Game Notes

Oklahoma State (4-0-1)
at #6 Penn State (4-1-1)
Thurs., Sept. 12 • 6 p.m. (CST) • State College, Pa.
Jeffrey Field (5,000)

vs. Omaha (1-4-1)
Sun., Sept. 15 • 1 p.m. • Stillwater, Okla.
Neal Patterson Stadium (2,500)

Video/TV: Big Ten Network Plus (Fri.) & Big 12 Now on ESPN+ (Sun.)
Radio: KGFY 105.5 FM & stillwaterradio.net (Sun.)
Live Stats: psusports.com/sidearmsports/wsoc (Fri.) & okstate.statbroadcast.com (Sun.)
Twitter In-Game Updates: @CowgirlFC

About Oklahoma State
   • OSU is unbeaten on the season with a 4-0-1 record and brings a three-game winning streak into this week's action. The Cowgirls travel to Happy Valley to take on top-10 ranked Penn State Thursday night before returning to Stillwater to host Omaha on Sunday.
   • 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 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
   • Penn State is 4-1-1 and ranked as high as No. 6 nationally. The Nittany Lions' lone loss came at home in the season opener to No. 3 Stanford, while they also tied No. 22 West Virginia.
   PSU has outscored its opponents 16-8; Frankie Tagliaferri and Ally Schlegel each have four goals.
   The only previous meeting between OSU and Penn State came in 2013 with the Cowgirls dropping a 4-2 match in Stillwater.
   • Omaha will bring a three-game losing streak and 1-4-1 record to Stillwater. This will mark the first-ever meeting between the two programs.

Big 12 Charts
   • OSU ranks second in the Big 12 this season with 16 goals, while its 3.2 goals per game leads the conference.
   • The Cowgirls four shutouts are tied for the most in the league and are just one shy of OSU's total last season.
   • Jaci Jones ranks third in the Big 12 in points (12) and fourth in goals (5). Her two game-winning goals are the second most in the league.
   • Kim Rodriguez' four assists are tied for the second most of any Big 12 player this season.

Home Sweet Home
   OSU finished with a 5-4-1 mark in its first season at Neal Patterson Stadium and is 3-0-0 on its home field in 2019.
   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.

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 309 games of experience, which includes 251 starts.

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.

Scoring Early & Often
   With five goals and two assists through five games in 2019, senior Jaci Jones is on pace for the best scoring season of her career. Jones' five goals has already tied her career best she set as a freshman in 2016, while her six assists during her sophomore campaign are a career best.

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.
   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.

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.

Fitting Right In
   A pair of new faces has added punch to the Cowgirls' offensive attack in 2019.
   Freshman Olyvia Dowell is second on the team in goals (3), assists (2) and points (8), while her 17 shots are a team high. She was named the Big 12 Freshman of the Week on Aug. 27 after recording a goal and two assists in her collegiate debut.
   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. A starter in all five games this season, she has a pair of goals and an assist, and her 12 shots is second on the team.

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).

Cowgirl Soccer Faces Top 10 Road Test, Returns Home For Sunday Match

Game Notes

Oklahoma State (4-0-1)
at #6 Penn State (4-1-1)
Thurs., Sept. 12 • 6 p.m. (CST) • State College, Pa.
Jeffrey Field (5,000)

vs. Omaha (1-4-1)
Sun., Sept. 15 • 1 p.m. • Stillwater, Okla.
Neal Patterson Stadium (2,500)

Next Event

Players Mentioned

Gabriella Coleman

Courtney Dike

Olyvia Dowell

Claire Gantzer

Elise Hawn

Jaci Jones

Julia Lenhardt

Kim Rodriguez

Kirsten Siragusa

Coumba Sow

Peyton Vincze

Grace Yochum

Oklahoma State University Athletics

Cowgirl Soccer Faces Top 10 Road Test, Returns Home For Sunday Match

Game Notes

Oklahoma State (4-0-1) at #6 Penn State (4-1-1) Thurs., Sept. 12 • 6 p.m. (CST) • State College, Pa. Jeffrey Field (5,000)

vs. Omaha (1-4-1) Sun., Sept. 15 • 1 p.m. • Stillwater, Okla. Neal Patterson Stadium (2,500)

Next Event

Players Mentioned

Gabriella Coleman

Courtney Dike

Olyvia Dowell

Claire Gantzer

Elise Hawn

Jaci Jones

Julia Lenhardt

Kim Rodriguez

Kirsten Siragusa

Coumba Sow

Peyton Vincze

Grace Yochum

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Oklahoma State (4-0-1)
at #6 Penn State (4-1-1)
Thurs., Sept. 12 • 6 p.m. (CST) • State College, Pa.
Jeffrey Field (5,000)

vs. Omaha (1-4-1)
Sun., Sept. 15 • 1 p.m. • Stillwater, Okla.
Neal Patterson Stadium (2,500)