{"id":470847,"date":"2026-10-19T20:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T20:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/470847\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T20:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T20:28:08","slug":"glenn-earns-uac-defensive-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/470847\/","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Earns UAC Defensive Player of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSONVILLE, Fla.\u00a0\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/samantha-glenn\/14341\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Samantha Glenn<\/a>\u00a0has been named the United Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Week, league officials announced today.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first time the senior\u00a0from Grapevine, Texas has claimed the honor this season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sam is so deserving of this award. She has been such an important part of our back court this season,&#8221; said Coach Schatow. &#8220;Her ability to read opposing hitters is incredible. Very happy for her!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Glenn anchored the Mavericks&#8217; defense over the weekend, recording 27 digs in an away game against North Alabama (Oct. 15) and achieved 33 digs in an away win at West Georgia (Oct. 17). Over the course of the week, Glenn totaled 60 digs.<\/p>\n<p>Glenn ranks third in total digs (367) and fourth in digs per set (4.59).<\/p>\n<p>2026 United Athletic Conference Volleyball Weekly Awards<\/p>\n<p>CO-PLAYER OF THE WEEK<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nEmilee Hill, EKU (Oct. 19)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nReese Ricketts, North Alabama (Oct. 19)<\/p>\n<p>SETTER OF THE WEEK<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nRachel Koss, Abilene Christian (Oct. 19)<\/p>\n<p>DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/samantha-glenn\/14341\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Samantha Glenn<\/a>, Jr., UT Arlington (Oct. 19)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFRESHMAN OF THE WEEK<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nAlyssa Todd, Abilene Christian (Oct. 19)<\/p>\n<p>NEXT UP<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nUTA will return home to the College Park Center for Dig Pink vs. Tarleton State on Tuesday, Oct. 20 at 6 p.m. CT.<\/p>\n<p>FOLLOW THE MAVS<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFor the latest news on UTA Volleyball, log on to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.utamavs.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UTAMavs.com<\/a>\u00a0or stay connected to the Mavs on social media. Follow the Mavericks on X \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UTAMavsVB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@UTAMavsVB<\/a>, on Instagram\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/UTAMavsVB\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@UTAMavsVB<\/a>\u00a0and on Facebook at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UTAMavsVB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook.com\/UTAMavsVB<\/a>.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla.\u00a0\u2013 Samantha Glenn\u00a0has been named the United Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Week, league officials announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-470847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470847","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=470847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}