In a sport where playoffs actually determine a champion, UT Volleyball received the overall #3 seed and #1 seed in the Austin regional.  The Gazelles will play in Austin this Friday and Saturday in 1st and 2nd round action.  They host Lamar Friday night and will face the winner of Wichita State and Rice on Saturday.  

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The Gregory Gazelles, also known as the UT women's volleyball team, will take on OU, also known as ousux, on Wednesday night at 6pm in a match billed as Volley for the Cure.

Volley for the Cure

This event is a great thing that NCAA women's athletics is doing for breast cancer awareness.  Last February the women's hoops team had a Think Pink night when the Horns took down #8 Baylor.  Now NCAA volleyball teams are getting into the act.  Tickets are $3 if you buy in advance and you are suppose to wear pink.

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Saturday night while Texas was dismantling CU in Boulder, the Gregory Gazelles (aka Texas Volleyball) were dismantling Kansas State, 3-0. In so doing, they turned a 3 way tie (between UT, KSU & BU) for 2nd place in the Big 12 into just a tie between UT and BU.  Wednesday night at Gregory Gym at 6:30pm, the Gazelles will look to move into sole possession of 2nd place when the Lady Bears come to town. 

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The Gazelles open at home this week hosting the Time Warner Invitational.  The Gazelles are ranked #3 in the nation returning to that spot after Stanford suffered a 4 set defeat to unranked Saint Louis last weekend.  Coach Elliott gave me a personal call on my home phone yesterday requesting I invite friends and neighbors.  So I'm inviting the BON community.

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$4 Web coupons for both night's matches at Bevo Bargains.

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Just a reminder that our Gregory Gazelles (UT Volleyball) will be in Omaha this weekend participating in the AVCA Showcase.

http://texassports.com/sports/w-volley/spec-rel/082808aag.html

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Bumped. Go Gazelles.

Texas volleyball was voted #1 by the Big 12 volleyball coaches.

The GazellesTM have 4 players named to the preseason all Big 12 Team, Juliann Faucette, Lauren Paolini, Ashley Engle and Destinee Hooker.  Juliann is named co-Player of the Year.  New recruit Rachael Adams is named Freshman of the Year.  This marks the 3rd year in a row Texas has the Freshman of the Year (Engle and Faucette were the previous two).  

Also Volleyball magazine's preseason poll has the Gazelles ranked #3 behind Stanford and defending National Champion Penn State.  USC is ranked #4.  Texas opens the season playing USC and Stanford.

Texassports article about Volleyball Poll

texassports article

prepvolleyball

The Gazelles signed the nation's #2 ranked recruiting class.  The link requires a membership but I'm sure the news will be posted on texassports.com shortly.

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The UT Volleyball duo of Ashley Engle and Kiley Hall won the Collegiate National beach volleyball championship today in San Diego.  The girls took down the NU Cornbots, Jordan Larson and Tara Muller, in the semis and put the beatdown on Talor Carico and Jessica Gysin of USC in the finals 21-8, 21-12.

Congrats to the girls. And yes there is a picture if you click the link....

http://www.thecollegiatenationals.com/story/index.php?story=93

A few months ago it was announced that the volleyball team would go through the spring practice season with 7 players while Destinee, Juliann and Pao skipped the spring semester to train with the Olympic team. Needless to say, I was not optimistic about how we would do in the games.  The good news is we managed an 8-1 record for the spring.

The schedule was not terribly challenging. Of the 9 teams we played this spring about a third made the NCAA tournament last fall.  That being said, when you remove 3 All Americans from your lineup and are playing with only 2 starters a weak schedule does not guarantee wins.

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Texas opened up Big 12 Tourney play as the 7th seed taking on 10th seed Texas Tech.
Texassports.com Story

They picked up right where they left out last Wednesday winning by 12.  In other news, 5th seeded OU lost to 12th seeded Missouri.  The first time a 12 seed has ever won a game in the Big 12 tourney.

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