Central Texas weather is about to pull off a classic weekend flip-flop. Austin temperatures will surge above normal on Saturday and to near-record levels by Sunday, before a strong cold front sweeps through and brings our last chill of traditional winter on Monday.
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ROUND ROCK, Texas — The Round Rock Police Department are investigating a disturbance after there were reports of shots fired at a trampoline park Saturday evening.
At around 6:55 p.m. Saturday, Round Rock Police responded to the reports at Altitude Trampoline Park located at 2800 S I-35.
The police stated just before 8:30 p.m. that there was no evidence that a shooting occurred. The incident is being investigated as a disturbance.
No other information is available at this time. Police will release more details as they become available.
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Weather whiplash from cold front ahead for Austin: 5 graphics tell the story
Zara Graciliano of Guadalajara, Mexico, poses for a photo at the Congress Avenue Block Party during the South by Southwest Conference and Festivals in Austin on Thursday. The event space on Congress Avenue is open throughout SXSW and is free and open to the public this year.
So, get ready to break out the sunscreen and wide-brimmed hats, because the weekend will feature plenty of sunshine, breezy southerly winds and temperatures climbing well into the 80s and 90s on both Saturday and Sunday.
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Here are four maps and one chart that will tell the weather story this weekend.

The green colors indicate higher dew point temperatures and increased humidity across Texas vs. the brown and sandy colors, which highlight the dry line and drier air out west. Also, the lines show the wind direction coming from the south.
1. Humidity builds along, east of I-35
A system of high atmospheric pressure has now shifted east of Texas, allowing southerly winds to pump more moisture-rich air into Central Texas. This will bring dew point temperatures (an indicator of water vapor saturation in the air) up from the 40s on Friday to near 60 degrees on Saturday. Expect plenty of sunshine, gusty south winds and temperatures warming into the lower to mid-80s.
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A strong cold front will move into Texas as early as Sunday morning with blustery and colder temperatures behind it.
2. Cold front surges into Texas
A blustery, cold, and dry cold front will move across the Lone Star State on Sunday — first through the Panhandle during the morning, then into North-Central Texas around midday, before pushing into Central Texas during the late afternoon and reaching South Texas by Sunday evening.

Before the cold front Sunday, Texas temperatures will climb to the warmest we’ve felt so far this year, and then a blast of colder air will arrive.
3. Temperatures drop by double digits
Ahead of the front, afternoon temperatures Sunday will skyrocket into the 90s, thanks to compressional heating, which occurs when a parcel of air sinks, compresses and warms. This sometimes happens when southwesterly winds blow over the Hill Country and drop in elevation as the air moves into Austin.
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If that happens, we could see Sunday temperatures that would rival daily heat records for March 15 at both Camp Mabry and Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, Austin’s main climate observation sites. Camp Mabry’s record high is 91 degrees, set in 2016, while the airport’s record is 87 degrees, set in 1977. If those temperatures are reached, it would mark the hottest day so far this year, a degree or two warmer than the current high of 89 degrees recorded on March 3.
Behind the front, blustery north winds will send temperatures tumbling nearly 50 degrees from Sunday afternoon to early Monday morning. While we don’t expect freezing temperatures in Austin, don’t put away your winter jackets just yet.
Classic Texas weather ahead: warm Saturday, near-record heat Sunday, then a strong cold front barrels in to bring one last blast of winter chill to Central Texas by Monday. 🌡️➡️🧥 pic.twitter.com/sfKgjzAPoL
— Mary Wasson (@Mary_Wasson) March 13, 2026
“Monday morning has the potential for some locations to see freezing temperatures, with the National Blend Model (a composite weather forecast model) currently giving about a 20% to 40% chance for temperatures less than 32 degrees over our typically colder locations of the southern Edwards Plateau and Hill Country,” the meteorologists at the National Weather Service wrote in their forecast discussion earlier in the week.
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North winds will blow across South and Central Texas behind the front Sunday evening and will gust between 35 and 50 mph.
4. Gusts behind a wall of wind
As the cold front moves into Central Texas, a wall of wind will arrive with it. The gusts could prompt the weather service to issue a wind advisory, with one forecast model showing gusts as strong as 50 mph with the initial surge.
The National Weather Service issues a wind advisory when sustained winds of 31 to 39 mph are expected for at least an hour, or any gusting winds reach 46 to 57 mph.
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5. The week ahead
Gusty north winds will continue into Monday morning, bringing wind chill values, or “feels like” temperatures, down into the 20s across the Hill Country and keeping afternoon temperatures in the upper 50s.
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Next week, we will see a gradual warming trend and a strong ridge of high atmospheric pressure over the western United States will slowly build east with temperatures a little warmer each day.
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No. 9 Women’s Tennis preview: No. 1 Georgia – University of Texas Athletics
No. 9 Texas vs. No. 1 Georgia
Team Records: Texas (10-3, 5-1 SEC), Georgia (10-2, 5-1 SEC)
When: Saturday, March 14, 2026, 12 p.m. CT
Where: Texas Tennis Center, Austin, Texas
Live Stats: https://hookem.at/WTN-Stats
Live Video: https://hookem.at/WTN-Watch
Updated Stats
Notes
-Georgia Series: Georgia leads, 14-5
Georgia leads the all-time series with Texas, 14-5, dating back to 1979, however the Longhorns have won the last two, both of which have been played in Austin where Texas leads the all-time series, 4-3. Last year, in their first meeting as conference opponents, the Longhorns took a 4-2 victory over No. 1 Georgia at the Texas Tennis Center. It was one of only three losses for the Bulldogs all year, as they went on to win the National Championships. The year before, the teams played a non-conference match at the Weller Indoor Tennis Center in Austin, and the Longhorns won, 4-3, (clinching at 4-2). Prior to that, the last contest came in 2018 at the ITA National Indoor Championships in Madison, Wisc., which Georgia won, 4-2. Texas’ last win prior to 2024 was a 5-1 decision in 1994 in Austin with the Bulldogs winning 10-straight until the Longhorns snapped that streak in 2024, including UGA’s visit to Austin in 2000.
Last Two Box Scores
#14 Texas 4, #1 Georgia 2
Friday, April 11, 2025
Austin, Texas • Texas Tennis Center
Singles – Order of Finish (4,1,2,5,3)
1. #1 Dasha Vidmanova (UGA) def. #56 Sabina Zeynalova (TEX) 6-1, 6-2
2. #55 Anastasiia Lopata (UGA) def. #32 Carmen Herea (TEX) 6-2, 6-3
3. #93 Ashton Bowers (TEX) def. Mell Reasco (UGA) 7-6 (6), 6-3
4. #74 Eszter Meri (TEX) def. #42 Aysegul Mert (UGA) 6-1, 6-1
5. Charlotte Kempenaers-Pocz (TEX) def. #91 Guillermina Grant (UGA) 7-6 (3), 6-2
6. Vivian Ovrootsky (TEX) vs. Sofia Rojas (UGA) 6-3, 6-7 (4), 0-1, unf.
Doubles – Order of Finish (1,3,2)
1. #5 Dasha Vidmanova/Mell Reasco (UGA) def. #24 Ariana Anazagasty-Pursoo/Ashton Bowers (TEX) 6-2
2. Charlotte Kempenaers-Pocz/Salma Drugdova (TEX) def. #74 Guillermina Grant/Anastasiia Lopata (UGA) 7-5
3. Sabina Zeynalova/Carmen Herea (TEX) def. #90 Aysegul Mert/Hayden Mulberry (UGA) 6-3
#10 Texas 4, #4 Georgia 3
Sunday, February 4, 2024
Austin, Texas • Weller Indoor Tennis Center
Singles – Order of Finish (6,2,4,3,5,1)
1. #35 Alexandra Vecic (UGA) def. Sabina Zeynalova (TEXAS) 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (4)
2. #30 Dasha Vidmanova (UGA) def. #20 Tanya Sasnouskaya (TEXAS) 6-3, 6-3
3. #45 Malaika Rapolu (TEXAS) def. #116 Mell Reasco (UGA) 7-6 (6), 7-5
4. #106 Charlotte Chavatipon (TEXAS) def. #70 Anastasiia Lopata (UGA) 1-6, 6-1, 6-2
5. Taisiya Pachkaleva (TEXAS) def. Guillermina Grant (UGA) 4-6, 6-4, 6-3
6. #108 Mai Nirundorn (UGA) def. Vivian Ovrootsky (TEXAS) 6-4, 6-3
Doubles – Order of Finish (3,1)
1. Sabina Zeynalova/Taisiya Pachkaleva (TEXAS) def. #58 Aysegul Mert/Dasha Vidmanova (UGA) 6-3
2. Malaika Rapolu/Tanya Sasnouskaya (TEXAS) vs. #15 Guillermina Grant/Mai Nirundorn (UGA) 2-5, unf.
3. Charlotte Chavatipon/Vivian Ovrootsky (TEXAS) def. Mell Reasco/Alexandra Vecic (UGA) 6-1
-ITA Team Rankings
Texas was tabbed No. 12 in the preseason poll released January 7 by the ITA after finishing last season at No. 13. The Longhorns were then No. 17 on January 21 and No. 18 on January 28. After a pair of top-10 wins, Texas moved back up to No. 10 on February 11, became No. 16 on February 19, No. 14 on February 24, and now No. 9 on March 10. The Longhorns closed the 2023-24 season No. 11, just outside of the Top 10 where they had finished each of the previous six years. UT earned a No. 6 ranking in 2018, No. 9 in 2019, No. 4 in 2020, No. 1 in both 2021 and 2022, and No. 7 in 2023.
-ITA Individual National Rankings
Texas
Singles
No. 1 Carmen Herea
No. 16 Anastasia Abbagnato
No. 81 Eszter Meri
Doubles
No. 29 Ariana Anazagasty-Pursoo/Anastasia Abbagnato
No. 47 Elizabeth Ionescu/Carmen Herea
No. 50 Elizabeth Ionescu/Christasha McNeil
Georgia
Singles
No. 6 Aysegul Mert
No. 36 Anastasiia Gureva
No. 37 Anastasiia Lopata
No. 48 Deniz Dilek
No. 61 Sofia Rojas
No. 115 Patricija Paukstyte
Doubles
No. 8 Deniz Dilek/Aysegul Mert
No. 43 Anastasiia Gureva/Aysegul Mert
No. 49 Emma Dong/Deniz Dilek
-Conquering Carolina
The Longhorns defeated No. 22 South Carolina, 4-2, on March 12 at the Texas Tennis Center. Texas won its fifth-straight match, the last four of which have been against top-40 opponents, and posted its eighth victory in their last nine contests. The Longhorns opened by taking the doubles point with wins at Nos. 2 and 3 and followed with singles wins by Eszter Meri at No. 3 and Carmen Herea at No. 1, along with the clinch from Christasha McNeil at No. 4. Meanwhile, South Carolina had taken singles wins at Nos. 2 and 6, and Elizabeth Ionescu was sitting on three match points at No. 5 when play stopped.
-Downing the Dogs
Texas downed No. 33 Mississippi State, 4-1, on March 7 in match that was moved indoors to the Weller Indoor Tennis Center. The Longhorns swept singles against the Bulldogs to win their fourth-straight match. Mississippi State secured the doubles point with wins at Nos. 2 and 1, however Texas answered with singles victories by Carmen Herea at No. 1, Christasha McNeil at No. 4, Anstasia Abbagnato at No. 2, and Elizabeth Ionescu at No. 5 to clinch. Eszter Meri was also in a second-set tiebreaker in an attempt to win her match at No. 3 when play stopped.
-Sweep the Tide to open SEC home play
Texas swept No. 31 Alabama, 4-0, in their SEC home opener on March 5 at the Texas Tennis Center. The Longhorns completed the sweep after five decisive victories with two in doubles and three in singles. Texas captured the doubles point with a 6-0 win at No. 2 and a 6-1 victory at No. 3. The Longhorns then followed with singles wins by Elizabeth Ionescu at No. 5, Eszter Meri at No. 3, and Mathilde Ngijol-Carré at No. 6 for the clinch. Anastasia Abbagnato was also two points from a potential win at No. 2 when play stopped.
-Singles No. 1
Carmen Herea rose to No. 1 in the ITA singles rankings released on March 3. In doing so, she became the fourth Longhorn since 1995 to ascend to the top spot, including Peyton Stearns in 2022, Bianca Turati in 2018 and Kelly Pace in 1995.
-Ionescu named SEC Women’s Tennis Co-Freshman of the Week
Elizabeth Ionescu was named the SEC Women’s Tennis Co-Freshman of the Week on March 4. It marks the second weekly SEC honor for her this season after she earned the same accolade on February 4. Ionescu went a combined 4-0 in helping Texas to two road wins with a 7-0 sweep at Missouri and a 5-2 victory at No. 39 Vanderbilt. Against the Commodores, Ionescu and partner Christasha McNeil earned a top-10 doubles victory over No. 10 Valeria Ray and Bridget Stammel. She later closed the overall match with a win over Erin Pearce at No. 5. She played No. 4 singles versus the Tigers and was first off the court with a decisive win over Andrea Artimedi. Prior to that, she and McNeil clinched the doubles point with over Zoe Lazar and Lara Quaglia at No. 2.
-Music City comeback
Texas rallied past No. 39 Vanderbilt, 5-2, on March 1 at the Lummis Family Tennis Center in Nashville. The Longhorns twice trailed by one point but used five singles victories to win their second-straight SEC road match. Vanderbilt captured the doubles point with wins at Nos. 1 and 3, but in between, Texas secured a top-10 win at No. 2. The Longhorns then tied it with a singles win by Anasatsia Abbagnato at No. 2, and although the Commodores retook the lead with a win at No. 4, Texas ran off four-straight victories by Mathilde Ngijol-Carré at No. 6, Eszter Meri at No. 3, Carmen Herea at No. 1 for the clinch, and Elizabeth Ionescu at No. 5 for the final margin.
-Sweep for first SEC win
Texas swept Missouri, 7-0, at the Columbia Country Club on February 28 to move to 1-1 in SEC play. Texas did not drop a set throughout the match, opening with doubles wins at Nos. 3 and 2 and following with singles wins at all six positions by Elizabeth Ionescu at No. 4, Christasha McNeil at No. 3, Carmen Herea at No. 1, Eszter Meri at No. 2, Mathilde Ngijol-Carré at No. 5 and Salma Drugdova at No. 6.
-So close on the road against the top-five
Texas fell at No. 5 Texas A&M, 4-3, on Feb. 23 in the Cotton Holdings Lone Star Showdown at the Mitchell Tennis Center in College Station. The Longhorns went the distance in the doubles point, pushing the deciding match at No. 1 to a deuce point that resulted in a 7-5 win by the Aggies. Just before that, Texas had taken a 6-4 victory at No. 2 after Texas A&M claimed a 6-2 win at No. 3. The Aggies followed with singles wins at Nos. 2 and 5 for a 3-0 lead, but the Longhorns had won the first set in the other four matches. Texas secured two of those matches by Christasha McNeil at No. 4 and Elizabeth Ionescu at No. 6 to pull within 3-2, but Texas A&M rallied from down a set for a win at No. 3 to clinch. Carmen Hera then completed the match with a three-set victory at No. 1 for the final.
-Sweeping the Vaqueros
Texas swept UTRGV, 7-0, on February 15 at the Texas Tennis Center in just their second home match of the season to move to 5-2 overall. Both doubles and singles were played out with the Longhorns only dropping one set throughout the match, which came in a tiebreaker. They took the doubles point with wins at Nos. 1-3 in that order, and then followed with singles victories by Elizabeth Ionescu at No. 3, Mathilde Ngijol-Carré at No. 4, Eszter Meri at No. 2 for the clinch, Kate Mansfield at No. 5, Salma Drugdova at No. 6, and Carmen Herea at No. 1.
-Abbagnato named SEC Women’s Tennis Freshman of the Week
Anastasia Abbagnato was named the SEC Women’s Tennis Freshman of the Week on February 11. It marked the first weekly SEC honor of her career and she became the second-straight Longhorn to earn the accolade, following Elizabeth Ionescu the week before. Abbagnato posted a combined 5-1 singles and doubles record, including four ranked victories with three in singles and one in doubles in wins over No. 12 Vanderbilt and No. 7 Duke after a narrow 4-3 defeat to No. 6 Oklahoma at the ITA National Indoor Championships. Abbagnato’s singles wins all came at No. 2 over No. 12 Julia Garcia Ruiz of Oklahoma, No. 40 Bridget Stammel of Vanderbilt, and No. 120 Liv Hovde of Duke. The win over Stammel also clinched the overall match against Vanderbilt. She also won doubles matches with both Anazagasty-Pursoo and Mathilde Ngijol-Carré.
-Two top-12 wins at the ITA Indoors
After pushing No. 6 Oklahoma to the limit in a 4-3 defeat in the round of 16 of the ITA Indoors on February 6, the Longhorns earned a pair of top-12 wins over No. 12 Vanderbilt (4-1) and No. 7 Duke (4-3) in consolation matches in Urbana, Ill., on February 7 and 8, respectively. After the Commodores claimed a tight doubles point with wins at Nos. 2 and 1 that surrounded a win for the Longhorns at No. 3, Texas rattled of four-straight singles victories by Christasha McNeil at No. 3, Elizabeth Ionescu at No. 5, Carmen Herea at No. 1, and Anastasia Abbagnato at No. 2 for the clinch. Against the Blue Devils, the Longhorns had rallied from a 2-0 deficit after Duke claimed the doubles point and the first singles contest at No. 4. Texas then put together three-straight singles wins by Eszter Meri at No. 3, and Ionescu at No. 6, and Abbagnato at No. 2. The Blue Devils evened the overall match at 3-3 with a win at No. 1, setting the stage for the clinch by Kate Mansfield.
-Ionescu named SEC Women’s Tennis Freshman of the Week
Elizabeth Ionescu was named the SEC Women’s Tennis Freshman of the Week for the week of January 28-February 3. It marks the first weekly SEC honor of her career and first for the Longhorns this season. Ionescu went a combined 4-0 in singles and doubles, including the first singles win of her collegiate career, which came over Pia Kranholdt of Iowa at No. 4 that clinched the overall match. Ionescu and partner Carmen Herea also clinched the doubles point against Wisconsin. Ionescu joined the team in January and had only played one singles and one doubles match in her collegiate career prior to this past weekend.
-Nine-straight trips to the ITA National Indoor Championships
In advancing out of the 2026 ITA Kickoff Weekend Texas Regional, the Longhorns advanced to the ITA National Indoor Championships for the ninth-straight year. Texas reached the quarterfinals in six of those trips, including five of the last six (2019, 2021-25), while advancing all the way to the final in 2021 when they were edged by then No. 1 North Carolina, 4-3, in what would be the only loss of the season on the way to winning the first of back-to-back NCAA National Championships. That was UT’s second all-time appearance in the final, along with 2006 against Stanford. The Longhorns have also won two matches in six of the last seven tournaments, including consolation matches in 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2026 (2021 began in the quarters).
-Sweep of Big Ten road trip
Texas completed a sweep of their two-match Big Ten road trip with a 5-2 victory over Wisconsin at the Nielsen Tennis Stadium on February 1. The Longhorns used a top-five win at No. 1 doubles and combined it with a win at No. 3 to claim the doubles point. After Wisconsin picked up a win at No. 3 singles, Texas followed with singles wins by Ariana Anazagasty-Pursoo at No. 5, Elizabeth Ionescu at No. 6, Carmen Herea at No. 1, and Eszter Meri at No. 4. The Badgers then closed the scoring with a win at No. 2.
-First win in first visit to Iowa City
The Longhorns earned a 6-1 win at Iowa on January 30 in their first-ever road match against the Hawkeyes. Texas captured the doubles point with wins at Nos. 2 and 3 and followed with singles wins by Ariana Anazagasty-Pursoo at No. 5 and Carmen Herea at No. 1, Elizabeth Ionescu at No. 4 for the clinch, Salma Drugdova at No. 6, and Christasha McNeil at No. 3.
-Joffe in Year 11
Head Coach Howard Joffe is in his 11th season leading the UT program. Under Joffe’s leadership, Texas claimed back-to-back NCAA team championships in 2021 and 2022 and has finished each of the last eight years in the top 13 of the final ITA national polls, earning year-end rankings of No. 6 in 2018, No. 9 in 2019, No. 4 in 2020, No. 1 in both 2021 and 2022, No. 7 in 2023, No. 11 in 2024, and No. 13 in 2025. The Longhorns also captured four Big 12 regular-season championships (2018, 2019, 2021 and 2023-co) and four Big 12 postseason tournament titles (2018, 2021, 2022 and 2023) in their last six chances (2020 season canceled due to COVID-19).
The 2021 ITA Division I Women’s National Coach of the Year, Joffe has registered a 216-60 (.783) mark in his time at Texas. During his 20 seasons as a collegiate head coach, he has tallied a 347-121 (.741) dual-match record. Peyton Stearns claimed the Honda Sport Award for Tennis and the ITA National Player of the Year in 2022. Joffe has helped six Longhorns earn a total of eight ITA All-America honors in singles (Breaunna Addison in 2016, Bianca Turati in 2018, Anna Turati and Bianca Turati in 2020, Stearns in both 2021 and 2022, Kylie Collins in 2022, and Malaika Rapolu in 2024) and two duos earn ITA All-America accolades in doubles (Kylie Collins and Lulu Sun in 2021 and Stearns and Allura Zamarripa in 2022). Stearns became the first player in program history to win the NCAA Singles Championship in 2022, while Collins and Sun reached the finals of the NCAA Doubles Championship in 2021. In addition, 19 players have registered a combined 26 All-Big 12 singles and 22 All-Big 12 doubles selections in Joffe’s tenure in Austin.
-Back from 2025
Texas will have a different look from 2025, but at the same time return a few familiar faces. The roster will feature six returners, four of whom had match experience, including sophomores Carmen Herea, Eszter Meri, Ariana Anazagasty-Pursoo and Salma Drugdova, along with redshirt freshman Audrey Deatherage and Lucy Schmeil.
-Five newcomers arrive for their first dual match season on the 40
The Longhorns add five new faces for 2026, all who are expected to be impact players, starting with Christasha McNeil of Lindenhurst, N.Y., and Mathilde Ngijol-Carré of Paris, France, who arrived in the fall. Three more joined the team in January, including Anastasia Abbagnato from Palermo, Italy, Elizabeth Ionescu from York, Pa., and Kate Mansfield of London, England.
-Summer/Fall Wrap-up
A number of players on the roster spent the summer and fall nursing injuries, leading to some of them not qualifying for fall ITA rankings. However, Eszter Meri captured the singles gold medal at the FISU World University Games in July, while Carmen Herea finished as the singles runner-up at one of the fall majors in the ITA All-Americans, and then was a quarterfinalist in the NCAA Singles Championships.
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