2025 Women's Volleyball Thread

[Jeff Howe]

Texas comes up one win shy of the Final Four. Wisconsin wins the regional final at Gregory Gym, 3-2.

Texas ends the season with a record of 26-4.

[dentonhorn]

10 minutes ago, Jeff Howe said:

Texas comes up one win shy of the Final Four. Wisconsin wins the regional final at Gregory Gym, 3-2.

Texas ends the season with a record of 26-4.

Lot coming back next year, be in the thick again. 

[.45s]

18 minutes ago, Jeff Howe said:

Texas comes up one win shy of the Final Four. Wisconsin wins the regional final at Gregory Gym, 3-2.

Texas ends the season with a record of 26-4.

Only watched bits and piece but they had a long way to come back.  Wisconsin played great and we were a bit off.  Good season though and should also be really good next year.

[ArizonaLonghorn]

1 hour ago, Jeff Howe said:

Texas comes up one win shy of the Final Four. Wisconsin wins the regional final at Gregory Gym, 3-2.

Pretty sure it was 3-1 ...

[HookemTexas]

Texas might go after Izzy Starck, the star setter from Penn St who’s in the transfer portal.  She led Penn St. to the title last year.

[ChanmanV]

Stratford and Swindle picked a terrible day to have the worse games of their season.

 

[SuperDave0805]

33 minutes ago, ChanmanV said:

Stratford and Swindle picked a terrible day to have the worse games of their season.

 

Swindle can be really good but tends to have off nights, Maybe Elliot needs to bring in another setter he can put in when Swindle struggles 

[Califashorn75]

Watching volleyball is the most angst ridden sport to watch. The swings go back and forth and the margin of error is miniscule. I can't watch it. 

[Bobby Burton]

8 hours ago, SuperDave0805 said:

Swindle can be really good but tends to have off nights, Maybe Elliot needs to bring in another setter he can put in when Swindle struggles 

He tried that some yesterday.

Can never put a match down to one person. But when the setter is inconsistent, it effects the whole game.

[HornsInAmarillo]

10 hours ago, HookemTexas said:

Texas might go after Izzy Starck, the star setter from Penn St who’s in the transfer portal.  She led Penn St. to the title last year.

A good setter is exactly what’s needed. Way too inconsistent with what we have. Way too inconsistent. 

[HookemTexas]

15 minutes ago, HornsInAmarillo said:

A good setter is exactly what’s needed. Way too inconsistent with what we have. Way too inconsistent. 

Don't have any info, however what is fact is that Starck's mother played volleyball for Texas, albeit was before Coach Elliott took over the program.  So hopefully there's interest from her as she was the freshman of the year last year and entered the portal for mental health.  Texas' previous players have often said that coming to Texas brought back the love of volleyball for them (latest one being Madi Skinner).

[GoHorns1]

Find it kinda of funny that suddenly a bunch of volleyball experts are posting after season ended short of the Final Four.

[Migas & Fajitas]

15 minutes ago, GoHorns1 said:

Find it kinda of funny that suddenly a bunch of volleyball experts are posting after season ended short of the Final Four.

[Sarah O]

 

[HookemTexas]

7 minutes ago, Sarah O said:

 

Probably because likely Harvey is going to be a starter next year along with Nya Bunton.  This severely hurts depth though.

[Sarah O]

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[SuperDave0805]

6 hours ago, Sarah O said:

 

Dang I hate to see her go, But not surprised as she lost playing time to Harvey and Bunton

[Sarah O]

 

[HookemTexas]

43 minutes ago, Sarah O said:

 

This one hurts because she's finally healthy but the emergence of the freshman limited her playing time.  When she transferred in, coach said she had the potential to be the next franchise player.  This was also prior to Stafford joining the team as well, so logjam at the position along with the #1 recruiting coming in next year.

[Migas & Fajitas]

7 minutes ago, HookemTexas said:

This one hurts because she's finally healthy but the emergence of the freshman limited her playing time.  When she transferred in, coach said she had the potential to be the next franchise player.  This was also prior to Stafford joining the team as well, so logjam at the position along with the #1 recruiting coming in next year.

Did she leave Nebraska amicably? or was there a reason?

[HookemTexas]

11 minutes ago, Migas & Fajitas said:

Did she leave Nebraska amicably? or was there a reason?

Don't know the reasoning, but my guess would be that it was not amicably.  There were rumors there was some beef with the coach.

The reason I say that it was not amicably, is because I remember something to the effect in one of her posts about transferring to Texas, she threw shade saying "transferring to a program where they know how to win championships" - which was right after the season Texas annihilated Nebraska in the championship match.

The animosity between Texas and Nebraska in volleyball is about how it is between Texas and ou in football imo.  One of the rumors on the volleyball forum on former player Kayla Caffey (who also transferred from Nebraska) is that allegedly Cook accused her of being selfish and not a team player, so when she transferred to Texas, she never had her name put on her jersey and only had Texas to rub it in his face that she was a team player.