Game Notes

#22 Oklahoma State (3-1-0)
at Brown (1-1-0)
Sun., Sept. 5 • 10 a.m. (CST) • Providence, R.I.
Stevenson-Pincince Field (3,500)

TV/Video: ESPN+
Radio: n/a
Live Stats: brownbears.com/sidearmstats/wsoc/summary
Twitter In-Game Updates: @CowgirlFC

About Oklahoma State

     • Oklahoma State takes a 3-1-0 record into a Sunday road showdown at Brown. The Cowgirls were scheduled to host Stephen F. Austin on Thursday, but COVID protocols within the SFA program caused that match to be canceled.
     • 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 Bears

     • Brown is 1-1-0 on the season entering a Thursday match against Rhode Island.
     • BU has not lost on its home field since Oct. 13, 2018, and the Bears are 29-8-5 at home since 2016.
     • Kia McNeill is in her sixth season as the Bears' head coach and owns a 43-18-9 career record. She led Brown to an Ivy League championship and the second round of the NCAA Tournament in 2019.
     • OSU has never faced Brown on the pitch.

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.

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.

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.

In The Rankings

     OSU moved up to No. 22 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.
    The Cowgirls have now appeared in the national rankings for 35 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.

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 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.

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 55 career games, Yochum has amassed 30 goals, which is tied for fifth on OSU's all-time list; she is five 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.
     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.

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.

Honor Roll

     A list of current Cowgirls who have been recognized with national and conference accolades, along with 2021 season weekly awards.
     • Kim Rodriguez - MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List (2020 & 2021); TopDrawerSoccer.Com Preseason Best XI First Team (2021); United Soccer Coaches All-America Second Team (2019 & 2020); United Soccer Coaches DI Women's Player of Distinction Award (2020); TopDrawerSoccer.Com Best XI First Team (2020); United Soccer Coaches All-Midwest Region First Team (2019 & 2020); United Soccer Coaches All-South Region Third Team (2018); All-Big 12 First Team (2019 & 2020); All-Big 12 Second Team (2018); Big 12 All-Freshman Team (2017)
     • Grace Yochum - Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week (8/31); All-Big 12 Second Team (2020); United Soccer Coaches All-Midwest Region Third Team (2020) & Second Team (2019); All-Big 12 First Team (2019); Big 12 All-Freshman Team (2018)
     • Olyvia Dowell - TopDrawerSoccer.Com Preseason Best XI Second Team (2021); All-Big 12 First Team (2020); United Soccer Coaches All-Midwest Region Second Team (2020); TopDrawerSoccer.Com Best XI Third Team (2020); Big 12 All-Freshman Team (2019)
     • Charmé Morgan - All-Big 12 Second Team (2019 & 2020); United Soccer Coaches All-Midwest Region Third Team (2020) & Second Team (2019)
     • Gabriella Coleman - All-Big 12 Second Team (2020)
     • Kionna Simon - Big 12 All-Freshman Team (2020)
     • Grace Dennis - Big 12 All-Freshman Team (2020)
     • Evie Vitali - Big 12 Freshman of the Week (8/31)

Cowgirl Soccer Headed To East Coast

Game Notes

#22 Oklahoma State (3-1-0)
at Brown (1-1-0)
Sun., Sept. 5 • 10 a.m. (CST) • Providence, R.I.
Stevenson-Pincince Field (3,500)

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Players Mentioned

Gabriella Coleman

Grace Dennis

Olyvia Dowell

Kim Rodriguez

Kionna Simon

Evie Vitali

Hannah Webb

Grace Yochum

Oklahoma State University Athletics

Cowgirl Soccer Headed To East Coast

Game Notes

#22 Oklahoma State (3-1-0) at Brown (1-1-0) Sun., Sept. 5 • 10 a.m. (CST) • Providence, R.I. Stevenson-Pincince Field (3,500)

Next Event

Players Mentioned

Gabriella Coleman

Grace Dennis

Olyvia Dowell

Kim Rodriguez

Kionna Simon

Evie Vitali

Hannah Webb

Grace Yochum

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#22 Oklahoma State (3-1-0)
at Brown (1-1-0)
Sun., Sept. 5 • 10 a.m. (CST) • Providence, R.I.
Stevenson-Pincince Field (3,500)