Game Notes

#9 Oklahoma State (15-1-3)
vs. #21 Kansas (13-4-3)

Fri., Nov. 8 • 4:30 p.m. • Kansas City, Mo.
Children's Mercy Victory Field at Swope Soccer Village

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About Oklahoma State
   • Winners of eight in a row, Oklahoma State returns to postseason action Friday against Kansas in the semifinals of the Big 12 Championship in Kansas City, Mo. The Cowgirls are 15-1-3 on the season and were crowned the 2019 Big 12 regular season champions after going 7-1-1 in conference play.
   • The Cowgirls are coming off a 10-7-1 season in 2018 that included a 2-6-1 mark in Big 12 Conference play as they finished ninth in the league. OSU failed to make the postseason for the first time since 2005.
   • OSU opened last season 10-1-0 and climbed to No. 12 in the national rankings. After a tie at home against No. 6 Texas, the Cowgirls — who were hit hard by key injuries — dropped their final six games.
   • The Cowgirls return 15 letterwinners from 2018, including nine players who started at least 10 games.
   • The 2019 season is the 24th in program history; over the first 23 years, OSU posted a 273-161-51 (.605) record. Head coach Colin Carmichael entered his 15th season at the helm in 2019 with a 190-81-38 mark.

Cowgirls At The Big 12 Championship
   OSU is 17-10-3 all time at the Big 12 Soccer Championship and has won a conference tournament title three times, the last coming in 2010. The Cowgirls' first tourney championship came in 2003 (3-2 double overtime triumph vs. Missouri), and OSU celebrated back-to-back titles in 2009 (1-0 over Texas A&M) and 2010 (won PK shootout vs. Oklahoma after 1-1 tie).
If OSU wins its semifinal match against Kansas on Friday, the Cowgirls will advance to Sunday's title match and will face the Texas Tech-TCU winner at 12:30 p.m.

Winning Is A Habit
            Now in its 24th season, Oklahoma State soccer has built itself into an established winner.
   • OSU has earned a berth in the NCAA Women's Soccer Championship 10 of the last 13 years (beginning in 2006) and four of the last six.
   • From 2006-11, the Cowgirls earned six-straight NCAA tourney bids and advanced to at least the second round each time, including back-to-back Elite Eight appearances in 2010 and 2011.
   • From 2008-11, OSU celebrated four consecutive Big 12 championships — two regular season (2008, '11) and two tournament ('09, '10). The Cowgirls also won regular season titles in 2017 and 2019.

7th Heaven
            Oklahoma State captured the seventh Big 12 Conference championship in program history with its 2019 regular season title. It marks the fourth regular season crown for the Cowgirls and second in the last three years; OSU also won regular season championships in 2008 and 2011.
   OSU opened '19 Big 12 play with a loss at Texas Tech before a tie at TCU. Following that opening weekend, the Cowgirls won seven consecutive games to claim the title.

This Week's Opponent
   • Kansas is 13-4-3 on the season and finished fifth in the Big 12 standings at 4-2-3. The Jayhawks advanced to the Big 12 Championship semifinals with a 2-0 win over West Virginia last week.
   • OSU is 13-9-4 all time against KU, including a 4-0-1 mark in the last five meetings.
   Last 4 Meetings
   2019 - OSU 5, KU 2 (Stillwater)
   2018 - OSU 2, KU 1 (Lawrence)
   2017 - OSU 3, KU 1 (Stillwater)
   2016 - OSU 1, Kansas 1 (Lawrence)

MILESTONE
   Colin Carmichael recorded his 200th career win with OSU's 2-0 victory at Texas on Oct. 11. Carmichael has spent all 15 of his seasons as a head coach in Stillwater.
   Now with 205 career wins, Carmichael ranks third among active Big 12 coaches in wins at their current school, trailing only Nikki Izzo-Brown, who has 350 wins in 24 seasons at West Virginia, and Mark Francis, who has amassed 232 victories in 21 seasons at Kansas.

Award Tour
   OSU collected its most all-conference selections in eight years — and its second most all time — in 2019, while Colin Carmichael was named the league's top coach for a record sixth time.
   Five Cowgirls garnered 2019 All-Big 12 honors, the most for OSU since a program-record seven in 2011. Only three times in school history have five or more Cowgirls earned all-league recognition (2010, '11, '19).
   Earning All-Big 12 First Team honors for OSU were defender Kim Rodriguez, who was a unanimous selection, and midfielder Grace Yochum. Three Cowgirls were named to the All-Big 12 Second Team — defender Charmé Morgan, midfielder Jaci Jones and forward Olyvia Dowell. Dowell also earned a spot on the Big 12 All-Freshman Team.

Veteran Presence
   Five seniors dot the OSU roster, and that group — Elise Hawn, Claire Gantzer, Jaci Jones, Julia Lenhardt and Kirsten Siragusa — has combined for 371 games of experience, which includes 297 starts.

Quick Kicks
   • OSU ranks second in the Big 12 with nine shutouts and has allowed just 13 goals, the second fewest in the conference. The Cowgirls' 0.66 goals against average also ranks second in the league.
   • Cowgirl goalie Dani Greenlee ranks second in the Big 12 in save percentage (.831), third in goals-against average (0.63) and is sixth in shutouts (5).
   • OSU leads the Big 12 with 47 goals and 131 points and is second with 37 assists.
   • Jaci Jones' 12 assists tops the league and ranks fifth nationally. Her 26 points is fourth in the Big 12.
   • Cowgirl sophomore Grace Yochum ranks fourth in the Big 12 with 11 goals.
   • OSU has three players in the top 10 in the Big 12 in assists — Jaci Jones (first with 12 assists) and Olyvia Dowell (fifth with seven assists) and Kim Rodriguez (eighth with six assists).

Home Sweet Home
   OSU is 9-0-1 on its home field in 2019 and did not allow a goal in its first five home matches. A year ago, the Cowgirls finished with a 5-4-1 mark in their first season at Neal Patterson Stadium.
   The Cowgirls were 9-0-1 on their home field in 2017, which marked the sixth time in program history they have gone undefeated at home. OSU went 84-16-10 (.809) at the Cowgirl Soccer Complex from 2008-17 and was 142-40-17 (.756) all time on its former home turf.

Sharing The Wealth
   OSU ranks 13th nationally in scoring offense at 2.47 goals per game. The Cowgirls have 47 goals on the season, which ranks ninth in the NCAA, and 10 different Cowgirls have scored goals in 2019, with eight of those tallying three or more.

Road Rarity
   Oklahoma State's 2-1 win in double overtime at No. 6 Penn State marked just the fifth time in program history the Cowgirls have beaten a top-10 ranked team on the road.
2018   2-1 (2 OT) at No. 6 Penn State
2017   2-1 (OT) at No. 8 Texas
2007   2-1 (OT) at No. 5 Missouri; 2-1 (OT) at No. 9 Notre Dame
2006   1-0 at No. 10 Texas

Preseason Pub
   • Oklahoma State was picked to finish seventh in the 2019 Big 12 Conference standings in a preseason vote of the league's head coaches.
   • Junior defender Kim Rodriguez was named to the 2019 Preseason All-Big 12 Team and listed at No. 90 on the TopDrawerSoccer.com Women's National Top 100 players for college soccer in 2019.

In The Rankings
This week marked OSU's eighth consecutive week in the national rankings and also the Cowgirls' highest ranking of 2019 as they checked in at No. 9 in the Soccer America poll. They are also ranked 10th in the United Soccer Coaches poll and occupy the top spot in the United Soccer Coaches Midwest Region rankings.
OSU also came in at No. 10 in this week's official NCAA RPI. The Big 12 is currently the No. 4 conference in the RPI.

Game Recognize Game
   The Cowgirls have earned a number of weekly awards during the 2019 including:
   • Olyvia Dowell - Big 12 Freshman of the Week, Aug. 27
   • Kim Rodriguez - Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week, Sept. 10
   • Grace Yochum - Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week, Sept. 24
   • Elise Hawn - TopDrawerSoccer.com Women's Team of the Week, Oct. 15
   • Grace Yochum - United Soccer Coaches NCAA Division I Women's Player of the Week; Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week; TopDrawerSoccer.com Women's Team of the Week, Oct. 22
   • Julia Lenhardt - Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week, Nov. 1
   • Dani Greenlee - Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week, Nov. 1

Scoring Early & Often
   With career highs of seven goals and 12 assists through 19 games in 2019, senior Jaci Jones has surpassed the best scoring season of her career, racking up 26 points, which leads the Cowgirls. Jones' seven goals tops the five she had as a freshman in 2016, while the 12 assists surpasses the six of her freshman season and is the fifth most in a season in OSU history.

That Was Quick
   Gabriella Coleman recorded the fastest goal in Oklahoma State history when she found the back of the net just 18 seconds into the match against Oral Roberts on Sept. 1.
   Robin Rampey held the previous mark with a goal 45 seconds in against Southwest Missouri State in OSU's inaugural season in 1996.

Hat's Off
   Grace Yochum became the 12th player in OSU history to record a hat trick when she netted all three goals for the Cowgirls in a 3-0 victory at Iowa State.
   Yochum's hat trick was the first by a Cowgirl since Taylor Olson achieved the feat in 2017.

How I Spent My Summer Vacation
   Kim Rodriguez earned All-Big 12 and All-South Region honors in 2018 following a sophomore season in which she tied for the OSU team lead in scoring with 14 points on four goals and a team-high six assists. The defender started all 18 games for the Cowgirls and also led the team with 1,608 minutes played.
   But Rodriguez is not just a standout for the Cowgirls.
   After shining at the youth level for Mexico's national teams and playing in the 2014 and 2016 FIFA U-17 World Cups and the 2018 FIFA U-20 World Cup, Rodriguez was selected for the Mexico National Team in February 2019 and earned her first-career cap as a starter against Italy at the 2019 Cyprus Women's Cup.
   Most recently, Rodriguez played for Mexico at the 2019 Pan American Games, scoring her first-career goal vs. Panama and helping Mexico to a fifth-place finish at the games.

Fitting Right In
   A pair of new faces has added punch to the Cowgirls' offensive attack in 2019.
   Freshman Olyvia Dowell is third on the team with 17 points — five goals and seven assists — while her 56 shots are a team high. She earned All-Big 12 Second Team and Big 12 All-Freshman Team honors and is ranked No. 26 on the TopDrawerSoccer.com Midseason Women's Freshmen Top 100.
   After two seasons at Mississippi State, where she scored three goals and tallied five assists in 32 games, Gabriella Coleman transferred to OSU in 2019. In 19 games this season, she has seven goals, including four in Big 12 play, and her 37 shots is second on the team.

Sophomore Surge
   On the heels of a strong freshman season, Grace Yochum has established herself as one of the Big 12's top players in her second year in a Cowgirl uniform, earning All-Big 12 First Team honors.
   • Yochum leads OSU and is fourth in the Big 12 with 11 goals.
   • Yochum's 11 goals are the most ever by a Cowgirl sophomore.
   • The 11 goals are the most by an OSU player since Courtney Dike had 13 in 2013.
   • With three multi-goal games this season, including a hat trick vs. Iowa State, Yochum is the first Cowgirl since Dike in '13 to have three multi-goal games in a season. Only two players in OSU history have had four multi-goal games in a season — Jolene Schweitzer (2003) and Robin Rampey (1996).
   • Yochum has scored a goal in four consecutive games.
   A year ago, Yochum was named to the 2018 Big 12 All-Freshman Team and was No. 53 on the TopDrawerSoccer.com Postseason Women's Freshmen Top 100 rankings. She played in all 18 games with 17 starts and tied for third on the Cowgirls with four goals while ranking fourth with nine points.

Dani D
   Dani Greenlee ranks among OSU's all-time best goalkeepers statistically as she is seventh on OSU's career saves list with 88, and her current goals-against average of 0.79 is third all time in program history.

International Stage
   A number of OSU standouts have gone on to represent their respective countries as members of national teams, including two — AD Franch and Courtney Dike — who have been on FIFA World Cup rosters.
   Franch has been a member of the United States Women's National Team since 2012 and earned her first-career cap in 2019 at the SheBelieves Cup. The former Cowgirl All-American was on the roster of the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup champion U.S. squad.
   Dike was the first-ever Oklahoma State player to appear in the World Cup when she earned two caps for Nigeria in 2015, including starting against the eventual champion United States team. Dike was a four-time All-Big 12 Conference forward for the Cowgirls from 2013-16.
   Other Cowgirls who have earned national team status include:
   • Coumba Sow was a starting midfielder for the Switzerland National Team at the 2019 Algarve Cup. Sow was part of the OSU program in 2016 and 2017, scoring three goals in 23 games for the Cowgirls' 2017 Big 12 Conference championship squad.
   • Current Cowgirl and All-Big 12 defender Kim Rodriguez received her first call up to the Mexico National Team in Feb. 2019; she started for Mexico at the 2019 Cyprus Women's Cup and again in the 2019 Pan American Games in Peru.
   • Other OSU players who have competed for national teams include 2003 Cowgirl goalie Kathrin Lehmann (Switzerland) and 2019 freshman forward Peyton Vincze (Wales).

Cowgirl Soccer Set To Continue Tourney Play In KC

Game Notes

#9 Oklahoma State (15-1-3)
vs. #21 Kansas (13-4-3)

Fri., Nov. 8 • 4:30 p.m. • Kansas City, Mo.
Children's Mercy Victory Field at Swope Soccer Village

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Players Mentioned

Gabriella Coleman

Olyvia Dowell

Claire Gantzer

Dani Greenlee

Elise Hawn

Jaci Jones

Julia Lenhardt

Taylor Olson

Kim Rodriguez

Kirsten Siragusa

Peyton Vincze

Grace Yochum

Oklahoma State University Athletics

Cowgirl Soccer Set To Continue Tourney Play In KC

Game Notes

#9 Oklahoma State (15-1-3) vs. #21 Kansas (13-4-3)

Fri., Nov. 8 • 4:30 p.m. • Kansas City, Mo. Children's Mercy Victory Field at Swope Soccer Village

Next Event

Players Mentioned

Gabriella Coleman

Olyvia Dowell

Claire Gantzer

Dani Greenlee

Elise Hawn

Jaci Jones

Julia Lenhardt

Taylor Olson

Kim Rodriguez

Kirsten Siragusa

Peyton Vincze

Grace Yochum

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#9 Oklahoma State (15-1-3)
vs. #21 Kansas (13-4-3)

Fri., Nov. 8 • 4:30 p.m. • Kansas City, Mo.
Children's Mercy Victory Field at Swope Soccer Village