{"id":96900,"date":"2025-12-22T08:12:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T08:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/96900\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T08:12:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T08:12:06","slug":"kentucky-volleyball-falls-to-texas-am-in-national-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/96900\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky Volleyball falls to Texas A&#038;M in National Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It was a big day for the Big Blue Nation as the <a href=\"https:\/\/ukathletics.com\/sports\/wvball\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Kentucky Volleyball<\/a> team played Texas A&amp;M for a National Championship in Kansas City. In the first-ever all-SEC championship match, the Cats got swept as they fell 3-0 to the Aggies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Cats came out hot, leading the majority of the first set by five or six points, as they put the Texas A&amp;M squad on their heels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">However, coming out of a time-out, the Aggies\u2019 defense flipped a switch, and they never looked back. Whether it was in the block or in the outside hitting, Craig Skinner\u2019s squad could never quite get into rhythm, ending a special season for the program in Lexington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With this, we will say goodbye to one of the best players to wear the UK jersey in Eva Hudson. It was a special season for the Purdue transfer that came up just one win short. However, the Cats could return the majority of their roster next season, setting up for another special run in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It stings now, but it was a fun season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a big day for the Big Blue Nation as the Kentucky Volleyball team played Texas A&amp;M&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[43894,27,29,28,5670],"class_list":["post-96900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-kentucky-wildcats-news","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-volleyball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96900","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=96900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}