"_blank\">Torrey Stafford<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/texaslonghorns.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/henley-anderson\/17128\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17128\" target=\"_blank\">Henley Anderson<\/a> combined to earn four weekly Southeastern Conference honors, the conference office announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Binney earned Setter and Player of the Week honors, while Stafford was named the Co-Offensive Player of the Week and Anderson was selected as the Freshman of the Week following a 2-0 weekend at Gregory Gymnasium.<\/p>\n<p>Binney&#8217;s recognition marks the first SEC weekly honors of her career. She directed the Longhorns to a pair of victories over Mississippi State and Alabama, totaling 79 assists while averaging 11.29 assists per set. She recorded 39 assists in Texas&#8217; sweep of Mississippi State, marking her fifth consecutive 30-assist performance, before posting 40 assists in the Longhorns&#8217; four-set victory over Alabama, her fourth 40-assist effort in the last six matches. The Longhorns hit .322 across the two matches, including a season-best .438 against Mississippi State.<\/p>\n<p>Stafford led Texas with 38 kills across the two matches, averaging 5.43 kills per set while hitting .281. She opened the weekend with a match-high 20 kills on a season-best .419 hitting percentage in the sweep of Mississippi State, adding 13 digs for her fifth double-double of the season. Stafford followed that with 18 kills, two service aces and two blocks against Alabama, including the match-clinching kill in the fourth set. It is the eighth SEC weekly honor of Stafford&#8217;s career.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson also earned her first career SEC weekly honor after posting double-digit kills in both matches. She finished the weekend with 25 kills while hitting .426, recording 12 kills on a then-career-best .400 hitting against Mississippi State before adding 13 kills on a career-best .455 hitting against Alabama. Anderson also contributed three blocks and two digs against Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>The four SEC weekly awards are the first for Texas this season.<\/p>\n<p>Texas (7-5, 3-1 SEC) returns to the road next weekend for a pair of SEC matches. The Longhorns face Arkansas (8-6, 0-3) on Friday, Oct. 9, at 7 p.m. CT at Barnhill Arena before traveling to Oklahoma (8-4, 1-2) for a 2 p.m. CT match against the Sooners on Sunday, Oct. 11, at McCasland Field House. Both matches will stream live on SEC Network+.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Volleyball is Presented by Huntington Bank<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2013 No. 9\u00a0Texas Volleyball&#8217;s Rella Binney, Torrey Stafford and Henley Anderson combined to earn four weekly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-457819","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\/457819","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=457819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}