Oklahoma State University Athletics
Thursday, August 22
Beaumont, TX
7:30 PM
Oklahoma State University
at
Lamar
Kim Rodriguez
Cowgirl Soccer Opens 2019 Season In Lone Star State
August 20, 2019 | Cowgirl Soccer
Game Notes (PDF)
Oklahoma State (0-0)
at Lamar (0-0)
Thurs., Aug. 22 • 7:30 p.m. • Beaumont, Texas
LU Soccer Complex (500)
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vs. UTSA (0-0)
Sun., Aug. 25 • 12 p.m. • Beaumont, Texas
LU Soccer Complex (500)
About Oklahoma State
    • OSU begins the 2019 regular season this week at the Cardinal Classic in Beaumont, Texas. The Cowgirls open the tourney against host Lamar Thursday night before taking on UTSA on Sunday.
    • The Cowgirls are coming off a 10-7-1 season 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 with a 10-1-0 mark and climbed to No. 12 in the national rankings. Following a tie at home against No. 6 Texas, the Cowgirls — who were hit hard by injuries to key players — dropped their final six games.
    • The Cowgirls return 15 letterwinners in 2019, including nine players who started at least 10 games a year ago.
    • The 2019 season marks the 24th in the history of the Cowgirl Soccer program; over the first 23 years, OSU compiled 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.
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 a regular season title in 2017; their first-ever league crown came when they won the 2003 tourney title.
This Week's Opponents
    Lamar finished with a 12-6-2 record in 2018, a year after making the first NCAA Tournament appearance in program history. The Cardinals return seven starters from last season's squad, including junior forwards Lucy Ashworth and Madison Ledet, both of whom had six goals and six assists in 2018.
    OSU faced Lamar for the first time in 2018, winning 4-0 in Stillwater as Haley Woodard, Jaci Jones and Taylor Olson netted goals
    UTSA is coming off a 6-9-2 season in 2018 and will open its season against Louisiana on Thursday. OSU leads the all-time series against UTSA, 2-0-0, having outscored the Roadrunners by an 11-0 margin.
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 the lone Cowgirl named to the 2019 Preseason All-Big 12 Team.
    • Rodriguez is listed at No. 90 on the TopDrawerSoccer.com Women's National Top 100 players for college soccer 2019.
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 in 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.      Â
    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.
Veteran Presence
    Five seniors dot the Oklahoma State roster, and that group — Elise Hawn, Claire Gantzer, Jaci Jones, Julia Lenhardt and Kirsten Siragusa — has combined for 286 games of experience, which includes 233 starts.
Starting Strong
    Grace Yochum had an impressive start to her collegiate career as she was named to the 2018 Big 12 All-Freshman Team and also came in at No. 53 on the TopDrawerSoccer.com Postseason Women's Freshmen Top 100 rankings.
    The midfielder from Houston played in all 18 games with 17 starts as a freshman and tied for third on the Cowgirls with four goals while ranking fourth with nine points.
International Stage
    A number of OSU standouts have gone on to represent their respective countries as members of national teams, including two Cowgirls — 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).
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