{"id":50990,"date":"2025-11-15T17:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T17:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/50990\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T17:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T17:02:07","slug":"texas-lands-commitment-from-6-10-center-and-austin-native-coleman-elkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/50990\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas lands commitment from 6-10 center and Austin native Coleman Elkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/texas-longhorns\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">University of Texas<\/a> has landed a commitment from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/coleman-elkins-282100\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Coleman Elkins<\/a>, a 6-foot-10, 230-pound center in the 2026 class, according to his agents at WEAVE. <\/p>\n<p>Elkins, a native of Austin, is spending his senior year of high school at Blair Academy in New Jersey. He previously attends St. Andrew\u2019s Episcopal in Austin, Texas. During his junior season at St. Andrew\u2019s, Elkins averaged 15 points and 7.6 rebounds per game. <\/p>\n<p>Along with Texas, Elkins received offers from Northeastern, Indiana State, Maine, and others.<\/p>\n<p>Elkins becomes Texas\u2019 third commitment in the 2026 class. He joins four-star SG\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/bo-ogden-240195\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bo Ogden<\/a>\u00a0(No. 34 NATL) and four-star SG <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/joe-sterling-237759\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Sterling<\/a> (No. 104 NATL). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The University of Texas has landed a commitment from Coleman Elkins, a 6-foot-10, 230-pound center in the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,28893],"class_list":["post-50990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-coleman-elkins-26-blair-academy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50990","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=50990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}