UT VOLLEYBALL TEAM MOVES UP TO NO. 3 IN RANKINGS

Awarded a bronze medal in one national poll, Texas’ women’s volleyball team will be eying silver throughout this week.

Texas earned the thirdmost votes in the AVCA’s weekly pol l , which was released on Monday. Before beating Texas State and No. 16 Kentucky last week, Texas was ranked sixth nationally. The win over Kentucky was UT’s third takedown of a ranked team this season.

With 1,410 points, Texas trail e d only BYU (1,590 points) and Stanford (1,543 points). BYU and Stanford were the only teams that received first-place votes.

Texas is set to play Stanford twice this week. The Long- horns will travel to Stanford on Tuesday before hosting the Cardinal on Friday night. On Monday, Texas said it had less than 100 tickets remaining for the match in the 4,000- seat Gregory Gym.

Stanford has beaten UT in the last two NCAA tour- naments. The 2016 meeting between the two schools was staged in the NCAA’s championship game. Five Long- horns who appeared in that title tilt are still on campus, and Stanford has retained four players from that fourset match in Columbus, Ohio.

Soccer: Katie Glenn earned the honor of Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week for lead- ing the undefeated Long- horns in scoring last week.

Glenn scored two goals and made an assist in two games, a 2-1 win over Texas State and a 4-0 victory over Houston Baptist.

Glenn makes it the third straight weeks that the Long- horns are represented in the weekly Big 12 honors.

Texas gets back on the pitch Friday as they host UT-Rio Grande Valley at 6 p.m. at Myers Stadium.

Men’s golf: The 10th-ranked Longhorns finished in second place at the Gopher Invitational in Maple Plain, Minn. Monday.

Steven Chervony led Texas as he finished at 5 under par, shooting 208. That secured third place for the senior as William Buhl of Arkansas and Blaine Hale of Oklahoma tied for medalist honors.

Freshman Pierceson Coody took a tie for ninth as he shot 213 to finish even.

Drew Jones finished 17th after shooting 215, 2 over par.

Oklahoma won the team title, shooting 5 under. Texas shot 850 and finished three shots back. Iowa took third place.

Cross-country: Destiny Collins earned the title of Big 12 Female Runner of the Week, it was announced Tuesday.

Collins won her second race in as many tries over the weekend when she took the Rice Invitational. She beat the second-place finisher by more than 25 seconds with a time of 13 minutes, 35.0 seconds.