Forty Acres Insider: May 10

Longhorn Nation,

Ain’t nothin’ gonna break our stride as we’re off and working with the Texas Fight Tour and one other superior week of Texas Athletics. But first I do need to begin this week by reflecting. Sunday was an additional big day because it was an opportunity to bathe the wonderful matriarchs in our lives with appreciation, love and affection on Mother’s Day. Here’s hoping everybody had some pleasurable household time, enjoyable festivities and a joyous day as we took time to honor, pay tribute to and have fun the actually particular moms in all places. Our groups offered loads of weekend cheer, as effectively, with each our Tennis squads charging up the Texas Tennis Center and sweeping all 4 of their matches in advancing to the Sweet Sixteen! Baseball bought a sequence win at West Virginia, whereas Softball honored its seniors and secured a sequence win over Baylor, too.

Nobody’s gonna sluggish us down — I really like that Nineteen Eighties traditional hit —so let’s get proper again at it and stampede into one other thrilling week filled with Longhorn motion. Women’s Golf is already in motion on the NCAA Albuquerque Regional as they search a sixth-straight NCAA Championship bid. Track & Field heads to Lubbock trying to defend their Big 12 Outdoor Championships, and Rowing will do the identical proper right here in Austin on Sunday morning. And on Monday, we joined the Texas Exes in kicking off the Texas Fight Tour in San Antonio, with Dallas set for Wednesday and Fort Worth Thursday. It’s such a good time to share the good issues occurring on our campus, for fellowship and to point out our Texas ardour, pleasure and spirit. Y’all introduced it big-time, and we respect you all becoming a member of us.

Get your finest Burnt Orange and White garb prepared, have a week-filled with Texas Fight and Hook ‘Em Horns, and collectively, let’s do that Longhorn Nation!

Football Season Tickets are going quick!  

We’re so fired up for the 2022 Football season and may inform y’all are too! Season ticket gross sales have topped 60,000 and already surpassed final 12 months’s mark! For that, we’re so grateful and ship an enormous thanks to all of you who’re on board. If you have not gotten on the practice but, what are you ready for? Season tickets proceed to go at a quick a livid tempo, and there is only some thousand left within the most variety of about 65,000 now we have accessible to promote. Bear in thoughts that buying season tickets is the ONLY option to assure tickets for our monumental matchup with Alabama on Sept. 10. Darrell Okay Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium would be the place to be for that epic matchup of two iconic and legendary soccer applications, and all seven residence video games this season, so do not miss out. There are plenty of totally different choices to contemplate, out of your conventional season tickets to premium seating choices and the UFCU Field Club location, simply name 512-471-3333 (Monday-Friday/9 a.m.-4 p.m. CT) to debate or learn extra about it proper right here.

Both Men’s and Women’s Tennis Advance to the NCAA Sweet 16

How about that dominant residence weekend for our Men’s and Women’s Tennis Teams?! Thanks to nice help from Longhorn Nation on the Texas Tennis Center, each our Men and Women earned back-to-back 4-0 SWEEPS in NCAA First and Second Round motion on Friday and Saturday to advance to the oh so Sweet 16. Texas is certainly one of simply six faculties to have BOTH its males’s and ladies’s tennis squads attain this far. For Coach Joffe and our fourth-seeded Women, we blanked Ball State and an excellent No. 18 Michigan workforce to succeed in the Round of 16 for the twenty fifth time in program historical past and the fourth time in six alternatives below Coach Joffe. And the perfect half is we get to play our subsequent match towards No. 14 Auburn proper right here on the TTC! So make plans now to go away work early on Friday, as we’ll want you loud and proud once we take the court docket at midday for a spot within the quarterfinals. For the Men, it is now the eighth-straight and thirty third complete time they’ve reached the Sweet 16 after they swept Idaho and LSU. That’s made all of the extra spectacular by what Coach Berque and our guys have needed to overcome, not ONCE having a completely wholesome lineup the complete season. Just wonderful. Because of that, they will be heading on the highway this week to Coach Berque’s previous stompin’ grounds of Michigan the place they will tackle the fifth-seeded Wolverines on Saturday at midday CT. So let’s ship ’em all of our constructive Burnt Orange vibes as they appear to get again to the quarterfinals for the third-straight time and fourth within the final 5! Oh, and should you missed any of the Sweet Saturday motion on the TTC and are able to get pumped up, take a look at these unbelievable movies from our artistic workforce! (Keep a particular eye out for a fantastic cameo two-shot of our tremendous fan Prez, the one and solely Jay Hartzell, and certainly one of our tennis GOATs Christian Sigsgaard gettin’ all types of fired up!)

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Track and Field Readies for Big 12 Outdoor Championships

Another week and one other set of top-10 Texas performances as Coach Flo and our Track and Field squad simply hold rewriting the report books. This time, it was out west on the Oregon Twilight meet the place Crayton Carrozza had the highest school end within the males’s 1500m, whereas Yaseen Abdalla took second within the males’s 5000m with each shifting into the highest 10 within the Longhorn annals. That units the stage as each our top-ranked Men’s and Women’s groups head to Lubbock for the Big 12 Outdoor Championships in an effort to comply with their sweep of the indoor titles earlier this 12 months. Get this, if they will pull off the double, it could be solely the sixth time in league historical past a workforce has accomplished a full sweep of the lads’s and ladies’s indoor and outside titles. And guess who may have been answerable for 5 of these…you betcha, that will be The University of Texas! And to prime it off, it could be the primary time anybody has performed it in consecutive years. Our Women are additionally searching for a three-peat of the outside title, whereas the Men try to go back-to-back. Twelve Texas occasions rank No. 1 within the convention, whereas each Women’s relays and Tripp Piperi enter the weekend with the highest NCAA marks. Piperi additionally seems to make it 9 Big 12 shot put titles this weekend. With NCAAs shut on the horizon, there is no time to decelerate now. Tune into ESPN+ for the three day meet and watch our Horns placed on a present. Go get ’em, Flo and firm!

Rowing seeks to defend its Big 12 Crown proper right here in Austin

Coach Dave O’Neill and our defending National Champion and No. 1-ranked Rowing squad are set to defend their Big 12 crown this Sunday on Walter E. Long Lake (9 a.m. CT). After complete domination all season lengthy and recent off a sweep of all 5 races on the Longhorn Invite, our crews will likely be going for a seventh-straight Big 12 title! The First Varsity Eight boat’s spectacular efficiency on the invite earned them a second consecutive Big 12 Boat of the Week honor, as they continue to be unbeaten during the last two years and look primed for large issues as we head into championship season. Entry for this weekend’s regatta is free, so head out to the lake this Sunday and joins us for some enjoyable within the solar and to assist pull our Horns victory!

Baseball will get a sequence win at West Virginia

Coach Pierce and our Horns traveled to Morgantown and took two of three over West Virginia. Friday’s sport was pushed to Saturday on account of inclement climate and our Horns responded with a doubleheader sweep. Pete Hansen tossed one other gem in sport one, pitching 8 2/3 innings and permitting simply two runs and 6 hits in a 5-2 triumph. Our pitching was magnificent in sport two as Lucas Gordon threw a seven-inning, 11-0 run-rule full sport shutout. Ivan Melendez continued to steer us on the plate, blasting three homers in these two video games to up his complete to 25 on the season. That’s the second-most in a season in Longhorn historical past, simply three shy of Kyle Russell’s report set in 2007! The Hispanic Titanic, who drove this one to the moon over the left subject fence, was 5-for-11 with three residence runs and 7 RBI on the weekend and with that was tabbed the National Player of the Week as soon as once more! It was a good one on Sunday, falling 8-6 within the sequence finale, however we may have an opportunity to bounce again tonight. It’s a time when our Horns will get a little bit of a break in between internet hosting a pair of non-conference video games at UFCU Disch-Falk Field this Tuesday (vs. Texas Southern/6:30 p.m. CT/LHN) and subsequent (vs. Sam Houston/6:30 p.m./LHN), earlier than a Big 12 residence sequence with Kansas that marks the ultimate common season video games of the season. The Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Championship follows, starting on Wednesday, May 25, at Globe Life Field in Arlington.

Softball closes out common season with sequence win over Baylor, on to postseason

Coach White and our Horns completed the common season sturdy with a sequence victory over Baylor in a weekend that included a particular “Senior Day” tribute to our six standout seniors. One of these excellent seniors, Janae Jefferson, etched her identify within the UT report e book as soon as once more by breaking the Longhorn profession doubles report on Saturday. The sequence began in Waco on Friday the place we constructed an early eight-run lead, banged out 14 hits and held off a late Baylor flurry in a 10-6 win. After a troublesome one Saturday in Austin, Sunday was a particular sport at McCombs Field with Hailey Dolcini registering an entire sport shutout as our Horns rolled into the post-season with a 6-0 blanking of the Bears on Mother’s Day. And for her efficiency final weekend, Hailey was tabbed the Big 12 Pitcher of the Week this week! Now with the common season within the books, the Longhorns have secured the No. 3 seed on this week’s Big 12 Championship match that begins on Thursday on the USA Softball Hall of Fame Complex in Oklahoma City. It’s single elimination this 12 months, and the Horns will search to outlive and advance towards sixth-seeded Texas Tech on Thursday evening (6 p.m. CT/ESPN+).

Women’s Golf in motion at NCAA Albuquerque Regional

Fresh off a Big 12 Championship – Coach Murphy’s fourth within the final 5 performed – our Women’s Golf squad is within the midst of competing for a spot within the NCAA Championship on the NCAA Albuquerque Regional. It’s a homecoming for Coach Murphy, who grew up in New Mexico and was a standout golfer and assistant coach for the Lobos. After the opening spherical of the 54-hole occasion on the historic Championship Golf Course at UNM, our No. 3-seeded Horns are proper within the thick of issues among the many 12-team subject. The prime 4 groups from every of the six regional websites throughout the nation advance to the NCAA Championship (May 20-25) at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Ariz. That’s what we’re trying to do for the sixth 12 months in a row and thirtieth time in program historical past, so let’s comply with alongside on all of our platforms throughout Wednesday’s last spherical and cheer on our Horns!

Men’s Golf heads to Norman for NCAA Regional Championship 

One of the most popular groups within the nation, Coach Fields and our Men’s Golf squad earned the No. 2 seed within the NCAA Norman Regional. Our Horns will likely be certainly one of 13 groups to compete on the Jimmie Austin Golf Club on May 16-18 (Monday-Wednesday), with the low 5 groups advancing to the NCAA Championship from May 27-June 1 in Scottsdale, Ariz. In its final 5 tournaments, our group has recorded a pair of wins, a second-place end and two third-place outcomes and has a mixed workforce rating of 97-under-par. Those are simply WOW scoring numbers. The workforce is able to Take Dead Aim on qualifying for the NCAA Championship for a Fifteenth-straight time, a streak that dates again to 2008 and is the longest energetic one within the nation!

41 Track & Field student-athletes earn Academic All-Big 12

Our No. 1-ranked Track & Field groups usually are not solely the perfect within the nation and the world of their sport, however they’re doing massive issues within the classroom, too! How about 41 of our Longhorn tracksters incomes Academic All-Big 12 honors?! Thirty-four of the honorees have been first-team members with seven extra making the second-team. That deserves one massive, emphatic Hook ‘Em to Coach Flo and all of our student-athletes for a job effectively performed! 

More Longhorns Earn Big 12 Weekly Honors

Kudos are to ensure that plenty of latest sensational performances by Longhorn student-athletes. It’s one other honor for Softball’s Hailey Dolcini because the senior proper hander was named the Big 12 Pitcher of the Week for the third time this season after dominating from the circle throughout our Big 12 sequence win over Baylor. The Ferndale, Calif., native went 2-0 with an ideal 0.00 ERA and 12 strikeouts over 11 innings pitched whereas permitting simply 5 complete hits and limiting the Bears to a miniscule .135 batting common. Hailey’s finest efficiency of the weekend got here in Sunday’s finale as she fired a three-hit shutout to finish the common season with a 6-0 victory. Like we talked about earlier, Baseball’s Ivan Melendez was tabbed Big 12 Player of the Week this week, as effectively. He hit .571 with three residence runs and 9 RBIs whereas extending his hitting streak to a conference-leading 16 video games. Late final week after the Forty Acres Insider went out, we bought phrase that our Track & Field squad swept the Big 12 Athlete of the Week honors. For the Women, it was our spectacular 4x100m relay workforce of Julien Alfred, Rhasidat Adeleke, Kevona Davis and Kynnedy Flannel that broke our faculty report and posted a blistering NCAA-leading time of 42.37 seconds in profitable that occasion on the LSU Invitational. Talk about en fuego, that quartet has run 4 of the 5 quickest 4x100m relay occasions at school historical past — a protracted and illustrious one in that relay — this spring. On the Men’s facet, a reputation we are saying rather a lot, Jonathan Jones, introduced residence the glory after profitable the 400m sprint on the LSU Invitational in 44.79 seconds, the third-fastest time at school historical past, second-best within the NCAA, and No. 8 on the planet this season. He additionally led our Horns to a second-place end within the 4x400m relay in Baton Rouge.

Another Full Week on the 40

We’ve bought a lot happening this week on The Forty and past with NCAA and Big 12 Championship play. Women’s Golf is within the midst of NCAA Regional Championship competitors in a homecoming for our head coach Ryan Murphy in Albuquerque, whereas Men’s and Women’s Tennis superior to the subsequent spherical of NCAA Championship play and with the Women internet hosting their upcoming match proper right here on the Texas Tennis Center. In Big 12 Championship motion, on the heels of a sequence win over Baylor, Softball is headed to Oklahoma City for the Big 12 Tournament later this week, and Track and Field is off to Lubbock to defend their Big 12 Outdoor Championships. After a sequence win at West Virginia, Baseball has a little bit of a break between internet hosting Texas Southern on Tuesday and Sam Houston the next Tuesday. After that, Kansas involves UFCU Disch-Falk Field for our last Big 12 sequence later this month (May 19-21). Also Men’s Golf will likely be at their NCAA Norman Regional Championship early subsequent week, trying to qualify for the NCAA Championship.

Monday:

• Women’s Golf at NCAA Regional Championship

• Texas Fight Tour (San Antonio)

Tuesday:

• Women’s Golf at NCAA Regional Championship

• Baseball vs. Texas Southern

Wednesday:

• Women’s Golf at NCAA Regional Championship

• Texas Fight Tour (Dallas)

Thursday:

• Softball at Big 12 Championship

• Texas Fight Tour (Fort Worth)

Friday:

• Softball at Big 12 Championship*

• Track & Field at Big 12 Outdoor Championship

• Women’s Tennis vs. No. 14 Auburn in NCAA Round of 16

Saturday:

• Softball at Big 12 Championship*

• Track & Field at Big 12 Outdoor Championship

• Men’s Tennis at No. 5 Michigan in NCAA Round of 16

Sunday:

• Rowing hosts Big 12 Championship

• Track & Field at Big 12 Outdoor Championship

Monday:

• Men’s Golf at NCAA Regional Championship

Tuesday:

• Men’s Golf at NCAA Regional Championship

• Baseball vs. Sam Houston

Wednesday:

• Men’s Golf at NCAA Regional Championship

*If Texas advances

Longhorn Associate Head Coach for Athletic Performance Melissa Schmitz Honored

Kudos are to ensure that our Associate Head Coach for Athletic Performance extraordinaire Melissa Schmitz, who final week was acknowledged as a Master Strength and Conditioning Coach by the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches affiliation (CSCCa). That’s the very best honor given within the power and conditioning occupation and so well-deserved! Melissa acquired her blue MSCC Jacket final week on the nationwide group’s convention in Oklahoma City, and we all know she is going to put on it effectively. Thank you for all you do for Texas Athletics, and congratulations my pal!

We bought to maintain on movin’ my pals. Big 12 Championships are on the road, we’re within the warmth of NCAA Championship season, the Texas Fight Tour has commenced, and there is a lot extra happening. What a good time it’s to be a Longhorn, and even higher, we have you proper there pushing and pulling for us all the way in which. We’re runnin’ and we cannot contact floor! Together, let’s do that Longhorn Nation!!

Hook ‘Em Horns,

Chris Del Conte 

Chris Del Conte

P.S. — You learn that proper, TWO hole-in-one’s in the identical spherical!

P.S. — It’s such a pleasure seeing our Longhorns making an affect in the neighborhood

P.S. — We see ya supporting our pals at Austin FC Coach Sark!

P.S. — Light the Tower … completely LOVE this!

P.S. — Always on the reducing fringe of expertise right here! This is so dang cool!!

P.S. — Congrats to our Longhorn Legends and latest members of the Texas High School Football Hall of fame Colt McCoy and Tony Brackens!

P.S. — Lookin’ good Coach Beard, congrats on the glory!