Longhorn Nation,
First and foremost, this is hoping everybody had a unbelievable Easter Weekend and loved a chance to spend time with household, mates and family members throughout a really particular vacation. For me, there’s nothing fairly like Easter Sunday Service, breaking bread and celebrating with household, and people Easter egg hunts all of you with younger’uns certainly partook in. So many nice reminiscences, and I belief y’all added many extra this previous weekend. I do know one other celebration that carried into Sunday and one we cannot quickly overlook is the scene at Red & Charline McCombs Field, you and the record-setting crowd, and one wonderful Softball victory on Saturday.
Speaking of reminiscences, it is time to get able to make some extra of these this week with actions aplenty on the Forty Acres. We’ve bought our Spring Football extravaganza, “Made in Austin” weekend, video games, matches, meets and Big 12 Championship competitors on the docket, and a lot extra!
Before we discuss concerning the plethora of sporting occasions we’ve got on faucet for this week, let’s first discuss that wonderful constructing you’ve got seen growing from the bottom up. The ceremonial ribbon was minimize on Tuesday morning, it is now up and operating and the doorways are opening on the spectacular Moody Center. The Moody Center is in enterprise this week with its first public live performance on Wednesday, and what a spectacular website and state-of-the-art facility it’s!
Ribbon Cutting Complete and the Spectacular Moody Center is Officially Opening
The ribbon was minimize, the doorways have been open, and the long run residence of our Longhorn Men’s and Women’s Basketball groups is fired up and able to go. What a tremendous facility and only a spectacular jewel that our campus group, basketball groups, town of Austin and the music and leisure business can proudly name their residence. It actually can be a sport changer for our group, a distinguished fixture for The University of Texas, a beacon in Central Texas, an unbelievable live performance and leisure venue, and the best faculty basketball area within the nation, fingers down. Since building started in December 2019, we have been watching our world-class venue develop out of the canyon dug deep within the coronary heart of our campus, and we’re so darned fired up that it is open for enterprise. We will not have our first basketball video games till the autumn, however stay up for the wonderful lineup of concert events and exhibits which are deliberate for the approaching weeks and months, beginning this week!
With a Record-Setting Crowd within the House, Softball Snaps OU 40-Game Win Streak
What a Super Saturday it was at Red & Charline McCombs Field. Coach White and our Longhorns have been in a hard-fought Red River Showdown Series with No. 1 and undefeated OU. The first two video games had their moments, however we got here up brief, organising one wonderful victory within the sequence finale. On a stunning, sunlit afternoon with a file crowd of 1,698 followers in the home, and our legend Cat Osterman’s jersey retirement ceremony and first pitch beginning the day, our Horns rallied within the fifth and sixth innings to safe a 4-2 victory. With Cat readily available and calling the sport for LHN, she witnessed a gem within the circle from our senior pitcher Hailey Dolcini, who picked up the complete-game win after limiting the top-ranked Sooner offense to 2 runs on a season-low two hits with no walks and three strikeouts. It snapped the defending National Champions’ 40-game profitable streak, set off a joyous celebration in our dugout and the stadium erupted. That McCombs Field magic was on full show all day, and it actually was a beautiful sight and a memorable sport for the historical past books! And how about you, Longhorns Nation?! You got here out in full pressure, offered your patented pleasure, ardour and tons of juice, not solely on the record-setting day, however for an all-time greatest sequence attendance mark of 4,883. It was an excellent day to be a Longhorn, and we will not thanks sufficient to your assist! We’re again at residence on Wednesday night time to face Houston (7 p.m.). Let’s pack the home earlier than we ship our Horns off on a seven-game street journey. We will not be again at McCombs till the ultimate two video games of the common season vs. Baylor (May 7-8), so be there or be sq. on Wednesday Night. Let’s rock the home!
Retiring our Longhorn Legend Cat Osterman’s No. 8
What a big day it was at Red & Charline McCombs Field on Saturday as we retired the variety of our Longhorn Legend Cat Osterman, one of many biggest to put on the Burnt Orange & White. A 3-time National Player of the Year and two-time ESPY Award winner for Best Female College Athlete, who led us to the College World Series thrice, Cat was as dominant of a school athlete as you may ever see. When she took the circle with that No. 8 jersey she made well-known, she was simply unstoppable and wonderful to look at. She completely modified the sport! And after her time on the Forty, she continued her dominance, profitable a number of Olympic Medals and National Pro Fastpitch titles throughout a protracted and illustrious profession. No matter what she does — enjoying, teaching, broadcasting — she’s an excellent success, and we’re so dang pleased with her and honored to have her No. 8 proudly hanging at McCombs Field as a tribute and reminder of her greatness.
Are You Ready for Some Football?! It’s Time for the Orange-White Game and Made in Austin Weekend
Spring Football has hit its crescendo, and all the thrilling plans have come collectively. We cannot wait to welcome y’all to campus this Saturday for a day stuffed with occasions round our Orange-White Game introduced by Living Spaces at DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium. And admission to the Orange-White Game, in addition to all of the actions surrounding the stadium are FREE! We can watch our staff and have some fellowship as there can be actions across the stadium starting at 2 p.m. on an action-packed Saturday on the Forty. There’s a lot, way more as it is a large day of celebrating the whole lot Texas, and a part of the “Made in Austin Weekend” occasions that cowl a number of days from April 22-24. You can take a look at the festivities, occasions and all the small print for what’s gonna be one heck of a time proper right here! So, make your plans to affix us on the Forty, get your greatest Burnt Orange & White garb prepared, and let’s do that! I’m fired as much as get collectively for one more spectacular household reunion!
Wall to Wall Football Coverage from our Friends at LHN this Weekend
In addition to all of its sports activities broadcasts this week, remember to hold it tuned to LHN for a full slate of Spring Football protection on Friday and Saturday. It all begins with the ever-popular and all the time entertaining All Access present that premieres on Friday night time at 6 p.m. CT. If you possibly can’t make it out to the sport on Saturday — and even in case you are remember to lock it in on file at residence — LHN has you coated. Texas GameDay will preview the Spring Game at 5:30 p.m. CT with Orange-White Game protection and Texas GameDay Final to comply with that. There can be numerous acquainted faces dropping information with ace host Lowell Galindo main the dialogue and veterans behind the mic and Longhorn greats Michael Griffin and Fozzy Whittaker joined on set by one other former Horn and NFL star Kenny Vaccaro. Don’t miss all of the dialog, banter and superior content material as we rejoice the spring and get revved up for the autumn!
While We’re Talkin’ Football, If You’re Not a Season Ticket Holder, Here’s Your Chance
For these of you who aren’t season ticket holders, let’s get on board. Place a deposit to change into a brand new season ticket holder for the 2022 Texas Football season for less than $199 per seat! You’ll be capable of select the precise location of your seats this spring earlier than most of the people, and apply the $199 deposit to the total value of season tickets. All season ticket deposits are NON-REFUNDABLE. NEW SEASON TICKET STEP-BY-STEP PROCESS.
Men’s Golf Brings Home a Second Straight Team Title, This Time on the Western Intercollegiate
Coach Fields and our Men’s Golf staff is cookin’ with gasoline these final couple of weeks. First it was a visit to the southeast and a staff victory on the Augusta Haskins Award Invitational. Then final week, we traveled westward and introduced residence the championship {hardware} once more on the Western Intercollegiate. In the historic and prestigious 75-year-old event, we surged into the lead on day two and sealed a one-stroke win over Pepperdine within the three-day occasion. Four of our Horns completed within the particular person high 10, led by Big 12 Player of the Month Pierceson Coody, who tied for second, adopted by Travis Vick, Mason Nome and Cole Hammer all tied for seventh. And it could not occur at a greater time with the postseason upon us. Early subsequent week, our Horns will keep proper right here in our nice state and compete for the Big 12 Championship Monday by Wednesday (April 25-27) at Whispering Pines Golf Club in Trinity.
Women’s Golf Finishes Third of their Final Tune-Up earlier than Big 12 Championships
Playing proper up the street in Fort Worth at Waterchase Golf Club, our Longhorns scored a 10-under-par 278 within the ultimate spherical to complete third within the staff standings at The Bruzzy. Bentley Cotton turned in the very best end of her collegiate profession, taking fourth-place within the particular person standings at seven-under-par 209 (75-68-66). Bohyun Park and Brigitte Thibault each completed tied for 14th at one-over-par 217. That was the ultimate tune-up for the Big 12 Championship as Coach Murphy and our squad head to Houston Oaks this Friday by Sunday (April 22-24) to compete for a convention crown.
Men’s Tennis Closes Out Regular Season with a Pair of Wins, This Week it is Big 12 Tourney Time
What every week we had on the courts as Coach Berque and our Men journeyed north throughout the Red River and got here residence with a pair of wins, first with a 7-0 sweep of the Sooners after which a 5-2 win over the Cowboys the place the final two matches got here right down to tiebreakers that nearly gave them one other sweep. With that, the common season is completed, and so they’ll be the three seed on the Big 12 Tourney in Fort Worth and switch proper round and play Oklahoma State once more on Friday at 3 p.m. This staff has proven a lot Texas Fight all yr to work previous a laundry checklist of accidents, however nonetheless stayed within the top-15 all through. If they will get wholesome, be careful, they’re pretty much as good as anybody within the nation.
Season-Ending Victory Sends Women’s Tennis to Big 12 Tourney as No. 2 Seed
Coach Joffe and our Women’s Tennis staff wrapped up the common season with a tough fought 4-3 win over No. 21 Baylor in Waco on Saturday. Our No. 4-ranked squad earned its eleventh victory in opposition to a nationally-ranked opponent this spring. A shoutout to freshman Vivian Ovrootsky, who used that good ‘ole Texas Fight to rally for a 2-6, 6-1, 6-4 win in singles and clinch the general dual-match victory. Now it is time for postseason play, and our Longhorns head as much as Fort Worth because the No. 2 seed on the Big 12 Championship this Friday by Sunday.
What an Incredible Scene at The Greg for Texas Spring Volleyball
Talk about bringin’ it, y’all did big-time at Gregory Gym for our spring Volleyball match final Thursday in opposition to Baylor. It was one raucous night time, and 4 spectacular units of Hook ‘Ems, Texas Fights, fist pumps, and bumps, units and spikes. Coach Elliott and the staff appeared unimaginable and primed for one more nice season, whereas y’all have been in full-fledged, regular-season kind. And with wins at Texas State and TCU, as effectively, whether or not it was residence or away, our Horns have been totally dominant this spring! There’s a ton of momentum heading into the low season and we will not wait to see you and celebration within the Greg this fall!
Four Longhorn Football Standouts Named to NFF Hampshire Honor Society
Our Horns have been effectively represented within the 2022 National Football Foundation Hampshire Society that acknowledges the nation’s premier student-athletes. The 4 student-athletes that obtained the dignity have been tight finish Cade Brewer, kicker/punter Cameron Dicker, offensive lineman Derek Kerstetter and deep snapper Justin Mader. It’s a staff that is comprised of school soccer gamers from all divisions who every maintained a 3.2 cumulative grade level common or greater throughout their careers. Along with the GPA requirement, the student-athletes which are nominated by their respective colleges should have accomplished their ultimate yr of enjoying eligibility in 2021, been starters or important contributors final season and met all NCAA-mandated progress towards diploma necessities. That foursome checked all of the packing containers, and we’re extraordinarily pleased with every one among them for this well-deserved honor!
Twelve Longhorn Golfers Garner Academic All-Big 12 Honors
Twelve of our Men’s and Women’s Golfers and 4 Football student-athletes earned Academic All-Big 12 honors final week, 9 of which have been members of the first-team. Eight of our Men’s Golfers have been tabbed Academic All-Big 12, with Parker Coody, Cole Hammer, Mason Nome, Robert Patton and Will Thomson all receiving first-team recognition. Pierceson Coody, Randall Fojtasek and Travis Vick made the second-team. On the Women’s squad, Sara Kouskova led a gaggle of 4 first-team Academic All-Big 12 alternatives. For Kouskova, it was her third-straight first-team Academic All-Big 12 staff choice, whereas Sophie Guo earned that recognition for a second time, and Bentley Cotton and Ashleigh Park have been chosen Academic All-Big 12 for the primary time.
More Longhorns Earn Big 12 Weekly/Monthly Honors
After her efficiency final week, there is definitely no shock right here that Hailey Dolcini was not solely named the Big 12 Co-Pitcher of the Week, however the Wilson/NFCA National Pitcher of the Week. Hailey tossed a pair of full video games whereas limiting the nation’s top-ranked offense to a .100 total batting common. The Ferndale, Calif. native held Oklahoma to simply three and two hits, respectively, marking the fewest hits for OU in any single sport since a minimum of 2019. On Saturday through the sequence finale, the senior shut out the top-ranked Sooners for six.1 innings whereas serving to Texas finish Oklahoma’s 40-game profitable streak. Additionally, news of our Rowing squad’s First Eight incomes Big 12 Boat of the Week honors final week got here in after the Forty Acres Insider went out so I need to remember to ship kudos and emphatic Hook ‘Ems to them. That First Eight boat featured coxswain Rachel Rane, in addition to Kaitlin Knifton, Susanna Temming, Etta Carpender, Anna Jensen, Aspa Christodoulidis, Grace Holland, Sophia Calabrese and Lisa Gutfleisch. Congrats on an superior victory at Michigan!
Another Week, Another Longhorn Victory on the PGA TOUR
The previous couple of weeks it has been Scottie Scheffler with latest victories on the WGC Match Play and the Masters, and now this week it is Longhorn Legend Jordan Spieth bringing residence a PGA Tour win. Jordan put his greatest Texas Fight to work, profitable the RBC Heritage on the primary gap of a sudden-death playoff in opposition to Patrick Cantlay on Sunday afternoon at Harbour Town Golf Links. It was his thirteenth profession PGA TOUR victory and first for the reason that 2021 Valero Texas Open. His win comes one week after Scottie received the Masters in Augusta. The two former Longhorns have now produced 5 PGA TOUR wins within the final 64 days. That deserves an empathic Hook ‘Em Horns and congratulations to Jordan!
Longhorn Legend Carlette Guidry Selected to USTFCCCA Collegiate Track & Field Hall of Fame
Sending congratulations and a big-time Hook ‘Em to our Longhorn Legend and Olympic Gold Medalist Carlette Guidry. Last week, the USTFCCCA featured her among the many illustrious group of all-time collegiate greats chosen for his or her Hall of Fame. Carlette will eternally be remembered as one of many premier sprinters in not solely Longhorn lore, however NCAA historical past, too. Twelve NCAA particular person and relay titles, 23 All-American honors, and her seven particular person dash nationwide titles nonetheless stand because the most-ever by any man or girl in NCAA historical past. The 1991 National Track & Field Athlete of the Year, she leaped to an NCAA Indoor Long Jump crown as a freshman and received Olympic Gold Medals on Team USA’s 4x100m relays in 1992 and 1996. Just an absolute all-time nice and legend who’s past worthy of this honor. Congratulations Carlette, you are merely the very best!
Another full week on the 40
We’ve bought quite a bit occurring this week on The Forty and past. Women’s Golf, Men’s Tennis and Women’s Tennis are competing for Big 12 Championships with Men’s Golf on the calendar for early subsequent week. Baseball had a troublesome sequence at Kansas State, however received Sunday’s ultimate sport and can look to hold the momentum of that victory into 5 video games within the pleasant confines of UFCU Disch-Falk Field this week. First, we have got Air Force on the town for a pair of mid-week video games, tonight and tomorrow, adopted by a Big 12 sequence versus Baylor this weekend. Track & Field is coming off one other week crammed with victories and nice occasions, heights and distances on the prestigious Mt. Sac Relays. Now they will head up I-35 this week for the Michael Johnson Invitational in Waco. Meanwhile, following a Wednesday sport with Houston at Red & Charline McCombs Field, Softball will go a little bit additional north for a key sequence of highly-ranked groups at Oklahoma State. Our top-ranked Rowing squad will head east to Princeton, N.J., to compete in opposition to No. 4 Princeton and No. 17 Rutgers. Soccer hosts a pair of Spring Soccer matches proper right here at Mike A. Myers Stadium, and naturally, there’s the Orange-White Game on Saturday night time at DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium (6 p.m./LHN) besides.
Tuesday
• Baseball vs. Air Force (6:30 p.m.)
Wednesday
• Baseball vs. Air Force (4 p.m.)
• Softball vs. Houston (7 p.m.)
Friday
• Baseball vs. Baylor (6:30 p.m.)
• Softball at Oklahoma State (6 p.m.)
• Track & Field at Michael Johnson Invitational
• Women’s Golf at Big 12 Championship
• Men’s Tennis at Big 12 Championship Tournament
• Women’s Tennis at Big 12 Championship Tournament
• Soccer Spring Match vs. St. Edward’s (7 p.m.)
Saturday
• Baseball vs. Baylor (1 p.m.)
• Football Spring Game (6 p.m.)
• Women’s Golf at Big 12 Championship
• Rowing vs. Princeton and Rutgers (Princeton, N.J.)
• Softball vs. Oklahoma State (6:30 p.m.)
• Men’s Tennis at Big 12 Tennis Championship Tournament (semifinal match*)
• Women’s Tennis at Big 12 Championship Tournament (semifinal match*)
• Track & Field at Michael Johnson Invitational
Sunday:
• Baseball vs. Baylor (1 p.m.)
• Women’s Golf at Big 12 Championship
• Softball vs. Oklahoma State (1 p.m.)
• Men’s Tennis at Big 12 Championship Tournament (championship match*)
• Women’s Tennis at Big 12 Championship Tournament (championship match*)
• Soccer Spring Match vs. UTSA (2:30 p.m.)
Monday:
• Men’s Golf at Big 12 Championship
Tuesday:
• Baseball at UTRGV
• Men’s Golf at Big 12 Championship
Wednesday:
• Men’s Golf at Big 12 Championship
*If Texas advances
In closing, what a unbelievable week we had and one other thrilling one forward. It’s such a good time to be a Longhorn, so let’s get decked out in our Burnt Orange & White greatest, get these Horns Up and do that! .
Hook ‘Em Horns,
Chris Del Conte
Chris Del Conte
P.S. I — Tripp, you all the time convey it my pal!
P.S. II – 10.98! Are these flames underneath Julien’s ft?!!
P.S. III – Had ourselves a yr certainly, what a terrific look again at an amazing Women’s Basketball season!
P.S. IV — Love our student-athletes! This was such a enjoyable night time at DKR!!
P.S. V — Thanks for all you’ve got accomplished Josh, you may be missed however we’ll all the time admire the whole lot you probably did to assist Texas Athletics my pal!
