Oklahoma State University Athletics
Cowgirl Soccer On The Road Again
September 09, 2009 | Cowgirl Soccer
Sept. 9, 2009
#19 Oklahoma State (3-2-0)
at Rice (1-3-1)
Friday, Sept. 11 • 7 p.m.
Rice Track/Soccer Stadium (5,000)
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at Northwestern State (5-1-0)
Sunday, Sept. 13 • 1 p.m.
Demon Soccer Complex (1,000)
Oklahoma State
Oklahoma State hits the road for the second-straight week as the Cowgirls travel to Houston to take on Rice Friday at 7 p.m. before closing out the road trip in Natchitoches, La., against Northwestern State on Sunday.
A pair of underclassmen -- sophomore Kyndall Treadwell and freshman Megan Marchesano -- lead OSU with three goals apiece, and the Cowgirls have outscored their opponents 13-3 on the season.
OSU is 1-0 all time against Rice, beating the Owls 4-0 last season in Stillwater. The Cowgirls are 5-0-0 against Northwestern State, including a 3-0 win on their home field a year ago.
Rice
Rice is 1-3-1 on the season and coming off a 2-1 loss at home to TCU. The Owls tied Baylor in their season opener, and their lone win came at Stephen F. Austin.
Players To Watch: MF Shelley Wong,GK Meghan Erkel
Northwestern State
The Lady Demons opened the season with five consecutive wins before dropping their last match at home against Mississippi State by a 2-1 margin. NSU has outscored its opponents 18-2 on the season.
Players To Watch: F Meghan Hunter, GK Lindy Strahan
In The Polls
OSU is ranked No. 10 by TopDrawerSoccer.com, 19th in the NSCAA/adidas poll and 24th by SoccerTimes.com. Neither Rice nor Northwestern State is ranked.
On The Air & The Web
Fans can follow both OSU matches this weekend via live stats on GameTracker, which can be accessed at the official OSU Athletics website -- www.okstate.com. Links can be found under Schedule/Results on the soccer home page.
A Championship Season
The 2008 season was one for the OSU soccer record books.
OSU set a school record with 18 wins, finishing 18-1-4, and won the first regular season Big 12 Conference championship in school history by finishing league play with a 7-1-2 mark.
The Cowgirls climbed to as high as No. 7 in the national polls in '08 and ranked sixth nationally with an .870 winning percentage.
OSU placed three players on the All-Big 12 team -- first teamers Kasey Langdon and Yolanda Odenyo and second teamer Siera Strawser -- and Odenyo was named the Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year.
Head coach Colin Carmichael was named the Big 12 Coach of the Year and also earned Central Region Coach of the Year honors.
Becoming A Trend
For the third-straight season, Oklahoma State was nationally ranked in the preseason polls, earning a spot as high as No. 11 in the NSCAA/adidas poll. That ranking marked their highest ever in the preseason polls.
Along with being nationally ranked, OSU was picked by the Big 12 Conference's head coaches to finish fourth in the league race. That could be a good omen as last season the Cowgirls were also picked fourth in the preseason poll and then went on to claim their first-ever regular season conference championship.
In 2007, the Cowgirls began and finished the season in the national rankings, the first time that has happened in OSU soccer history. The Cowgirls ended the season ranked as high as 17th.
The '07 season came on the heels of a 2006 campaign that saw OSU achieve its highest national ranking ever -- No. 7 -- and earn a spot in the final national polls for the first time in the program's history.
Terrific Trio
OSU's 2009 senior class -- Siera Strawser, Kasey Langdon and Bridget Miller -- has had quite a successful career during its time in Stillwater. On the current list of the winningest senior classes in Division I soccer, OSU's trio ranks 11th nationally with a record of 52-12-10, a winning percentage of .770 (record includes this season). Among Big 12 Conference teams, only Texas A&M's senior class has more wins over the last four seasons with 56.
Three's Company
OSU had three players named to the 2009 preseason All-Big 12 Conference team, which was selected by the league's head coaches.
Seniors Kasey Langdon and Siera Strawser and sophomore Melinda Mercado were named to the 16-player team.
With three selections, OSU tied Missouri for the second-most preseason All-Big 12 players in the league. Texas A&M had four.
Records Are Made To Be Broken
A pair of Cowgirls are climbing the OSU career charts and are on the verge of vaulting to the top of several of those lists.
• Siera Strawser has 28 career goals and needs seven to reach OSU's all-time mark, which is held by Yolanda Odenyo and Jolene Schweitzer.
• Strawser is OSU's career leader in shots with 222.
• With 15 career assists, Strawser needs just four more to move into the top five on OSU's all-time list.
• Kasey Langdon needs just three assists to move into second all time at OSU. Langdon has racked up 23 assists in her first three seasons in Stillwater.
• Langdon has 21 career goals, leaving her only three shy of moving into the top five on the Cowgirls' career list.
• Strawser and Langdon rank fifth and sixth on OSU's all-time scoring list with 71 and 65 points. Odenyo's 90 points top the list.
1-2 Punch
Seniors Kasey Langdon and Siera Strawser give OSU arguably the top scoring duo in the Big 12.
Last season, Langdon and Strawser combined for 24 goals and 21 assists, accounting for 34 percent of OSU's scoring. They have combined for four goals and an assist through five games this season.
Both players rank among the top six on OSU's career charts in goals, assists and points.
