Cowgirl Soccer Closes Regular Season At West Virginia

October 26, 2021 | Cowgirl Soccer

Game Notes

at #21 West Virginia (9-4-4, 3-2-3)
Oklahoma State (8-6-2, 3-3-1)

Thurs., Oct. 28 • 6 p.m. (CST) • Morgantown, W.Va.
Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium (1,650)

TV/Video: Big 12 Now on ESPN+ (Andrew Caridi & Adam Zundell)
Radio: n/a
Live Stats: okstate.statbroadcast.com
Twitter In-Game Updates: @CowgirlFC

About Oklahoma State

     • Oklahoma State closes out the regular season with a road trip to Morgantown for a Thursday night match against West Virginia. The Cowgirls are 8-6-2 on the season and sixth in the Big 12 Conference standings with a 3-3-1 league mark. Following Thursday's contest, OSU will travel to Round Rock, Texas, where it will open play in the Big 12 Soccer Championship on Sunday.
     • OSU is coming off a 13-3-2 showing last season, one in which the Cowgirls finished third in the Big 12 Conference standings at 6-2-1. OSU earned its second consecutive berth in the NCAA Women's Soccer Championship as the tourney's No. 10 national seed and advanced to the Sweet 16 for the third time in program history.
     • OSU returns 21 letterwinners from last season, including nine starters and five All-Big 12 performers.
     • The 2021 season is the 26th in program history; over the first 25, OSU posted a 302-167-56 (.629) record. Head coach Colin Carmichael entered his 17th season at the helm in 2021 with a 219-87-43 mark.

Scouting The Mountaineers

     • West Virginia is 9-4-4 overall and just ahead of the Cowgirls in the Big 12 standings, sitting in fifth with a 3-2-3 mark.
     • Nikki Izzo-Brown is in her 26th season as the only head coach in WVU program history and owns a career 371-126-60 record. She has guided the Mountaineers to 21 consecutive appearances in the NCAA Championship.
     • OSU is 2-9-0 in the all-time series against the Mountaineers, but the Cowgirls have won the last two meetings, both by 2-1 margins.

Winning Is A Habit

    Now in its 26th season, Oklahoma State soccer has built itself into an established winner.
     • OSU has earned a berth in the NCAA Women's Soccer Championship 12 of the last 15 years (beginning in 2006) and six of the last eight.
     • 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.

Welcome Back, Nice To See You Again

     Oklahoma State has four "Super Seniors" on its roster in 2021, with Gabriella Coleman, Charmé Morgan, Kim Rodriguez and Hannah Webb each taking advantage of an extra season of eligibility offered by the NCAA due to the COVID-19 pandemic that altered the 2020 season.
     Coleman, Rodriguez and Webb are each in their fifth collegiate season (Coleman spent her first two at Mississippi State before transferring), while Morgan is in her sixth year after also being granted a medical redshirt in 2018.
     Entering the '21 season, the Cowgirls' Super Seniors had combined to play in 306 games and made 280 career starts.

Elite Company

Kim Rodriguez became the fifth All-American in Cowgirl Soccer history in 2019 when she was named to the United Soccer Coaches All-America Second Team as a defender. She joined a list of OSU All-Americans that included Yolanda Odenyo, Melinda Mercado, AD Franch and Haley Woodard.
Last season, Rodriguez repeated as a second-team All-American to become the fourth Cowgirl to collect multiple All-America accolades in her career, joining Odenyo, Mercado and Franch on that list.

She's A Giver

Kim Rodriguez is tied for third on OSU's all-time assists list with 25. She had at least three assists in each of her first four seasons, including a career-best seven in 2019, and has four thus far in 2021.

Scoring In Bunches

     Grace Yochum has established herself as one of the Big 12's top goal scorers, and she is chasing history as OSU's all-time leading goal scorer.
     In 67 career games, Yochum has amassed 33 goals, which ranks third on OSU's all-time list; she is two away from tying the record of 35 held by Yolanda Odenyo and Jolene Schweitzer.
     As a freshman in 2018, Yochum tallied four goals. She followed that with 11 as a sophomore and netted 12 last season, a total that ranked sixth in the NCAA.
    Yochum had two streaks of six consecutive games with a goal that spanned last season — Oct. 6, 2019 vs. K-State-Sept. 18, 2020 vs. Iowa State and Nov. 12, 2020 vs. OU-March 27, 2021 vs. OU.

G Stands For Goals

     Gabriella "G" Coleman scored 18 goals in her two first two seasons with the Cowgirls, netting nine goals in both 2019 and 2020-21, and she is third on the team this season with four goals.
     Last season, four of Coleman's goals came in the postseason as she netted two goals each against South Alabama and Texas A&M in the NCAA Women's Soccer Championship. In 2019, she also showed a penchant for scoring when it mattered most, tallying two goals in the Big 12 Soccer Championship and scoring OSU's lone NCAA tourney goal.
     Coleman spent her first two collegiate seasons at Mississippi State and scored three goals in 32 games.

Scoring Surge

     Olyvia Dowell has added firepower to the OSU attack since stepping on campus in 2019.
     As a freshman, Dowell recorded five goals and eight assists, and she followed that with an even more impressive showing as a sophomore.
     Last season, Dowell ranked fifth in the NCAA with 31 points as she tallied 12 goals and seven assists. Her 12 goals tied for the Big 12 lead along with teammate Grace Yochum and ranked sixth nationally; the seven assists topped the conference. Dowell's goal total also marked the most ever goals by an OSU sophomore, and the 31 points was the seventh most in a single season in program history.
     Dowell is second on the Cowgirls with five goals and three assists this season. Four of her goals have come in Big 12 play, and she has moved into a tie for 10th on OSU's all-time assists list with 18.