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Cowgirl Soccer Opens Split Weekend With Bedlam
August 25, 2021 | Cowgirl Soccer
Game Notes
Â#24 Oklahoma State (1-1-0)
at Oklahoma (1-1-0)
Thurs., Aug. 26 • 7 p.m. • Norman, Okla.
John Crain Field (3,500)
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Wright State (1-0-0)
at #24 Oklahoma State (1-1-0)
Sun., Aug. 29 • 7 p.m. • Stillwater, Okla.
Neal Patterson Stadium (2,500)
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TV/Video: Fri. - SoonerSports.TV (Chad McKee & Jemma Cota)
                  Sun. - Big 12 Now on ESPN+ (Mike Wolfe & Anna Beffer)
Radio: Stillwater Radio KGFY 105.5 FM/stillwaterradio.net (Bill Van Ness)
Live Stats: okstate.statbroadcast.com
Twitter In-Game Updates: @CowgirlFC
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About Oklahoma State
    • Oklahoma State went 1-1-0 on the opening week of the 2021 season. The Cowgirls return to action Thursday with a road trip to Norman to take on Bedlam-rival Oklahoma in a non-conference showdown before returning home to host Wright State 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.
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Scouting The Sooners
    • Oklahoma is 1-1-0 on the season, dropping a 3-1 match at Houston to open the season before a 4-0 win at Lamar on Sunday.
    • The Sooners are led by second-year head coach Mark Carr, who is 2-13-2 since taking over the OU program.
    • OSU is 28-9-4 all time against Oklahoma. The Cowgirls have won four consecutive meetings with the Sooners and are 8-1-1 in the last 10 matchups.
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Scouting The Raiders
    • Wright State opened the season with an overtime win at Marshall and takes on Bellarmine at home Thursday before traveling to Stillwater.
    • Travis Sobers is in his first season as the Raiders' head coach but has been on the WSU coaching staff since 2013.
    • OSU has never faced Wright State on the pitch.
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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.
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Scoring Punch
    OSU ranked seventh nationally with 40 goals last season, and all eight players who combined for that total return in 2021.
    The Cowgirls' scoring attack is led by the big three of Olyvia Dowell, Grace Yochum and Gabriella Coleman, a trio that held down the top three scoring spots in the Big 12 in 2020-21. Dowell and Yochum both had 12 goals, a total that ranked sixth in the NCAA, while Coleman found the back of the net nine times.
    In 2019, OSU was 14th nationally with 50 goals as it averaged 2.27 goals per game.
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    In a preseason vote of the conference's head coaches, OSU was picked to finish third in the Big 12 race in 2021 behind West Virginia and defending champion TCU.
    OSU led the league with three Preseason All-Big 12 selections as Olyvia Dowell, Kim Rodriguez and Grace Yochum earned that distinction.
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In The Rankings
    OSU checks in at No. 24 in this week's TopDrawerSoccer.com rankings, and the Cowgirls are receiving votes in the United Soccer Coaches poll after being ranked 16th in the preseason. In the United Soccer Coaches Midwest Region rankings, OSU is third behind TCU and West Virginia.
   With those standings, the Cowgirls have now appeared in the national rankings for 34 consecutive weeks dating back to the 2019 season.
    A year ago, OSU peaked at No. 4 in the polls during the fall season and came in at No. 14 in the final United Soccer Coaches rankings and No. 12 in the final TopDrawerSoccer.com poll.
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High Five
    Oklahoma State has had five players selected as All-Big 12 Conference performers in each of the last two seasons.
    Earning 2020 All-Big 12 First Team honors for the Cowgirls were defender Kim Rodriguez and forward Olyvia Dowell, while defender Charmé Morgan, midfielder Grace Yochum and forward Gabriella Coleman were named to the All-Big 12 Second Team.
    Only four times in program history have five or more Cowgirls garnered all-conference recognition. A program-record seven Cowgirls earned All-Big 12 status in 2011 while OSU also had five All-Big 12 performers in 2010, 2019 and 2020.
    Rodriguez earned All-Big 12 First Team accolades for the second consecutive season in 2020 and is now a three-time all-conference performer in her career. Both distinctions place her in rare company – she is only the sixth player in OSU history to earn first-team status twice or more in a career, and she is just the eighth Cowgirl to be named all-conference three or more times.
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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 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.Â
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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.
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She's A Giver
    Kim Rodriguez is tied for sixth on OSU's all-time assists list with 22. She has had at least three assists in each of her first four seasons, including a career-best seven in 2019.
OSU Career Assists
Player (years played)Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Assists
1. Nikki Wojtowicz (2001-04)Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 51* (Big 12 record)Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
2. Kasey Langdon (2006-09)Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 27
3. Andi Lute (1997-00)Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 25
4. Jaci Jones (2016-19)Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 24
5. Adriane Radtke (2003-07)Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 23
6. Kim Rodriguez (2017-pres.)Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 22Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
 Anna Beffer (2014-17)                                     22
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Internationally Known
    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, Kim 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
    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.
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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 53 career games, Yochum has amassed 29 goals, which is tied for sixth on OSU's all-time list; she is one away from the top five and six from tying the record of 35.
    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.
OSU Career Goals
Player (years played)Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Goals
1. Yolanda Odenyo (2005-08)Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 35Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
 Jolene Schweitzer (2001-04)                        35
3. Siera Strawser (2006-09)Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 32
4. Courtney Dike (2013-16)Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 31
5. Adriane Radtke (2003-07)Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 30
7. Grace Yochum (2018-pres.)Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 29
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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.
    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 played her first two collegiate seasons at Mississippi State and scored three goals in 32 games.
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Sophomore 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 enters her junior season needing just three assists to move into OSU's career top 10 list.
